We are looking forward to your submissions!

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 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

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.

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• 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

• 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.

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.

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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 4^th 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.

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More information are available in the Call that can be downloaded at the following link: http://www.stellarnet.eu/programme/wp3/rendez-vous/.