Project LS6 at Expolangues in Paris

The project “Language  Learning and Social Media: 6 key dialogues”(LS6) was offered the possibility of disseminating its innovative approach and ongoing work in the field of language learning at a workshop the Euproean Commission is organising at Expolangues 2012. The Expolangues fair is an international event in the field of language learning and takes place

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Workshop on “Co-operation and partnership solutions with working life in multilingual contexts”

On November 8, the University of Luxembourg will organise an open workshop, which might be of interest for all actors, who are in charge of initial and lifelong learning programs in the various areas of professional life (program coordinators, teachers, professional partners and students).

Two major topics of the Luxembourg economic context and the related

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Call for contributions: International Workshop on collaboration between academic context and working life

On November 8 – 9, 2011, DICA-lab at University of Luxembourg will organise a workshop (1,5 day), which brings together coordinators, teachers, students and professional partners of academic programs from Luxembourg (UL and other training institutions) and the greater region. This workshop is the UL part of an international project with members from Finland, Luxembourg,

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First workshop of the “Quicker steps”-project in Espoo (Finland)

Disseminating knowledge and best practices of the diverse co-operation and partnership solutions between higher education institutions and working life in Finland, Luxembourg, Austria and the United Kingdom

Charles Max and Nadja Weber participate in the first workshop of the International Project  ”Quicker Steps From Education To Working-Life” at the Laurea

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LS6 project – Webinar 3 on ‘Language learners using social media: What is happening in Latvia, Poland and Romania?’

This Friday, 11.02, at 12h30 the third webinar of the LS6 network (language learning and social media) will be broadcast live from Riga. Topics that will be discussed

How, and for what purposes, do language learners use the Internet in their everyday life and to learn languages? What are learners’ perceptions and attitudes in relation to social

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LS6 project: annual meeting in Brussels

Charles Max is attending the annual meeting of EU project coordinators at the EACEA in Brussels on February 7 and 8, 2011

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/ka2/languages_en.php

LS6 project: Eve platform LS6 website

DICA-lab met MINE-research group

On Tuesday, October 19, the DICA-lab researchers met Prof. Dr. Christophe Schomer’s MINE-research group located at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC).

In this meeting, both teams confronted and discussed boundary-crossing research approaches based on current PhD research work.

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Leonardo Summer School 2010

Dica-lab members Prof. Charles Max and Ass-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler are running two workshops at the 2010 LEONARDO Summer School of the University of Luxembourg.

A. Parlez-vous English hei zu Luxemburg?

B. Web 2.0 – Wer spricht/schreibt, wer nutzt’s, wer “lernt” damit, wo, wie und wann?

For further information, look at the Leonardo webpage of

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It’s about time: Purpose, methods and challenges of temporal analyses of multiple data Streams

Call for Workshop Contributions to: It’s about time: Purpose, methods and challenges of temporal analyses of multiple data Streams

Recent studies of learning have involved concurrent collection of multiple types of data such as computer activity logs and online discussion, or have applied multi-dimensional coding, resulting in related data streams, which highlight the dynamic nature

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It’s About Time

DICA-lab is glad to announce its involvement in the organisation of a prestigeous workshop in the area of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL). The workshop “It’s about time: exploring temporality in group learning” will take place within the CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) and is part of

the second Alpine Rendez-Vous, November 30 – December 3, 2009,

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