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First call for STELLAR incubator proposals

November 19, 2009

Fridolin Wild »
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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

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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

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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

Fridolin Wild »
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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

Chris Valentine »
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logoNow 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

Fridolin Wild »
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ECTEL'09

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.

MUPPLE’09

June 18, 2009

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Mash-UP Personal Learning Environments

Mash-UP Personal Learning Environments

After last year’s huge success, the projects TENcompetence, iCoper, LTfLL, Stellar, Palette, Role, and Mature are joining forces again to research into

Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE’09)

at this year’s EC-TEL conference. Click below for deadlines and more information:

Detailed informationLast year’s proceedings (abstracts, short, and long papers)EC-TEL’09

Interoperable Widgets, Services, and Microformats to facilitate Competence Development

held at the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL09), Nice, France, September 29 – October 2, 2009

SCIENCE 2.0 FOR TEL: Call for Papers

June 16, 2009

Fred DeVries »
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1st Workshop on Web2.0 approaches, tools and technologies to support research on Technology Enhanced Learning (TELSci2.0) at the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL09), Nice, France, September 29 – October 2, 2009

SCOPE

In Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), the use of web2.0 technologies is now actively being researched, under banners such as “Personal Learning Environments” or “Open Learning Environments” and the like. In this workshop, we want to discuss how we can leverage the same opportunities for our research on TEL.

Indeed, as researchers in Technology Enhanced Learning we already know how to include things like blogs, wikis and forums into the heart of our work to enhance collaborative working, but a full “Science 2.0″ framework might provide us with a much more powerful framework to make our research more effective.

This workshop aims to bring together all those who want to turn a vision of the e-scholar and e-scientist of the 21st Century into reality in our own domain of TEL.

See for further details http://stellarnet.eu/science2ectel/

STELLAR presented to UK Minister for Higher Education

March 26, 2009

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David Lammy

David Lammy

David Lammy, the Minister of State for Higher Education and Innovation, visited the Open University on Thursday 26th of February during the STELLAR kick off meeting. His visit was hosted in the Knowledge Media Institute, and he was shown work from a range of innovations and elearning projects including the STELLAR Network of Excellence.

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.

Stellar Kick Off meeting

Peter Scott »
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Stellar Kick Off meeting at KMi, The Open University

Delegates 16 European Universities met in KMi today to kick off the STELLAR Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced learning, the effort of the leading institutions and projects in EU TEL to unify our diverse community. The work of STELLAR will focus on the Grand Challenge for TEL, via a series of capacity building instruments and events.

The STELLAR Network of Excellence is motivated by the need for European research on TEL to build upon, synergize and extend the valuable work by significantly building capacity in TEL research within Europe, required to allow the European Union to achieve its goals via the Bologna Agreement and the execution of the Lisbon Agenda. STELLAR will move beyond the earlier networks by setting a new and critical foresight agenda for Technology Enhanced Learning. The Network will be executed via a series of integration instruments designed to increase the research capacity of European TEL at all levels.

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