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ePIC 2012 - the 10th ePortfolio and Identity Conference
Should everybody have an ePortfolio? How do ePortfolios contribute to the identity construction process? How do ePortfolios support the acquisition of 21st century skills? How do ePortfolios support lifelong learning, orientation and employability? How can we make ePortfolios fully interoperable? To find the answers to these questions, and more, join us at ePIC 2012, the 10th ePortfolio and Identity Conference.
The worldwide emergence of ePortfolios is an indicator of the need to review our approach to education and lifelong learning, at the same time demonstrating that it is possible to make learning and assessment more authentic and integrated. ePortfolios are at the source of a new generation of tools dedicated to valuing and celebrating the achievements of the individual, from nursery school to lifelong and life-wide learning. It is also a technology reinforcing the link between individual, organisational and community learning.
Over the last ten years, considerable effort has been invested in the development of ePortfolio technologies and practice. To further developments in this field, the main goal of the 10th international ePortfolio and Identity Conference is to offer a forum where researchers and practitioners can discuss theoretical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches and share the latest advances in the state of the art and practices in:
- development of lifelong learner / professional / citizen identity;
- individual / community ePortfolios and identities;
- recognition of informal, lifelong and life-wide learning;
- accreditation of prior experience and learning (APEL), curriculum design and assessment;
- integrative learning and holistic development;
- continuing professional development and sustainable employability;
- development of distributed ‘communities of practice’, community and organisational development.
Participación constructiva y colaborativa mixta: Modelo para la enseñanza universitaria
El modelo de participación constructiva y colaborativa mixta es un modelo creado para la enseñanza universitaria tras seis años de experimentación.
Gracias a una estructura flexible y seis tipos de actividades, el objetivo de este modelo consiste en poner en práctica una serie de principios pedagógicos bien establecidos, tales como la comunidad de estudiantes, la comunidad de práctica, la dimensión socioconstructivista, la perspectiva dialógica y la construcción del conocimiento.
Los autores presentan un sistema de tres niveles como herramienta para evaluar los debates en línea organizados en torno al contenido del curso. Este sistema sirve para que los profesores y los estudiantes puedan supervisar y alimentar el debate.
Launch of the Community on Systemic Innovation of Education!
This community is an active prelude to a much wide appeal to join forces: forge action, gain momentum and shift paradigm on educational. Systemic change awaits European education. Monitor and join our debate and follow the posting of resources. Submit themes of yourself. Contribute to the view and development of systemic innovation. Systemic innovation is responsible for the emergence of a whole new education system of interconnected players, on a new and different level.
This community is an active prelude to a much wide appeal to join forces: forge action, gain momentum and shift paradigm on educational. Systemic change awaits European education. Monitor and join our debate and follow the posting of resources. Submit themes of yourself. Contribute to the view and development of systemic innovation. Systemic innovation is responsible for the emergence of a whole new education system of interconnected players, on a new and different level.
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All know that societal change affects our modern society with very strong repercussion for our educational system. However, many people experience change in compartmentalised, separate and seemingly independent ways. Most live in medias res i.e., not grasping the whole picture and having no view on the interconnected whole. With familiar and traditional structures vanishing, many in education feel disoriented and are left disempowered. To counter the problems of our modern time, there is an urgent need to frame the developments more coherently and provide a systemic response, a response which incorporates the best of learning. Systemic innovation intends to revisit and restructure the organisation of the educational ecosystem, i.e., educational processes, stakeholder models and funding systems, in light of a much broader discussion to move onward. Debating the restructuring of education in view of systemic change, must be done with open eyes to all interests, for change to be forged and results to cater proficiency and prosperity. Priorities for systemic innovation must be addressed in accordance with society, i.e., the anticipated strengths and weaknesses of civil society, government, education and business. Lessons must be learned from paradigmatic change in such industries as IT and telecom; witnessing both intensive competition as well as cooperation between old and new players, including acts of takeovers and mergers. To influence the developments in education and overcoming an innovation gap, proactive measures must be taken: support must be gained to dynamically configure networks for systemic innovation throughout different sectors of education. It is the prelude to a much wider appeal to join forces: forge action, gain momentum and shift paradigm.
misait
Plataforma 2.0. donde se relacionan Colegios, Profesores, Padres y Niños entre 6 y 13 años. misait es la plataforma donde los usuarios se encuentran, se relacionan y construyen una comunidad. La característica de la comunidad misait es su exclusividad para el sector educativo. El sentido y el uso de la plataforma misait lo decide el usuario. misait es una herramienta sencilla, ágil, intuitiva, divertida y segura.
Call for Papers on 'Learning and Social Networking'. Deadline approaching!
eLearning Papers seeks contributions about social networking and/or social software and/or social computing contributions to supporting learning in both sections: In-Depth and From the Field. Send us your article.
We specifically invite contributions which address one or several of the following issues:
- Innovative social computing technologies, applications, tools and environments for supporting learning
- Tools for supporting group-learning
- Case studies and best practices in social networking supported learning
- Communities of practice
- Progressive inquiry learning and other pedagogical models
- Assessment in social networking supported learning
- Gender, age, cultural issues in social networking supported learning
- Ethical issues in social networking supported learning
- IPR issues in social networking supported learning
The article submission closes on 9 September 2011. The provisional date of publication is October 2011.
For further information and to submit your article, please contact: jimena.marquez@elearningpapers.eu
Guest editor:
Teemu Leinonen, Professor, New Media Design and Learning, Aalto University
eLearning Papers has launched a new call on 'Learning and Social Networking'
eLearning Papers seeks contributions about social networking and social software to supporting learning in both sections: In-Depth and From the Field. Deadline for submissions: September 09, 2011. Publication: October 2011.
The rapid emergence of social computing applications is changing the ways people connect with each other, as well as how they exchange and create knowledge. In particular, young people entering higher education are integrating ICT seamlessly into their everyday life and expect their educational institutions to support their digital lifestyle. Use of social software in combination with open content to support learning is a phenomenon largely emerging from outside educational institutions.
We specifically invite contributions which address one or several of the following issues:
-Innovative social computing technologies, applications, tools and environments for supporting learning
-Tools for supporting group-learning
-Case studies and best practices in social networking supported learning
-Communities of practice
-Progressive inquiry learning and other pedagogical models
-Assessment in social networking supported learning
-Gender, age, cultural issues in social networking supported learning
-Ethical issues in social networking supported learning
-IPR issues in social networking supported learning
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UCF's openSpace
openSpace is University College Falmouth's platform for making teaching materials free to learners all over the world through Creative Commons. This is your space to explore, experiment, develop and grow...a place where your learning and your knowledge is shaped through your interactions, peer feedback and collaboration with others interested in the same subject. It's about you participating in an active community of learners. The journey is as important as the destination.