Einladung zum Webmontag

Ich bin gefragt worden, ob ich nächste Woche am Online-Webmontag einen Beitrag zum Spezialthema „Bildung und Social Media“ halten möchte und habe dem gerne zugestimmt. Ich werde dabei über Erfahrungen des Einsatzes von Microblogging an einer österreichischen Hochschule berichten, wie es sich in der alltäglichen Praxis bewährt hat (oder auch nicht) und wo ich Stärken und Schwächen sehe.
Als Grundlage wird mir die Veröffentlichung „Microblogs in Higher Education – a chance to facilitate informal and process oriented learning?“ dienen, woraus ich einige Tabellen und Grafiken vorstelle.
Möchte also alle die daran interessiert sind herzlich einladen an dieser Online Diskussion teilzunehmen.

[CfP] The PLE Conference

I like to announce the Call for Papers for the first „PLE Conference“ in Barcelona, Spain this year.

Personal Learning Environments (PLE) include the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals. The idea of the PLE represents a shift away from the model in which students consume information through independent channels such as the library, a textbook, or an LMS, moving instead to a model where students draw connections from a growing matrix of resources that they select and organize. Because they emphasize relationships, PLEs can promote authentic learning by incorporating expert feedback into learning activities and resources. A PLE also puts students in charge of their own learning processes, challenging them to reflect on the tools and resources that help them learn best. By design, a PLE is created from self-direction, and therefore the responsibility for organization—and thereby for learning—rests with the learner ….

[call] iKnow 2010 und ECTEL 2010

Der Call for Papers sowohl für die iKnow 2010 hier in Graz

I-KNOW 2010 brings together international researchers (in the English speaking scientific part) and practitioners (in the German speaking Praxisforum) from the fields of knowledge management and knowledge technologies. Opening and closing keynotes and a conference-wide exhibition complete the I-KNOW conference program.

als auch die ECTEL 2010 in Barcelona sind online:

ECTEL 2010 will bring together technological developments, learning models, and implementations of new and innovative approaches to training and education. The conference will explore how the synergy of multiple disciplines, ranging from Computer Science, Education, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Social Science, can provide new, more effective and more especially more sustainable, technology-enhanced learning solutions to learning problems. The conference welcomes researchers and developers from European and Non-European countries and industries to present recent advancements from technologies, applications, and learning models in all areas of technology enhanced learning.

[paper accepted] SITE conference 2010

We are very happy that we can announce that both submitted papers for next year SITE Conference are accepted:

We are pleased to inform you that the Program Committee of SITE 2010, after rigorous peer review, has decided to ACCEPT your submission for presentation.

The titles of our papers are:

  • Is Twitter an Individual Mass Communication Medium?
  • Teaching and Learning in Higher Education – An Integral Approach

Looking forward to see you there 🙂 .

Google Wave replaces Twitter at conferences?

Nachdem wir nun seit längerer Zeit Twitter bei Konferenzen auf Twitterwalls einsetzen und durchaus gute Ergebnisse erzielen, steht man eigentlich mit dem Aufkommen von Google Wave vor der Frage ob diese Applikation vielleicht besser geeignet wäre.
Der Kollaborationsaspekt für das Auditorium mit der Möglichkeit dies danach zur Verfügung zu haben könnte durchaus für Google Wave sprechen. Hier gibt es bereits einen ersten Bericht und ich denke es wird nicht der letzte bleiben.