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ROLE Software Development Kit
The ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments) project provides technology to support teachers in developing open personal learning environments for their students. It centers on self-regulated learning so as to promote independent learners who can plan their learning process, search for resources, and reflect on their progress.
The ROLE infrastructure, including this Software Development Kit (SDK) enables a learner-centred Personal Learning Environment (PLE) that will empower the user for true lifelong learning across institutional boundaries, integrating learning with other parts of the learner’s social life.
Assessment of Learning in Digital Social Networks
This paper summarizes ATC21S assessments for ICT Literacy, including a description of data (collected in Fall 2011 studies in Australia, Finland, Singapore and the U.S.) and discussion on how assessment outcomes can be reported. ATC21S aims to help educators around the world equip students with 21st century skills to succeed in career and college goals, including problem-solving, digital literacy and working together in learning communities.
French Baccalaureate Exam Topics Library
This database furnishes students and teachers alike with a free purview of the French Baccalaureate's exam topics from the past three years.
Literary and Historical Manuscripts Online
Manuscripts Online is a crowd-sourced respository of British primary resources that date from 1000 to 1500 A.D. The collection, available through library, archive, university, and publisher websites, amasses an ample supply of literary manuscripts, historical documents, and early printed books central to the study of English literature and history during the Middle Ages.
Virtual Classroom Solution goes Social
The new live online training portal, CloudRooms, from Redtray Solutions, is upgrading its new virtual classroom solution and going social.
The new social learning features in CloudRooms will make it possible for learners to rate their courses, post reviews of the training they've attended, share links to useful training materials available on the portal, ’Like‘ training modules in the Facebook style, and connect with each other through their message boards on the portal. These changes will make it easier for learners to communicate with each other, share their knowledge, opinions and also boost each other's motivation to training.
Last year, Cloud Rooms delivered more than 1800 live online training sessions. The interactive online classes were run by live trainers, and their popularity is what sparked the idea to make the portal more social learning-friendly.
eLBA 2013
The 6th «eLearning Baltics 2013 Conference» (eLBa 2013) will be held on the 20th-21st of June in Rostock, Germany. International researchers, practitioners, scientific and business people who all use, produce, investigate in and disseminate eLearning products, services, tools and platforms are invited to attend.
eLBa 2013 will examine the role of digital media in various settings such as classroom, university, workplace, home or mobile environments.
This includes both formal and informal methods, approaches and technology being used in different markets.
eLBa 2013 will run along three different strands:
1. Science Track – international scientific paper presentation,
2. Business Track – business congress and user forum,
3. Exhibition Floor – exhibition of eLearning products and services.
The eLBa 2013 call for papers is now open (http://www.e-learning-baltics.de/601/?L=1). Early Bird registration for the conference will begin on May 12th, 2013.
Working Environment with Social and Personal Open Tools for Inquiry-based learning
weSPOT aims at promoting scientific inquiry in the classroom by relating scientific concepts to personal curiosity, experiences, and reasoning.
weSPOT, a project supported by the European Commission, addresses several challenges to building personal knowledge, specifically in the area of science. It focuses on inquiry-based learning, in which the learner takes the role of a self-motivated explorer, and provides support for building these skills.
The main problem areas weSPOT tackles are the general lack of inquiry skills in students from ages 12 to 25, the dearth of technological support to bolster students’ curiosity, linking everyday world experiences to the classroom, streamlining e-learning with inquiry-based approaches, and measuring the impact of inquiry projects.
weSPOT’s main objectives are: (a) defining a reference model for inquiry-based learning skills, (b) creating a diagnostic instrument for measuring inquiry skills, and (c) implementing a working environment that allows the easy linking of inquiry activities with school curricula and legacy systems.
Validation of Non-formal and Informal Learning EC-Cedefop Seminar
The seminar ‘Validation of Non-Formal and Informal Learning’ will take place on the 9th and 10th of April, 2013 in Mechelen, Belgium, and is open to 120 participants.
The event is hosted by the European Commission and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), in association with the Irish Presidency of the European Union.
European countries are increasingly recognising the need to acknowledge the types of learning that take place outside formal training institutions. There are still obstacles, however, to implementing policy objectives and practical solutions for validating the learning that happens in the workplace, at home, or in leisure activities.
This ‘Validation of Non-Formal and Informal Learning’ seminar will convene 120 participants interested in and involved with the challenges and solutions this topic presents.
Registration is currently open. For more information, please contact koen.nomden@ec.europa.eu
EU Startup project game and competition for schools
EU project StartUp learning how to be an entrepreneur. We invite your school to take part in the game that starts on starts on 1 April 2013, it is for students 14 to 18 years of age.
StartUp_EU http://startup-eu.net/ is an EU project for schools to motivate secondary school students by replicating the excitement and creative innovation of a new start-up company. The project will create an educational game to develop entrepreneurial skills for secondary school students. They will learn about entrepreneurship through an online game and competition that will be judged by entrepreneurs, with prizes.
We invite your school to take part in the game that starts on starts on 1 April 2013, it is for students 14 to 18 years of age. Just write to us and we will send you full details or you can download the teacher instruction document and complete the form and return to us https://www.box.com/s/wg8hfe58lzouw34swz9v
Please note we have limited places available for schools across all of Europe, so please respond as soon as possible.
EU Startup project game and competition for schools
EU project StartUp learning how to be an entrepreneur
StartUp_EU http://startup-eu.net/ is an EU project for schools to motivate secondary school students by replicating the excitement and creative innovation of a new start-up company. The project will create an educational game to develop entrepreneurial skills for secondary school students. They will learn about entrepreneurship through an online game and competition that will be judged by entrepreneurs, with prizes.
We invite your school to take part in the game that starts on starts on 1 April 2013, it is for students 14 to 18 years of age. Just write to us and we will send you full details or you can download the teacher instruction document and complete the form and return to us https://www.box.com/s/wg8hfe58lzouw34swz9v
Please note we have limited places available for schools across all of Europe, so please respond as soon as possible.