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Things to do in Dubai for 1 Dirham /3 January 2, 2011

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Going out in Dubai can be really expensive. Especially when you don’t want to spend the whole night on soft drinks only. And special nights, like Christmas, New Years, etc. can become extremely expensive if you go to one of the many fancy places around town.

BUT, some things are still for free. E.g. watching the impressive Burj Khalifa fireworks on New Year’s Eve. It did not last very long, but it was stunning. Here is one of the best videos I found on Youtube that captured it quite well:

Burj Khalifa Fireworks

conference patriotism March 16, 2008

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although a lot of us (European TEL researchers) are currently busy writing applications for the ICT Call of FP7 there are also a number of deadlines for paper submission coming up these days. And a number of interesting events are going to take place in Austria:

Since I could not make it to ED-MEDIA last year I would like to take the opportunity this year; especially since it is going to take place in Vienna, June 30 – July 4, 2008.

One of the conferences that has been very successful in attracting an international audience is the TRIPLE-I ’08 / I-KNOW organised by the KnowCenter and the TU Graz, Sept. 3-5, 2008. I have been there twice and enjoyed the good atmosphere, the time for social networking and the professional organisation…. and of course some of the talks.

Then there is this year’s EduMedia in Salzburg, June 2-3, 2008 organised by the people from Salzburg research. There is a special track on technology support for self-organised learners. Could be a space for discussing some of our iCamp results.

And a conference that has been around for various years now and declares itself as “the largest international and European eLearning event in Austria” is the ICL taking place in Villach, Sept. 24-26, 2008.

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PROLEARN Summer School 2007 — PROLEARN Academy Portal January 16, 2007

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… and this year the PROLEARN Summer School is going to take place in France:
PROLEARN Summer School 2007 — PROLEARN Academy Portal

Using Social Software for Technology Enhanced Learning | PROLEARN – Thematic Workshop 2007

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another highly recommendable event:

Prolearn‘s 4th Thematic Workshop on Social Software (in cooperation with iCamp and the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture)

Using Social Software for Technology Enhanced Learning | PROLEARN – Thematic Workshop 2007
The workshop is designed to serve as a forum for researchers, practioners, and intermediaries related to Social Software and its use in Technology Enhanced Learning.The meeting will provide unique networking possibilities. It will enable discussions around innovative research results and findings, experience reports and will address further research needs, as well as case studies describing innovative applications of new Social Software learning environments and approaches.

We welcome all interested researchers, practitioners and intermediaries focusing on the aspect of Social Software for Technology Enhanced Learning to participate in the mornings for high level key note speakers and to contribute actively in the afternoon at the workshop.
Key note speakers morning:

Detailed Programme and Registration under:
http://tws.prolearn-project.org/index.html

Participation is limited to 100 persons.

conference announcement: EC-TEL’07 December 3, 2006

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since Erik Duval and Ralf Klamma – the two programme chairs – have already posted the preliminary CfP for next years EC-TEL conference I cannot resist doing the same.

So watch out for this conference, which will take place in Athens in autumn 2007:

Preliminary Call for Papers EC-TEL’07
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Second European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning
Creating new learning experiences on a global scale
17-20 September 2007
Greece

Website: http://www.ectel07.org (coming soon)

Supported by the Professional Learning Cluster (PRO-LC)
http://www.professional-learning-cluster.org/

With the advance of metadata standards, learning objects, Web 2.0 approaches to rip, mix & burn, wikis, blogs, syndication, user generated content, interactive TV, games and the ubiquitous availability of computing devices we can and have to offer more flexible learning services on a global scale. As one of the new objectives of the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission puts it: we need “Responsive environments for technology-enhanced learning that motivate, engage and inspire learners, and which are embedded in the business processes and human resources management systems of organizations”. An important challenge is to bridge between informal learning strategies of the knowledge society and formal competence development programmes of organizations.

After the success of EC-TEL06, the Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to technology-enhanced learning, including its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments. This is a competitive and broad forum for technology enhanced learning research in Europe and world-wide through specialized workshops and the main conference. EC-TEL 2007 provides unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and includes project meetings and discussions for ongoing and new research activities supported by the European Commission.

We welcome submissions describing innovative research on all relevant issues in computer science, learning, and the organizational context, as well as experience reports and case studies describing innovative applications of new learning environments and approaches.

Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to:

Deploying Technology Enhanced Learning

* Ubiquitous Technology Enhanced Learning
* Services for Technology Enhanced Learning
* Games and Interactive TV as Educational Tools
* Learning Communities and Distributed Teams
* Online Experiments
* Web 2.0 and Social Software for Technology Enhanced Learning

Learner Modeling and Personalisation

* Personal Learning Environments
* Learner Assessment and Testing
* Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Instructions
* Competencies in Workplace Learning
* Adaptation Patterns and Techniques

Metadata for TEL

* Re-Using, Re-Authoring and Re-Purposing (Rip, Mix and Burn)
* Learning Objects and Learning Repositories
* Learning Design, Narrative and Navigation Models
* Metadata in Search, Retrieval and Harvesting

Technology Enhanced Support for Organizational Learning

* Knowledge Management, Sharing and Learning
* Business Processes and Learning
* Sustainability and Business Models
* Deployment Strategies

Scaleable Technology Enhanced Learning

* Authoring of Multimedia/ Virtual Reality Content
* Artificial Intelligence technologies for Technology Enhanced Learning
* Network Infrastructures (Streaming, Peer-to-Peer Infrastructures)
* Runtime Engines for Learning Design and Learning Objects
* Semantic Web technologies

Theoretical and methodological foundations of TEL

* Formal / Informal Learning
* Instructional Methods for Collaborative Learning
* Problem Solving Support
* Collaborative Knowledge Building and Sharing
* Social networks in learning environments

Experience Reports, Assessment, and Case Studies

General Chair:

* Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, Germany

Programme Chairs:

* Erik Duval, K.U.Leuven, Belgium & Ariadne Foundation
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Publicity Chair:

* Barbara Kieslinger, ZSI, Austria

Workshop chair:

* Frans van Assche, EUN, Belgium

Local Organization Chair:

* Constantin Makropoulos, NCSR, Greece

Organizing Chair:

* Martin Wolpers, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

Industrial Session chair:

* Volker Zimmermann, IMC AG, Germany

Doctoral Consortium Chairs:

* Katherine Maillet, INT, France
* Tomaz Klobucar, IJS, Slovenia
* Denis Gilet, EPFL, Switzerland

Programme Committee:

* Heidrun Allert, Austria
* Nicolas Balacheff, FR
* Kalina Bontcheva, UK
* Peter Brusilovsky, USA
* Jean-Pierre David, France (tbc)
* Fabrizio Cardinali, Italy (tbc)
* Stefano Ceri, Italy
* Alexandra Christea, UK
* Paul De Bra, The Netherlands
* Peter Dolog, Denmark
* Email Sam Dooley, USA (tbc)
* Dieter Euler, Switzerland (tbc)
* Monique Grandbastien, France
* Jim Greer, CA
* Kai Hakkarainen, Finland (tbc)
* Marek Hatala, CA (tbc)
* Carolyn Haythornwhaite, USA
* Friedrich Hesse, Germany
* Nicola Henze, Germany
* Christopher Hoadley, USA (tbc)
* Geert-Jan Houben, Belgium
* Matthias Jarke, Germany
* Barbara Kieslinger, Austria
* Paul Kirschner, The Netherlands (tbc)
* Rob Koper, The Netherlands
* Harald Kosch, Germany
* Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria
* Peter Loos, Germany
* Stephan Lukosch, Germany
* Erica Melis, Germany
* Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan
* Markku Markkula, Finland (tbc)
* Robert Meersmann, Belgium (tbc)
* Enrico Motta, UK
* Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany
* Gustaf Neumann, Austria (tbc)
* Gilbert Paquette, CA
* Brigitte de La Passardiere, France
* Juan Quemada, Spain
* Bernhard Plattner, Switzerland (tbc)
* Dan Rehak, USA (tbc)
* Christoph Rensing, Germany
* Griff Richards, CA
* Jeremy Roschelle, USA
* Demetrios Sampson, Greece
* Vittorio Scarano, Italy
* Mark Schlager, USA
* Peter Scott, UK
* Marcus Specht, The Netherlands
* Pierre Tchounikine, France
* Klaus Tochtermann, Austria
* Julita Vassileva, Canada (tbc)
* Vincent Wade, Ireland
* Gerhard Weber, Germany
* David Wiley, USA
* Ingo Wolf, Germany
* Barbara Wasson, Norway
* Martin Wolpers, Belgium
* Volker Wulf, Germany
* Volker Zimmermann, Germany

All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers. Proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). For camera-ready format instructions, please see “For Authors” instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, 6 pages for posters. Selected papers will be considered for special issues of relevant journals. Workshop descriptions will be published in the conference proceedings.

Dates for submission, notification and camera-ready copies

* Paper Deadline: April 1, 2007
* Poster, Short papers, April 1, 2007
* Deadline for Workshops: 1 April 1, 2007
* Notification of acceptance of workshops: May 1, 2007
* Author Notification: May 7, 2007
* Camera-ready copy: June 1, 2007
* Workshops: September 17-18, 2007
* Conference: September 19-20, 2007

* Co-located Events: 21-22 September 2007

from technology enhanced learning to social innovation… October 8, 2006

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this is actually not a suggestion of how to derive social innovations from technology enhanced learning experiences. it is only to say that I am busy running from one event to the other. just back from the ec-tel06 conference I will attend the week of social innovation starting tomorrow. seems like a busy week again.

this actually calls for a reflection on how much time we spend running from one event to the next without having enough time to digest the information that we receive and the people that we meet…..maybe I get inspired during this week of social innovations.

conference announcement August 23, 2006

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EARLI Biennial Conference 2007

…EARLI 2007 will provide an opportunity not only to present the results of your recent work, but also to discuss research findings with other scholars. The theme of the conference, Developing Potentials for Learning, has at least two levels of meaning: the growing importance of enriching the potentials of learning and the unidirectional trend of increasing possibilities in educational systems both play an important role in educational research… [Beno Csapo & Csaba Csikos on the Conference Website]

The 12th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI2007) will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from August 28 to September 1, 2007. The deadline for proposal submission is November 30, 2006. Interested parties should have no problem finding a slot among the many conference themes. [Sebastian Fiedler]

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L3NCD – 2nd International Workshop on Life Long Learning Networks for Competence Development July 21, 2006

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don’t foget about this workshop:

http://www.l3s.de/%7Eolmedilla/events/2006/L3NCD06/

the deadline is actually today, but I suppose that high quality contributions might even get accepted with a few days of delay…. hurry up!

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an event you should not miss… July 19, 2006

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… although unfortunately I might miss it myself, is the blogtalk reloaded (Oct. 2-3, 2006, Vienna, Austria)
After a short phone conversation with Thomas Burg, one of the main organisers of this event, I just had a look at the conference website and it seems to be a good event for meeting up with researchers and practicioners around the topic of social software. It seems to be also a nice alternative to the highly academic events as I spotted some papers settled in the corporate and business context.

What a pitty that the EC-TEL conference will take place around the same time in Crete.

back in Vienna July 17, 2006

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after a few days in Brussels, I am now back in Vienna. Actually I am already planning my next trip. I am going to be at the eLearning 2006 Conference in Bangkok, where I am going to present a paper on some experiences from the iCamp project. The event is the third one of this series.