“How to run successful webinars?” on the 2010 Global Education Conference

Katerina Zourou and Fred Dervin, University of Turku – Finland, presented a “meta-webinar” at the 2010 Global Education Conference (for more details, please see below)

How to run successful webinars? Lessons learnt and challenges for learning and collaboration at a global level

TIME: GMT Tue 16 Nov 2010 01:00PM

Recording of the session available here:

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Talk on „Developing ‘experts on learning’ focussing on multilingualisms: the innovative ITE approach of Luxembourg“

Charles MAX is invited speaker at the international conference „Sprachen lernen:  Kompetenzen entwickeln – Performanzen (über)prüfen“ 5. Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Sprachendidaktik-ÖGSD, Innsbruck,  September 23 – 25, 2010. Prof. Max will give a talk about „Developing ‘experts on learning’ focussing on multilingualisms: the innovative ITE approach of Luxembourg“.

DICA paper presentation at the EARLI SIG 10 and 21 conference in Utrecht (NL)

Natalia DURUS, Marnie Ludwig, & Gudrun Ziegler presented their paper  “An activity lens for learner identities in multilingual talk-in-interaction” at the EARLI Conference: Moving through Cultures of Learning that took place in Utrecht from September 2 to 3.

DICA paper presentation at the ECER Conference in Helsinki (Fi)

Gudrun Ziegler and Sirpa Laitinen-Vaananen (Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences), presented a joint paper on

Designing Development in/for Diversity in Higher Education: Constructing and Assessing Expertise in Multilingual Academe

at the European Conference on Educational Research 2010 that took place in Helsinki, Finland end of August 2010.

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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Meet CODI-SCILE-A @ the 4th annual Springer Forum on Cultural Studies of Science Education

Charles MAX and Chris Siry are attending the 4th annual Springer Forum on Cultural Studies of Science Education

that takes place at Drexel University in Philadelphia on March, 23 and 24

http://mobile.goodwin.drexel.edu/sf4csse/

Meet CODI-SCILE-A @ NARST, Philadelphia

Charles MAX and Chris Siry are presenting the CODI-SCILE-A paper

“Children’s Learning about Water through Discourse-in-Interaction”

at the annual NARST conference in Philadelphia taking place from MArch 20 to 24, 2010. The paper is scheduled at the paper session:

Dialogues, Discourses, And Children: Cogenerating Science in the Everyday World

February 17, 2010: Learning to read (Dr. Sonali Nag)

Dr Sonali Nag, Centre for Reading and Language, University of York, UK & The Promise Foundation, Bangalore, INDIA

is giving a lecture on “Learning to read:  Yesterday, today and tomorrow”

Wednesday, Feburary 17, 2010, 6PM, Campus Walferdange, Audimax

Poster for the public lecture of Dr Sonali Nag

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Professionalising Multilingualism in Higher Education, International Conference, February 4-6, 2010

Following the previous conferences held in Freiburg (Switzerland), Helsinki (Finland) and Bolzano (Italy), the University of Luxembourg will host the fourth scientific conference on Multilingual Universities from the 4th to the 6th February 2010 within the multilingual landscape of the officially trilingual Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The scientific contributions will discuss, examine and analyse how

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Scientific monitoring of the Semlang project and outlook on language teacher training in Europe

Ass.-Prof. Gudrun Ziegler is presenting a) the results of the scientific monitoring of the Semlang project and  b) recommendations on optimising language teacher training in Europe, at the final conference of the Semlang consortium (7 institutions) in Venice (I) on November 30, 2009. More information about the event (texts, videos, recommendations) can be found at

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