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 […]
Oct
26
Tomorrow’s students - Are We Ready for the New 21st Century Learners?
October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Educause 2007 - Thursday 25 October
Presenter – Julie Evans -Chief Executive Officer, Project Tomorrow – NetDay
An interesting presentation, if taken at a breakneck speed. It was the presentation of the annual national research project for K-12 schools in the US for 2006- the 2007 survey has just begun. The 2006 survey covered 232,000 students, […]
Oct
25
Riding the 2.0 Wave (Successfully)
October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Educause 2007 - Thursday 25 October
Presenter – Josh Baron, Director Academic Technology and eLearning , Marist College
Marist College was founded in 1929 and is based in Poughkeepsie NY. It has 5700 students with 200 full time, 500 part time lecturers. Technology is key part of the strategic plan and mission statement.
Currently most people use […]
Oct
25
Project Technology – A World of Reality
October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment
Educause 2007 - Thursday 25 October
Presenters: Robert H Hoar – Prof of Mathematics University of Wisconsin- La Crosse; James A Jorstad – Director of Educational Technologies University of Wisconsin –La Crosse
This project was based on a TV Series – Project Runway.- but in this version UW tried to follow 6 faculty members and how […]
Oct
25
The Role of Information Technology in an Age of Access, Affordability and Accountability
October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment
Educause 2007 - Thursday 25 October
Presenters: Robert W Mendenhall –President Westerns Governors University, Charlene Nunley – President Emerita Montgomery College; David Ward – President American Council on Education
A panel discussion based around the Spellings Report of 2006, a report commissioned by Margaret Spellings US Secretary of Education ‘A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of […]
Oct
25
Social Networking Technologies: A ‘Poke’ for Campus Services
October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Educause 2007 - Wednesday 24 October
Presenters: Joanne E Berg – Vice Provost and Registrar, University of Wisconsin Madison; Lori Berquam – Dean of Students; Kathy Christoph – Director Academic Technology
The presentation was a re-run of material presented in the Match/.April edition of the Educause magazine.
Students use all sorts of new tech to keep in touch […]
