Events

• see Events

• 18-22 October 2010 : E-LEARN 2010

  • World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education

• 26-30 june 2006 : ITS 2006

  • 8th International conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  • Taiwain, 26-30 june 2006

Interesting articles

Starting points

• elearningeuropa.info directory

• the HELIOS Education Observatory

  • HELIOS aims at establishing the European eLearning Observatory: an open and sustainable platform articulating and coordinating national observatories and “sectoral” observation networks, in collaboration with all the existing observation bodies at European, national and international level.

• MERLOT

  • MERLOT is a community of people who strive to share and enrich their teaching and learning experiences.
• see also: Kaleidoscope (NoE) and PROLEARN (NoE)

• interesting concept to watch: Educational Data Mining

  • Educational Data Mining is an emerging discipline, concerned with developing methods for exploring the unique types of data that come from educational settings, and using those methods to better understand students, and the settings which they learn in.

• learning-links

  • another wiki based collection of resource by the Masie Center.

Blogs

• Larry Ferlazzo
• Quelques news sur la E-Formation

Articles

• 'iTunes university' better than the real thing

  • by Ewen Callaway Newscientist, 18 February 2009
  • New psychological research suggests that university students who download a podcast lecture achieve substantially higher exam results than those who attend the lecture in person.

• Are virtual worlds the future of the classroom?

  • By Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, June 12, 2006
  • Learning-based virtual worlds are growing more popular in schools and among children, thanks to ongoing efforts by universities and private companies.

• Nano-Learning: Miniaturization of Design

  • January 2006 - Elliott Masie
  • I am a nano-learner. What does that mean? Each day, I learn several things in small chunks. Really small chunks. A 90-second conversation with an expert triggers a huge “a-ha.” A few moments concentrating on learning how something works leads to a new micro-skill. What’s more, I am not that unusual. Most people acquire most of their knowledge in smaller pieces.

Articles (Academic)

• Using Student Response Systems to Increase Motivation, Learning, and Knowledge Retention

  • David J. Radosevich, Roger Salomon, Deirdre M. Radosevich, and Patricia Kahn
  • Innovate, Vol. 5, Issue 1, October/November 2008
  • Student response system (SRS) technology is one of many tools available to help instructors create a rich and productive learning environment.

• Special Theme: Technology-Enhanced Learning

  • ercim news, 71, October 2007

• Learning and Education: A Continuing Frontier for AI

  • by Oliver G. Selfridge, IEEE Expert, May/June 2006 (Vol. 21, No. 3) pp. 16-23
  • The role of education is to enable and encourage learning, beyond what a human or software system can do by itself. We must explore how to build software that can learn and be educated. This article is part of a special issue on the Future of AI.

• How’s the E-learning Baby? Factors Leading to Success or Failure of an Educational Technology Innovation

  • Alexander J. Romiszowski, Educational Technology, January-February 2004, Volume 44, Number 1, pp. 5-27

Reports

• the HELIOS Report 2005/2006, “Evolving e-Learning”: an original approach to the critical analysis of innovation in learning in Europe!

  • from the education-observatories, 2006

• Social software and learning

  • An Opening Education report from Futurelab
  • By Martin Owen, Lyndsay Grant, Steve Sayers and Keri Facer

Other documents

• The Lessons of e-learning Provision

  • Ryan, Yoni

Journals, magazines

• Innovate
• International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED)
• Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR)
• to be completed

People and organizations

Labs and research centres

• CALT

  • the Centre for Advanced Learning Technolgies, INSEAD

• CRLT

  • The Center for Research on Learning and Technology at the School of Education, Indiana University

• CoCo

  • the Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning and Cognition
• ...

People

• Albert A. Angehrn
• Peter Brusilovsky
• James A. Levin
• Paul Brna
• Christopher Dede
• ...

Organisations and associations

• EFQUEL

  • the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning

• EIfEL

  • EIfEL (European Institute for E-Learning) is an independent, not-for-profit European professional association whose mission is to support organisations, communities and individuals in building a knowledge economy and a learning society through innovative and reflective practice, continuing professional development and the use of knowledge, information and learning technologies.

• Le Preau

  • centre pour le e-learning et l'innovation pedagogique.

• CEdMA (Computer Education Managers Association)

  • CEdMA is the premier organization for training executives, training managers, and training professionals on a management path within technology companies.

Analysts

• Brandon Hall

  • Since 1993, they have provided independent, objective information about using technology for learning. They keep you well-informed on trends, best practices, tools and vendors, without bias.

• The Masie Centre

  • The Masie Centre is a US-based think-tank dedicated to exploring the intersection of learning and technology. The site offers resources in the field of educational technologies, learning digital collaboration, learning management, assessment, virtual learning communities.

• Eduventures

  • Eduventures.com is the digital marketplace for news, research, and professional services related to the education industry.
• Bersin & Associates
• --- other
• Forrester
• LioNBRIDGE

Companies

• Epic

Projects and initiatives

Projects

• Kaleidoscope (NoE)

  • Kaleidoscope is the European research network shaping the scientific evolution of technology enhanced learning

• PROLEARN (NoE)

  • PROLEARN is a 'Network of Excellence' dealing with technology enhanced professional learning.

• E-LEN: A network of e-learning centres

  • The E-LEN project is a project under the Socrates Programme which aims to create a Network of E-Learning Centres and leading organisations in the learning technologies.

Projects on competence development

• TenCompetence project
• CareerGuide project
• see also competence

Other

• Wharton Learning Continuum

  • Extends the learning process well beyond the time in the classroom

• SPIRAL

  • Serveur Pedagogique Interactif de Resources d'Apprentissage de Lyon 1.

Experiential learning

• see serious games

Learning network

Articles

• Towards a pattern language for networked learning

  • Goodyear, P, Avgeriou, P, Baggetun, R, Bartoluzzi, S, Retalis, S, Ronteltap, F, and Rusman, E (2004).
  • In: Networked learning 2004. Edited by Banks, S and Goodyear, P and Hodgson, V and Jones, C and Lally, V and McConnell, D and Steeples, C. Lancaster University Lancaster.

Other

Content

• Wikiversity

  • Wikiversity is the Wikimedia Foundation's youngest project, aimed both at creating educational materials and at providing a forum to learn interactively in a wiki environment.

• Ariadne Foundation

  • A European Association open to the World, for Knowledge Sharing and Reuse. The core of the ARIADNE infrastructure is a distributed network of learning repositories.

• MELT project

  • MELT has been designed to provide users of learning content in schools with access to more useful types of metadata that will allow them to find resources that fit their needs, language, cultures and preferred ways of teaching and learning.
• MIT OpenCourseWare

Directories of content

• worldwidelearn

Other references

References (to be classified)

• microlearning.org

  • Learning, Working & Living in New Media Spaces

• NanoLearning

  • Learning joins the Web 2.0 world with a marketplace for small, focused learning content that is call NanoLearning?. You will be able to incorporate NanoLearning? objects into your blog, website, or business process.
• elearningeuropa.info

• the 5th Dimension

  • 5D.org is the portal for learners, educators, students and researchers interested in new forms of learning.

• pedagogicalpatterns.org

  • Patterns are designed to capture best practice in a specific domain. Pedagogical patterns try to capture expert knowledge of the practice of teaching and learning.
• ...