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| Going Beyond the Limits |
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Stern Magazine Discovers Augmented Reality |
Karlsruhe/Hamburg (GER), November 2011 - The observer sees Michel from
Hamburg looming across from him in 3D, water splashes, and a virtual image
of the famous German musician and composer Udo Lindenberg philosophizes
about his hat and the world. The German weekly magazine experimented
"Stern" did some experimentation with augmented reality, and who knows -
perhaps the reader will have a chance to read a follow-up story. At the
LEARNTEC Conference, Werner Hinzpeter, editor for popular
Hamburg-based news weekly’s special editions, describes on the congress of
the LEARNTEC the background of this novel concept and the
experiences that came out of it. His summary: "It was a learning process
based on a work in progress."
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| Serious Games |
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Learning by Playing - with Autonomy and the Flow Effect |
Karlsruhe/Hamburg (GER), November 2011 – Games will be played at
LEARNTEC 2012. Whereas the gaming area invites Conference attendees
to an interactive experience zone at the trade fair where they can try out
and experience digital learning games, they will also have the opportunity
to discuss serious games’ outlook and future with Dr. Maren Metz of the
Helmut Schmidt University/University of the German Federal Armed Forces in
Hamburg. In the following interview, Dr. Metz explains what distinguishes a
"challenging serious game" that can be very probably be solved
successfully, producing a flow effect and the related felling of
happiness.
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| Evaluation |
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Usability of eLearning Applications |
Karlsruhe/Ulm (GER), November 2011 - A workshop on the subject "Usability
of eLearning Applications" is scheduled on the LEARNTEC Conference
program on 01 February 2012 .
Dr. Andreas Lehr, who has worked on this topic for years, has organized
the afternoon event in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Broeckl; it
focuses on the user-centered design of eLearning applications. In the
following, Dr. Lehr explains the current situation and the session’s
aims.
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| Meta-learning |
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Connectivism – a Learning Theory for the Future |
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Karlsruhe/Weserbergland (GER), November 2011 - In the age of Wikipedia,
Facebook, Twitter, etc., new forms of learning are developing. Gaining in
importance is networked, more informal learning with the aid of social
media during leisure time - but also in schools, universities, and the
working world. Prof. Dr. Volkmar Langer, president of the Weserbergland
University, will give a talk entitled "Connectivism as a Learning Model of
the Future" at the LEARNTEC Conference on 31 January 2012 in the
"Technology 2" session.
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| Demographic Change |
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What Managers Learn about Older People |
Karlsruhe/Münster (GER), November 2011 – Of course companies have to come
to grips with demographic change, but how can older employees be convinced
that their services are needed? How can managers make clear to their
workers that even though they’ve been on the job for many years, further
education is still important? Germany’s Institute for Preventive
Healthcare (Institut für gesundheitliche Prävention - IFGP) has an online
training program for this purpose, and Managing Director Marc Lenze will
explain in his talk at LEARNTEC why having manufacturing assembly
lines run a bit slower is not enough. In fact he demands that "Overall,
the issue must be addressed from a broader perspective."
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| Enterprise 2.0 |
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"We Still Have a Lot to Learn" |
Karlsruhe/Leverkusen (GER), November 2011 – How useful are Web 2.0
applications for companies? When does an individual employee benefit?
Ellen Trude, an expert on social media training and competence development
at Bayer Business Service, will address these questions in her
presentation at the LEARNTEC Conference. Her topic is entitled
"Enterprise 2.0 - More than Wikis and Blogs". Trude has developed courses
that introduce Bayer employees to network-based forms of collaborative
work.
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| Mobile Progress |
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Take Part in Webinars, Even When You’re on the Train |
Karlsruhe/Montabaur (GER), November 2011 - Mobile people require mobile
solutions. This concept is well understood by the Academy of German
Cooperatives (ADG), a network of associations that encompasses five
regional groupings of cooperatives, and it has been put into practice in
the programs made available to 160,000 employees of around 1,150
co-operative banks. Martin Greff, the head of the Academy’s Department of
Quality Management and Learning Methodology, will speak at LEARNTEC
on the challenges and opportunities presented by the current developments.
Stating, "We want to expand access", he explains that mobile devices are
already being used on the train, at home, and also during consultation
sessions with clients in banks.
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