Category: TEL research
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KMi runs MOOC Analytics Workshop for Future Learning Academic Network
Last week Simon Buckingham Shum ran the first MOOC Analytics workshop for the Future Learning Academic Network (FLAN), the research network around the OU’s FutureLearn MOOC platform. I also contributed to this workshop with several presentations. Participants from universities across the UK, plus remote participants from New Zealand and Australia, joined a very stimulating event,…
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning
The proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced learning are now freely available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1103/ We had a good amount of submissions, but not all papers could be accepted. After the review eight papers got accepted. They are: – “Linking reflective learning and knowledge maturing in organizations” written by Birgit R.…
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3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning
Proceedings Available online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1103/ Milos Kravcik, Birgit Krogstie, Adam Moore, Viktoria Pammer, Lucia Pannese, Michael Prilla, Wolfgang Reinhardt & Thomas Daniel Ullmann (Eds.): Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning. In conjunction with the 8th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning: Scaling up learning for sustained impact. Paphos,…
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Congratulation to Dr. Wolfgang
Today, the 5th of April 2012, is a memorable day for you. Congratulations Dr. Wolfgang Reinhardt for your successful defense of your thesis “Awareness – Supporting Knowledge Workers in Research Networks”. I am happy that I have known you now for a couple of years. For your big day today I saved some pictures from…
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Co-citation analysis of the topic Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis as a research tool has already a long tradition and many articles have been published. For a recent collaboration with Rory Sie, Kamakshi Rajagopal, Karina Cela, Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema, Peter Sloep, and myself on Social Network Analysis in the area of technology-enhanced learning, I prepared a co-citation analysis, which gives an overview of…
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The words of Technology Enhanced Learning – a SNA view
Nicolas Balacheff and his team had a dataset about all the terms from the TEL Open Archive (https://telearn.archives-ouvertes.fr/), which is a high quality paper archive of articles in the area of TEL. One of their aims of this excercise has been to find keywords for their TEL thesaurus: http://www.tel-thesaurus.net/wiki/index.php/TEL_Dictionary_entries The dataset consists of a directed…
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7th Joint European Summer School on Technology-Enhanced Learning
The 7th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning took place in Chania, Crete from the 30th of May to the 3rd of June. 68 participants, young researchers and senior researcher, came together for one week to “adopt a critical stance in thinking about the role of technologies in providing opportunities for learners and…
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My top five Web 2.0 tools for Research
During the summer school on Technology-Enhanced Learning Peter Kraker, who led the session on “Using Web 2.0 in your PhD”, asked the question, what are your five Web 2.0 tools you are using for your research? Here are mine: Google Scholar: Mostly I use it in combination with the Publish or Perish tool, which ranks…
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Whats new on TELeurope
During my work for the FP7 Network of Excellence STELLAR, I have been working on the social networking platform TELeurope. TELeurope is based on the open source software Elgg. Some of the highlights of TELeurope are: Complete new landing page The landing page got a complete face lift. We added a FlashVlog, which will update…
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The afterlife of living deliverables: angels or zombies
Within the STELLAR project, we provide the possibility to use living documents for the collaborative writing work on deliverables. Compared to ‘normal‘ deliverables, ‘living’ deliverables come into existence much earlier than their delivery deadline and are expected to ‘live on’ after their official delivery to the European Commission. They are expected to foster collaboration. Within…