secondary education
Metafora
The Metafora R&D project will result in the creation of a Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) system to enable 12 to 16-years-old students to learn science and mathematics in an effective and enjoyable way.
THE OBJECTIVES
Metafora project proposes to explore the potential of social learning for science and mathematics (S&M) by providing a visual language to support online groups in designing their own learning together. To gain deep knowledge of any specific domain learners need to integrate learning experiences with shared reflection through dialogue, in a way that builds conceptual understanding cumulatively.
To this end, the objectives of the project are:
- to further our understanding of meta-learning within collaborative communities engaged in S&M learning;
- to design a visual language to support students’ reflection on their individual and collaborative learning;
- to implement a platform integrating state-of-the-art argumentation tools with exploratory environments;
- to develop an adaptive diagnostic system utilizing AI techniques to support students and teachers during the collaboration and learning to learn process;
- to develop appropriate pedagogies to inform the design of the technical system; and
- to design new forms of assessment of the individual and collaborating learning exploiting the diagnostic system.
For more background information about the tools and pedagogy, click here.
VISCED Intermediate Report available
Partners in the VISCED project are making an inventory of innovative ICT-enhanced learning initiativesand major ‘e-mature’ secondary and post-secondary education providers for the 14-21 age group in Europe. This entails a systematic review at international and national levels including a study into operational examples of fully virtual schools and colleges. The outputs of this work will be analysed and compared toidentify relevant parameters and success factors for classifying and comparing these initiatives.
This project starts on 1 January 2011 and runs for two years. It is funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission (project number: 511578-LLP-1-2010-1-GR-KA3-KA3MP).
The outputs will be analysed and compared to identify relevant parameters and success factors for classifying and comparing these initiatives.
Access the Intermediate Report ('Public Progress Report on VISCED for Year 1 of the project –
calendar year 2011', published 1 February 2012) and the Interim Country/Region Reports 2012 from the list of project outcomes via the link above.
Transformando Mundos - a viagem de Yanah e Manuel pelo planeta Terra
"Transformando Mundos - a viagem de Yanah e Manuel pelo planeta Terra" é um recurso multimédia de educação para a cidadania global, que permite trabalhar temas socialmente relevantes através de uma história criada a partir do lema “há que conhecer outros mundos para transformar o nosso”, contribuindo para reforçar os conteúdos transversais do Curriculum nacional em todas as áreas disciplinares. O recurso encontra-se dividido em três unidades pensadas para níveis de escolaridade específicos: Pequenos Exploradores (pré-escolar e 1º ciclo), Exploradores (2º ciclo) e Super Exploradores (3º ciclo e secundário) assente numa metodologia de ensino-aprendizagem experiencial.
Banco de textos
El Banco de textos es un proyecto colaborativo dirigido a todos los docentes de Educación Primaria y Secundaria. En él se recopilan textos subidos por los docentes o los alumnos para la lectura en el aula. Los textos estan organizados en distintas categorías y publicados bajo una licencia Creative Commons.
Creative Learning Environments: A new European initiative towards systemic impact of ICT in education
Iniciative presented by Lieve Van den Brande, European Commission, DG Education and Culture in the “Innovation for Digital Inclusion” conference. The objective of the iniciative is to support to Member States to integrate/ mainstream ICT use in educational policies and practices.
Knowledge-building: Designing for learning using social and participatory media
This report presents the results of a classroom action research that looked at how one teacher redesigned her curriculum while integrating social media, Web 2.0 and face-to-face teaching in an Australian public high school.
It explores the qualities that social and participatory media bring to the classroom while focussing on students as active and valued participants in the learning process. Building knowledge using the uniqueness of social media enabled students to become active and valued resources for both the teacher and their peers. Designing for learning is a key challenge facing education today; this case offers ideas for learning designers and contributes to a research base that can support educators from all sectors.
Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2012)
The CICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The CICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. The aim of CICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The CICE 2012 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.
Call for Papers: Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2012)
The CICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The CICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. The aim of CICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The CICE 2012 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.
The topics in CICE-2012 include but are not confined to the following areas:
*Art Education
- Music Education
- Writing Education
- Imaginative Education
- Language Education
- History
*Adult Education
- Competitive Skills
- Continuing Education
- Higher Education
- Vocational Education
- Transferring Disciplines
*Business Education
- Educational Administration
- Human Resource Development
- Academic Advising and Counselling
- Education Policy and Leadership
- Industrial Cooperation
- Life-long Learning Experiences
- Workplace Learning and Collaborative Learning
- Work Employability
- Educational Institution Government Partnership
- Patent Registration and Technology Transfer
- University Spin-Off Companies
*Course Management
- Accreditation and Quality Assurance
- Academic Experiences and Best Practice Contributions
- Copy-right
- Digital Libraries and Repositories
- Digital Rights Management
- Evaluation and Assessment
- E-content Management and Development
- Open Content
- e-Portfolios
- Grading Methods
- Knowledge Management
- Quality processes at National and International level
- Security and Data Protection
- Student Selection Criteria in Interdisciplinary Studies
- User-Generated Content
*Curriculum, Research and Development
- Acoustics in Education Environment
- APD/Listening
- Counsellor Education
- Courses, Tutorials and Labs
- Curriculum Design
- ESL/TESL
*Educational Foundations
- Early Childhood Education
- Elementary Education
- Geographical Education
- Health Education
- Home Education
- Rural Education
- Science Education
- Secondary Education
- Second life Educators
- Social Studies Education
- Special Education
*Learning / Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
- Simulated Communities and Online Mentoring
- e-Testing and new Test Theories
- Supervising and Managing Student Projects
- Pedagogy Enhancement with e-Learning
- Educating the Educators
- Immersive Learning
- Blended Learning
- Computer-Aided Assessment
- Metrics and Performance Measurement
- Assessment Software Tools
- Assessment Methods in Blended Learning Environments
*Global Issues In Education and Research
- Education, Research and Globalization
- Barriers to Learning (ethnicity, age, psychosocial factors, ...)
- Women and Minorities in Science and Technology
- Indigenous and Diversity Issues
- Government Policy issues
- Organizational, Legal and Financial Aspects
- Digital Divide
- Increasing Affordability and Access to the Internet
- Ethical issues in Education
- Intellectual Property Rights and Plagiarism
*Pedagogy
- Teacher Education
- Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
- Educational Psychology
- Education practice trends and issues
- Indigenous Education
- Kinesiology and Leisure Science
- K12
- Life-long Learning Education
- Mathematics Education
- Physical Education (PE)
- Reading Education
- Religion and Education Studies
*Research Management
- Research Methodologies
- Academic Research Projects
- Joint-research programmes
- Research on Technology in Education
- Research Centres
- Links between Education and Research
- New Challenges in Education
- ECTS experiences
- The Bologna Process and its implementation
- Joint-Degree Programmes
- Erasmus and Exchange experiences in universities
- Students and Teaching staff Exchange programmes
*Ubiquitous Learning
- Accessibility to Disabled Users
- Animation, 3D, and Web 3D Applications
- Context Dependent Learning
- Distance Education
- E-Learning
- E-Manufacturing
- Educational Technology
- Educational Games and Software
- Human Computer Interaction
- ICT Education
- Internet technologies
- Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Mobile Applications and Learning (M-learning)
- Multi-Virtual Environment
- Standards and Interoperability
- Technology Enhanced Learning
- Technology Support for Pervasive Learning
*Ubiquitous Computing
- Videos for Learning and Educational Multimedia
- Virtual and Augmented Reality
- Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)
- Web 2.0, Social Networking, Blogs and Wikis
- Wireless Applications
*Research In Progress
Important dates:
Research Paper, Extended Abstract, Case Study, Work in Progress and Report Submission Deadline: January 15, 2012
Notification of Paper, Extended Abstract, Case Study, Work in Progress and Report Acceptance Date:
January 30, 2012
Final Paper Submission Deadline for Conference Proceedings Publication: February 10, 2012
Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: December 15, 2011
Notification of Workshop Proposal Acceptance/Rejection: January 15, 2012
Participant(s) Registration (Open): December 1, 2011
Early Bird Registration (Authors and Participants): January 30, 2012 to March 31, 2012
Late Bird Registration (Authors only): April 1 to May 1, 2012
Late Bird Registration (Participants only): March 31 to June 1, 2012
Conference Dates: June 18-21, 2012
For further information please visit CICE-2012 at www.ciceducation.org
ed@d - Enseñanza Digital a Distancia. Libros digitales interactivos para la ESO
Con el proyecto ed@d (Enseñanza Digital a Distancia) el Ministerio de Educación de España presenta un nuevo modelo de libro interactivo, que permite a los estudiantes aprovechar las ventajas de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación para mejorar su aprendizaje autónomo y agilizar la comunicación con sus tutores, en un entorno tecnológico avanzado.
Change in Education - Call for Papers! - ESSIE Annual Convention 2012 - Leuven Belgium
CALL FOR PAPERS: CHANGE IN EDUCATION
Official ISBN publication: "ESSIE Annual Convention 2012: Change in Education”.
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
- 31 January 2012
THEMES I
• Innovation Ecologies and Learning Ecosystems
• Digital Learning Resources and Learning Clouds
• Transformational Educational Leadership
• Alternative and Diversified Learning Spaces
• Shifts in Teaching, Learning and Assessment
• Web 2.0, Wiki and Social Technologies
• Open Access, Resources and Standards
• Internet Security, Privacy and Safety
• Breakthroughs in Learning and Neurosciences
Visit the Website: Call for Papers
Submit your paper THE LATEST on 31 January 2012