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Recent perspectives on LD

Anders Berggren — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:56:54 GMT

by Anders Berggren.

Hi all,

The 3rd International LAMS and
Learning Design Conference took
place at Macquarie University,
Sydney in Dec 2008.

You can read Diana Laurillard's article
about it at the ALT Newsletter.

For the Tech&Pedagogy Course at moodle.org,
Anders Berggren

Current status of IMS LD and Moodle

Anders Berggren — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:45:01 GMT

by Anders Berggren.

Dear visitors at the Moodle Tech&Pedagogy Course,

Here is a brief report on the current status of
IMS Learning Design and Moodle. What we have
that concerns Moodle is what is briefly described
on the Roadmap. Developers will know more about
the progress of this work.

Currently some of us are beta-testing LAMS 2.0 RC 1
(You need to sign up and log in to see this info).

As many of you know, LAMS will eventually, as well as Moodle 2.0,
offer IMS LD full compliance and there is already a LAMS/Moodle
integration in place. If you want to test only LAMS 2.0 online
there is a demo here. You can also download everything necessary
and test the integration locally or on your own servers.

As of January 2006 a lot of the funding for research and
development of IMS LD, e.g. so called editors and players
ceased causing things to slow down.

E.g. the RELOAD project is still active though.
TENCOMPETENCE are still arranging conferences
on the subject. There will be e.g be an:
IMS Global Learning Consortium Quarterly Meeting and Learning Design Summit
6- 9 November 2006 at Open University Netherlands

Finally Daniel Denev and colleagues in Bulgaria seem to
be very active with their BEST project.

Best wishes!
Anders Berggren,
on behalf of the Moodle Tech&Pedagogy Course facilitators.

Call for papers. Workshop on Life Long Learning Networks for Competence Development at ECTEL06

Daniel Burgos — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:22:55 GMT

by Daniel Burgos.

Workshop on Life Long Learning Networks for Competence Development (L3NCD) 2006
http://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/events/2006/L3NCD06/
In conjunction with the 1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2006) on Crete, Greece, October 1-4, 2006.
http://www.ectel06.org
Workshop Motivation
Recent developments clearly indicate a change in the way we acquire and improve our level of expertise in some field or another. Life Long Learning Networks and Competence Development are two relevant topics focusing on continuous education to support new ways to our professional development. Getting some personal competences that provide a good framework beyond the established curriculum is a crucial issue to get and consolidate any professional position. On the other hand, learning networks are an excellent way to acquire and to share knowledge in an informal communication process. The combination of both topics enables the development of tools and methodologies to improve personal competences while, possibly at the same time, contribute to the development of other learners.
The requirements of the models and technologies to support such integrated facilities differ considerably from those traditionally required from technologies that support lifelong learning, or to enable company knowledge dissemination and knowledge management needs. The lifelong competence development of each individual and the multi-institutional and episodic nature of this learning are not reflected in today's mainstream learning and knowledge technologies and their associated architectures.
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the various related communities to foster a lively and continuous discussion on recent achievements and emerging and future topics. Furthermore, researchers will be able to identify and analyse current research and technologies in the fields in order to support individuals, teams and organisations to (further) develop their competences, using all the distributed knowledge resources, learning activities, units of learning and learning routes/programmes that are available online.
Topics
Workshop topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Adult formal and informal professional education
- Models, Methods and tools to support peer tutoring, teaching, mentoring, coaching, ...
- Authoring, discovery, advise and/or exchange of knowledge resources, learning activities or units of learning
- Technologies for the discovery of suitable learning resources
- Language technologies to support learning processes
- Personalized collaborative navigation
- Collaborative filtering technologies, recommender systems for learning
- Collaborative learning and collaborative tooling
- Personal data, profiles and portable ePortfolios for competence registration
- Professional competences and professional skills
- Competence assessment and learner positioning
- Competence description frameworks for professions
- Mobile support for lifelong competence development
- Knowledge Management issues related to competence development including monitoring of change, lifelong learning or HRM
- Open (e-learning) standards for distance learning and learning networks
- Learning Design for formal and informal Lifelong Learning and Competence Development
- New social theories and practices which have implications for the CD
- Semantic Web and lifelong competence development
- Social software for lifelong competence development
- Virtual communities
Format
The preliminary structure of the full day workshop includes the keynote, 6-8 full paper presentations and about 4-6 short papers. The workshop will conclude with a panel that will discuss the issues identified and further steps to advance the field.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: July 21, 2006 (midnight GMT + 1)
Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2006
Final submission camera ready papers: August 28, 2006
Submission of papers
Two types of submissions are foreseen:
- regular papers, not exceeding 8 pages (for oral presentation 20min)
- short papers, reporting on experiences and work-in-progress (for oral presentation 10 min)
Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using the Springer LNCS-format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) to L3NCD@L3S.de and should include title, author's address and email and an abstract.
Program Organizers
Daniel Burgos (Open University, The Netherlands )
Rob Koper (Open University, The Netherlands)
Daniel Olmedilla (L3S Research Center, Germany)
Demetrios Sampson (CERTH, Greece)
Martin Wolpers (KUL, Belgium and L3S Research Center, Germany)
Program Committee
Ambjörn Naeve
Anna-Karina Kaimaro
Barbara Kieslinger
Bernard Scott
Bernd Simon
Colin Tattersall
Dai Griffiths
Eelco Kruizinga
Frans Van Assche
Gilbert Pacquette
Griff Richards
Klaus Tochtermann
Luk Vervenne
Mike Spector
Patrick McAndrew
Ronald Maier
Tobias Ley

eLearning and pedagogic theory

Anders Berggren — Sun, 28 May 2006 08:22:35 GMT

by Anders Berggren.

Hi all,
As of today (May 28 2006) the readings on
eLearning and pedagogical theory will start.

Pedagogy
We will take a closer look at the theories,
models and frameworks suggested by Börje Holmberg,
Ference Marton and Diana Laurillard

Technology
We will examine what Programmable Web is.

Welcome to join in!
Anders Berggren
on behalf of Moodle Tech &Pedagogy Study Group

New name/new reading schedule

Tony Hursh — Sat, 20 May 2006 15:17:53 GMT

by Tony Hursh.

Hi, all. The Technology and Pedagogy Study Group on moodle.org (formerly the Learning Design Book Study community) is ready to start its next round of readings and technology explorations. The topics for our first week will be:

Theory:

Alexander, C. A City is not a Tree Architectural Forum, Vol 122, No 1, April 1965, pp 58-62 (Part I), Vol 122, No 2, May 1965, pp 58-62 (Part II). We'll read this paper between May 21 and May 27, and discuss it beginning on May 28.

Technology:

Ning, http://ning.com This system is designed to support rapid prototyping and deployment of social software applications. Much of the overhead involved (dealing with servers, databases, and such) is handled by the Ning system. In addition, you can "clone" an existing application, then quickly add your own modifications to it. We'll look at some Ning apps (and, for the technically-inclined, perhaps build a few simple ones) between May 21 and 27, and display and discuss our finds and/or creations beginning on May 28.

If you have a topic or paper that you'd like for us to discuss, feel free to add it to the Suggested Readings wiki in the course, and perhaps volunteer to lead a discussion.

We hope to see you all there!