Technology enhanced learning
Game Based Learning on Education and Action Training
The Project GREAT – Game-based Learning Research in Education and Training Action is a project funded by the Leonardo da Vinci Multilateral Projects – Transfer of Innovation with the purpose to provide a methodology and a way to use Game-Based Learning by Training Companies/Organizations (focusing on SMEs and on the Social Economy) and VET organizations (including Higher Education) trough the knowledge producers and distributors: Trainers and Teachers.
"We talk about creative learning. However, all learning involves some form of destruction, some form of creation and/or particular co-creation...(…) Learn to create, learn how to create disruptions, learning to create innovation, learning to live together to collaborate. But if Learning and Technology, together, can build and host its core in the destructive potential of creativity and, by extension, of the collaboration, the need for meaning in all this is imperative. It is crucial to making sense of all forms of learning: informal, formal, not formal."
Roberto Carneiro in Conference Book Creative Learning & Innovation: 2009.
With the purpose to provide a methodology and a way to use Game-Based Learning by Training Companies/Organizations (focusing on SMEs and on the Social Economy) and VET organizations (including Higher Education) trough the knowledge producers and distributors: Trainers and Teachers.
Products and Results will be:
- Documented methodologies for developing and implementing game-based learning for training and higher education actors and for the learning community in general.
- Needs analysis assessment instruments for developing and implementing game-based learning for training and higher education actors.
- Learning content and training methodologies (b-learning) for trainers and teachers developing and implementing game-based learning.
- Workshops/seminars for supporting trainers/practitioners/teachers/tutors in developing a predictive and proactive capacity to select games for their use.
- Documentation:reports, compendium, proceedings, guidelines.
GREAT project will explore the capability to influence, to involve and to bring together in specific moments some experts and recognized European authorities for focus based learning, trough their individual members and partners. Experienced users of different knowledge channels provided to the Commission, like Engage Learning, elearning papers, CEDEFOP and ETF papers, as well as members of DGEAC, DGINFSO, IPTS/JRC, DGEI and those who have access to the European learning platforms like EUCIS LLL and ETDF.
APG - Portuguese Association of Human Resources Managers leads the development partnership:
- FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria
- MERIG - Multidisziplinares Institut fur Europa-Forschung Graz
- AIF - Associazone Italiana Formatori
- Gazy University, na Turquia
- I.Zone Knowledge Systems
4th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2011)
The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009 and SPeL 2010 editions (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2011/previous.php). The general topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities.
Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, podcasts, media-sharing services) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called “digital natives” want to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically adapt to their individual needs. This workshop deals with current research on collaboration and personalization issues in Web-supported learning communities, leading towards the creation of a truly social and adaptive learning environment.
Panopto
Panopto allows recordings of presentations to be captured with minimal effort from the users' perspective and relay those recordings automatically to a given audience.
Call for Papers for the Doctoral Consortium at EC-TEL 2011
The EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium brings together Ph.D. students working on topics related to Technology Enhanced Learning. The doctoral consortium will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international atmosphere.
The Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning. Accompanying professors will provide feedback to the papers that are selected for the doctoral consortium and participate actively and contribute to the discussions. The Doctoral Consortium is co-located with and will take place immediately before the EC-TEL 2011 conference. The working language of the Doctoral Consortium is English.
For more information please go to: http://www.ec-tel.eu/doctoral-consortium-ectel2011
Only electronic submissions are accepted. Please use https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcectel2011 for uploading.
Deadline for submitting applications is 15 July 2011
Networked Learning Conference 2012. Eighth International Conference on Networked Learning in Higher Education and Lifelong Learning.
A research-based conference on networked learning in higher education and lifelong learning
The Networked Learning Conference is an international, research-based conference. Since its inception in 1998 the conference has developed a strong following by international researchers. In addition it is well supported by practitioners, managers and learning technologists interested in contributing to and hearing about research in this area. The conference is considered a major event in the international 'technology enhanced learning' conference circuit.
- A Research-based conference on networked learning in higher education and networked learning
- Hosted by Open University in The Netherlands
- Keynote presentations and discussions with Terry Anderson, Tara Fenwick and Judi Marshall
- Plenary Panel will include Peter Goodyear and Etienne Wenger on issues and concerns for the future of networked learning
- Preconference online Sessions and Hot Topic Discussion
EC-TEL 2012 - Call for bids
The chairs of EC-TEL have opened the call for bids to host EC-TEL 2012.
Deadline: Interested organisations should submit their bid by July 1, 2011, to martin.wolpers@fit.fraunhofer.de
Each bid should contain the following information:
Why EC-TEL'12 should be hosted in the proposed location?
- Background on the city / location
- Background on the organizing group
- Short bio of local organizers
Conference Organization
- Suggested conference date
- Suggested conference venue and facilities
- Traveling to/from/in the proposed location (incl. some price information)
- Lodging/Hotels (incl. some price information)
- Suggestion for the special event / conference dinner
- Tentative Budget, including suggested registration fees
We aim to publish the host and venue of EC-TEL 2012 at the closing ceremony of EC-TEL 2011.
7th CNRS School on Technology Enhanced Learning
This school welcomes students, researchers and industrial partners working in the field of computer-based education, particularly in Game-Based Learning.
7th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2011
The summer school aims to encourage participants to adopt a critical stance in thinking about the role of technologies in providing opportunities for learners and the potential of these opportunities in terms of learning. Applications should be submitted online before Friday, March 18, 2011
Capacitar a las minorías lingüísticas a través de la tecnología: ¿qué camino seguir?
En este artículo se da primero una breve visión de conjunto acerca de cómo el concepto de cohesión social se ha venido utilizando en el marco de las políticas sociales y educativas, con especial énfasis en dos aspectos centrales y emergentes: la equidad social y la educación como bases para la cohesión social. Seguidamente, el texto estudia cómo la educación puede acometer el reto de eliminar las desigualdades sociales y promover la cohesión social, y presenta el análisis de un grupo potencialmente desfavorecido: los hablantes de lenguas minoritarias. El artículo estudia las percepciones de las minorías lingüísticas en la UE, explicando a grandes rasgos cuáles son sus desventajas educativas potenciales y en qué consiste la exclusión social a la que estas minorías deben hacer frente.
Posteriormente se proponen métodos para aplicar el aprendizaje asistido por medios tecnológicos para minimizar estos posibles riesgos. En este apartado se incluye la cuestión de la “fractura digital” y sus consecuencias para los hablantes de lenguas minoritarias. Asimismo, se aborda la importancia del uso de las tecnologías para concienciar a la “mayoría” sobre las cuestiones que tienen que ver con la enseñanza en lenguas minoritarias (incluyendo la promoción de las numerosas ventajas del multilingüismo en la sociedad). Se presentan igualmente algunos ejemplos de prácticas de aprendizaje asistido por medios tecnológicos que se han instaurado para mitigar las desigualdades educativas que sufren las minorías lingüísticas. Por último, el artículo estudia el papel del aprendizaje asistido por medios tecnológicos en las prácticas pedagógicas, la formación del profesorado y los recursos permanentes para el perfeccionamiento del mismo.
Entrevista: ¿las tecnologías pueden ofrecer tutorías inteligentes? Entrevistado: Ulrich Hoppe, Professor of “Sistemas colaborativos de apoyo al aprendizaje”
Ulrich Hoppe explica su implicación en la comunidad investigadora europea a través de Kaleidoscope, la Red de Excelencia Europea. Y observa cómo la convergencia de los diferentes ámbitos de investigación puede crear sinergias para el aprendizaje mejorado con tecnología (TEL, Technology Enhanced Learning).
Ulrich Hoppe afirma que los tecnólogos son quienes tienen que inventar o adaptar nuevos instrumentos, y los expertos en educación quienes deben juzgarlos y adoptar los más prometedores. La novedad es que tenemos que pensar más allá de la herramienta única. Las herramientas deben ser interoperativas y deben apoyar procesos productivos y significativos desde el punto de vista educativo.
En un próximo taller de Kaleidoscope se examinarán tres áreas de investigación: aprendizaje móvil, aprendizaje colaborativo y aprendizaje de investigación. El aprendizaje móvil es un tipo de investigación reactivo; el aprendizaje colaborativo está relacionado con la forma en que aprendemos o deberíamos aprender, y el aprendizaje de investigación trata sobre lo que vale la pena aprender. Estos tres aspectos son complementarios, por lo que el taller analizará las posibilidades de convergencia, de reunir los tres ámbitos.
Hoppe también explica cómo la “tutoría inteligente”, la corriente principal de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en educación, mantiene una relación más difícil con el aprendizaje colaborativo asistido por ordenador (CSCL, Computer Support for Collaborative Learning). Podría existir un conflicto entre la restricción del papel de las tecnologías a la comunicación entre personas y los sistemas de tutoría inteligente (ITS, Intelligent Tutoring Systems) que a menudo se consideran agentes activos para guiar el aprendizaje humano.
El profesor Hoppe participa activamente en la investigación sobre aprendizaje mejorado con tecnología como catedrático de “Sistemas de cooperación y apoyo al aprendizaje” en la Universidad de Duisburg-Essen. Actualmente lidera el grupo de investigación conocido como COLLIDE (“Aprendizaje colaborativo en entornos distribuidos inteligentes”), que ha participado en proyectos europeos sobre la tecnología de aula distribuida, tanto en escenarios virtuales como presenciales.