Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2011

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We are pleased to announce the 7th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning, to take place from Monday, May 30th to Friday June 3rd, 2011 in Chania, Crete, Greece. Pre-summer school activities are organized all day on Sunday, May 29th.

The summer school aims to encourage participants to adopt a critical stance in thinking about the role of technologies in providing opportunities for learners and the potential of these opportunities in terms of learning.

The summer school provides a learning environment where participants get opportunities to: develop their research skills; increase their knowledge base; collaborate with others in their own and complementary research areas; engage in debate; have access to experts in the field; and discuss their own work.

The programme will include lectures from a broad range of domains which contribute to advancing the field of Technology Enhanced Learning. TEL research projects are encouraged to provide students with a perspective of the state-of-the-art research under study in their working groups. The programme will also include practical and methodological workshops and opportunities for doctoral candidates to develop their personal research. Students will have opportunities to present and discuss their doctoral work.

You can find practical information regarding venue and travel in our Guidelines For Participants (UPDATED!).

Doctoral Community of Practice: The TELEurope Doctoral Community of Practice is a place where researchers and senior academics can build a community. Everyone is welcome to request membership but all Summer School participants should join and to look on the JTEL Summer School page for instructions about preparations for their participation in the the scientific programme of the Summer School.

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Schedule

Please note this schedule is preliminary and subject to changes

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Sunday, May 29

Full day

EXCURSION TO SOUTHERN CRETE

Monday, May 30

09:00-10:30	Welcome Session 09:00-09:45 Introduction and WelcomeWelcome Session (Katherine Maillet, Ralf Klamma) 09:45-10:30 Setting the Scene: Interdisplinarity in TELIn this session we discuss the unique place of TEL in the disciplinary landscape, and we set the scene for the Summer School by emphasising the importance of understanding and appreciating the perspectives of all groups within TEL. (Denis Gillet, Marie Joubert)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Plenary — Lecture Hall Truth or Dare Pecha-Kucha Everyone will present themselves and their work with interesting information on four slides, for example their bio, their hobbies/activities, their interests, their slogan for life, their motto, their research in a nutshell, their take-home message. All presentations will be ordered alphabetically by surname and every slide will be shown for a set number of seconds (changes between slides will be automated). The person whose slides are visible goes to the front and presents their slides. (PhD Students & Supervisors)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Parallel Workshop 1 Ratings, tags, bookmarks and other species: some examples of quantitative research on information filtering in TEL The problems and pitfalls of this kind of research will be illustrated from the past experiences of the tutors. This session will be a guided tour on what we achieve in the last 4 years, our methods and results, as well as a definition of open research opportunities for PhD students, because everyone with an interest in this area is invited to join us and walk this productive path with us. (Salvador Sanchez)	Parallel Workshop 2 Science classroom (Sofoklis Sotiriou)	Parallel Workshop 3 Pimp my PhD The workshop aims to help students advance their research work towards their PhD. With the help of small discussion groups, students will reflect on important issues related to their PhD. The results of each group will be presented in the open forum, thereby enabling students to compare and discuss their understanding of "getting a PhD" (Martin Wolpers)
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-18:00	Plenary — Lecture Hall Modeling your research to situate it within the TEL community To enable the PhD-students to situate their own research within the TEL community and ground their research on a sound methodological basis. During our Monday lecture, the methodological framework will be presented, and the students will be introduced to the modeling technique that will be used and encouraged to form groups around related research themes. During the week we will support these modeling groups to create an overview that reveals the interrelationships between different PhD research topics (who is building on what) and how this relates to specific TEL research and development projects. (Ambjorn Naeve & Vana Kamtsiou)
18:00-19:00	Afternoon Group Therapy Sessions Rules of the game for group therapy: preparing the groups, reflecting on initial ideas In this session PhD candidates will form three groups, each roughly balanced in terms of the disciplinary homes of the participants. We will describe how we would like the groups to work together in the morning group therapy sessions (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday), outlining what they should do in each session and what they should aim to produce. (Marie Joubert & Denis Gillet)
19:00-20:30	Free Time
20:30-22:00	Dinner

Tuesday, May 31

09:00-10:30	Breakfast Hall Morning Group Therapy Session — "Developing a research focus" For one hour (9 - 10 am) students will work together within the three groups, sharing their knowledge and experience, drawing on their own learning from their PhD work to devise a ten minute presentation for the whole cohort. In the last half hour, each group will do their presentation in turn. (Marie Joubert)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Plenary Lectures — Lecture Hall 11:00-11:30 Psychology-informed Design of Responsive Open (Personal) Learning EnvironmentsBehavioral and cognitive psychology shows that cognitive biases influence human choices. The ROLE psycho-pedagogical approach to learning process model is based on self-regulated learning. These aspects should be considered when collecting requirements for widgets in personal learning environments. (Milos Kravcik & Ralf Klamma) 11:30-12:00 Learning Analytics: attention please! In this talk, I will explore the upcoming field of learning analytics: the focus will be on what we can measure about a learning experience and how we can use the data we gather to support the learning process. (Erik Duval) 12:00-12:30 PhD is Serious Business What is the relationship between business and academia? This lecture will explore some of the stereotypical ideas around this question and discuss the potential to get the best out of any academic interaction with business. (Alan Fletcher)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Parallel Workshop 1 Business engagement Exploring the basics of business planning and the creation of a concise pitch the workshop aims to enable students to engage in business conversations with a clear understanding of the business agenda. (Alan Fletcher)	Parallel Workshop 2 Usage and Development of Responsive Open (Personal) Learning EnvironmentsThis workshop consists of two parallel hands-on sessions following the principles of the pre-lunch lecture by Milos and Ralf. In one session, users learn how to employ ROLE technology to assemble and use their own Responsive Open Learning Environment (ROLE). In the other session, developers learn how to develop and equip widgets with ROLE technology. (Dominik Renzel, Evgheny Bogdanov, Michael Derntl, Milos Kravcik, Ralf Klamma)	Parallel Workshop 3 Design & Prototype TEL for culture: playground This workshop aims to give to PhD students the opportunity to interact with people from cultural institutions & museums and be engaged into an exercise of collecting requirements from them, creatively drafting a TEL project, and constructing a fun prototype that will support a real educational need. (Nikos Manouselis & Nikos Palavitsinis)
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-18:00	Plenary — Lecture Hall PhD-Led: Getting your message across This session will deal with things like do's and don't's of a presentation, some breathing techniques, possible signs of discomfort, tricky or mean questions, how to handle the presentation stress and still get your message across, etc. People will be able to share the worst moments they either had or experienced during a presentation, and in contrast to that, the best ones. (Maren Scheffel) Using web 2.0 in your PhD A workshop on best practices of using Web 2.0 in TEL research. Participants will be presented with some examples; afterwards, we will collaboratively create a list of top practices. (Peter Kraker & Marie Joubert)
18:00-19:00	Afternoon Group Therapy Sessions Group Work & Discussion Sessions The purpose of this therapy session is to provide a space in which the whole summer school can draw together their experiences and learning from the day. A representative from each workshop will briefly report on the workshop and there will be a mixture of small group and whole group discussion about the day's learning, finally drawn together in a plenary conclusion.(Marie Joubert & Denis Gillet)
19:00-20:30	Free Time
20:30-22:00	Dinner

Wednesday, June 1

9:00-12:30	CHANIA TOWN RIDE – Walk around the old harbour – Visit the Archeological Museum of Chania
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Parallel Workshop 1 Social Requirements Engineering for Responsive Open (Personal) Learning Environments Existing technologies for building educational applications. What the widgets are, how they can be created, what one can do with them. Design your own educational widget. (Evgheny Bogdanov, Dominik Renzel & Denis Gillet)	Parallel Workshop 2 Business Engagement Exploring the basics of business planning and the creation of a concise pitch the workshop aims to enable students to engage in business conversations with a clear understanding of the business agenda. (Alan Fletcher)	Parallel Workshop 3 WebQuest 2.0 teaching scenarios: From theory to practice Participants will be first introduced to the revised version of webQuest methodology (20min). It will follow a practical hands on session on producing collaboratively WebQuest 2.0 teaching scenarios linked to TEL topics that will be published on line (60min). The workshop will conclude with a short evaluation of the learning experience (10min). (Maria Perifanou)
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-18:00	Plenary — Lecture Hall PhD-Led: Speed Mentoring The group will be divided into "rookies" (beginning PhD students) and "veterans" (tutors and late stage PhD students). PhD "rookies" will be lined up and then the PhD "veterans" are assigned at random to one “rookie” for a 10 minute conversation. There will be two rounds. After each round of speed mentoring, we will ask from "rookies" and "veterans" to write on one or more post-its their main outcomes from this discussion. These post-its will be kept from each participant for the end of the session and shared later. The session will end with a plenary, where we will discuss the main outcomes. (Nikos Palavitsinis)
18:00-19:00	Afternoon Group Therapy Sessions Group Work & Discussion Sessions The purpose of this therapy session is to provide a space in which the whole summer school can draw together their experiences and learning from the day. A representative from each workshop will briefly report on the workshop and there will be a mixture of small group and whole group discussion about the day's learning, finally drawn together in a plenary conclusion. (Marie Joubert & Denis Gillet)
19:00-20:30	Free Time
20:30-22:00	Dinner

Thursday, June 2

09:00-10:30	Breakfast Hall Morning Group Therapy Session — "Methodological Approaches" For one hour (9 - 10 am) students will work together within the three groups, sharing their knowledge and experience, drawing on their own learning from their PhD work to devise a ten minute presentation for the whole cohort. In the last half hour, each group will do their presentation in turn. (Marie Joubert)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Plenary Lectures — Lecture Hall 11:00-11:30 GRAPPLE Lecture (Paul De Bra) 11:30-12:00 Teaching an Alien Geography: Recent Trends in Game-based Learning Learning with and in the immersive worlds of the cool modern computer games is an emerging and increasingly popular genre. The lecture will open doors into a world of cutting edge research and applications. The session will be guided by Feon, an extraterrestrial friend! (Michael Kickmeier-Rust) 12:00-12:30 Augmented Reality Well designed Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) systems enable the creation of situations and concepts that could not have been realised with just physical or just virtual methods by uniting the strengths, features and possibilities of both. MAR allows researchers to systematically adjust various aspects of the designed context so that each adjustment can be tested and fed back into the next iteration of the intervention. During the lecture we will look at what is technically possible now and what potential impact this new medium is likely to have on the participants own disciplines. We will also address the issue of whether MAR systems can provide a bridge or support system for interdisciplinary thinking and working. (Carl Smith)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Parallel Workshop 1 Teaching an Alien Geography: Designing an Educational Game Having gained insights into digital game-based learning in the morning lecture, during this workshop, students will use their creative potential to apply the educational concepts and to design their own serious games – exploring the mysteries of learning game design. (Michael Kickmeier-Rust)	Parallel Workshop 2 GRAPPLE Workshop (Paul De Bra)	Parallel Workshop 3 Augmented Reality Well designed Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) systems enable the creation of situations and concepts that could not have been realised with just physical or just virtual methods by uniting the strengths, features and possibilities of both. MAR allows researchers to systematically adjust various aspects of the designed context so that each adjustment can be tested and fed back into the next iteration of the intervention. During the workshop we will look at what is technically possible now and what potential impact this new medium is likely to have on the participants own disciplines. We will also address the issue of whether MAR systems can provide a bridge or support system for interdisciplinary thinking and working. (Carl Smith)
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-18:00	Plenary — Lecture Hall PhD-Led: PhD Fishbowl A group discussion in the Fishbowl format between PhD students and advisors on problems every student struggles with (e.g. how to get started, how to narrow down the topic, how to balance project work and time for the PhD). (Peter Kraker) Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) The lecture will introduce the Open Educational Resources ecosystem (OER content; Web 2.0 technologies; online communities of practice), followed by an activity, giving the opportunity to participants for a hands-on experience, peer-to-peer collaboration and identification of possible benefits in their own practice. (Elpida Makrigiannis)
18:00-19:00	Afternoon Group Therapy Group Work & Sessions The purpose of this therapy session is to provide a space in which the whole summer school can draw together their experiences and learning from the day. A representative from each workshop will briefly report on the workshop and there will be a mixture of small group and whole group discussion about the day's learning, finally drawn together in a plenary conclusion. (Marie Joubert & Denis Gillet)
19:00-20:30	Free Time
20:30-22:00	Dinner

Friday, June 3

09:00-10:30	Breakfast Hall Morning Group Therapy Session — Wrapping up & reflection to my research For one hour (9 - 10 am) students will work together within the three groups, sharing their knowledge and experience, drawing on their own learning from their PhD work to devise a ten minute presentation for the whole cohort. In the last half hour, each group will do their presentation in turn.(Marie Joubert)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Plenary Lectures — Lecture Hall – The IJTEL young researcher special issue on ground-breaking fresh ideas The International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) is interested in supporting young researchers and graduate student members of the TEL community. We want to encourage a debate on innovative ideas, visions, and the future of TEL research, driven by young researchers in the many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area. Within this session, IJTEL will be situated in the publishing landscape and a new editorial board for a special issue dedicated to young researchers and fresh ideas will be screened.(Fridolin Wild) – Presentations of prototypes from workshop on TEL for culture Presentation of the prototypes to the whole group, reflection of the process and outcomes, discussion about relation with PhD's TEL research areas.(Nikos Manouselis & Nikos Palavitsinis) – Modeling your research to situate it within the TEL community The methodological framework used in the modeling activities will be based on Practice Research, which has evolved as a fruitful research paradigm for research in information systems as well as in other profession-oriented disciplines. On the last day of the summer school, a session will be scheduled based on the produced models that will be aimed at drawing some conclusions on which topics, technologies and disciplines that are receiving increasing attention in TEL. The students will also be shown how to enter their models into an electronic tool (Confolio) which can connect their models and make them amenable to "semantic mining" of various sorts.(Ambjorn Naeve & Vana Kamtsiou) – Business Engagement Depending on the interaction of the workshops, this may be a summary of the activity or a showcase of the workshop outputs lead by the participants.(Alan Fletcher)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Closing / Wrap Up – Presentations/reporting from group therapy – School evaluation – Wrap up and good bye

Saturday, June 4

Full day

OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS

Venue Description

The Summer School will take place in Chania, Crete. It will be hosted in Porto Platanias hotel, located in Platanias, a village which has successfully retained its individual charm and hospitality whilst developed into a popular, cosmopolitan holiday destination with a wide range of taverns, shops, bars and restaurants. Just minutes away from the old town of Chania with its enchanting Venetian harbour, Platanias is the ideal venue, offering peace and quiet but also a wide range of social activities.

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Travel Information

You are strongly advised to fly to Chania Airport (CHQ), not to Heraklion. Also look out for charter flights, these may be cheaper than scheduled flights.
There will be transfers organized between the summer school venue and Chania Airport. For the schedule of the shuttles please check the Guidelines for Participants.
There will be no transfers from/to Heraklion airport. We will provide information on buses and taxis, in case you do need to arrive at Heraklion.

You can find detailed practical information about travelling to Chania in our Guidelines For Participants.

Accomodation and Social Events

Accommodation and summer school facilities will be made available at Porto Plataniás Beach Resort, situated in a quiet, idyllic area of Plataniás, next to one of the cleanest beaches of the island. Within walking distance from the Resort you have the chance to explore the exceptionally picturesque village of Plataniás up on the hill, as well as the surrounding area.
PhD students are asked to share triple of quadruple rooms, triple or quadruple bungalows with other PhD students.

On the 29th of May, an excursion to Elafonissi for swimming will take place. On the way, a stop will be made at the traditional village of "Topolia" and visit to Saint Sophia Church (located in a cave).

On the 1st of June, a tour in Chania is organized, when the group will visit the old harbour of Chania, the old market and the Archaeological museum. This trip will start at around 9:00 am and finish at 1:00 pm with a lunch at the hotel.

During their free time, the participants will also have a variety of leisure activities at their disposal from which they can choose. Hiking, sea kayak, paintball, water sports, football, bowling and diving are some of the activities offered.

Cost of Summer School

The cost for PhD students is Euro 550 (including accommodation - 7 nights in shared room, meals, excursions, local transportation). JTEL has secured funding to provide funding for about 40 PhD student grants to cover summer school accommodation, catering, and events. Please indicate if you are applying for a scholarship in your application. Some selected students with grants may be able to benefit from funding to cover travel expenses to Chania as well.

Organising Committee

Programme Chairs:

Marie Joubert (University of Bristol)

Nikos Manouselis (Greek Research & Technology Network)

Local Organizers:

Nikos Palavitsinis (Greek Research & Technology Network)

Laura Gavrilut (Agro-Know Technologies)

Lecture Chairs:

Martin Wolpers (Fraunhofer FIT)

Sandy El Helou (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Workshop Chairs:

Milos Kravcik (RWTH Aachen University)

Martin Sillaots (Talinn University)

Activity Chairs:

Maria Perifanou (University of Athens)

Joris Klerkx (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Phd Advisory Chairs:

Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University)

Margit Hofer (Zentrum für Soziale Innovation)

Admissions Chairs:

Tomaz Klobucar (Institut Jozef Stefan)

Katherine Maillet (Institut Telecom)

Publicity Chair:

Marcela Porta (Institut Telecom)

Student Organisation Chairs:

Maren Scheffel (Fraunhofer FIT)

Nikos Palavitsinis (Greek Research & Technology Network)

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Michael Derntl (RWTH Aachen University)

Zinayida Petrushyna (RWTH Aachen University)

Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University)

Finance Chairs:

Fridolin Wild (Open University)

Tomaz Klobucar (Institut Jozef Stefan)

Journal Chairs:

Ambjörn Naeve (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Peter Kraker ( University of Graz )

Steering Committee:

Katherine Maillet (Institut Telecom)

Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University)

Tomaz Klobucar (Institut Jozef Stefan)

Denis Gillet (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Programme Committee:

Graham Attwell
Zuzana Bizonova
Bert Bredeweg
Daniel Burgos
Linda Castañeda
Bernadette Charlier
Mohamed AmineChatti
John Cook
Paul De Bra
Carlos Delgado Kloos
Michael Derntl
Erik Duval
Hannes Ebner
Sandy El Helou
Denis Gillet
Wolfgang Greller
France Henri
Margit Hofer
Stefan Hrastinski
Ebba Hvannberg
Borka Jerman-Blazic

Marie Joubert
Barbara Kieslinger
Ralf Klamma
Joris Klerkx
Tomaz Klobucar
Peter Kraker
Milos Kravcik
Barbara Kump
Tobias Ley
Stefanie Lindstaedt
Mathias Lux
Katherine Maillet
Nikos Manouselis
David Massart
Christina Mendes Dacosta
Daniel Müller
Ambjörn Naeve
Jad Najjar
Nikos Palavitsinis
Lucia Pannese
Dimitra Pappa

Matti Pauna
Maria Perif
Zynayida Petrushyna
Marcela Porta
Traian Rebedea
Joze Rugelj
Maren Scheffel
Andreas Schmidt
Birgit Schmitz
Elena Shulman
Martin Sillaots
Carl Smith
Marcus Specht
Ros Sutherland
Stefaan Ternier
Luc Vandenabeele
Riina Vuorikari
Fridolin Wild
Martin Wolpers

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