Third European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning
Maastricht, The Netherlands
September 17-19 2008
********************************************************************************
ectel08.org
********************************************************************************

Technologies have spread across a variety of learning contexts.
They are used in formal (primary, secondary and higher) education,
corporate training and lifelong learning. Large corporations are
creating campuses, which reveals their convergence with universities.

TENCompetence Open Workshop on Current research on IMS Learning Design and Lifelong Competence Development Infrastructures

Subject: The Conference will be held on the 21st and 22nd June, 2007 in Barcelona (Spain).

Subject: The ePortfolio Conference will be held on September 17th - 19th 2007 in Maastricht (the Netherlands).

Main theme: The main theme of the 5th International ePortfolio conference is Employability and Lifelong Learning in the Knowledge Society. The conference is co-organised by EIfEL in partnership with the TENCompetence project, SURF, CWI, Kennisnet, Kenteq, the City of Maastricht and the Province of Limburg.

Subject:Special Issue on Advanced LT for LLL edited by ET&S.

Short description:The Journal of Educational Technology & Society (ET&S) will edit a special issue on "Advanced LT for LLL" in July 2007.
Hans Hummel contributes with a paper on 'Social software for LLL".

In May 2007, Open University of the Netherlands’ Masters program “Active Learning” and the Technology Development Program of the Educational Technology Expertise Centre will organize a virtual conference with “Learning Networks in practice” as the main topic.

Subject: A workshop about TENCompetence will be held on March the 27th in Amsterdam.

Short description: This workshop starts with an overview of the goals of TENCompetence, the underlying vision and the basic assumptions for an integrated and source based infrastructure. During the second part of the workshop, participants will discuss how the TENCompetence approach could support the kind of competence development they want to realize in their own domain or organization.

Subject:PROLEARN organises a thematic workshop on social sofware in Vienna, March 2nd

Further Information can be found on the website:www.digiuni.nl

Subject: April 16th and 17th, Marco Kalz will give a wiki workshop during the 'Conference on Open Educational Practices and Resources for lifelong learning’ in Salzburg

Title of the workshop: Creation and Support of Open Educational Resources with Open Source Wikis

EGAEL...

--------------------------------------------------------------
Electronic Games, simulations and Personalized eLearning
(EGAEL) 2007
--------------------------------------------------------------

FULL information at

In 2007, the EGAEL Initiative will carry out several activities focused on the use of eGames in eLearning and, more specifically,in personalized eLearning processes:

- ICALT 2007, July, Japan
Workshop on Electronic Games and
Personalized eLearning Processes

The project Learning Network for Learning Design is no longer under http://moodle.learningnetworks.org

The new web address is now: http://imsld.learningnetworks.org

The old address is redirected to the new one, but direct inner links should be updated on a local basis, as the redirection is not automatic

The website is fully operational

More information: Francis Brouns

Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME)

Editors Josie Taylor and Patrick McAndrew
Open University of The United Kingdom

Guest Editor Daniel Burgos

Rationale

Subject: 1st European Workshop on Latent Semantic Analysis in Technology-Enhanced Learning

Project/s related: TENCompetence, COOPER, PROLEARN

Contact: Marco Kalz

Description: In Heerlen, The Netherlands, 29th - 30th March, 2007

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has been successfully deployed in various applications to enrich learning and teaching with information-technology. The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together experts in the field in order to share knowledge gained within the distributed research about latent semantic analysis in educational applications, in particular from the context of the IST projects Cooper, iCamp, TenCompetence and ProLearn. In addition to the presentation of recent advances, the workshop will provide a platform for the formation of special interest groups to stipulate a joint research agenda and stimulate innovation and future developments.

Subject: TENCompetence Workshop

Project/s related: TENCompetence

Contact: Marcus Specht

Description: In Manchester, UK, 11th-12th January, 2007

One compelling argument for moving to a service oriented approach (soa) in e-learning applications and learning supporting systems is the promise of better support for lifelong learning. The online availability of resources such as formal and informal learning opportunities, past learning achievements and a variety of learning communities beyond the single institution is a key opportunity as well as a challenge for individuals and institutions alike.

At the same time, the functionality that can be made available using services promises to make it easier to integrate new, customised or innovative functionality in existing learning environments. Examples of such functionality includes simulations and collaborative learning activities. For this to happen, though, a number of issues need to be addressed that range from the purely pedagogical, via business model considerations to questions of software design and development.

The objective of the workshop is to identify and analyse current research and technologies in the intersection of the soa and lifelong learning fields, in the areas of their theory, application and use.

Subject: TENCompetence Winter School 2007

Project/s related: TENCompetence

Contact: Milos Kravcik

Description: In Innsbruck, Austria, January 22nd - 26th, 2007

The TENCompetence Winter School is considered as an intense training and collaboration on the core topics related to the TENCompetence project, building the European Network for lifelong competence development. The programme includes lectures and hands-on sessions from leading experts in the field. Our ambition is to stimulate emergence of special interest groups and learning networks as well as to support joint research opportunities. PhD students from the PRO-LC Cluster as well as from outside are invited to participate and become part of the TENCompetence research community.