Social Software and more…

I just listened to an online lecture on E-Learning 2.0. The lecture was organized by the German e-learning portal e-teaching.org.

Tanja Jadin & Jürgen Wageneder from the Universities of Linz and Salzburg presented their thoughts on E-Learing 2.0 which are also available on their website.  After talking about some more general issues about the difference between web1.0 and web2.0, and some learning scenarios, they came to Personal Learning Environments towards the end of the lecture. I found this graphical reprensentation quite interesting:

 They also deducted competencies they find necessary for the prospective students learning in such personal learning environments:

• ICT-competence
• Net-competence
• Time-management
• Competence to learn self-regulated
• Collaboration competence
• Competence to deal with content
• Information competence
• Competence to deal with publicity
• Learning Design
• alternative ways of assessing (source: Jadin/Wageneder, 2007, online-lecture)
  

I just found out about a very interesting networking event which took place last Thursday via a skype conference. More information can be found on the organizer’s website. The documentation on the event is very comprehensive and can be found here or here.

Anja Wagner’s slides can be found in slideshare.  

Thanks to all for sharing this. And I’ll try to participate next time… 

On 3 April 2007, we had a workshop on the Net Generation with Dianna Oblinger (Vice-President of Educause) in St. Gallen / Switzerland (for more information see this flyer). Dianna covered the following topics:

- Educating the Net Generation - Listening to What We Are Seeing?

- Learning Spaces: what will our universities look like in the future?

More information on these topics can be found at Educause’s website. Educause published a couple of e-books dedicated to the above mentioned topics: Educating the Net Generation, Learning Spaces.

Mandy Schiefner also wrote a comprehensive report on the workshop which can be found here.