Il cielo sopra Berlino
Inserito da mrxibis il Ven, 11/30/2007 - 09:55
Come molti sanno, in questi giorni si svolge a Berlino Online Educa: http://www.online-educa.com/ Si tratta di uno dei più importanti eventi europei sull'e-learning, un'occasione per fare il punto sulle tecnologie, sull'innovazione didattica, sull'editoria e molto altro ancora. I temi sono innumerevoli e tutti interessanti:
- E-Learning in the Corporate and Company Context
- Online learning and coaching supporting management and leadership development and executive training
- Making the business case for e-learning: measuring cost and return on investment
- Capacity and competence building, transferable skills and maximising human capital through just-in-time online learning provision
- Communities of practice supported by online learning networks as a contribution towards effective performance in the workplace, examples and experiences from networked companies
- ICT supported learning in the workplace, examples of best practice and company-wide take-up
- How e-learning can contribute to a value-added and knowledge-based economy and provide the means to link innovation with economic growth
- Syndicated content development and out-sourcing as a way to offset the cost of high quality content development
- Implementing learning solutions in multinational companies and the impact of globalisation and internationalisation
- Examples of robust e-learning models aimed at meeting the needs of SMEs regardless of size or sector
- The role of e-learning in supporting business transformation
- Growing and supporting Chief Learning Officers for multinational corporate entities
- 'Learning Futures' in Higher Education
- Creating viable and preferred student learning environments
- Changing and transforming traditional educational organisations to meet the needs of the knowledge economy
- Examples and case histories of viable large scale online learning provision in higher education
- Meeting the demand from an organisational viewpoint for increased online provision, both on and off the campus
- Faculty and staff development, academic mentoring and online tutor support
- Cooperation amongst institutions through the provision of common support structures and credit systems.
- Collaboration, competition and co-opetition amongst universities worldwide
- Virtual student and faculty mobility
- Alternative funding and operational models linked to online learning provision
- Developing a combined e-activities strategy for higher education
- Security issues in relation to Online Learning on and off the University campus
- Online examinations and assessment procedures as well as means and experiences in combating plagiarism and other illegal practices
- Classroom Learning and ICT
- The learning potential of social-networking web sites and other emerging online tools in primary and secondary level education
- Mobile devices in the classroom: distraction or opportunity?
- Building school facilities to meet the changing nature of learning in the classroom including the use of pupils own tools
- One-to-one pupil/PC ratio and the provision of e-learning services and facilities for school authorities and regional educational networks
- School partnerships in the provision of virtual learning environments
- Teacher training programmes: in-service and pre-service teacher training to meet the needs and demands of tomorrow's pupils
- Public and Professional E-Learning
- Professional communities of practice as a lifelong learning mechanism: experiences and examples from around the world
- Successful strategies for putting in place online learning services for government staff, semi-state and public servants
- Practical issues and considerations related to the integration of an ICT-supported online learning service within the public administration
- Blended learning approaches for medical trainees and first aid personnel
- Advanced simulations and other online resources aimed at medical training
- Medical e-learning and e-learning tutorials and resources for doctors, medical students, healthcare professionals and patients.
- E-Learning in support of Continuous Medical Education (CMS) and the public health sector generally
- E-Learning aimed at the pharmaceutical, banking and finance, automotive, architectural and engineering sectors
- E-Learning applications within the defence and military domains
- Online support for compliance testing required by regulatory bodies in key industry sectors including pharmaceutical, finance and medical
- Lifelong and Informal Learning
- Informal learning and its contribution to a knowledge economy
- Practices and experiences from the workplace in putting in place mechanisms to support informal learning
- Encouraging, promoting and developing lifelong learning and the role of digital technologies
- Promoting 'cradle to grave' learning attitudes; building the skills for lifelong learning from school-age onwards
- Re-inventing existing networks in the workplace to support the informal learning process: identifying the enablers, barriers and motivating factors that make informal learning a reality
- Learning to learn as a skill and lifelong habit: systems and services that support the lifelong learner
- Designing, Teaching and Learning with Digital Media and Tools
- Innovative approaches to creating and using media for learning aimed at bridging the knowledge gap on learning innovation and creation
- Content authoring/LCMS, platforms and customised development services
- Fostering a steady supply of learning oriented and user-generated content
- Examples of excellence in content creation and online learning opportunities
- Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
- Building systems to support personalised e-learning and personal learning spaces
- Copyrights and intellectual property rights in the digital learning environment
- The future of learning objects
- Open source content, curriculum and educational resources: creation and ownership issues
- Remote, distributed and virtual online laboratories
- Adaptive learning environments
- Instructional and didactical design concerns and principles
- Games and Simulations in Support of Learning
- Serious online games and their place in in-company training: experiences and feedback from the workplace
- Developing a framework for learning with game-like learning environments; opportunities and hazards
- Transferring socially oriented practice from the online gaming environment to the online learning environment amongst student populations and other groups of learners
- Harnessing the potential of edugames to motivate learners
- Examples of how caves, MMORPGs and avatars can contribute to learning processes, and how simulations and games can help clarify and experience complex relationships and create arenas for experiments, enabling learning by experience
- Examples of media-rich simulations as part of the blended learning experience in all sectors
- M-Learning: Learning in the Hands of the Learner
- Online learning services for the mobile user, challenges, opportunities and barriers
- Emerging hard- and software for mobile learning including learning devices, platforms, standards and applications
- Experiences and examples of widespread mobile learning take-up in schools, academia, lifelong and corporate learning
- Technology and learning support for the mobile learner
- Creating m-learning content, re-usability, suitability and adaptability issues
- Future trends and the potential impact of mobile learning in the 21st century
- Wearable computing devices as learning tools
- Web 2.0 linked to Education 2.0
- Real-world examples of how Web 2.0 is transforming the learning process generally at all levels of education from primary through to lifelong learning
- The impact of emerging tools and community-based learning services on the learning scenario of tomorrow
- Podcasting as a lifelong learning service and the ways in which traditional learning providers can tap into the potential of this increasingly widespread service
- Innovative applications of grid computing and semantic web as well as advances in telepresence, streaming, collaborative and conferencing technologies
- Social software as a key technology for workplace learning
- Blogs and wikis as a means to stimulate reflective practice and collaborative learning in universities, schools and in the workplace
- The potential impact of pervasive learning as a key technology for building sustainable and lifelong learning individuals, experiences and expectations
- Experiences and expectations of the learning potential in Virtual Worlds like "Second Life"
- Video in Support of Online Learning
- The impact of emerging video-sharing applications like YouTube on learning at all levels
- Quality issues, production standards, acceptance and ownership of video materials in the learning environment of the future
- Video as a teaching and learning tool including streaming video
- Video-gaming in the classroom
- Interactive digital TV based learning
- Advances in videoconferencing as a key to enhanced virtuality
- Quality and E-Learning
- Quality assurance methods and approaches in online learning programmes, experience and good practice
- Standards and standardisation linked to open and interoperable systems and services
- Learning objects' based quality assurance methodologies as a means to assure the overall quality of the online learning experience
- E-Learning interoperability specifications as an efficient measure of e-learning quality
- International and regional quality assurance frameworks, collaborative experiences and sectoral initiatives
- Assessment and Evaluation
- Practices and experiences in putting in place large scale and institution wide online assessment methodologies and procedures
- Tools and services to support on-going feedback, self-evaluation and other built-in assessment tools
- Testing security and validity
- Performance based assessment in the working environment
- Using benchmarking and best practice certification and assessment to measure returns on education throughout the entire learning life cycle
- Online Learning, Equality and Accessibility
- Bridging gender differences with the support of e-learning
- Leap-frogging the digital divide: e-learning as a means to address the Millennium Development Goals
- Promoting genuine inclusivity through online learning regardless of ability, age or access level
- E-Learning as a tool for raising awareness of diversity
- Online support for students with disabilities
- Online Learning as a tool and service in support of national and international ICT for Development (ICT4D) networks
- Accessibility standards, services and norms: making online learning available for all
- The Application of Research Outcomes in the TEL Field
- Neuroscience, neurobiology and links to learning innovation
- Emerging tools and services that allow for mass individualisation
- New mechanisms to transform learning outcomes into knowledge assets
- Creating adaptive, ubiquitous and intuitive learning systems
- Integrating the outputs of living learning labs into the learning institutions of tomorrow
- Forging links among innovative practice, policy making and research
- Leading-edge systems toenhance competence, skills and the performance of the learner
- E-Learning Policy and Practice
Molti di questi temi toccheranno direttamente o indirettamente l'ambito dell'attività degli e-tutor, e cercheremo ovviamente di saperne di più o di pubblicare qualche resoconto e qualche impressione. Mi chiedo in ogni caso se qualche e-tutor è a Berlino anche quest'anno: non solo sarebbe interessante se ci raccontasse cosa è successo e cosa ha visto, ma si potrebbe anche cercare di avviare, partendo dalla condivisione delle esperienze, una sinergia con il progetto expoelearning.info (http://www.expoelearning.info/), che sta cercando di sostenere e consolidare la partecipazione italiana a questo tipo di eventi, partendo da un accordo di rappresentanza esclusiva con un altro appuntamento importante, Barcellona 2008 (3-5 aprile). L'ipotesi di lavoro consiste nel creare condizioni perchè aziende, editori, organizzazioni e università italiane possano partecipare attivamente a queste manifestazioni, incrementando la loro presenza su scenari aperti al "mercato" dell'educazione e della formazione, condizione necessaria perchè quello stesso mercato possa crescere e consolidarsi anche in Italia, a beneficio di chi opera nel settore e creando opportunità per tutti gli "attori" che interagiscono in questi scenari, e per gli e-tutor in primo luogo. Che ne pensate? Mario Rotta, etutorcommunity
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Una riflessione su Berlino
A proposito di Berlino. Su expoelearning.info (http://www.expoelearning.info/) è stata pubblicata una riflessione di Agostino Quadrino sulla partecipazione italiana alla recente edizione di Online Educa. Agostino era presente a Berlino come visitatore, ma anche per osservare le tendenze in atto e capire come si sta muovendo il mercato dell’educazione basata sulle tecnologie e sulle reti. Dal suo reportage emerge un mondo dinamico, in evoluzione, aperto all’innovazione. Con una significativa eccezione: l’Italia…