The STELLAR Doctoral Academy Board has selected Dade Nurjanah as the winner of the Excellence Award for the 2010 STELAR Doctoral Mobility Programme.
Dade, a PhD candidate at the University of Southampton, was hosted by Dr. Eelco Herder at the L3S research center (Hannover, Germany), where she performed research on the role of the teacher in adaptive TEL.

We bring here some words from Dade’s host, Dr. Eelco Herder:

“The most important reason for selecting Dade for the Doctoral Mobility Award is the clearly visible progress she booked during her internship. In the report she puts a clear focus on the role of the teacher in (adaptive) TEL and analyzes several authoring tools and standards in terms of functionality, usability, efficiency and interoperability. As expressed by herself as well as her supervisor at the L3S, the Mobility Programme helped her in finding new directions, contacts and resources. Apart from this, her work strengthened the connections between Stellar and Grapple by relating Grapple outcomes and work-in-progress to the Stellar Grand Challenges. As a final point, we appreciate the concrete plans for future work and dissemination, as expressed during the interview.”

Congratulations, Dade!

Topics so far have included personalization, neuro-science, social network analysis,research2.0, etc. as well as interviews with prominent researchers. A diverse group of STELLARnet members records the content and makes it available through this channel.

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.

 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

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

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/.