Call for applications for the upcoming JTEL Winter School 2010:

Orchestrating Learning - 6 February 2010, Innsbruck

The Winter School brings interdisciplinary doctoral researchers together in order to provide intense research training and to foster cross-domain collaboration. The event will engage participants in high-level courses and workshops with leading scientists. As part of research teams the participants will contribute to an inspiring learning environment. The workshops and lectures organized during the JTEL Winter School focus on theoretical, methodological, and technological issues that are relevant to TEL research. Additionally, the JTEL Winter School provides space for interaction, group work, and informal discussions. Doctoral students will also be expected to present their research for constructive feedback from experts and other participants of the Winter School.

Important Dates
14 December 2009 – Deadline for applications
4 January 2010 – Participants’ information and scholarship grants
1-6 February 2010 – JTEL Winter School in Innsbruck

Further details on the event are available at
http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/groups/43

Online Educa 2009

ROLE will be presented by the stand of IMC , the stand of BILD as well as by the stand of the STELLAR Network of Excellence.

Conference Website:
http://www.online-educa.com

At Campus Innovation 2009 a ROLE stand will be provided by IMC.

Conference Website:
http://www.campus-innovation.de

Some ROLE topics will be presented and discussed at Professional Training Facts 2009:

Track 4: Competence Development with Responsive Open Learning Environments

Transitions are becoming of more importance for professional careers and learning histories, e.g. in changing between companies and between university and company and vice versa. Life-long learning is often self-regulated learning. Therefore, learners need not only an e-portfolio based management of competences but also reliable recommendations and responses for future learning activities, learning materials and learning communities based on different assessment strategies. In the recently started EU large-scale integrating project ROLE partners from industry and academia are researching and developing responsive open learning environments in the face of transition and the ever growing need for competence development.

• Structuring Skills and Competences in the Context of Knowledge Domains, Learning Tools, and Self-Regulated Learning Environments
  Karin Fruhmann, Technische Universität Graz, Austria
• Personal Learning Environment Meets Learning Management System - How Does the Future for Corporate Human Resource Development Look Like?
  Manuel Schmidt, Festo Lernzentrum Saar GmbH, Germany
• Web 2.0 Knowledge Map - RWTH Aachen Testbed
  Bodo von der Heiden, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Organised by: Dr. Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany

A conference on metadata hosted by the University of Vienna takes place from 12-13 November 2009. The participation is free.

Conference Website:
http://metadata.univie.ac.at

BILD Connect Event, the Principality Building Society, Cardiff, November 18th
Theme: Strategies for learning in business

Each year, the British Institute for Learning and Development organises and runs 6 FREE member events. Each is based on a different learning and development topic or theme. These events are all based in different regions of the UK and they important to attend for professional development. The events are also a great opportunity to network with fellow BILD members!

The forthcoming Cardiff Connect event will draw on a topic and its related issues which is becoming increasingly relevant for many L&D practitioners as well as learners in the workplace.

How can we build successful strategies for learning in business? What is best practice and what is the cost? Organisations represented at this event will demonstrate some of their stratgies and techniques for implementing learning in business and how we might improve these strategies to become more holistic and inclusive.

FREE to BILD Members

£95 + VAT Non Members

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Welcome and Introductions

11.10 Learning at the Principality Building Society
In this presentation, Graeme Yorston, Chief Operating Officer, will discuss some strategies for learning at the Principality Building Society

11.50 Creative and Cultural Skills in Wales
Details of this presentation to follow.

12:30 Networking Lunch

13.30 BILD Update
A brief report on recent innovations and news from the BILD.

13.50 Key Issues and Challenges for L & D today
In this presentation and discussion session, Ron Mackrell and Chris Sutton, of The Training Foundation, will consider what organisations can do to improve their learning strategies to become more inclusive and holistic in their objectives.

14.50 Assessing learning in business
In this presentation, Jack Wills, Director of TADS Media Ltd, will demonstrate how the use of online assessment has become an integral part of employers’ strategy for assessing learning in business. Case studies from a variety of scenarios will be given which illustrate this.

15.30 Close

The BILD is most grateful to The Principality Building Society for hosting this meeting.

Here is a very interesting Call for Papers for our ROLE-community:

IEEE First International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Mashups.
20th April 2010. Perth, Australia. (Workshop at IEEE AINA 2010)
http://www.aina2010.curtin.edu.au/workshop/stamashup/

Paper deadline: 15th November 2009 (6 pages).

Special Issue for Reality-Based Interaction Evaluation Methods and Challenges

Editors: Georgios Christou, Effie Lai-Chong Law, William Green, Kasper Hornbæk

The special issue seeks submissions that include, but are not be limited to:

• Evaluation methods that have been created and designed specifically for RBIs.
• Case studies of successful and unsuccessful evaluations of RBIs, how those were performed, and why they were successful (or why they failed).
• Discussions of frameworks that enable the evaluation of RBIs, through objective and subjective measures.
• Descriptions and evaluations of tools that support decisions regarding which interaction style would be appropriate for a specific task, environment and goal.

Articles must be based on original research, and to the standards of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS). Complete articles must be submitted by the deadline of 15th of January. Papers will be subject to the full review process of the IJHCS.

Read more…

On Thursday October 8th, 2009, Erik Duval and Ralf Klamma presented and discussed in the online round table on personalization and learning. In the context of the ROLE project they mainly talked about understanding the use and the development of personal learning environments (PLE). Because PLE is about self-regulated learning, learners should know about the gap between their actual learning processes and their set learning goals. Thanks to Cris, Martin and Graham for organizing it. Thanks to the audience for their patience.