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.

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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Open presentation – Testing usage-based models in language acquisition – June, 25, 10:15, Campus Walferdange

Prof. Heike Behrens (Universiät Basel) will be discussing “Testing usage-based models in language acquisition” (June 25, 10:15-11:30), Campus Walferdange, room tba) within a working session of the FUNDENG project. Interessierte (Studierende & ForscherInnen) sind herzlich willkommen.

“Research across boundaries – Advances in theory building”

The international symposium

“Research Across Boundaries” – Advances in theory building”

takes place at the University of Luxembourg, from Wednesday 16th to Saturday 19th of June 2010. More details are to be found at the symposium website

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Public lecture – Paint, pixels, bites – May 19, 6PM

Public lecture – Paint, pixels, bites – May 19, 6PM, see here

Meet our research – Foire de Printemps, May 2010, Luxembourg

Meet multi-SPACES and multi-SIGNS, applied research on learning and interaction at the Foire de Printemps

Visit the exhibition “La recherche – mon avenir” / “Forschung – meine Zukunft”

For free tickets, click here

Learn more about multi-SPACES see a Learning Performance through the eyes of eldo.tv, here

Learn more about multi-SIGNS and multi-SPACES

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Public lecture – “Tell me about it” – Formulaic language in English Lingua Franca”

Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, Albany

is giving a lecture on “Tell me about it” – Formulaic language in English Lingua Franca”,

Wednesday, April 14, 6:30 PM, see here for more information

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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Congratulations: Outstanding Dissertation Award from AERA for Chris Siry

Christina Siry, post-doc on the CODISCILE-A project, has been awarded the 2010 Outstanding Dissertation Award from Division K of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The AERA is an international professional organization, with over 25,000 members, whose primary goal is to advance educational research and its practical applications.  This award recognizes a dissertation of exemplary

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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/