The second Stellar Alpine Rendez-Vous will take place March 27th – 31st in the French Alps. The Call for Workshops is now open and closes on August 1st, 2010 (extended deadline).
We are looking forward to your submissions!
STELLAR meets the Knowledge Works Foundation
June 21, 2010
STELLAR’s general manager Fridolin Wild interviews Dr. Jillian Darwish is Executive Director at the Knowledge Works Foundation. She chairs the Institute for Creative Collaboration (ICC), which works to build the capacity of groups to think and learn in new ways that support innovation and the creation of a world of learning. ICC carries out its work in three ways – creating innovative regional and national partnerships and programs; developing knowledge and resources for the future of learning, and designing strategic learning experiences.
Doctoral Consortium at ECTEL 2010
June 15, 2010
The EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium brings together Ph.D. students working on topics related to Technology Enhanced Learning in order to support and inspire their ongoing research efforts. It will offer doctoral candidates and Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international atmosphere. The organisers of the consortium have therefore managed to secure the participation of prominent professors and researchers in the field of technology-enhanced learning who will actively participate and contribute to the discussions.
The event is embedded into the 5th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010) and will be held on September 29, 2010, in beautiful Barcelona, Spain. Submissions are requested no later than July 18th. Click here for more details.
Media & Learning: Towards the Era of Digital Fluency Conference 25-26 November 2010 Brussels
April 12, 2010
The Media & Learning Brussels 2010 Conference is being organised in collaboration with the Flemish Ministry of Education and the European Commission Directorate-General for Education and Culture and will take place in the Flemish Ministry of Education Headquarters in Brussels to co-incide with the Belgian Presidency of the European Union.
The Media & Learning Brussels 2010 Conference will take place alongside the MEDEA Awards, an annual awards scheme which recognises and rewards excellence in the use of media in education and training. The conference will bring together practitioners and policy makers in a two day event which will highlight the latest developments, services and digital and media competences in education and training.
The conference agenda will focus on three key themes:
• Digital and media skills and competences
• Fostering the creation of media-based resources at all levels of education and training
• Use and re-use of existing media resources in education and training
Interested individuals, project teams, institutions and organisations are invited to submit proposals to give presentations, demonstrations and workshops at this conference, the closing date for submissions is 1 June 2010.
More information from the conference website at: http://www.media-and-learning.eu
EARLI SIG 6 & 7 Conference 2010: Instructional Design for motivated and competent learning
March 17, 2010
The upcoming joint meeting of EARLI SIG 6 and 7, which will take place in Ulm (Germany) from August 30 to September 1, 2010.
One main issue of the meeting is to learn more about the independencies of motivation and cognition in (computer-based) learning. Despite this special docus we also invite you to submit papers and posters with a broad view on instructional design and computer based learning. We would also like to encourage you to submit work that is still in progress. There will be a special reserved category for this type of work.
You can submit your proposal using the submission form and find out more information regarding submissions, the program, keynote speakers, accomodation and travel on the conference website (www.uni-ulm.de/earlisig6-7-2010). Proposals are required no later than April 15th, 2010.
JTEL Summer School 2010
February 17, 2010
The 6th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning, will take place from Monday, 7th June 2010 to Friday 11th June 2010 in Ohrid, Macedonia. Pre-summer school activities are organized all day on Sunday, June 6th.
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. Work will centre on three research “Grand Challenges”:
- Connecting learners
- Orchestrating learning
- Contextualising learning environments.
The summer school provides a learning environment where participants get opportunities to: develop their research skills; increase their knowledge base; collaborate with others in their own and complementary research areas; engage in debate; have access to experts in the field; and discuss their own work. Participants will record ideas and develop thinking by contributing to a Grand Challenges wiki (http://www.stellarnet.eu/d/1/1/Home) where they will also find contributions from experts in the field.
The programme will include lectures from experts in the Grand Challenge areas and presentations exploring the Grand Challenges from both summer school participants and experts. Research projects within TEL are encouraged to represent their work as it relates to the Grand Challenges. The programme will also include practical and methodological workshops and opportunities for doctoral candidates to develop their own work. All participants will be expected to read and contribute to the Grand Challenges wiki. Students will have opportunities to present and discuss their doctoral work.
Applications should be submitted online before Friday 26th March. The online application form will be available from Friday 19th February.
This year the JTEL Summer School will benefit from special funding from the STELLAR Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced Learning, the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office, and the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning.
For further details see: www.JTELSummerSchool.eu
ICTEL & TECH-EDUCATION 2010
January 27, 2010
The first International Conference on TEL, Quality of Teaching, and Reforming of Education will take place in Athens, Greece, on May 19-21, 2010. Six pillars provide the constitutional elements of the event:
- Quality of the Education: A new vision
- Technology Enhanced Learning – Learning Technologies – Personalization -
E-learning - Educational Strategies
- The Collaborative/Constructive/Pedagogical/Didactic Approaches
- The Formal / Informal / and Life Long Learning Perspectives
- The Contribution of Education to Sustainable Development
For further details see http://www.reform-education.org.
STELLAR’s first evaluation report ready
January 20, 2010
The evaluation framework for the STELLAR Network of Excellence is based on the Logic Framework Approach (LFA) to programme evaluation. The LFA provides a very structured way to assess the effectiveness of certain intervention strategies and activities to achieve an intended change. Although coming mainly from developmental programme design and evaluation the LFA has been widely adopted and used for evaluating scientific programmes and technology deployment programmes, e.g. in the USA.
In the context of STELLAR the LFA has been adapted to the specifics of our context. Via various means of getting input and collecting feedback the project objectives of STELLAR have been slightly reformulated to express the indented change that STELLAR wants to achieve via its joint programme of activities. Apart from supporting the actors in STELLAR to perform according to the description of work as defined in the contract the evaluation framework also aligns the project performance to the overall project objectives and identifies indicators for their achievement.
In the future we will use the evaluation framework as a diagnostic instrument to continuously assess the status and the direction of the various activities within STELLAR and their contribution to the overall project objectives.
For monitoring the development of the STELLAR network, the involved actors, topics and disciplines, two additional methods are applied, namely Social Network Analysis and Ego-centric Network Analysis. First results give a rather heterogeneous picture of the network regarding TEL-related disciplines and topics as well as a strong involvement of all partners in the activities of the network. The reporting and data collection process for the monitoring activities still needs to be improved and coupled more closely with the management reporting process in the future.
Click here to get to the deliverable.
Science 2.0 mash-ups
The network has published its latest deliverable d6.3 on the ‘First iteration of STELLAR mash-ups’. It contains a vision, a collection of requirements, an architectural framework, and a first set of implemented mash-ups of general available web 2.0 and social software tools applied to TEL and TEL data sources within this framework. These initial mash-ups will be the basis for further refinement.
The deliverable is structured into the following parts. First, a vision is sketched, summarising the current debate about Science 2.0 and mash-ups to support it. This vision is informed by the ‘Science 2.0 for TEL’ and ‘Mash-Up PLE’ workshops we have held at the 4th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning. Within this chapter, requirements are elaborated using scenarios and use-cases. Second, an architectural framework is elaborated within which the mash-up developments move. A process accompanies this framework to allow for maturing those ideas and concepts into end-user ready widgets that have proven valuable in exploratory research. Third, a collection of initial building blocks for STELLAR’s Science 2.0 mash-ups is listed along two lines: infrastructure components (data sources and services) and use-case sized web applications – what we call Science 2.0 widgets. Finally, a conclusion rounds up the picture.
Click here, to get to the deliverable.
Call for the local organisation of the next Alpine Rendez-Vous 2009
December 17, 2009
After a great Alpine Rendez-Vous in Garmisch-Partenkirchen we are now looking for a team that takes over the local organisation for the next Rendez-Vous 2011.
More information are available in the Call that can be downloaded at the following link: http://www.stellarnet.eu/programme/wp3/rendez-vous/.