Nov

30

Reflections on Online Educa Berlin 2007

November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In some respects this is always a quite difficult conference to judge - a large event (2200 delegates), multinational flavour despite its European heart, a session programme that tries hard to be even handed and cover a wide range of topics - but from a JISC and SURF perspective our objectives are longer term and […]

Nov

30

Radio Web Europe

November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Online Educa 2007 - Session 2c - November 29
Speaker – Gonzalez Santamaria

Radio Web Europe is a Commission funded project to try and engage young people from across the EU about the future of Europe by using new technology. There are about 250 podcasts available posted on the project site

Nov

30

Learning with Closed Eyes

November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Online Educa 2007 - Session 2b - November 29
Speakers; Harold Sturmer, Dr Okke Schluter – Studiengemeinshaft Darmstadt (SGD)
SGD are a private distance learning institute for further education and part of Klett publishers group. They deal with approximately 35-40,000 learners per year with their primary target group being adult learners
Their approach was based on […]

Nov

30

Use of Podcasts as a Learning Tool

November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Online Educa 2007 - Session 2a November 29
Speaker Dr Ming Nie, Dr Palitha Edirisingha – Uni of Leicester
The project here looked at how podcasts could be used for geography, earth science, and environmental science (GEES subjects). The IMPALA project covered a range of projects of which 5 were related to geography implying that podcasts […]

Nov

30

Wikis in Education : Pubic, Semi-Public or Private – Which is Best?

November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Online Educa 2007 - Session 1c November 29
Speaker – Sarah Guth, University of Padua
This related to a project to see whether there were advantages to fully public or semi-public wikis over closed ones.
In reviewing why people might use these technologies it was clear that they enable communications between people and organisations […]

Nov

30

Wikis and Blogs as Learning Tools

November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Online Educa 2007 - Session 1 a
Speaker: Martina Doolan – University of Hertfordshire
This work related to personalised learning in a dynamic multi-mode learning environment to support group based assessment. Many of her influences came from her students rather than the experience of the university managed learning environment which doesn’t have personal pages.
Students […]

Nov

30

SURF/JISC Opening Reception

November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Online Educa 2007 - 28 November
JISC and SURF again held a drinks reception on the first evening of Educa. Previously hailed as a success it once again attracted a good number of people to the stand – some of whom we actually knew! It does seem however to be a good way of kicking off […]

Nov

30

Online Educa Berlin 2007

November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

November 28-30 2007
This is the fourth year that JISC has attended the Online Educa Conference in Berlin. For the third time JISC and SURF are sharing an exhibition area as well as having speakers in sessions and related project representatives in the conference
Preparing a joint exhibition space is always a challenge not only logistically […]

Nov

8

JISC Members Briefing Day

November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The latest JISC Briefing Day for Committee and Board members took place on 7 November at the Wellcome Conference centre in London. These events are notoriously difficult occasions, not least because of the sometimes over-massaged egos of a few participants but also because of the difficulty in judging and pitching the sessions – too much […]