PLE Conference x 3

carlossantos — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:14:27 GMT

Este ano a The PLE Conference realiza-se em Southampton, de 11 a 13 de Julho. A primeira edição realizou-se o ano passado em Barcelona e... foi excelente. É uma conferência relativamente pequena que reúne uma comunidade de investigadores interessados numa área muito específica, os Personal Learning Environments. A grande vantagem é que lá podemos conversar e partilhar ideias com pessoas que realmente percebem dos assuntos que investigamos. Isso nem sempre é fácil nas conferências mais abrangentes da área da "Educação" ou mesmo nas já mais específicas sobre "Tecnologia em Educação".

Outro aspecto muito interessante desta conferência é procurar encontrar formas inovadoras de organizar os trabalhos. "Monólogos" suportados por slides são quase proibidos. A organização desafia todos os participantes a proporem formas diferentes de apresentar os seus trabalhos de modo a estimular o debate com os outros participantes. Quem não o faz acaba por ser "convencido" pela própria organização... :)

Em resposta a este desafio, o ano passado organizámos um workshop que foi muito bem recebido: "What's the role for institutions in PLEs? The case of SAPO Campus".

Como não poderia deixar de ser, este ano estarei de regresso. A participação "formal" tem por base 3 momentos:

Workshop: "PwLE: Port(wine) Learning Environment"; Carlos Santos, Luís Pedro e Mónica Aresta
Full Paper: "Sapo Campus: what users really think about an institutionally supported PLE"; Carlos Santos, Luís Pedro, Fernando Ramos e António Moreira
Short Paper: "Learning beyond the curriculum: PLE and the development of soft-skills"; Mónica Aresta, Luís Pedro, António Moreira e Carlos Santos

Depois há ainda toda a componente "informal" da conferência que se espera que esteja pelo menos ao nível da edição do ano passado. Mas sobre esses momentos não se deve escreve nas redes sociais! ;)

Seminário Prof. Hugh Davis

lpedro — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:13:30 GMT

O Prof. Hugh Davis dinamizará um seminário no Departamento de Educação na próxima quarta-feira, dia 18 de Maio, em sala a anunciar. O seminário terá início às 15:30.
Aqui ficam algumas informações sobre o Seminário e sobre o Prof. Hugh Davis.

The Development of (Institutional) Personal Rich Learning Environments
Hugh Davis - The University of Southampton

Traditionally learning has been seen as a solitary and individualistic task; learning has been represented as committing knowledge to memory and the personal acquisition of skills and literacies. The affordances of
early computer technologies amplified this perspective, and transitions of learning technologies to networked platforms sustained the individualist context within the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). However
constructivist critiques of learning environments have emphasised the value and importance of social interactions and the benefits of working in groups to solve problems as a means to learning and knowledge acquisition. Advances in Web technologies over the last decade (the so called Web 2.0) have paralleled these changes and have enabled us to build tools to support and integrate many kinds of collaboration and learning in networks. Such tools have been retrofitted to existing VLEs.

This presentation argues that the current generation of Virtual Leaning Environments are no longer fit for purpose; they embody educational processes that promulgate ineffective/inappropriate didactic methods, and
do not complement the expectations or approaches to learning taken by Generation Y learners. Nor do they prepare students for using the tools and working methods that will be required in the increasingly virtual
workplace.

At the University of Southampton, as part of a major curriculum innovation project we have been examining the approaches we wish to take to providing the virtual environments for learning, teaching and research that will be fit for the next ten years. The focus of this presentation will be on our reflections on personal (personalised and personalisable) rich learning environments, and the part played in these environments by Web 2.0, linked data and cloud computing.

Speaker Biography

Hugh Davis is Professor of Learning Technology within the School of Electronics and Computer Science, where he leads the Learning Societies Lab (http://www.lsl.ecs.soton.ac.uk), a research team of 50-60 people with a focus on Web Technologies and Technology Enhanced Learning. Hugh has a long history of research in the Hypertext domain going back to before the advent of the Web, and has over 200 publications (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/hcd/publications) in Hypertext and Learning Technology, as well as numerous grants in these areas.

In addition to his research, Hugh is the University Director of Education responsible for technology enhanced learning (TEL) strategy, and this combination of activities enables him to take a research informed and
leading edge perspective on the technology that can be delivered at a cross university level.

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PLE Conference x 3

Seminário Prof. Hugh Davis