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Research - Oxford Brookes University Develops a New Learning Culture with EQUELLA
- ePortfolio: Best Practices from Germany, Italy, Finland and the UK
- How Top Universities Are Driving Student Engagement Through
- Teaching and Learning as a Team Sport –Interview with Adrian Sannier
- "Use Your Brain!" – Neuroscience and Education
- E-Learning and “Acculturation” – Helping Students to Study Abroad
- Academic Learning Futures: E-Vacuating Oil Rigs
- The Biggest E-Learning Laboratory in Europe
- Fronter Implements New LMS for the University of Vienna
- Education in the Digital Age – What Does It Mean?
- Promoting Cultural Dialogue with E-Learning
- Master’s Programme: Online Education in Veterinary Tropical Medicine
- Keep Students Engaged – With LMS, Videos and Mobile Phones
- One for All - Education Highway Chooses Fronter
- A Network of National Networks
- Moodle - The Future Looks Very Bright
- Challenges in Higher Education: E-Learning and Natural Science
- Reviving History in the Classroom
- Studying Across Cultures
- Special Focus Session on Japan
- Interview with Leonard A. Plugge, SURF Scientific Technical Council
- E-Learning from a Student’s Perspective
- Face-to-face and Cyberspace: Two Sides of the Educational Coin
- E-Learning at Berlin's Universities
- Small World - Global Classrooms
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Five hundred medical students at Leeds University School of Medicine will be equipped with iPhones so that their skills can be assessed online. The large-scale project is one of several ePortfolio initiatives being presented at OEB 2010 by delegates from Germany, Italy, Finland and the United Kingdom.
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Need to know how to engage students with your mobile strategy? Join Aaron Wasserman of Blackboard Mobile in one of the Friday plenary sessions at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2010, where he will focus on leading universities working on the edge of the mobile revolution and addressing the expectations that today’s students have. Aaron will highlight how a variety of universities all over the world are using mobile technologies to drive student engagement, enrolment and retention, getting better results from teaching and learning. Is he qualified to talk about this? We think so! As one of the Managing Partners of Terriblyclever Design the students (graduated 2010) who worked with Stanford University to build iStanford, a set of iPhone applications to support campus life, Aaron was instrumental in the creation of the iPhone and mobile Web applications for education that now form the basis of Blackboard’s new solution Blackboard Mobile.
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Learning technology can make a significant difference in academic education, according to Dr Adrian Sannier, Vice President of Product at Pearson eCollege. At the University of Alabama, for example, success rates in maths have skyrocketed since they introduced “MyMathLab”, a series of interactive online courses: Previously, half their students failed, whereas now the pass rate is above 70 percent. In his keynote speech at OEB, Adrian Sannier will illustrate ways of harnessing the potential of ICT in academic education. One of the key factors is the idea of teaching and learning as a team sport.
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Electronic books are expected to replace traditional textbooks in universities in two to three years' time, according to the New Media Consortium's authoritative Horizon Report, a comprehensive annual study of developments in e-learning. At ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2010, Larry Johnson, CEO of the New Media Consortium, will discuss the very latest findings of the Horizon Report 2011, before the official release in January. The annual report is based on the views of hundreds of technology experts in education, museums, business and creative industries. Here, Larry Johnson takes a broader look at the technological trends in this field.
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Neuroscientists are progressing rapidly in their research into areas highly relevant to education. Educators are eager to learn about their discoveries. Numerous teachers already use “brain-based” programmes in order to enhance learning. But can neuroscience really help to improve teaching? Experts at OEB 2009 called for caution.
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A large number of students study abroad in order to acquire international experience and increase their attractiveness for international companies. For example, in Europe the number of students studying abroad reached 515,400 in 2006, an increase of 57 per cent in eight years (EUROSTAT). When the students start their studies in a foreign country, they have to get to know the culture and educational context of the institute at which they will be studying. More and more academic institutions are assisting in the process of “acculturating” of foreign students by offering getting-acquainted courses, summer courses or preparatory courses. At OEB, Ria Jacobi from the Netherlands’ Leiden University will present a nationwide e-learning programme for international students.
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Dramatic actions such as saving workers from a blazing oil rig are all in a day’s work for Gilly Salmon. Only they take place online – in the virtual environment of ‘Second Life’. As a Professor of E-Learning and Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester in the UK, Salmon and her team create “academic learning futures“. In several talks and workshops at OEB, Salmon will discuss the latest trends in working with a new generation of learners, as well as how to vision future scenarios for higher education.
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A good balance between self-reliance and guidance; a strong emphasis on real life tasks, as well as peer-to-peer advisory meetings and a refined tracking system: these are the main columns of the large scale training module set up in Italy by the National Agency for the Support of School Autonomy in order to enhance teachers‘ ICT skills. Since 2001 the agency has managed to serve approximately 1,000,000 students with its platform ‘PuntoEdu’ and a comprehensive e-tutor system. OEB asked project managers Elena Mosa and Giusy Cannella to describe the logistical and didactical challenges that accompany such an enormous project.
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The University of Vienna, the oldest university in the German-speaking world and one of the largest in Central Europe, has selected Fronter to provide its central Learning Management System (LMS). Fronter was chosen to replace the former provider after an extensive tender process and intensive testing. Since March 2009, Fronter has been functioning as the University’s e-learning platform. At OEB, Annabell Lorenz from the University of Vienna will talk about the challenges that came with such a large-scale implementation and give insights into how the changeover process took place.
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Is education – in a more classical sense, or “Bildung”, as the Germans say, – in danger of falling by the wayside in the digital age? Or is it possible to provide a personal learning environment that really serves a holistic, individual and lifelong learning experience? What could be done to encourage students to reflect on their own online-learning process? Frances Bell, Griff Richards and Per Skafte Hansen explore these questions from very different angles in the “Thinking About Learning” session at OEB 2009.
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