technology-enhanced learning
Societal challenges, policy priorities and TEL: proposing a TEL research “relevance test”
Technology-Enhanced Learning has been developing in the last years but has not achieved the relevance level which is needed to transform educational systems. Why? This is the main question this Online Educa Pre-conference workshop will answer to.
The Workshop, organised by the HOTEL project with the support of the European Union’s FP7, will gather some of the most important Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) support and foresight initiatives of recent years, with the aims of reflecting on the issue of TEL research relevance.
The discussion will tackle the fact that TEL research, despite its recognised level of excellence and the strong efforts that funding agencies – especially the European Commission – are deploying, does not seem able so far to reach the relevance level which is needed to transform educational systems.
The event is open to Policy Makers at different levels, TEL Industry representatives, Teachers and researchers in higher education, Educational Practiitioners, Media, Educational providers, and anyone interested in Technology-enhanced Learning.
28 November 2012, h. 10.00
Hotel InterContinental, Budapester Str. 2, 10787 Berlin, Germany
DAILE’13: Workshop on Data Analysis and Interpretation for Learning Environments
The main focus of the workshop DAILE’13 is to elaborate as well as integrate various computational approaches for analysing and interpreting data from technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environments, thereby serving three goals: (i) improving learning and instruction; (ii) designing learning software; (iii) developing deeper understand of learner and teacher models.
Learning and Quality (LINQ) 2012 - submission deadline extended
The paper submission deadline has been extended until August 10, 2012.
Overview of the important dates:
Paper submission deadline:
July 10, 2012August 10, 2012Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2012
Deadline for author registration: September 7, 2012
Camera-Ready copy due: September 7, 2012
Deadline for visitor registration: September 20, 2012
Conference program: October 23, 2012
Access the Conference Paper Template on the conference home page.
New net-based collaborative learning activities
There is a documented need for supporting VET teachers, trainers and tutors in including ICT in their teaching activities. Despite the advanced learning technologies, it is often the case that teachers, most of all elder ones, are frightened or even disturbed by technology. A past European project, Vitae, whose results are exploited and refined in a new project, Understand IT, has developed a set of net-based collaborative learning activities, using modern Web 2.0 tools.
Learning and Quality (LINQ) 2012
The motto of LINQ 2012 is:
"Innovation and Quality: How do they fit together?"
The conference is addressing Learning Innovations and Quality and in particular Lifelong Learning (LLL), Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL), quality standards and certification, human resources development, competences and skills, as well as learning, innovation and quality management systems.
LINQ 2012 has launched its Call for Papers, available here.
All experts and practitioners are invited to contribute to the dialogue on the Quality Certification in Learning, Education and Training (LET) and to submit high quality papers describing fully developed results, on‐going work or innovative concepts on the following topics:
Innovations and future trends in Learning, Education and Training (LET)
Quality Development and Certification in LET
Competence and skills development in lifelong learning
Implementation of learning innovations
Technology‐Enhanced Learning for schools, universities and lifelong learning
Web 2.0, Social Media and Online Communities for LET
Learning outcome orientation and quality certification
Standardisation of LET design, production and services
Knowledge, innovation and ideas management in LET contexts
Learning quality in vocational education and training and HR
Certification of LET services and providers
Quality and standardization of learning assessment and evaluation
Harmonization of innovations and quality development in LET
Overview of the important dates:
Paper submission deadline:
July 10, 2012August 10, 2012Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2012
Deadline for author registration: September 7, 2012
Camera-Ready copy due: September 7, 2012
Deadline for visitor registration: September 20, 2012
Conference program: October 23, 2012
Possible Futures for Technology Enhanced Learning – Dynamic Roadmapping for Uncertain Times
TEL-Map is a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission under the Technology-Enhanced Learning programme. It focuses on exploratory/Roadmapping activities for fundamentally new forms of learning to support the adoption of those new forms, via awareness building and knowledge management on the results of EU RTD projects in TEL and socio-economic evaluations in education.
The ultimate goal of TEL is innovation leading to new forms of learning. TEL‑Map will establish a pan-European TEL Observatory that functions as an alerting system for innovation, scanning for relevant emerging trends and events, empowering all engaged in TEL to build a multidimensional understanding of the crossroads and choose their best way forward.
[...] TEL-Map will build a platform for collaborative Roadmapping, which enables transparent assessment of TEL by different stakeholder groups. We will do this by using different approaches, different starting points, different interests and motives thus providing multidimensional views of stakeholders’ visions of the future and alternative ways to reach them. We will work with TEL stakeholders to help them create and dynamically update their roadmaps and coordinate their development activities. Building on this, TEL-Map aims to enable each participating TEL stakeholder community in Europe to share its insights on past and current TEL, and at least some of its thinking on TEL futures, so that all TEL networks can benefit from improvements in the capabilities of the strongest participants in TEL and insights and innovative developments can be spread and adopted more rapidly. As part of this capacity building, we shall work with community representatives to empower them to better discern and interpret what is going on within other participating TEL stakeholder communities (or going on externally and known to those other communities), and to share and exchange knowledge with these communities in order to take advantage of emerging trends and developments in TEL, of which it might not yet be aware.
Read more about the objectives and the TEL-MAp approach on the project website.
FInd out how you can get involved.
ICWL 2012 - 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning
ICWL is an annual international conference on web-based learning. The first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002. Since then, it has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004), Hong Kong (2005), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), China (2008), Germany (2009), China (2010), Hong Kong (2011). ICWL 2012 will be the 11th ICWL conference and will be held in Sinaia, Romania.
The technical program will feature keynote addresses and workshops in addition to technical presentations of refereed papers.
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: April 18, 2012 Deadline extended: 3 May 2012
Paper submission deadline: April 25, 2012 Deadline extended: 10 May 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: June 10, 2012
Camera-ready paper due: July 1, 2012
Conference dates: September 2-4, 2012
eLearning Papers topics for 2012 announced!
Cyber Security and Education; Learning and Active Ageing; 21st Century Teachers and their Workplace; The Worlds of TEL: Scientific and Cultural Perspectives; Mobile Learning, Cloud Computing and the Promise for Ubiquitous Learning are the topics of eLearning Papers for 2012. Read more!
eLearning Papers 28: Cyber Security and Education
With the rapid evolution of online media, new technologies have become more targeted and more sophisticated. This new context has been widely recognized in relation to its educational, social and even economic benefits. Wide use and popularity of social media also brings to the fore the notion of security and concerns regarding the management of the personal information circulating and stored on the web. Schools are an important resource, now that young people's use of the Internet is growing, and smaller children are quickly gaining access to and becoming proficient users of technology. Publication: April, 2012.
eLearning Papers 29: Learning and Active Ageing
Inspired by the European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity Between Generations 2012, eLearning Papers will investigate how eLearning affects the lives of senior citizens. As a population at risk of marginalization, the elderly appear particularly suited to benefit from open educational resources. What is being done to make sure these digital immigrants can use and benefit from new educational technologies. Publication: May, 2012
eLearning Papers 30: 21st Century teachers and their workplace
This issue looks at how new learning technologies and other recent innovations have affected teachers' professional environments. 21st century learners has become a buzz-word in the field of educational research. This issues applies that term to the teachers, seeking practical examples and prospective visions that analyse what it means to be a teacher in the knowledge society. Publication: July, 2012.
eLearning Papers 31: The worlds of TEL - Scientific and Cultural perspectives
Technology-enhanced learning is not a new topic but the more normalized it becomes, the more we are able to develop nuanced critical perspectives on its development and impact. This issue will invite contributions that present a diverse range of practical and theoretical examples in order to discuss the state of the art regarding this topic, with special attention to areas that seem to be more problematic, or in particular need of further research. Publication: September, 2012.
eLearning Papers 32: Mobile learning, cloud computing and the promise for ubiquitous learning
While learning has always expanded beyond the walls of the classroom, the proliferation of devices and applications, which have greatly expanded when, where and how information can be accessed and stored, brings this issue to the fore. How have such devices had an impact in learning, and what role may they play in the future? This issue hopes to showcase practical examples and generate serious reflection on an emerging topic. Publication: December, 2012.
To know about the dates planned and to see the the Calls for Papers (to be published) click here
To know more about eLearning Papers click here
DULP & SPeL @ ICALT 2012: Exploring Emerging Technologies and the Future of Technology Enhanced Learning
The workshop is the result of merging the experience and background of two workshops centered on future visions in TEL: DULP (3rd Workshop on Design Centered and Personalized Learning in Liquid and Ubiquitous Learning Places) and SPeL (5th International Workshop on Social and Personalized Computing for Web Supported Learning Communities). The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of emerging technologies and future of TEL, especially in the areas of personalized, social and ubiquitous learning.
Important dates
February 15, 2012 - Workshop paper submission
March 5, 2012 - Workshop paper notification
March 15, 2012 - Author registration
April 1, 2012 - Camera-Ready paper submission
Workshop Chairs
Alke Martens, PH Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education, Germany
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Ming-Puu Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Ben Chang, National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Tsung-Yen Chuang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan