We just finalized iCamp video which presents iCamp project and our 3rd trials participants, their expectations and impressions about iCamp. You are welcome to view and comment it on Youtube.
Two of our Spanish facilitators from the University in Murchia recently published their experiences of the iCamp trial in a conference paper. Those who are interested in reading about the iCamp experience in Spanish, here is the reference to the paper:
Castañeda, L. & Sánchez, M. (2008) SOFTWARE SOCIAL Y APRENDIZAJE AUTÓNOMO EN LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR: LA EXPERIENCIA DEL 3er TRIAL DEL PROYECTO EUROPEO iCAMP. In XI Congreso Edutec 2008: Las TIC, puente entre culturas: Iberoamérica y Europa. Santigo de Compostela –Spain. September 2008.
Thanks to Linda and Maria del Mar!
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A paper that has been written by our team members from the Vienna University of Economics has also been translated recently to Spanish: Fridolin Wild, Steinn Sigurdarson (2008): Redes de alimentadores distribuidos para el aprendizaje, Novatica 193, Mayo-Junio 2008, ano XXXIV, ATI, Spain
This paper is attached for our Spanish readers: Wild2008
This year Moodle Moot Conference takes place at Alpen-Adria-University in Klagenfurt 18-19 September. iCamp will be there with the presentation about technology solutions for Moodle. We received the information that the abstarct has been successfuly accepted so now is time for the preparations. The full name of the talk is Interoperability in Open Learning Environment – Solutions for Moodle. Anna Danielewska-Tulecka is going to present thee innovative solutions developed in iCamp project: Feedback, SQI and iCal modules for Moodle with a brief description of the way how this innovations were valiadted in the third trial.
Yesterday Barbara Kieslinger gave a presentation on the use of Social Software in educational setting and on the experiences we made in iCamp at the EDUTEC 2008 Conference. The full name of the talk was: Uso de software social en el contexto educativo y desarrollo de entornos de aprendizaje personalizado.Since the conference is a cooperation between various Universities in Spain and Latin America there was a strong participation from Latin American countries, both in Santiago de Compostela where the conference took place as well as online since the conference was also transmitted over the Internet.
Tony Hirst from the Open University is going to talk about ‘Figure:Ground – PLEs and the Flexible Learning Environment’ at this year’s EC-TEL workshop on mash-up personal learning environments (MUPPLE’08).
Coming as we do from the technical side of the ed-tech fence, it’s sometimes worthwhile stepping back for a minute and considering not only potential student users of PLEs, but also the teachers and VLE maintainers.
In his talk, Tony will explore some of the assumptions we make about content availability when putting together PLE recipes, and consider the extent to which approaches to teaching/instruction – and the way in which activities and assessment are structured, and how content is made available to students – need to be borne in mind for PLEs to be useful: maybe the use of PLEs will naturally fall out of changes in the way we teach and make content available? Maybe PLEs will only work if we change the way we teach?
To ground the discussion, Tony will review several OCW/OER projects (including OpenLearn, and the MIT OCW project), showing how the content made available can be disaggregated into a form that affords the possibility of its reuse in a PLE. I will also demonstrate how the use of tagging within a ‘blogged’ course provides an emergent and easily visualised ’self-disaggregating’ mechanism for content in which different narrative strands naturally emerge through category and tag RSS feeds.
The programme for the workshop on mash-up personal
learning environments is online now. Click here to see
who is adding which new aspect to the wisdom of our
crowd. Want to be part of it? Register here for MUPPLE’08.
We recently finalised the evaluation report of the Second iCamp Trials. The main Authors Effie Law and Anh Vu Nguyen-Ngoc from the University of Leicester have been analysing various sets of data – from communication patterns to online interviews – to derive their main findings from this second iCamp experiment.
The learning environment is an (if not ‘the’) important outcome of a learning process, not just a stage to perform a ‘learning play’. In our article in elearningpapers.eu (also July’s portal highlight at elearningeuropa) we propose a new model how to support learning with technology in the 21st century.
Therefore, we first elaborate key concepts and assumptions on personalised learning environments and summarise the critique on the contemporary models for personalised adaptive learning. Subsequently, we propose a new alternative: the concept of mash-up personal learning environments (MUPPLE). How does it work? See for yourself here and look at the prototypical implementation plus a – we think – comprehensible example.
consortium meeting on 1.-2. Sept. 2008 in Tallinn, Estonia.
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