Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 14:00 - 16:00
| STR25 | LAB26 | MED27 | SHP28 | VAR29 | |
| Title | Gaming, Informal Learning & MUVEs | A Web 3.0 Environment to Build Communities of Internet Accessible Laboratories | Mixed Media for Learning: Hype or Hit? | Benchmarking New-Generation Issues in University E-Learning | MENA Atelier |
| Description | Gaming, including multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs), is still an emerging field for learning delivery and support. Unlearning is often needed, given the connections that have been made between gaming and either “time wasting” or gratuitous violence. This is the first of two linked sessions and features a number of presentations exploring these issues. | This lab introduces a ready-to-use portal and service broker platform including experiment applications for the use in different levels of education and is an ideal platform for lifelong learning, especially usable in corporate learning. Please sign up for this session beforehand on a first-come first-served basis. | Educational institutions increasingly search for new and effective ways of working and learning with mixed media. The speakers in this session present a range of mixed media approaches and initiatives for institutional learning environments. This will be followed by a debate about the actual value of technology for learning. | This Learnshop presents key challenges in the growing field of benchmarking e-learning. Participants are expected to work in groups to formulate criteria for areas topical in this conference and interesting to them: these are likely to include Web 2.0, institutional costs, student time on task and provable learning gains. | This session discusses challenges faced by the MENA region with regard to e-learning and ICT, and also highlights important achievements. Join this session to discuss and identify new ways in which prosperous and sustainable developments through ICT can be brought to this region. |
| Room | Tiergarten | Schinkel I/II | Potsdam I | Schöneberg | Charlottenburg III |
| Chairperson | Euan Mackenzie, 3MRT Ltd, UK | Michael E. Auer, Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria | Wilfred Rubens, Gilde Opleidingen, The Netherlands | Paul Bacsich, Matic Media Ltd, UK | Hardy Ostry, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Germany |
| Content | Koen DePryck, CVO Antwerpen-Zuid, Belgium Norbert Fritz, ECS GmbH & Co KG, Germany Silja Gülicher, Nintendo, Germany Hannele Virtanen-Vaaranmaa, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland | A DVD with the session materials, along with additional documents, tools and demonstrations will be provided to participants. Ingvar Gustavsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden Via the Internet we will be connected to the remote labs of: Judson Harward, MIT's Center for Educational Computing Initiatives (CECI), USA David Lowe, Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia | Christine Redecker, European Commission, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), Spain Inge de Waard, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium Paul Den Hertog, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands John Hill, University of Denver, USA | This Learnshop draws on the presenter’s experience with supporting institutional benchmarking in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and in EU projects. It starts with an overview presentation and interactive part to select criteria, then small groups work to create these, concluding with a final discussion to compare results. | Khalid Sulaiman Al-Siyabi & Maimoona Humeid Al-Abri, Ministry of Education, Oman Béchir Allouch, Virtual University of Tunis, Tunisia Shatha Makki, The National Center for e-Learning and Distance Learning, Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia Mustafa Nasereddin, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAGorg), Jordan |