Tag Archives: Education

Web Science Reading List

15 Nov

I have just added a new site to my this weblog called “Web Science Reading List“. This reading list collects a lot of interesting information on web science and similar topics. Since I do not have time to read all of the articles immediately I am going to collect them on this site and bookmark [...]

A Touchable Holography

6 Aug

At this years International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH2009) a touchable holography was presented by the University of Tokio. It is a kind of holography that you are able to feel and interact with. Great development that you can see in the following video: The first page of the presented [...]

[video] – E-Portfolios for Beginners and the Mahara UK 09 Conference

24 Jul

Since few time I am coding an extension to the open-source e-porfolio software Mahara. Therefore I have searched for a video explaining what an e-porfolio stands for and how it can be used: Here is a video that explains it: Few time ago Mahara UK 09, the very first conference covering the e-portfolio system Mahara, [...]

Designing for Change: Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments

19 May

In order to describe what this article is about I cite Fridolin Wild, Felix Mödritscher and Stein E. Sigurdarson: In this article we first clarify key concepts and assumptions for personalised learning environments. Afterwards, we summarise our critique on the contemporary models for personalised adaptive learning. Subsequently, we propose our alternative, i.e. the concept of [...]

[video] – It is time for a different kind of university

19 Jan

Kaplan University has produced two interesting and inspiring videos on how e-Learning can be performed in near future. It’s time to use technology to rewrite the rules of education … Here is another one. Besides I have found an interesting article written by George Siemens on How MIT is going to get large lectures off [...]