The coordinator of STELLAR, Peter Scott, accepted the invitation to give a keynote at next year’s International Conference on Hybrid Learning (ICHL), held from August 16 to 18, 2010, in Beijing. Hybrid learning refers to combining virtual and physical resources to provide enriched teaching and learning experiences. The call for papers is still open till Januar 30, 2010. Selected papers will appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and in the International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education. See here for more information.
STELLAR at ICHL 2010 in Beijing
November 26, 2009
First call for STELLAR incubator proposals
November 19, 2009
STELLAR is launching an Incubator Programme, aimed at supporting promising early career researchers with mobility or ‘incubation scholarships’ to spend some months in another research institution or enterprise with the aim of either fostering the incubation of new ideas/projects, or exploiting new prototypes/services/approaches.
Funds for Incubator scholarships will be devoted to junior researchers’ mobility, thus to travel and subsistence. The Incubator eligibility period may vary from 3 weeks to 3 months (to be proposed by the applicant). Each applicant should also specify how s/he is planning to use the budget (maximum budget available for each Incubator scholarship: € 5.000).
The present Call will be closed on January 2010, 15th. Click here for more information.
First call for STELLAR ThemeTeam proposals
A STELLAR Theme Team is a network of mid-career researchers from different institutions, whose aim is to explore and analyze collaboratively emerging research topics in the field of TEL. A Theme Team may be a completely new network created around a specific topic of common interest, or composed of researchers who have already worked together on a certain issue (e.g. at a workshop or within a longer project).
The mission of a Theme Team is to share and integrate competences, methodologies and ideas already developed. The Teams are a means to integrate European research units in the field of TEL, but also competences coming from enterprises and institutions not included in the STELLAR network.
Within this first round of funding (the present Call), up to four Theme Teams will be funded (the expected budget of each proposed Theme Team being around € 20.000). The Theme Team eligibility period is 12 months.
Proposals should be submitted to CNR-ITD who has been appointed by the STELLAR Network to manage the overall Theme Teams process.
The deadline for the submission of Theme Team proposals is January 15th, 2010.
Click here for more information.
STELLAR launches TEL europe at Online Educa Berlin
The EU FP7 funded open Network of Excellence STELLAR launches its ambitious community of stakeholders in technology-enhanced learning (TEL) www.teleurope.eu at Online Educa in Berlin on December 2nd, 2009. TEL europe draws together researchers, teachers, developers, industry, and all other stakeholders in technology-enhanced learning. In a joint booth of STELLAR and the Centre of Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC) of the Open Universiteit Nederland, visitors can meet members of the network, join TEL europe and experience the new collaboration platform.
TEL europe will launch officially with a reception hosted in stand C99 in the Wintergarten of the Intercontinental Hotel on Wednesday, December 2nd, between 17.00 – 19.00. Its gathering will be informal with Marcus Specht, Professor for Advanced Learning Technologies at CELSTEC at the Open Universiteit Nederland, giving a short speech introducing to this initiative.
Novática Award for the best paper
November 3, 2009
In the 4th edition of the Novática Award for the best paper published by the journal in 2008, the jury has selected the article of Daniel Livingstone from the University of the West of Scotland and Jeremy Kemp from San José State University on “Integrando entornos de aprendizaje basados en Web y 3D: Second Life y Moodle se encuentran” (“Integrating Web-Based and 3D Learning Environments: Second Life Meets Moodle”).
The article was published in the issue #193 of Novática (May-June 2008), within the monograph “El futuro de la tecnología educativa” (“Technology-Enhanced Learning”). It appeared as a spanish translation of the English special issue appearing simultaneously in UPGRADE. The editors of the monograph have been Carlos Delgado-Kloos from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Fridolin Wild from the Open University of the UK.
The Award, consisting of a diploma, will presented in Madrid, November 13th, 2009, Friday morning, within the frame of a Software Quality event organized by the Spanish Ministry of Industry and ATI, the Spanish a IT association that publishes Novática.
The Jury was composed by the Editors of the Technical Sections of Novática, the Chief Editor of our journal and a representative of the Board of ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática), the publisher of Novática.
STELLAR Brand Guidelines
September 22, 2009
Now available are design guidelines and files for the creation of content for the STELLAR project.
Design guidelines (PDF)
Logo files (ZIP archive)
Logotype files (ZIP archive)
MS Word template (ZIP archive)
MS Powerpoint templates (ZIP archive)
Keynote templates, and business card design, to follow shortly.
If there are any other templates or branded elements that you need, please get in touch.
General Assembly in Nice
August 14, 2009
ECTEL'09
STELLAR is preparing for its first year General Assembly, which will be held at the European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL’09) on September 30. The assembly includes a meeting of the project’s executive board, the main formal body for the management and monitoring of the project, progressing its operability, preparing of decisions and their execution. The board is composed of one member representing each consortium partner.
STELLAR presented to UK Minister for Higher Education
March 26, 2009
David Lammy
Mr Lammy, the Member of Parliament for Tottenham, was promoted from Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills to his current position as Minister of State in October 2008. He is very interested in understanding the role of the UK in international online education, and in looking more generally at the Open University’s leadership role in elearning practice and research.
This visit came on the same day as the formal kick off meeting (also in KMi) of the STELLAR Network, which is being coordinated by the Open University and which represents a significant milestone in connecting the UK into European excellence in Technology Enhanced Learning. Peter Scott spent some time briefing the Minister about STELLAR’s aim to connect to policy makers and to the government decision-makers all over Europe; so this was a very auspicious start to this work.