How to make online learning livelier
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True, the manual of your mobile phone contains a lot of information about how to use that device. But are you going to learn to use it by reading through this long-winding technical gibberish? Most likely not; Most people will experiment and explore what they can do by themselves, and possibly ask their friends in [...]
Continue Reading...The Semantic Web in Science and Education
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
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The world wide web is growing every day and is getting ever more complex. Search engines, robots and algorithms have reached an impressive complexity and ability to create relevant results to search terms but are still not able to answer concrete questions. When asking Google “what is the fastest way from Barcelona to Lyon right [...]
Continue Reading...Playing to Learn – Learning to Play
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
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There are many arguments for games in education; so called serious games are engaging, they provoke applied or contextualized knowledge (problem solving) and they are good for meta-skill learning (explore choice and consequence). And don’t be fooled by the title, educational games don’t necessarily have to be “serious”. In fact one learns best in informal [...]
Continue Reading...Facebook for teaching and learning
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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Co-authors: Peter Bihr and Thomas Praus Introduction Social Communities have grown rapidly over the last years, offering people the chance to publish personal information and connect with each other. The biggest social community today is Facebook with more than 120 million members. Due to the myriad possibilities to use Facebook, there many ways to support [...]
Continue Reading...Collabowriting & Self- and Peer-Assessment
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
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To work in teams and being evaluated by your peers are two practices with an enormous potential and relevance for individual motivation as well as for being able to contribute value to an organisation. Both practices are being used in e-learning and the following paragraphs will introduce some approaches and cases. Stanford considered collaborative writing (here refered [...]
Continue Reading...Live Video via Internet for educational purposes
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
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Vision of live video Only 15 years ago, only big tv stations could afford to transmit a live video signal via e.g. satellite from a live venue (e.g. a football stadium) to a studio from where it was broadcasted via antenna or cable to a range of spectators. Now, live video has become one of [...]
Continue Reading...Connecting the conversations: syndication & aggregation
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
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Web 2.0 is all about community, collaboration and conversation. It is for this reason that another term for Web 2.0 is social media. Conversations online are not new: Forums and discussion boards have been places of discourse for years. However, within Web 2.0 discussions are not longer bound to one space, they can travel freely between [...]
Continue Reading...Micro-Blogging
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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Named after blogging, micro blogging – or micro media – has evolved into the Next Big Thing within the internet scene. Micro blogging means posting extremely short snippets of information – just like in blogs, the most recent post is displayed at the top of the page, the older ones are displayed below. While there [...]
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We present a couple of videos concerning how it can be the vision of our immediate future from the point of view of touchscreen technologies and new glass surfaces.
video of the 11st Innovation Forum celebrated May 14 where Lluis Pastor, Director of the Studies of Communication Sciences and Information of the UOC, introduced the concept of Funiversity. (video in Catalan)
January, 22 took place the 10th Innovation Forum on the topic Augmented Reality (AR), where a team of experts presented the possibilities and advantages of this new technology as well as a few cases and real experiences developed through it. (Video in Catalan)
This concept allows to you to experience immersion and effortless navigation in an Augmented Reality environment. New types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Through these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds.
Well, or at least where I would like. So e-book should be the future? I believe that it will be much sooner than we think. Could it be that this is what Apple has in mind? Soon we will know definitely…
On September, 17 2009 took place on 9th Innovation Forum that led to thematic Immersive spaces focused on virtual world Second Life, where we could explore the different possibilities and opportunities offered by this virtual environment for learning and creating virtual communities. (video in spanish).
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