Public lecture December 08, 2010

The MA Learning and Development in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts invites to a public lecture given by

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Hartmann  – Universität Hamburg

Brauchen wir den Vergleich in der Pädagogik? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer Methode

08 December 2010 at 5:00 p.m.

Campus Walferdange, room Latomus (Building III)

Poster public lecture

“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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DICA-lab: National contact point for MEDEA Awards

DICA-lab became a “national contact point” (NCP) for the MEDEA Awards. DICA is now part of the European network of national contact points, which consists of all local agents in each European member state helping to promote the MEDEA Awards in their country.

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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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Public lecture, 13.10.2010, 17h, Cultural diversity in Dutch classrooms: social interaction and learning

Cultural diversity in Dutch classrooms: social interaction and learning, Prof. Dr. Ed Elbers, Utrecht University

Public lecture, 13.10.2010, 17h, Campus Walfer, room Latomus, building 3

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Soutenance de thèse de doctorat, 11 octobre – Markus Molz

Markus MOLZ soutiendra sa thèse de doctorat, ayant comme titre “Toward an Integral Pluralism in Sociocultural Research – Theme Analysis of Research Biographies and Integrative Frameworks” le 11 octobre 2010, à 14 h à l’Université du Luxembourg (Campus Walferdange – salle 4, Bâtiment XII, 2e étage) en présence des professeurs Dr. Elke FEIN (Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg), Dr.

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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“.

Soutenance de thèse de doctorat – 14 octobre 2010, 9h, Campus Walfer

Anne MEYER soutiendra sa thèse de doctorat, ayant comme titre “Peer interactions in the language classroom: Expert-novice-practices in learning activities at primary school” le 14 octobre 2010, à 9h à l’Université du Luxembourg (Campus Walferdange, salle INSIDE, Bat. XII) en présence des professeurs Dr. Ed Elbers (Utrecht University), Dr. Charles Max (Université du Luxembourg, président

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Webinar: Language resources and Web 2.0 : the latest hype or new perspectives?

A public debate broadcast live on Friday, October 1st,  2010 at 17:30 (CET World clock for your time zone)

in the Elluminate virtual room at: http://bit.ly/9AdCPp

and also face-to-face: Audimax auditorium, Campus Walferdange, University of Luxembourg.

PDF file: Announcement webinar

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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.