Our presentation about „Teaching and Learning in Higher Education – An Integral Approach“ at this year SITE Conference is now online available:
Zukunftswerkstätten: Studieren und Lehren 2020
Das Forum Neue Medien Austria veranstaltet von April bis Ende Mai 2010 5 Zukunftswerkstätten an österreichischen Universitäten. Die TU Graz wird am 3. Mai 2010 Austragungsort sein und ich darf jetzt schon alle recht herzlich einladen.
Universitäten und Fachhochschulen sind bei der Vermittlung von Wissen und Bildung heute mehr denn je mit diversen Fragen konfrontiert. Aktuelle Entwicklungen wie die letzten Studierendenproteste, die hohen Studierendenzahlen in einzelnen Fächern oder die Folgen des Bologna-Prozesses zeigen, dass es neuer, vorausschauender Ideen bedarf, um jetzt die Zukunft des Studierens und Lehrens in Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zu gestalten.
In den Zukunftswerkstätten wird das Spannungsfeld zwischen Lehre, Lernen und Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien gemeinsam mit Lehrenden, Studierenden und EntscheidungsträgerInnen intensiv beleuchtet. Anhand griffiger Themenstellungen und mit kurzen Impulsreferaten von FachexpertInnen wird eine intensive Diskussion in Gang gebracht. Gesucht werden kreative Lösungsvorschläge für die Zukunftsgestaltung von Studium und Lehre. Die Ergebnisse der Zukunftswerkstätten liefern Antworten auf die Frage, was heute zu verändern ist, damit die Zukunft Wirklichkeit werden kann.
Es gibt sowohl eine Hompage als auch Facebookpage hierzu.
[conference] USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure
The 6th Symposium of the Workgroup HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society will take place in Carinthia (Southern Austria) this year from Sept. 16th to Sept. 17th.
The topics are structured alongside (but not limited to) the following three dimensions:
- Special user groups (children, elderly, healthcare professionals,
tourists, students, teachers, …) - Issues on practical application of HCI in the work place (process
aspects, HCI patterns, cost/benefit analyses, …) - Future trends in HCI, …
Here you will finde the Call for Papers [CfP] and some other details.
[workshop] Using Microblogging to enhance communication within Communities of Practice
Due to the fact that I agreed to serve as member of the program committee I also like to hint to the forthcoming workshop „Using Microblogging to enhance communication within Communities of Practice“ (MicroECoP) within the WCC 2010 conference in Brisbane, Australia.
The workshop aims to discuss:
A number of questions are emerging from the early use of micro-blogs as social networking tools that connect communities of practice and interest. These include: How can microblogs support the development of professional communities of practice? How can microblogs be effectively incorporated into formalised professional learning? How can we measure the optimum levels of engagement necessary for microblogs to be successful social networking tools within professional communities of practice? How are communities of practice enhanced or enriched as a result of the application of microblogs? What about issues of security, privacy and intellectual property – how can these be protected? Do the filtering features on microblogs constitute semantic tools?
So think about to participate – more details you will find at the homepage of MicroECoP.
[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 ….
Executive Commitee „Global Time“
Es freut mich außerordentlich, dass ich in das Executive Commitee der Online Konferenz „Global TIME: Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Media & Education“ aufgenommen wurde die das nächste Mal von 19. – 20. Februar 2010 stattfinden wird.
Ich bin selbst auch sehr gespannt wie es ablaufen wird, aber definitiv ein Schritt in die Zukunft von Konferenzen. Hier sind die Topics gelistet.
Global TIME is an online conference organized by the non-profit, international, educational Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) and co-sponsored by EdITLib–Education and Information Technology Digital Library.
[publication] The Benefits of Geo-Tagging and Microblogging in m-Learning: a Use Case
Our publication „The Benefits of Geo-Tagging and Microblogging in m-Learning: a Use Case“ of this year MindTrek 2009 conference is online available.
Abstract:
The recent years have shown the remarkable potential use of Web 2.0 technologies in education, especially in the context of informal learning. The application of Wikis for collaborative work is one example for this theory applied. The support of learning in those fields of education, which are strongly based on visual location-based information, could also benefit from Geo-Tagging, a technique that has become popular lately. This paper presents first development results on the combination of these two concepts into a geospatial Wiki for higher education, TUGeoWiki. Our solution proposal supports mobile scenarios where textual data and images are managed and retrieved during m-Learning in- the-field as well as some desktop scenarios in the context of collaborative e-Learning. Within this scope, one critical issue arises while adding and updating textual information via the collaborative interface, which can be cumbersome in mobile scenarios. To solve this problem, we integrated another popular concept into our solution approach, Microblogging. Thus, the information pushed via short messages from mobile clients or microblogging tools to our m-Learning environment enables the creation of Wiki-Micropages as basis for subsequent collaborative learning scenarios.
Reference: Safran, C., Garcia-Barrios, V.M.; Ebner, M. (2009) The Benefits of Geo Tagging and Microblogging in m-Learning: a Use Case, in Proceedings of ACM Academic MindTrek 2009 – Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Area, MindTrek 2009, Tampere, Finland, p. 135-141, 2009
[conference] USAB 2009 „Usability & HCI Learning from the Extreme“
Die USAB 2009 findet heuer vom 9. – 10. November 2009 in Linz unter dem Motto „Usability & HCI Learning from the Extreme“ statt.
Our 2009 topic is Human–Computer Interaction for eInclusion (HCI4eIn), culminating in the 5th annual Usability Symposium USAB 2009.
Mission Statement: “Interfacing the Interface” for a better eInclusion!Information and Communication Technology (ICT) pervaded many parts of our daily lives. Due to its flexibility (multimedia connected with multimodality) it offers a huge potential for people with disabilities and others with functional limitations to interact with electronic systems and services.
Hier geht es zur Webseite / Programm. Wir werden auch mit einer Publikation / Präsentation vertreten sein und freuen uns auf spannende Diskussionen – cu there.
Using Microblogging in Education
Gabriela gave a Workshop at the ICL Conference last week – thanks for the great slides:
Summary of Special Track MASHL 2009
The Special Track on “MashUps for Learning (MASHL09)” within the ICL 2009 conference is over and Sandra and I are very happy that we had a great time, great presentations as well as discussions. We like to thank also our „Best Paper Award“ sponsored by ROLE project (represented by Ralf Klamma) for their help.
Again, thanks to Michael Auer to be part of his conference, to all presenters for their great work as well as all participants to create such successful sessions.
A special thanks also to Sandra from mine for creating the overview slides, the YouTube Video and for the great team work – it was simply a pleasure to work with you:
MASHL2009 – Mashups for Learning (09/2009)
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