Walking through Florence while listening to your smartphone that gives you information, feedback and tasks about what you are looking at. If something draws your attention, you record a commentary or record the sounds. And all this without having to programme or operate the mobile device itself. That is the goal of the project Audio Augmented Spaces for Learning.
This week a new featured article has been published. Saskia Brand-Gruwel is interviewed on the research theme she leads: Information based complex problem solving. This is one of the three research themes in the Learning & Cognition programme.
16 July 2010 an agreement on PhD research has been signed by Open Universiteit (OU) and NHL University of applied sciences (Leeuwarden, NL). This agreement confirms the collaboration between the parties in the field of PhD research of staff members of NHL at the OUNL.
The Ministry of Science in Spain has approved the project Mining, Data Analysis and Visualization based on Social models in E-Learning (MAVSEL). CELSTEC takes part in this project as external collaborator/assessor. CELSTEC is the only non-Spanish partner involved in this two-year project.
The Glasgow Caledonian University has appointed prof. dr. Peter Sloep of the het Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC) of the Open Universiteit as an honorary professor in the Caledonian Academy. The appointment is for a period of three years.
CELSTEC’s Marco Kalz and Hendrik Drachsler are organizing a special track at the ICL conference in Hasselt. The track is called TORELL: Tools and Resources for Lifelong Learning. Contributions are on web services, connectors and other techniques that can be offered through widgets to support lifelong learning and open education.
The Free Technology Academy (FTA) offers two new courses: Legal aspects of the Information Society and Network technologies. These courses are given in the fall of 2010 gegeven, together with the course The concepts of Free Software and Open Standards, that has been offered before. In 2011 the number of courses will increase further as the programme for 2011 shows.
Prof. dr. Paul Kirschner has been nominated president of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). Last year Kirschner was president-elect, as of 1 July 2010 he is president.
