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Rolf Arnold; Peter Faulstich; Wilhelm Mader; Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein; Erhard Schlutz: Research Memorandum on Adult and Continuing Education The growing importance of lifelong learning and adult education appears to be a generally accepted fact. Less well known, on the other hand, are the causes, conditions, forms and types of development in all their variety as well as the changing trends and options for solutions to be observed at different levels. This situation requires broad, intensive and sustained empirical research on adult and continuing education. This Research Memorandum - commissioned by the Section for Adult Education at the German Society for Educational Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft, DGfE) - seeks to identify, structure and label focal areas and questions in order to stimulate a more effective, coordinated division of labor in the field of research. This portrayal of the need for empirical research focuses on five fields of research: adult learning, knowledge structures and skill needs, professional action, institutionalization, system and policy. These fields of research are once again broken down into certain focal areas of research or topical areas. Questions are then proposed in order to elucidate the various research options. These questions are by no means exhaustive. Their purpose, rather, is merely to serve as examples. Overlapping between research fields, topics and issues is not random - it is, rather, an inherent aspect of all these phenomena.

Bienvenue! Welcome! 歡迎! Willkommen! Benvenuto! 반갑습니다!  Seja bem-vindo(a)! Bienvenido! The 2010 Global Education Conference will be held November 15 - 19, 2010, online and free.  Sessions will be held in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days.  We are now accepting proposals for presentations.  The conference is a collaborative and world-wide community effort to significantly increase opportunities for globally-connecting education activities and initiatives.   (To clarify, this is a worldwide conference on globally-connected education, not a "global conference on general education").  All sessions will be held in the Elluminate platform, will be broadcast live, and will be available in recorded formats afterwards. There is no formal registration required for the conference, as all the sessions will be open and public.  The session schedule will be posted here starting in early November.  You are encouraged to consider presenting, and should use the "Call for Presentations" tab above.

Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education  Volume 1, Issue 1 Below is the inaugural issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education. Issues of the Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education are available on a subscription basis. But, as an introductory gesture, the Journal editors have elected to make the full premiere issue of the Journal publicly available as a downloadable PDF file. To peruse our first issue, simply click on the cover image below.

"The research described in this paper is the investigation of interactivity between learners and system in the context of remote access to educational field explorations (field trips). The concept is described generically as remote access field trip (RAFT). The interactivity framework proposed for assessing RAFT considers it within the context of live distance education and needs to be judged in terms of set interaction criteria, e.g. learner & learner, learner & instructor, learner & content and learner & interface. This paper proposes that criteria for distance learning interaction assessment should consider also how the leaner interacts with a pervasive interface. This is particularly relevant in this context because the system involves participants interacting with a pervasive system within a live field trip experience, and creates a unique human-system interaction in the educational domain."

The recommended definition of Open Educational Resources is: The open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes.

Eine erste offen lizenzierte Publikation der Unesco. Eigentlich schon irgendwie spannend, weshalb sie erst jetzt dieses Lizenzformat wählen. Aber sie setzt einen Schwerpunkt auf Open Educational Ressources. "UNESCO has released its first openly licensed publication. Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace brings together the background papers and reports from the first three years of activities in the UNESCO OER Community. Access the online edition - or buy the book!"

The presentation will be to debunk some of the myths around the so-called Net Generation by highlighting the lack solid research to support many of the claims. I will present results from research done at BCIT and elsewhere to argue for a more nuanced approach to the use of educational technology to support the needs of this generation of learner.

Infographic and Information about Mobile learning and educators tipps on podcasting.

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Eine Fundgrupe für Artikel mit Beiträgen auch aktueller Thematik.

"Ten tried and tested internet tools for teachers Apr 25th 2009 18 Comments Over the past academic year, my students and I have been experimenting with the use of a number of web based applications (often known as Web 2.0 tools). My aim has been to enhance our schemes of work by providing our students with new and exciting learning opportunities." Summary. Collected Tips and Tricks for ten tools and their use in Education!

"A new task force to ensure our universities become the first choice across the world for on-line distance learning was announced today by Higher Education Minister, David Lammy.The task force chaired by Lynne Brindley, the Chief Executive of the British Library will advise on a wider strategy to build on our past and present successes and ensure we do not lose pace on increased demand in expanding and new markets.It will be backed by a new Open Learning Innovation Fund aimed at helping universities build on their existing world class reputations to access and engage future markets that are expected to value around £15bn in the future. This is a competitive match funding initiative, with up to £10m from HEFCE and therefore worth up to £20m in total, aims to encourage universities to work collaboratively with each other and the private and third sectors, to bid for money to develop projects to help transform the way people can get a degree." Thanx to cris Sharing this! Awesome, seeing public investment in the right direction!

"The past week I spent some time in the virtual reality of Second Life, exploring the possibilities for learning activities arranging and for management of a learning process. Also, I read several research papers sharing the gained experience in teaching and learning in SL. It was found that this virtual world …" introduces Malinka Ivanova in her Blogpost

Make Those You Tubes! More Sharing = Faster Learning By Marc Prensky To be published in Educational Technology "Video is the new text". - Mark Anderson "Broadcast Yourself" - The You Tube Slogan Without

Die Pressefreiheit und das Radio Der Radio- und Printjournalist Günter Herkel über Selbstreflexion der Medien, "störrische" Pressesprecher und aufweichende Grenzen zwischen Redaktion und Werbung

Interviewtechnik - J. B. Kerner, Anne Will, Barbara Walters anches klingt viel schwerer als es ist. Manches ist aber auch viel schwerer als es klingt. Wenn man die Radiomoderatoren so locker im Radio hört, dann ist einem kaum klar, wieviel sie vorbereitet haben und daß die lockeren Übergänge zwischen den Musikstücken bzw. Themen sehr bedacht vorbereitet wurden

Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.

"Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something. I have used each tool to produce an example of the original Dominoe story, plus links are provided, where available, to examples by other people. Please share your own examples or thoughts in the discussion area of this wiki." Therefor this wiki starts - and there you will find a lot lot lot of thisngs about Storys and How to embed them in educational scenarios

Alpha version is released! "Matterhorn is an open source project working within the Opencast Community to develop an end-to-end, open source platform that supports the scheduling, capture, managing, encoding and delivery of educational audio and video content."

An other awesoem answer about future of education, by da truss. So he told in his Blog: "… and it occurred to me that what I should be looking at when talking about 'Shifting Learning' is the direction we are shifting to in the future, more-so than now. I tried to do as George asked and represent this in something other than words. I spent a couple hours playing with a slide show of images and now I'm just going to salvage the title page to share with you as a frame for what I'll write about. This isn't a crystal ball look into the future, instead it is my perception of some key trends that will have a powerful impact on how learning will be shared in the future." Worth to read many times.