Quality in E-Learning (European Weblog for E-Learning, Competence and more) : topic:Dialogue

ACA Conference: A claim for Developping a New University

uehlers — 2007-05-31T18:30:00Z

Begin of the week I attended the Annual Conference of the Academic Cooperation Association ACA. The themne of the two day conference in Berlin was "The many faces of Internationalisation". It was the first time for me in this community and I found it extremely interesting how cooperation and internationalisation is viewed as a tool to reform structures and curricula in higher education institutions.

The conference clearly turned out to be a place where the question how universities have to look like in the future had a place and was discussed as a central theme. For me this was unexpected but very welcome and exciting!

In an excellent panel discussion Prof. Yehuda Elkana, Central European University, Hungary, outlined his vision of an agenda of change for future universities. He did not really 'leave one stone on the other' and promoted the reform and renewal of most of todays structures and contents in universities. In order to solve the future problem of an ageing society in a situation of limited resources and severe environmental problems, universities have to become places of innovation (again ?). He emphasized that this needed a completely different approach to teaching, so that students become identified again with what they do, develop motivation and self initiative - they have to become competent rather than (only) knowledgable. We need to tear down the limits of different disciplines and develop new interdisciplinary curricula. He claimed the necessity of a new liberal arts currículum for todays university programmes. It was amazing and I constantly found myself thinking a) that it is so right, b) that we discuss it already such a long time and c) that maybe now the global challenges are big enough to create a sufficient imperative of change. Maybe it is now a situation in which we can change structures - not only elaborate on innovation on conferences but live it in our own teaching/ research environments.

It was Kurt Biedenkopf, former prime Minister of the state of saxony, Germany, who took up these claims for change and put them into an agenda. He stated that it is in his view necessary to a) create more excellence through competition, b) redirect budgets to innovative initiatives and c) strengthen international cooperation. His background as a politician was a clear strength to the debate because he was taking a pragmatic viewpoint and contributed a frame how change can take place. however, still it remains abstract.

In discussion with other conference participants we later developped the feeling that it is no solution to wait until new policies reform our system but that we have to start today and immediatelly. Why not create a new international interest group for creating visions and implementing them in local small projects in our own university contexts? A global higher education think network. Lets start to think in ways how we can from our disciplinary viewpoint can make our research relevant to todays problems.

No?

Wissensbilanz-Toolbox für KMU

ferdi — 2006-08-29T19:02:00Z

Schritt für Schritt die "weichen Faktoren" erschließen

Berlin, August 2006 Das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie
(BMWi) bietet eine kostenlose EDV-Anwendung an, die kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen unterstützt, selbstständig das intellektuelle Kapital ihres Unternehmens zu bewerten, um sich so Wettbewerbsvorteile in einer wissensbasierten Wirtschaft zu sichern.

http://www.checkpoint-elearning.de?aID=2903

Reflection on Best Practice

ferdi — 2006-07-30T20:21:00Z

British Learning Association launches professional workshops

London, July 2006 - The British Learning Association (BLA) has announced the launch of a new range of topical and practical 'Connect' Workshops. Brian Merison General Manager of the BLA said, "The BLA has a key role in promoting best practice and professionalism across the sectors of learning and development. This new range of workshops is for learning professionals who need to ensure a systematic approach to design, delivery and implementation."

http://www.checkpoint-elearning.com?aID=2829

Virtuelle Kooperation

ferdi — 2006-07-17T12:47:00Z

Unter virtueller Kooperation versteht man jeden Prozess, der mit Hilfe von Technologie Mitarbeiter zusammenbringt.
Tanya Goodwin-Maslach erklärt in ihrem Artikel "Virtual Collaboration: Engaging Learning Through Technology" wieso Unternehmen, die virtuelle Kommunikation unter ihren Mitarbeitern fördern, ihre Ziele schneller erreichen als die anderen:

http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_article.asp?articleid=1404&zoneid=71

eLearning Activities for Kenya

ferdi — 2006-04-27T08:02:00Z

The MoE policy on ICT is to integrate it into education

Nairobi, April 2006 (by James Sankale, Kenya Ministry of education) Use of
ICTs in education can be a useful tool to help promote and enable
educational reform. Furthermore, ICTs are both important motivational tools
for learning and can promote greater efficiencies in education systems and
practices.

http://www.checkpoint-elearning.com?aID=2495

The African Meeting Point

ferdi — 2006-04-27T07:58:00Z

Munich, April 2006 From 24 - 26 May, 2006, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia will be
the focal point of African eLearning attention for the very first time. The
conference "eLearning in Africa", organized by ICWE GmbH and Hoffmann & Reif
Consultants both based in Berlin - will present a comprehensive overview
of the strategic and technical aspects of eLearning in numerous African
countries. The aim is to proffer professional insight into how the Continent
is dealing with topics ranging from general development issues to the
specifics of the content of educational materials.

http://www.checkpoint-elearning.com?aID=2501

How can I support a web of betweenness through information and communications technology...

ferdi — 2006-02-01T11:11:56Z

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=7020&doclng=6

Margaret Farren is a lecturer and researcher at Dublin City University. Her
case study shows the role played by practitioner-researchers as educational
judges of...

Educating through Information: The Diari de l'Escola and interview of Albert...

ferdi — 2006-02-01T11:10:24Z

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=6969&doclng=6

Electronic Diari de l'Escola, "School Newspaper", turns pupils into
reporters and encourages them to search and evaluate information in the
Internet. Moreover, one of the weekly topics is always...

"Neues Wissen, neues Lernen und Wertschöpfung (Der Faden der Ariadne)"

ferdi — 2006-02-01T11:08:53Z

Der ehemalige portugiesische Bildungsminister Roberto Carneiro äußert sich
in diesem Schlüsselartikel (http://www.elearningeuropa.info/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=7013&doclng=3) zur Ungewissheit, die sich durch die Eingliederung der neuen Technologien in den Wissensbildungsprozess ergeben hat. Der Artikel wurde in 19 Sprachen übersetzt, so dass ihn alle Nutzer in ihrer eigenen Sprache lesen, verwandte Informationen finden und ihn kommentieren können.

Checkliste für Weiterbildungsinteressierte

ferdi — 2006-02-01T11:04:30Z

http://www.global-learning.de/g-learn/grafik/die_logo.gif

Wer an Weiterbildung interessiert ist, steht oft vor dem Problem, das richtige
Angebot auszuwählen. Woran erkennt man, ob es sich um ein gutes Angebot
handelt? Hilfe bei der Suche leistet die vom Deutschen Institut für
Erwachsenenbildung (DIE), Bonn, herausgegebene Checkliste für
Weiterbildungs-interessierte, die zusammen mit wichtigen Verbänden der
Weiterbildung und der Stiftung Warentest erarbeitet wurde.
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Wo findet man Qualitätskriterien und Instrumente zum Thema E-Learning?

uehlers — 2004-11-17T09:42:56Z

--> www.eqo.info

NEW: Discussion Space about Quality in E-Learning ::: Neu: Qualitäts-Diskussion

uehlers — 2004-11-17T09:38:41Z

In the folder "Dialogue" a discussion hast started. Contribute your visions, oppinions and questions on quality in e-learning

Im Ordner "Dialogue" finedet ab sofort eine Diskussion zum Thema Qualität im E-Learning statt.

Internationalisierung: Quality-Blog in Deutsch und englisch! Quality Blog in two...

uehlers — 2004-11-01T14:27:49Z

In Zukunft wird dieser Weblog zweisprachig weitergeführt und sowohl deutsche als auch englischsprachige Texteinträge zulassen. Damit wird er für die europäische Debatte zur Qualität im E-Learning E-Learning geöffnet.

In the future this Weblog will allow to submit contributions in two languages: English and german. Through this change in policy it will open up to the European debate on quality in e-learning.

The contributions only have to be submitted once, they will not be translated.

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