The goal of this workshop is to collaborately create a domain model of the lectures given within the summer school. Together with a process on requirements elicitation and management this domain model will represent aspects of TEL to be considered when designing a TEL system for a specific purpose.

Stefanie Lindstaedt

Dr. Stefanie Lindstaedt is head of the division Knowledge Services at the Know-Center in Graz and is scientific coordinator of the APOSDLE IP. In these roles she is responsible for the management of many large, multi-firm projects and the scientific strategy of the division. For more than 10 years she has been leading interdisciplinary, international projects in the fields of knowledge management, technology enhanced learning, and software engineering. For the last five years she has focused on the issue of work-process integrated learning, developing the APOSDLE concept and the concept of AD-HOC Learning. She held several responsible positions such as product manager for web-globalisation services at GlobalSight in Boulder (USA) and project manager at DaimlerChrysler Research & Technology in Ulm (Germany). She holds a PhD and a M.S. both in Computer Science from the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder (USA). She is member of the Center for LifeLongLearning and Design and the Institute of Cognitive Science at CU, has chaired several Special Tracks on Semantic Technologies and Work-integrated learning at Triple-I conferences, and has published more than 50 scientific publications.

Chris Sangwin's workshop will introduce participants to a computer aided assessment system for mathematics known as STACK, a System for Teaching and Assessment using a Computer algebra Kernel. STACK makes use of the computer algebra system Maxima for a variety of tasks, the most important of which is establishing mathematical properties of student's answers. We discuss STACK with a focus on (i) the data structure used to represent questions, (ii) how teachers write questions of their own and (iii) how to structure larger assessments to promote learning.

Chris Sangwin

Chris Sangwin is a lecturer in the School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and Research Fellow for the Maths Stats and OR Network, part of the Higher Education Academy. He is a National Teaching Fellow. His educational research focuses on using computer algebra systems for assessment of mathematics.

Ralf Klamma

Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Klamma is an associate researcher at the Chair of Information Systems (Informatik 5) in the Department of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University. His research covers community information systems in science, engineering, and the humanities, geographic information systems, communities of practice, social software, technology enhanced learning, and entrepreneurship. Klamma has a diploma and a PhD in computer science from RWTH Aachen University. He is a member of the German Informatics Society, the German Collaborative Research Center "Media and Cultural Communication," and was a leader of the "Social Software" work package in the European Network of Excellence in Professional Training (PROLEARN). Contact him at [email protected].

Zinayida Petrushyna

One of PhD candidate in information Systems and Databases Chair in Aachen.She is working in ROLE project and developing a future concept of Informatics faculty development. Her research interests cover communities and all things happenning around: interactions, context and content, intentions, sentiments. She is focusing on E-Learning communities in her research

Paul De Bra

Paul de Bra heads the databases and hypermedia research group at the Eindhoven University of Technology. The group researches (mainly) the use of adaptive methods and technologies in the areas of learning, culture and entertainment.

Paul De Bra holds a degree in Mathematics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. After a post-doc at AT&T; Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey he joined the Eindhoven University of Technology, to start research in hypermedia and later adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web-based information systems. The commonly used reference model for adaptive hypermedia: AHAM and the most used open source adaptive hypermedia system AHA! were developed under his supervision. Paul De Bra currently leads the GRAPPLE project, an EU FP7 project on adaptive learning environments.

Denis Gillet

Dr.Denis Gillet leads the Real-Time Coordination and Sustainable Interaction Systems Group (REACT) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. His current research interests lying at the intersection of Engineering, Information Systems and Knowledge Management include Social Learning, Human-Computer Interaction and the Internet of Things. Dr. Gillet contributes especially to the development of online experiments and social software for collaborative learning, previously in the framework of the ProLEARN Network of Excellence, and currently in the context of the Palette Integrated Project aiming at facilitating and augmenting individual and organizational learning in Communities of Practice (CoPs).

Personal Competence Development in Learning Networks

Milos Kravcik, Wolfgang Greller (Open University of the Netherlands)

Topics: lifelong competence development, learning network

TENCompetence supports individuals, groups and organizations in Europe in lifelong competence development by establishing a technical and organizational infrastructure, using open-source standards-based, sustainable and innovative technology. The TENCompetence infrastructure will support the creation and management of networks of individuals, teams and organizations. These 'learning networks' will support the lifelong competence development of the participants. This interactive workshop will introduce main TENCompetence objectives, principles, competence mapping approach, preliminary outcomes, and provide hands-on experience of several tools developed in the project.

Max. number of participants: 30

Milos Kravcik

Milos Kravcik received his PhD in applied informatics from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has worked as research fellow at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of this university and later on at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT in Sankt Augustin, Germany. His main research interests include personalized and adaptive learning, authoring of adaptive hypermedia, and mobile learning. He has participated in several international projects in the area of technology enhanced learning. Currently he is working as assistant professor at the Open Universiteit Nederland in Heerlen and can be reached at [email protected].

Wolfgang Greller

Wolfgang Greller is Programme Manager at the Open University of the Netherlands, looking after R&D; projects and future developments of technology enhanced learning. Previously, he was Head of e-Learning at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland, and at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. He is also a member of the Council of the University of the Arctic and former Chair of the Arctic Learning Environments group ALE.

Context sensitive, location aware mobile learning

Mobile learning is an emerging and rapidly expanding field of research that cuts across schools, colleges, universities and workplace learning. It is also gaining increasing importance in informal learning. Furthermore, mobile learning is increasingly able to make use of the GPS feature of devices to enable location-based and context-sensitive learning. Definitions of ‘mobile learning’ tend to revolve around the mobility of the technology or the mobility of the learner; of late there has been a clear change in emphasis to the latter. Context-sensitive learning is a fascinating area that holds great potential for enabling learners to engage in meaning-making through interactive practice. Location-aware systems are already used by emergency services to detect the exact physical location of mobile devices. In addition to services such as finding places and giving directions, location-aware systems can also help identify potential interactors in physical proximity of the learner.
In this workshop participants will get hands-on experience of using Mediascape, an authoring environment http://www.mscapers.com/ for the Windows Mobile operating system. Mediascapes or Mscapes are a new form of media which overlay digital sight, sounds and interactions onto the physical world to create immersive and interactive experiences. Participants will be loaned mobile phones running the Mscape player and helped to author Mscapes that can move through the physical world and trigger digital media with GPS via an invisible interactive map, in response to their physical location. The workshop will conclude with a brief presentation of our evaluation of an Mscape for Urban Planning education.

John Cook

John Cook (PhD MSc BSc CEng MBCS CITP FHEA) is Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the Learning Technology Research Institute, London Metropolitan University. He has a cross-university role of E-Learning Project Leader and sits on the University’s small core planning group for Teaching, assessment, learning and TEL. John has over 14 years previous experience as a full-time lecturer at various Higher Education Institutes and in 2007 was made a University Teaching Fellow. He has over 8 years project management experience, which includes research council, UK Government an EC funded work. He has been part of research and development grant proposals that have attracted £4 million in competitive external funding. In addition, he has published/presented around 200 refereed articles and invited talks in the area of TEL, having a specific interest in four related areas: informal learning, mobile learning, appropriation and ICT Leadership & Innovation. He was Chair/President of the Association for Learning Technology (2004-06), he is the Vice-Chair of ALT’s Research Committee and is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee ‘Learning and Teaching Practice Experts Group’. John sits on various journal editorial boards and conducts Assessor and review work for UK research councils, EU and Science Foundation of Ireland.

Carl Smith

Carl Smith (MA, PGDip) is a developer for the Reusable Learning Objects CETL at London Metropolitan University. He is registered for a research degree that investigates an approach to the design of context sensitive mobile learning environments for museum/heritage/architectural sites. His other research interests include visual literacy, pattern recognition and mixed reality. His previous projects include the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project, Palace of Darius, and Materialising Sheffield. He has previously worked at the Humanities Computing departments at Glasgow and Sheffield University.

Matti Pauna's workshop will concentrate on using automatic assessment in mathematics education in various school levels. We introduce the type of content that has been used in high schools, technical engineering schools and universities and different methodologies that are suitable in these environments. We provide teacher guide lines and case studies. We also discuss the new possibilities given by using the automatically graded exercises in mobile phones as quick "clicker" type tests in middle of lectures.

Matti Pauna

Matti Pauna is based in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the University of Helsinki. He has been involved in EU projects whose aim is to utilize and study the use of technology in mathematics education./p>

"Pimp my PhD"

Dead end with your PhD? Or difficulties to choose your PhD topic?

The aim of this workshop is to reflect on the important issues connected with doing a PhD. The workshop will be based on collaborative working methodologies tackling different topics that create problems and issues for you.

Margit Hofer

Dr. Margit Hofer is senior researcher in the IP ROLE and coordinates the project GLOBAL at CSI. Her scientific focus is on pedagogical models of technology enhanced learning for further education and training, covering school education, higher education/university as well as professional learning. She holds a PhD of Education and Training from the University of Graz and is specialized on innovative pedagogical technology enhanced learning processes. Before joining the CSI as senior researcher she was part of the European Schoolnet, focusing on evaluation of eLearning tools in school environment (Valnet) and the observatory of eLearning strategies in 25 EU countries (Insight). A major part of her time she spends as an external consultant for the Austrian Ministry of Education, Art and Culture consulting on eLearning implemenation solutions.

Martin Wolpers

Dr. Martin Wolpers holds a PhD in electrical engineering and information technology from the Leibniz University Hannover. He is leading the group “Context and Attention for Personalized Learning Environments” at FIT ICON, dealing with trend and user-goal identification from contextualized attention metadata streams. Some of his stronger engagements in research projects are the project management position of the FP6 EU/IST TEL NoE PROLEARN and the coordination of the EC FP7 integrated project ROLE and the EC eContent+ MACE project. His research focuses on how to use metadata to improve technology enhanced learning scenarios. In detail, he focuses on contextualized attention metadata and knowledge representation in education. His further research interests deal with conceptual modelling, databases and information extraction.

Martin Wolpers

Dr. Martin Wolpers holds a PhD in electrical engineering and information technology from the Leibniz University Hannover. He is leading the group “Context and Attention for Personalized Learning Environments” at FIT ICON, dealing with trend and user-goal identification from contextualized attention metadata streams. Some of his stronger engagements in research projects are the project management position of the FP6 EU/IST TEL NoE PROLEARN and the coordination of the EC FP7 integrated project ROLE and the EC eContent+ MACE project. His research focuses on how to use metadata to improve technology enhanced learning scenarios. In detail, he focuses on contextualized attention metadata and knowledge representation in education. His further research interests deal with conceptual modelling, databases and information extraction.

Stefanie Lindstaedt

Dr. Stefanie Lindstaedt is head of the division Knowledge Services at the Know-Center in Graz and is scientific coordinator of the APOSDLE IP. In these roles she is responsible for the management of many large, multi-firm projects and the scientific strategy of the division. For more than 10 years she has been leading interdisciplinary, international projects in the fields of knowledge management, technology enhanced learning, and software engineering. For the last five years she has focused on the issue of work-process integrated learning, developing the APOSDLE concept and the concept of AD-HOC Learning. She held several responsible positions such as product manager for web-globalisation services at GlobalSight in Boulder (USA) and project manager at DaimlerChrysler Research & Technology in Ulm (Germany). She holds a PhD and a M.S. both in Computer Science from the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder (USA). She is member of the Center for LifeLongLearning and Design and the Institute of Cognitive Science at CU, has chaired several Special Tracks on Semantic Technologies and Work-integrated learning at Triple-I conferences, and has published more than 50 scientific publications.

Design your personal learning environment!

- The relation of PLE, LMS and Open Content -

"Reason why"

New approaches towards learner-centric learning environments are entering the stage. Although some articles have been published about the benefits of a learner-centric environments, there are little showcase examples how a personal learning environment (PLE) could look like or how it could be created. Hence, in this lecture and workshop students ought be motivated to build their own PLE. For this task no conditions are imposed in order to guarantee a maximum degree of freedom in creating the PLE. The only limiting condition is that the PLE should be designed to learn or improve skills in a foreign language, i.e. English or German for English native speakers, respectively. The workshop follows a previous lecture that defined the task.

Workshop Session

At the end of the summer school the second part of the workshop will take place. In this session the created personal learning environments will be presented. The creators will explain their ways of creating the PLE. This includes the choice of platform, the creation and aggregation of content, and the selection of tools inside the PLE. The different approaches and their advantages and disadvantages as well as possible use case scenarios will be compared and discussed. The "best" PLE will be a awarded at the end of the workshop.

Daniel Müller

2008 till today: Research assistant / professional researcher for two institutions:

a) IMC AG, one of the leading eLearning companies in Europe (http://www.im-c.de/), where I am responsible for the EU co-funded eContentplus Best Bractice Network ICOPER (http://www.icoper.org/: „Interoperable Content for Performance in a Competency-driven Society“). In this context I am occupied to create and evaluate promising learning delivery scenarios. To better do so, I present and share my latest thoughts with other researchers and practitioners so that I have the chance to gather worldwide experience that inspires and leverages our work. The last conference I attended to was ICTEL 2008 in Maastricht/ Netherlands (http://www.ectel08.org/) where I joined the MUPPLE (Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments)-workshop (http://mupple08.icamp.eu/). The summer schoolwould be a next chance to present our ideas.

b) Saarland University, where I am working for the chair of Management Information Systems, which focuses on the intersection of HR and IT (eHRM). Here, I am actually working on my PHD thesis, which is situated in the field of “user-centered design and evaluation of learning environments along the software implementation process.” Beside I am teaching SAP ERP / HR software solutions (theory & training) and responsible for eLearning-related Master thesis (latest: Feb 2009: "Teaching by applying widgets: how has the learning-widget to look like from a pedagocial point of view"

Kai Michael Höver

Kai Michael Höver is a research project manager at IMC. He holds a master degree (diploma) in computer science from TU Darmstadt and has done several projects on learning technology. He is currently involved in several EU research projects regarding technology enhanced learning. His core research fields are adaptive and personal learning environments, personalization and authoring.