Online Educa Berlin 2009

Friday, December 4, 2009 - 14:30 - 16:00

	FUT61	FIN62	BUS63	INN64
Title	Innovations and Advances in Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Training	Strategic Challenges for Public Spending in the Post-2010 Decade	The Added Value of Open Source Solutions in Times of Crisis	The Semantic Web
Description	Innovative and creative teaching starts with innovative and creative pre- and in-service teacher training. What form do such innovations take and could they extend beyond the classroom and into the whole school community? This session offers strategies to prepare teacher trainers for the use of modern media.	Demographic changes, the shift towards green strategies, as well as ever-changing technologies all have strategic implications on public-sector spending on skills development. In this session, experts discuss the potential impact these factors have on government agencies looking to improve re-skilling opportunities in a fast-changing society.	Are open source solutions the answer to an institution’s online learning needs in a time of recession? This session debates how institutions implement low-budget solutions for their e-learning projects, focusing on open source integrated solutions and on how to combine these, thus offering an interesting comparison between commercial and open possibilities.	This session highlights the latest developments in semantic tools and applications. It will show examples of semantic web services created using Latent Semantic Analysis, semantic labelling and single-sourcing applications in an eMBA and a new approach for collaborative knowledge based on the characteristics of semantic wikis.
Room	Tiergarten	Charlottenburg I	Lincke	Schinkel III
Chairperson	Ana Landeta, Madrid Open University, Spain	Lieve Van den Brande, European Commission, Belgium	Brian Holmes, European Commission, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, Belgium	Casper Schutte, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Content	Bob Barrett, American Public University, USA Training Online Teachers: Transitioning Traditional Classroom Strategies and Techniques into the Virtual Online Learning Environment Ian Chowcat, Sero Consulting Ltd, UK Breaking Through to Next Generation Learning: Strategic Barriers to System-Wide Transformation Inge Peeters, School of Education, Belgium & Jeroen Thys, GROUP T – International University College Leuven, Belgium Strategies to Sensibilise Teacher Trainers for the Use of Modern Media Irma Mänty, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland Avatars Help Develop Education Gary Motteram, University of Manchester, UK 3D Distance Language Teacher Education	Kees-Jan van Dorp, EADTU, The Netherlands Strategic Challenges for Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the Post-2010 Decade Kirstie Donnelly, learndirect, UK Transformation and Change – Why Strategy for Skills Delivery Can't Afford to Stand Still José Luis Bozal González, Instituto de Formación Online, Spain New Virtual Learning Technologies for Public Sector Skills	Elias Aarnio, Innopark Oy / EduCOSS, Finland Pedagogic, Cost and Social Advantages of Linux Terminal Server Systems in Education Matteo Uggeri, METID Centre - Politecnico di Milano, Italy E-Collaboration: Web 2.0 Tools Integration for Distance Cooperation Projects Hans de Zwart, Educational Technologist, The Netherlands Open Source: Getting Failure for Free (and Why That Is a Good Thing)	Marco Kalz, Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Semantic Services for Personalised Learning and Formative Feedback Martin Smith, CAPDM Ltd., UK Why Single-Sourcing Is of Vital Importance to Education Samuel Nowakowski, Nancy Université - TICE, France P2CeL – Collaborative Knowledge Construction and E-Learning: An Approach Based on Semantic Wikis