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“What Can Studies of e-Learning Teach Us About e-Research?” “What Can Studies of e-Learning Teach Us About e-Research?” ist der Titel und die Frage mit dem sich ein Aufsatz von C L. Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles beschäftigt. “e-Research is intended to facilitate collaboration through distributed access to content, tools, and services. Lessons about collaboration are extracted from the findings of two large, long-term digital library research projects. Both the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype Project (ADEPT) and the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) project on data management leverage scientific research data for use in teaching. Two forms of collaboration were studied: (1) direct, in which faculty work together on research projects; and (2) indirect or serial, in which faculty use or contribute content to a common pool, such as teaching resources, concepts and relationships, or research data. Five aspects of collaboration in e-Research are discussed: (1) disciplinary factors, (2) incentives to adopt e-Learning and e-Research technologies, (3) user roles, (4) information sharing, and (5) technical requirements.

Business eLearning The Business e-Learning Research Group is active in e-learning in a business context (both in HE and in the workplace). We work to promote research into appropriate strategies for e-learning in business, to share and develop research and best practice, and contribute to international conferences, publications and funding bids. Within Brighton Business School we conduct research and innovate into appropriate pedagogies for use online learning, and seek to disseminate our ideas through practitioner workshops and support for colleagues. We offer innovative and bespoke consultancy services in e-learning in a business and educational context.

Internet use by seniors has increased dramatically since the beginning of the millennium

The main uses of the Internet by people over 60 are email, news, health information, product information, family research, and travel reservations [18, 19]. Less common uses include online purchasing, searching government sites, online gaming, and online photo sharing.

besides practical knowledge, the Internet offers senior learners the opportunity to learn new job skills, access cultures and communities, and satisfy an intellectual curiosity that doesn't die upon retirement.

MSc in Education (e-Learning)Course Code | 003105 This one-year, full-time course consists of three papers and a dissertation. The three papers are on Historical, Theoretical and Technological Foundations of e-Learning; Practical Applications of e-Learning; and Foundations of Education Research. The three papers are assessed by long essays. After Easter students continue to work on their research-based dissertation which is submitted in September. Length of programme: One year full-time Core and optional courses: see the departmental websiteProgramme specification: see the departmental website

The medical industry is one that sees a lot of UGC. A search on YouTube finds thousands of videos of people talking about their illnesses, from cancer sufferers to people with bullemia. Support groups are flourishing and people are finding that sharing experiences and content online is sometimes easier than face-to-face. Talking about your experiences to video and uploading this to YouTube for others to respond to and comment on is probably easier than discussing it in real life. The internet and social networks probably offer access to a greater number of fellow-sufferers than even a local support group might offer. Beyond support, people can use social media and user-generated content to help understand their illnesses. The supposed danger here is that people will self-diagnose and that this may be incorrect. At the same time, you’d expect that privacy issues would prevent any meaningful and useful exchange of ideas. But in fact, user-generated medical content is a vibrant example of how the social networking and online communities can be powerful for exchanging information.

A report by Jupiter Research in 2007 showed that 20% of Americans turn to others online for information about medical issues. They are clearly not shy of seeking or giving advice, even on more personal issues. They use sites such as OrganizedWisdom, a Wiki-style community, to share information they have and get information they need. The concern over the accuracy of this information still stands, with worries about non-medical professionals sharing information that people use to self-diagnose. But research by the British Medical Journal in 2004 found that in the online support communities it studied only 6% of content was incorrect. If this replicated across all medical content online then it would probably be among some of the more accurate user-generated content on the internet. User-generated medical content shows that people are willing to share and are accurate when they do so. Even in a more niche and potentially risky area such as medical advice and disgnosis, the quality and usefulness of user-generated content is high.

While E-Learning (or Web-based Learning) provides unprecedented flexibility and convenience to both the learners and the instructors, the inherited instructor-centered education model has been confronted with great challenge in this open, large-scale and distributed e-learning environment. Actually, the huge number of e-learners and its wide dispersion make it difficult or even impossible for the instructors to cater to each e-learner individually. As a result, in this project we mainly focus on creating a cooperative e-learning environment to enhance the collaboration between individual e-learners, enable them to be aware of the presence of appropriate partners, get to know each other, share useful learning resources and experiences, and finally increase the learning efficiency and performance.

The e-Learning Research Group is now preparing detailed plans for its second year of research, beginning April 1 2009, in support of the UK Government’s Harnessing Technology strategy.

The University of Bologna has always been very active in this sector with initiatives of a high educational and scientific quality, and it has set up a work commission on e-learning with the task of preparing and coordinating an organic intervention project. Initiatives: Completion and management of the electronic catalogue of the e-learning experiences set up at the University. Creation, through CITAM, of a platform (AlmaChannel) belonging to the University of Bologna for the management of e-learning activities and running of training courses Creation of a training course on the problems of e-learning addressed to lecturers, PhD students, people with a research grant, and technical personnel of the University Participation in announcements and research competitions on e-learning subjects on a regional, national and European level Funding of certain courses (Masters, First or Second Level Degree Courses, high education initiatives) to be carried out using "blended learning" o "full distance learning" techniques in order to experiment prototypes and perfect teaching-methodological models that will become assets for the entire University.

OLDER people often feel isolated from information communications technology

Worldwide every month, another 1.2 million people turn 60. Between 2000 and 2050 the percentage of the total population aged 60 or more will more than double – from 10% to 22%.

But is Microsoft’s approach more than simply teaching the elderly computer basics and mobile phone gadgetry?

"It was a mistake to order the ship out to sea, it should have been taken to a quiet place where the cargo could have been offloaded," he said.

They have been largely caught unawares by the growth of such sites as Flickr, YouTube, OhMyNews and MySpace. Their growth stems from both better broadband availability and the increased scope for tribalism, identity expression and personalisation that user-generated content provides. Paul Saffo of the marvellously titled Institute of the Future notes that this could herald a 'Cambrian explosion' of creativity: a flowering of expressive diversity on the scale of the eponymous proliferation of biological species 530 million years ago. So what does this trend mean for wireless carriers? John Delaney looks at the implications.

Mobile operators are well-placed to benefit from the explosion of interest in user-generated content (UGC). It fits well as an extension of the trend to personalize that is already so successful in the mobile environment, and offers a way to monetize the wealth of 'user-generated content' currently residing (unsent) on mobile terminals worldwide.

Other trends facilitating the growth in content include: The growth in storage capacity, coupled with ever cheaper prices. The growth of standardized, non-proprietary capacity in mobile phones encourages both sharing across other devices and upgrading.

The Smart House is a new concept emerged from the information society. It is defined as ´a place where the necessities of the family, in security, control, communications, free time and comfort, environmental integration and accessibility are attended through the convergence of services, infrastructures and equipment´.The Spanish project PLAMSI (Plataforma Multicanal de Servicios Integrados) is set up for the development of a support system in the Smart House for the independent living elderly.

Assistive Technologies (ATs) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) may improve quality of life, extend length of community residence, improve physical and mental health status, delay the onset of serious health problems and reduce family and care-giver burden.

While the ageing of the population around the world raises serious concerns about social security, pensions, long-term care, health care and family systems, digital-age tools have been proposed as possible resources to improve outcomes. Considerable literature has appeared suggesting that Assistive Technologies (ATs) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) may improve quality of life, extend length of community residence, improve physical and mental health status, delay the onset of serious health problems and reduce family and care-giver burden.

The opportunities for liberal education and the open university to provide education in information society skills will be increased, with special attention given to the ageing population. The competencies of adult