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All Youngsters Are Digital Natives, Aren’t They? |
Helsinki (FI), November 2012 - Tore Ståhl taught ICT throughout the 1990s
and has been practising eLearning and developing the prerequisites for
eLearning in higher education since 2001. One of his special interests is
the question of what the young generation actually look like in terms of
ICT and media skills and habits, especially the so-called NetGeners, in
relation to other subgroups.
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Simulating Classes with Avatars of Students and Teachers |
 Barcelona (E), November 2012 - As a member of the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UOB) Research group in Affective
Learning, which means the field of eLearning and emotions, Carles
Fernàndez Barrera is a specialist in eLearning projects related to the use
of serious games and virtual worlds, video and interactive TV, music and
quizzes and other resources as learning tools. At ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, he
will talk about "Creating a Serious Game to Engage Teachers in Lifelong
Learning".
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| Lifelong Learning |
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"ELearning Is a Fast-growing Approach in the Caucasus" |
 Tbilisi
(GE), November 2012 - Tamar Lominadze is professor and Head of the
eLearning Centre at the Georgian Technical University. She is coming from
Tbilisi to ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN to give an overview about the development
of eLearning and lifelong learning in the Caucasus. And she explains the
special need to use eLearning as a bridge that connects countries and ties
together nations with different languages, cultures, and religions.
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| Hands-on Approach |
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"With Hands as well as Minds" |
Amsterdam (NL), November 2012 - "Creative Labs Transforming Higher
Education" is the topic Frank Kresin from the Waag Society will talk about
on Friday, 30 November 2012. The session will carve out how successful
teachers encourage creativity: More freedom, fewer assignments, and the
inclusion of fablabs and alternative pedagogical formats step away from
the path of formal education. Frank Kresin describes how a creative lab
works.
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| Workplace Learning |
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As Close to the Realities of the Job Role as Possible |
Dundee (UK), November 2012 - Keith Quinn has worked in learning and
development for over twenty years. Currently, he is working as a
Development Manager for the Scottish Social Services Council. The title of
his presentation at ONLINE EDUCA is "Going Mobile: Comparing Outcomes of
Technology-Enhanced Situated Learning with Classroom Approaches to
Workforce Development". In his research, he has come up with a lot of
interesting answers to what appear to be quite basic questions.
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| Virtual Lab |
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Increasing Analytical Skills with Interactive Tools |
Piraeus (GR), November 2012 - Symeon Retalis is Assïciate Professor in the
Department of Digital Systems at the Greek University of Piraeus. In this
capacity he has been able to expand his experience in "Designing
Multi-user Learning Activities for a Virtual Chemistry Lab on a
Multi-touch Interactive Whiteboard", and this is the topic of his talk at
ONLINE EDUCA. He will take a very practical point of view in this session,
which will also debate the theory and practise of "digital tools and aids
for teaching Maths and Science".
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| E-educators |
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Viewing the Use of ICT from a Student Perspective |
 Bærum
(NO), November 2012 - "Breaking the Wall" is the title of Frank Baklid’s
contribution at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN. "ICTs: Critical E-Competencies for
Teachers" is the headline of the session, which will discuss the
competencies required to feel at ease using Web 2.0 - or even Web 3.0
virtual learning environments, Moodle, and more. The session will address
teachers in schools and talk about the involvement of parents in
education.
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South-South Collaboration between India and Africa |
 New Dehli (IN), November 2012 - Kaviraj Sharma
Sukon, Director-General of the Open University of Mauritius, will discuss
"Using ICT to Shrink Horizons: Pan-African e-Network" at ONLINE EDUCA. His
session on Thursday afternoon covers various examples of infrastructure
projects that enable national, transnational, and cross-institutional
collaborative content development. The Pan-African e-Network is one of the
most ambitious projects worldwide in this field.
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| Pros and Cons |
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How to Enhance Participation in Class |
 Mmabatho (ZA), November 2012 - Re-an Muller is a lecturer in
Business Management and Marketing Communication at the
North-West-University in South Africa. In his talk at ONLINE EDUCA Berlin,
he will pose the question, "Can class participation be enhanced by using
the student’s favourite mobile chat-platform?" Here he summarizes his
experience.
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| Safe Exam Browser |
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SEB: A Secure, Web-based Testing Environment |
 Zurich (CH), November 2012 - Daniel R. Schneider studied Sociology,
Information Technology, and Political Science. He is the leader of the
Safe Exam Browser (SEB) project at the ETH Zurich’s Center for Educational
Development and Technology. This system ensures, among other things, that
during an exam, it’s only possible for a student’s testing device to
access the exam.
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