For this year PLE-Conference we did a Presentation about „The World of Widgets – An Important Step Towards a Personalized Learning Environment for the workshop „Challenges of Designing and Evaluating Usability and User Experience for PLEs (U2X-4-PLE)„. Here are the slides:
[publication] The Facebook Generation Boon or Bane for E-Learning at Universities?
Our publication on „The Facebook Generation Boon or Bane for E-Learning at Universities?“ at this year ED-Media Conference in Lisbon is now online available. The slides have been already published here.
Abstract:
No other social community has been that booming ever than Facebook. A query among freshmen at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) displays this strongly ongoing trend too. Compared to the freshmen-studies of the last three years we can demonstrate the way Facebook already influences the communication behavior of today ́s students. Does the use of Facebook lead to a more competent understanding and intensive practice of Web2.0 applications in general? Does Facebook pave the way for Web2.0 or absorbs it by implementing and enabling Web2.0 functionalities on the platform? And what does this mean for teaching and learning aspects so far? Using a couple of statistical analysis methods for complex investigations (hierarchical cluster analysis, the principle component analysis and the varimax rotation) we tried to answer these questions and found out that the usage of Facebook already leaves it ́s marks on the communicational behavior of students. An influence on the usage of other Web2.0 applications cannot be stated with significance so far but it seems that Facebook has a repressive factor rather than a promotive one; it serves as a substitute for them.
The Facebook Generation Boon or Bane for E-Learning at Universities?
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Reference: Ebner, M., Nagler, W., Schön, M. (2011). The Facebook Generation – Boon or Bane for E- Learning at Universities?. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011 (pp. 3549-3557). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Social Media Stream at ED-Media Conference
Last week this year ED-Media Conference took place in Lisbon, Portugal. I as member of the Steering Committee was elected beforehand to coordinate the Social Media Team. Our task was to handle the Twitter stream (#edmedia11) as well as engage people to interact online.
The result is quite amazing – 4 days of Twitter use leads to more than 3700 tweets (see here a statistic) and a lot of further online material.
Paulo colleted also all URLs of the stream in our own ED-Media Scoop.it Page – take a look on this, I think we did a good work.
Finally thanks a lot to my team for working with you for just 4 days (and it’s worth to follow them on Twitter): @pgsimoes, @_joanasilva_, @etutoria, @AMargaridaMaia, @GCruzMatos, @jjmpleal
[presentation] Web 2.0 in Higher Education
My last presentation at this year ED-Media Conference was about „Web 2.0 in Higher Education“ – it is a rather „traditional“ one, which I did every year for the graduate student stream (ok, some slides were changed a little bit):
Web 2.0 in Higher Education
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[video] Please Vote for Us – Personal Learning Environment
We produced a short video about our Personal Learning Environment of Graz University of Technology to attend the Mediacast Contest of this year PLE Conference in Southampton:
In celebration of User Generated Content we will have a Mediacast Contest during the PLE Conference 2011 with awards for the best three mediacast productions on Personal Learning Environments. The contest is open to all registered conference participants, who can create their own mediacasts, such as vodcasts (video productions) or screencasts (mixed media productions) of three minutes or less sharing their ideas, reflections and applications of Personal Learning Environments and best suggestions for creating such environments for individuals, groups and communities.
Here is our Video – if you like it, please vote for it on VIMEO – thanks a lot:
Mit dem Laden des Videos akzeptieren Sie die Datenschutzerklärung von Vimeo.
Mehr erfahren
PLE – Personal Learning Environment Platform from PLE TU-Graz on Vimeo.
[iphone App] TU Graz Search
Die erste App der heurigen Vorlesung „AK Medientechnologien – iPhone Development“ ist ab sofort im App-Store verfügbar. Es ist die Suche in den Inhalten der Technischen Universität Graz und nennt sich TU Graz Search:
TU Graz Search enables you to quickly search and find the most important information at Graz University of Technology. This search app includes the following categories:
- people,
- lecture halls and rooms,
- departments and service units,
- lectures,
- exams,
- research publications,
- library catalogue,
- events,
- news (RSS feeds), and
- web-sites.
Moreover, it is possible to add people to contacts on you iOS device of to contact them diretly. This app requires a connection to the Internet.
You can access similar functionality with your web browser at https://search.tugraz.at/.
Hier kann die App downgeloadet werden [Link] und alle weiteren verfügbaren Apps der TU Graz findet man hier [iTunes Link].
[presentation] Lehrbuch der Zukunft als wesentlicher Bestandteil von Open Educational Resources (OER)
Sandra und ich sind eingeladen an der Freien Universität Berlin / Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften einen Vortag zum Thema „Lehrbücher der Zukunft zu halten“ – anbei sind unsere Vortragsfolien und wir freuen uns sehr auf eine spannende Diskussion:
[publication] E-Learning at Graz University of Technology – From Research to Practice
Im TU Graz weiten Journal „TU Graz research“ sind wir mit einem Kurzbeitrag in der Ausgabe 01/2011 vertreten. Der Artikel ist in zwei Sprachen (englisch/deutsch) abgedruckt:
E-Learning an der TU Graz – Von der Forschung in die Praxis als Gesamtstrategie / E-Learning at Graz Univer…
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Reference: Ebner, M. (2011) E-Learning an der TU Graz – Von der Forschung in die Praxis als Gesamtstrategie, TU Graz research 01/2011, TU Graz, p. 36-39
[GADI2011] Aufzeichnungen zu Sprache, eHealth und copyright
Die letzten Aufzeichnungen zu Vorlesung aus „Gesellschaftliche Aspekte der Informationstechnologie“ bin ich noch schuldig. Hier sind sie nun:
Günter Schreier zu „Wer hat eHealth in der Tasche?„:
Peter Purgathofer zu „Copyright/copyleft„:
Rudolf Muhr zu „Sprache und Sprechen im Zeitalter der digitalen Verarbeitung – Gegenwart und Zukunft der menschlichen Kommunikation„:
[podcast] M-Learning – Educating the Ne(x)t Generation?
Mein Keynote-Vortrag bei den edudays an der Donau-Universität Krems ist jetzt als Podcast verfügbar. Leider ist es an meinem eigenen Unvermögen gelegen, dass die Bildschirmaufzeichnung nicht geklappt hat. Hier gibt es jedenfalls bereits die Präsentation dazu.