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

Charles — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:28:13 +0000

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: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/dropin?sid=gec2010&suid=D.477B3D8147B0C53A9B6FF75068BC5A

The 2010 Global Education Conference is being held November 15 – 19, 2010, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days.

http://www.globaleducationconference.com/

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Although the number of webinars (i.e. events streamed live over the Internet) is rapidly growing, the orchestration of such events in terms of communication, modes of delivery, opportunities for interaction and follow-up is in its infancy. Moreover, gathering a worldwide audience challenges our understanding of how to address a large number of multicultural participants. The presentation is based on findings from two public webinars, hosted by the University of Turku (Finland) and the University of Luxembourg in 2010. An examination of the events will allow us to identify 5 success factors and a set of quality indicators. Shortcomings in running webinars will also be discussed based on our experience. The presentation ends with some reflections on the nature of interaction in live online events, namely the chat function as a means of learning and group cohesion among online participants, and as a catalyst for interaction between the group and the panelists.

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

Charles — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:27:04 +0000

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)

Charles — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:05:51 +0000

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)

Charles — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:03:48 +0000

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

Charles — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:49:48 +0000

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 of learning and require analyses from
a temporal perspective. This workshop will explore issues emerging from integrating data streams
by identifying a set of analytic difficulties researchers face and illustrating the application of
specific methods that address these challenges.

Audience

This workshop is tailored towards those interested in exploring multi-dimensional quantitative

analysis of learning, conceptualized as inter-related processes occurring over time. More

specifically, two groups might find this workshop particularly relevant:

Researchers who have completed some type of multi-dimensional coding of data such as interaction analysis, and
CSCL researchers with time-related data, such as chat and log files of actions, who wish to integrate these data analytically.

For more information and applications, please look at: http://www.encorewiki.org/x/qA0v

Place

Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, USA June 28th 2010. A preconference event of the 9th

International Conference of the Learning Sciences.

Applications will be accepted until the workshop is full.

The organizing committee:

Britte Haugan Cheng, Ming Ming Chiu, Inge Molenaar, Vanessa Svihla, Alyssa Wise, Vanessa L.

Peters and Katerina Zourou.

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

Charles — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:43:33 +0000

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

Ziegler Gudrun — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:53:59 +0000

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)

Ziegler Gudrun — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:55:01 +0000

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

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

Charles — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:16:21 +0000

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 4^th to the 6^th February 2010 within the multilingual landscape of the officially trilingual Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The scientific contributions will discuss, examine and analyse how to further professionalise multilingualism in higher education. Contributors will present different perspectives on a variety of topics, ranging from policy issues to economics and biographical aspects of the multilingual individual (student, administrative assistant, lecturer, etc.).

http://multilingualuniversities.net/blog/

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

Charles — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:09:17 +0000

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