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ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2013: Call for Proposals now open
What role does technology play in promoting creativity and innovation? How is the world of learning changing, and how can technology help us change the world? Proposals are now being accepted for this year's Online Educa Berlin 2013, which will focus on these questions.
Proposals are being accepted from now until June 3 for Online Educa Berlin 2013, to be held December 4-6 in Berlin. This year's event will encompass:
eLearning Papers Call for Papers on Changing schools and creative classrooms: 21st century teachers and their new roles
eLearning Papers seeks submissions for the issue 30 Changing schools and creative classrooms: 21st century teachers and their new roles. This issue explores the new role of teachers in 21st century learning contexts, focusing on the challenges they face and the changes in teaching practice caused by the rapid spread of educational technologies and the evolution towards creative classrooms and open educational resources. Deadline: 10 August 2012.
We are interested in contributions that address: national policies, methodologies, new tools and resources, the teacher-student relationship or class organization, among others. Guest editors: Hans Laugesen, GL - the National Union of Upper Secondary School Teachers. Jim Devine, JD Policy, Projects Innovation, EDEN Fellow (and former President, IADT, Dublin)
Click here to read the complete Call for Papers
Memorandum of Understanding OCWC ICDE 2013
The OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC) and the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) signed on 8 May, 2013 a Memorandum of Understanding between the two global associations.
The signature took place during a ceremony at the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC) Global Conference 2013 at Bali, Indonesia.
With this agreement, ICDE and OCWC enter into closer cooperation in recognition of their mutual interest in expanded access to high quality higher education through open and distance education.
Both parties undertake to explore opportunities in the following areas:
- Mutual promotion of activities.
- Joint regional conference.
- Explore a joint initiative to support policy discussion and development facilitating open and distance education at governmental and institutional levels.
- Joint membership services.
- Opportunities to have synergy in projects, for example in giving attention to and promote "flagship projects".
MOOC e innovación disruptiva: Implicaciones para la educación superior
La oportunidad que ofrecen los MOOC para la masificación de cursos ha suscitado un gran interés entre los gobiernos, las instituciones y las empresas, cada vez más implicados en la experimentación con este tipo de cursos a fin de ampliar su acceso, comercializarlos y desarrollar nuevas fuentes de ingresos.
El presente artículo se basa en la teoría de la innovación disruptiva (Bower y Christensen, 1995) para examinar el desarrollo de los cursos abiertos masivos en línea y estudiar la manera en que se puede utilizar la perspectiva de dicha teoría para apoyar a las instituciones en la búsqueda de enfoques innovadores en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje, así como en la búsqueda de ventajas competitivas en el mercado de la educación. Los MOOC proporcionan a las instituciones un instrumento de reflexión creativo e innovador para explorar nuevos modelos de negocio e itinerarios de aprendizaje flexible en la educación superior. No obstante, hay que repensar tanto las estructuras como las políticas que obstaculizan la innovación en el ámbito universitario actual. Con este fin, es necesario abordar la estructura de financiación vigente y la posibilidad de separar la enseñanza de la evaluación y la acreditación para facilitar precios diferenciales y actividades de marketing.
Vision in an Increasingly Mobile World
'Vision in an Increasingly Mobile World', an event organised by the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA), will be held on 15 May 2013 in London, UK.
Modern mobile computing creates interesting opportunities and challenges for computer vision research. This meeting will bring together researchers and practitioners, from both industry and academia, interested in all aspects of mobile computer vision - be it within consumer devices, autonomous/embedded systems or novel deployment domains.
ICELW
ICELW works to improve online learning so that it makes a measurable difference in workplace performance and morale. Anyone with an interest or background in workplace eLearning is invited to attend and participate in the conference, which will take place in New York City from the 12-14 of June 2013.
The ICELW program cover a variety of topics relating to e-learning in the workplace and the use of technology to improve job performance, in the form of demonstrations, mini-seminars, case studies, interviews, debates, presentations, and panel discussions.