Research

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Learners in the Driving Seat - The Seventh EDEN Research Workshop

18 Rugsėjis 2012

The Seventh EDEN Research Workshop

 

Learners in the Driving Seat
 

Users? – Partners? – Consumers? – Peers?

Where are we heading to?

 

A workshop about effective learning experience for researchers and practitioners

 

Call for contributions open

Deadline: 25 September 2012

 

How students are driving teachers, instructors in the fields where new learning technologies play important role? The special facet of the conference will be the active participation of groups of Leuven university students. They will present their cases, share the experience and practice they came across and co-operate in validating research views.

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World of Learning

29 Rugpjūtis 2012

Now in its 20th year, the World of Learning is set to showcase the latest developments in L&D in everything from e-learning and mobile learning, as well as live workshops, one-to-one consultations, free seminars and its renowned annual conference.

Conference overview

An essential two-day conference for all senior learning & development professionals

A visit to the World of Learning presents L&D professionals with an invaluable time and cost-efficient opportunity to share experiences and learn from others how to best overcome the hurdles and ensure you are delivering the solutions the business needs to stay ahead.


What makes the conference unique?

The World of Learning Conference is unique. By combining extensive research with authoritative input from key industry figures, the conference programme provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the vital issues facing the senior L&D professional.

Featuring high-profile cases studies, interactive seminars and discussion forums, the World of Learning Conference programme concentrates on the current issues of most concern to L&D professionals. You will come away from the World of Learning Conference with genuine and inspiring solutions for your day-to-day and long-term business objectives.

The World of Learning Conference 2012 will present delegates with a fascinating combination of first-hand case-study presentations, lively panel debates and discussions, and interactive workshops

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INTED2013 - 7th International Technology, Education and Development Conference

06 Rugpjūtis 2012

INTED2013 will be an excellent opportunity to present your projects and discuss the latest results in the field of Education and Research.

The general aim of the conference is to promote international collaboration in Education and Research in all educational fields and disciplines. The attendance of more than 700 delegates from 70 different countries is expected.

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Improving Student Learning symposium 2012

27 Liepa 2012

Improving student learning through research and scholarship: 20 years of ISL

The major aim of the Symposium is to provide a forum which brings together those who are primarily researchers into learning in higher education and those who are primarily practitioners concerned more pragmatically with improving their practice, and encourages the sharing of scholarly work and collaborative discussion. But from whichever starting point, papers are only accepted if they take a sufficiently scholarly, research-based approach.

In 2012 we celebrate 20 years of the Improving Student Learning Symposium with a conference theme of ‘Improving student learning through research and scholarship: 20 years of ISL’ so this year we especially invite participants to submit proposals which reflect back on what we have learnt over the past two decades, or would want to claim we now understand about student learning, and the research evidence that supports it.

As interest in improving the student experience has grown, ISL remains the place to discuss the impact of research findings on our practice.  The distinctive format of published papers combined with times set aside for themed discussions is annually welcomed by up to 200 participants from over 15 countries at each conference.

Katalogas

Impact of e-learning in the 21st century university

18 Liepa 2012

This chapter will examine how and why the “Academy” in the 21st century has both deployed e-learning and adapted to the deployment of e-learning by the “other” (including its own students).

The paper's aim is to explain why the radical solutions beloved of visionaries have happened rarely and then have mostly failed, and yet how more moderate solutions are emerging that are sustainable and manageable within recognisable paradigms of university governance. The chapter will draw out links from the e-learning phenomenon to wider issues of privatisation, internationalisation, culture, research and funding.
The material is based on studies of the author and his colleagues in this area since his first e-learning study tour (of three weeks) to US universities in 1995. It takes particular advantage of his recent work on the Re.ViCa and CAPITAL projects 1 but also from his long experience in many departments of the Open University (UK) and a network of smaller projects and contacts straddling countries as diverse as Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Rwanda, Spain, Sweden, Thailand and the United States – together with the four home nations of the UK.

Straipsniai

Senėjančios smegenys: neuroplastiškumas ir mokymasis visą gyvenimą

19 Birželis 2012

Politikose, kurios skirtos skatinti mokymąsi visą gyvenimą, vis stipriau akcentuojamas suaugusiųjų švietimas. Tačiau nepaisant skatinimo priemonių ir iniciatyvų, kuriomis siekiama sudaryti sąlygas, kad švietimas ir mokymas visiems piliečiams būtų prieinamas bet kuriuo jų gyvenimo tarpsniu, suaugusieji vis dar gana vangiai dalyvauja mokymuose.

Pastebėta tendencija, kad žmogui senstant, jis vis rečiau dalyvauja mokymuose, o pagrindinis sunkumas, su kuriuo mokydamiesi susiduria vyresnio amžiaus žmonės, yra blogėjanti smegenų veikla, dėl ko darosi sunkiau sutelkti dėmesį, susilpnėja atmintis ir mąstymo lankstumas. Šiandien pažangių neurologinės srities tyrimų rezultatai rodo, kad smegenų senėjimą galima pristabdyti, nes visais gyvenimo etapais smegenys būna lanksčios, o mokantis smegenų žemėlapiai gali patys persitvarkyti.

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TaPTA Workshop at EC-TEL 2012

05 Birželis 2012

High-performance classrooms are characterized by 1:1 computing, high cognitive density, and big data. However, in comparison with most other professionals from whom clients expect rapid decisions in a dynamically changing environment, presently teachers often do not get the information they need for decision making in a timely fashion and in a meaningful and actionable format. Building on the NEXT-TELL project, the TaPTA workshop explores methods and tools to support teachers’ professional vision in 21st century classrooms. This workshop’s ambitious objective is to jumpstart a new learning sciences research stream on teaching analytics by bringing together learning scientists in different sub-fields such as CSCL, ITS, EDM, researchers in Visual Analytics, and data scientists working with “Big Data” in public institutions and private enterprises. In addition to researchers, we are also targeting teachers at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education to be involved as co-designers and discussants.

 

Topics

TaPTA 2012 workshop topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Historical and contemporary practices in notations, representations, and  visualizations of classroom activities and student learning
  • Theories and methods for designing and evaluating new notations, representations, and visualizations for teaching analytics
  • Cognitive dimensions of notations for learning and teaching purposes
  • Visual analytics for activity tracking
  • Visual analytics for knowledge tracking
  • Visual analytics for formative vs. summative evaluations
  • Visual analytics for technology enhanced formative assessment
  • Engendering  teachers’ professional vision in high-performance classrooms
  • Synthesis of visual analytics oriented theory and practice in the Learning Sciences, e-Learning, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Educational Data Mining, and Learning Analytics.
  • Technical architectures and technological infrastructure for teaching analytics
  • Linked Data for teaching analytics
  • Instrumentation of classrooms and ecosystems for learning and teaching
  • Critical perspectives on teaching analytics

 

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: 15 July 2012
  • Notification of acceptance: 06 August 2012
  • Camera-ready version of accepted papers: 26 August 2012
  • Workshop date: Tuesday, 18 September, 2012

 

FInd out more about submission guidelines and formats here.

Keeping you Connected

04 Liepa 2012
Naujienos

Internet Science Summer School 2012

25 Gegužė 2012

 

We are currently inviting applications from early career researchers for the first Network of Excellence Internet Science Summer School to be held in Oxford from 12-18 August 2012. 

 

 

The Network of Excellence Internet Science is currently inviting applications from early career researchers for the first Summer School to be held in Oxford from 12-18 August 2012. The theme of the summer school is "Internet Privacy and Identity, Trust and Reputation Mechanisms," with sub-themes addressing online identity and ACTA/SOPA/CISPA.

Academic Programme

The principal aim of the programme is to promote interdisciplinary discussion of issues related to Internet Science among early career researchers (advanced PhD students and those in the first four years of their research career) engaged in research related to Internet privacy and identity, trust and reputation mechanisms. Daily activities will be structured around morning lectures and afternoon discussions aimed at developing participants’ thinking on a range of issues central to the Internet. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their research with faculty and other early career researchers. A range of social events will provide informal opportunities for continued discussions and networking among participants.

The summer school will draw upon the strengths of the Network of Excellence in Internet Science (described below) and will involve participation of many of its members, in addition to colleagues from partner institutions.

Benefits of participation

Participants will meet and work with a diverse group of their peers, a considerable benefit for researchers who may not have large academic peer groups in their own departments. Additionally, participants will:

  • Join an international collaboration experience
  • Exchange institutional research projects, methods, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
  • Contribute to ongoing discussions of research and issues related to Internet Science
  • Attend lectures from renowned experts and participate in multi-disciplinary discussions
  • Engage in academic and professional networking

Research areas

We welcome applications from early career researchers in any discipline whose work in the field of Internet research engages with the theme of the summer school and reflects the disciplinary base of the Network of Excellence in Internet Science, as described below.

About the Network of Excellence in Internet Science

The Network of Excellence in Internet Science aims to develop an integrated and interdisciplinary scientific understanding of Internet networks and their co-evolution with society. The network is composed of over thirty research institutions across Europe from a variety of disciplines including physics, sociology, game theory, economics, political sciences, network engineering, computation, complexity, networking, security, mathematics, humanities, and law, as well as other relevant social and life sciences. Its main objective is to enable an open and productive dialogue between all disciplines that study Internet systems from any technological or humanistic perspective, and which in turn are being transformed by continuous advances in Internet functionality.

Fees and activities

Delegate fees are £900 and this includes 7 nights’ en suite accommodation at Queen’s College, daily breakfast, lunch (including one BBQ) and refreshments, and two evening college dinners. Summer school participants will have an opportunity to take part in Oxford social activities.

Applications must be submitted by 5p.m. (GMT) on Friday, June 1st. We will notify successful applicants by Friday, June 15.

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Please contact Tim Davies for further information.