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I-Know09
9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies

Auch heuer wieder: die I-Know - as we know. Und gleich wieder mit der Parallel I-Semantic 09 dazu!

Wer nicht am 17. bis 19. April nach Illmenau kommen kann (so wie ich ;-( ), der/die kann ja mit traurigem Herzen bis November warten und nach Graz kommen. (Huch, das ist aber noch lange bis dahin!)

(Edu-)Camp-Kalender

Heuer zur Thematik:
Kreativität und Innovationskompetenz
im digitalen Netz
“E-Creativity und E-Innovation”
EduMedia 2009

Pflicht-Termin, ehh klar!

Heuer zum Thema:
“Innovation, Creativity and Accountability.”

Veranstaltung: Plymouth e-Learning Conference 2009
      ”Boundary Changes: Redefining Learning Spaces”
Was: Workshop
Wer: Steve Wheeler
Beginn: Donnerstag, 23. April um 09:30
Ende: Freitag, 24. April um 17:00
Wo: Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth

Vortrag von Frau Tomoko Kojiri (Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University)
im HS 02.21 (Universitätsplatz 2, 2.Obergeschoß, siehe http://www.wegweiser.ac.at/static/plaene/gif/B_UP.gif (Gebäude Nr. 2))
Universität Graz, Austria

Abstract:

With the development of the computer and the network technologies, various e-Learning systems have been developed. In order for students to study effectively with these systems, it is important to provide a virtual learning environment where they can be immersed in their learning activities. If they can acquire information freely and behave intuitively in the same way as they do in the real world, they can feel as if they exist in the virtual learning environment.

The objective of our research is to develop the interface that provides the view of the learning environment according to students’ intentions. Since students get necessary information from the learning environment based on their own learning situations and viewpoints, their learning intentions need to be inferred from their actions individually. In addition, the interface should display views that reflect their intentions. In this presentation, we introduce two examples of such interface.

The first interface provides a function of changing a student’s view individually in the collaborative learning environment, where all participants are arranged around a round-table. During the discussion, students turn their faces to their focusing targets to observe facial expressions and actions of other participants in detail. Since they concentrate on the focusing targets, they can pay little attention to other information. In order to realize such viewing function, students’ focusing degrees to all participants are estimated based on their utterances. Then, the eye direction and the view width are determined automatically for each student according to the focusing degrees.

The second interface provides a workspace for learning in which various windows are arranged according to students’ intentions for each learning activity. Some learning activities have relations to other activities from the viewpoint of whether they occur sequentially or concurrently. These relations reflect the students’ intentions and can be grasped from manipulation records of windows. In our interface, windows are moved dynamically so as to enable students to access windows of related learning activities easily and do current learning activities efficiently.

Five years ago, researchers from a wide range of disciplines came together to draft the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, which stressed the significance of unrestricted access to research results via the Internet for the future of academic publishing.

via: http://www.e-teaching.org/

Symposium at ED-MEDIA 2008
Vienna, Austria
Monday, June 30, 2008 — Friday, July 4, 2008

The symposium is titled “How social is my personal learning environment (PLE)” and we would like to discuss the learning impacts of personalization on the adoption of social software and the consolidation of the sense of belonging to a community. In total, we will have eight individual papers of colleagues from Finland, Estonia, Switzerland, Austria, Uk, Greece, Luxembourg, and Canada.

via: http://www.icamp.eu/

Workshop on
Mash-Up Personal Learning
Environments (MUPPLE’08)
at the 3rd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL08), Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 17-19, 2008

RATIONALE

A change in perspective can be certified in the recent years to technology-enhanced learning research and development: More and more learning applications on the web are putting the learner centre stage, not the organisation. They empower learners with capabilities to customize and even construct their own personal learning environments (PLEs).

… for more information go to: http://mupple08.icamp.eu/

Seminar zur Einführung in Visual Analytics
via: <a href=”www.donau-uni.ac.at/alumni”>www.donau-uni.ac.at/alumni </a>

Ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte … Visuelle Wahrnehmung als Grundlage menschlicher Erkenntnis: Ein Blick erkennt (und der Geist kompletiert bereits kleinste) auftretende Regelmäßigkeiten, Muster und Strukturen. Durch Visualisierung kann in der Analyse von Daten eine “ersichtliche” Aussage getroffen werden. Tolle Sache