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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)
  

After Prof. Andreas Pospischil and his colleagues presented the e-asessment at his faculty of the University of Zurich (I reported on this here), Mandy Schiefner now did a Podcast on the same subject which can be downloaded here: File Download (10:12 min / 4.8 MB)

There are more podcasts on e-assessment on the respective website of the E-Learning-Center of the University of Zurich.

Shortly, SCIL will bring out a working paper on E-Assessment and E-Portfolio documenting the workshop that we held in November.

Hello again!

I just realized that I never fulfilled my promise to report on our great workshop that we had a couple of weeks ago on e-assessment and e-portfolio. Just like everything - it got lost in my holiday preparations. Anyway, in the meantime, participants and speakers wrote about the workshop so that there’s not very much left to say. Have a look at:

• education & media by Mandy Schiefner
• edublog phr, the Education-Moblog der Pädagogischen Hochschule Rorschach von Martin Hoffmann
• E-Assessment-Blog by Sandra Schaffert, who also did a presentation during the workshop
• Blog by Karsten Wolf, who also made his presentation available online in the Publikationssystem of the Universität Bremen.

Es hat viel Freude gemacht, den Workshop zu moderieren, wobei ich natürlich gerne mehr Zeit gehabt hätte, mit dem ein oder anderen zu plaudern, aber dafür gibt es hoffentlich noch häufiger Gelegenheit.

Wir werden Anfang des Jahres einen Arbeitsbericht zu dem Workshop herausgeben. Der erste Artikel ist auch schon eingetroffen und ich freue mich auf die folgenden. Der Arbeitsbericht wird in deutscher Sprache erscheinen.

P.S. For those of you interested: my holiday pictures can be found online at my Flickr account. Enjoy!

Today, we will be holding our E-Assessment and E-Portfolio Workshop which is a continuation of our Ne(x)t Generation Workshop Series which started with a workshop on wikis, blogs and podcasts a few weeks ago. Anyway, here’s the link to the program (in German). We’re looking forward to welcoming Prof. Karsten Wolf from the University of Bremen, Torsten Maier from the Swiss Raiffeissenverband in St. Gallen, the team around Prof. Andreas Pospischil from the University of Zurich and last but not least Sandra Schaffert from Salzburg Research/Austria.

Of course, I will sum up the main points later today or tomorrow.  

The Educause Learning Initiative (ELI), which calls itself “a community of higher education institutions and organizations committed to advancing learning through IT innovation”, published another couple of brief introductions “7 Things You Should Know About…”

• Google Earth
• YouTube

Besides explaining the two concepts, the two-page pdf-files also point out their advantages and disadvantages and, most importantly, their implications for education.

Additionally, a description of an in-house e-portfolio system used at the University of Texas’s Austin’s College of Engineering can be found in the section of ELI Innovations & Implementations.

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