Comments Off At the 3rd Charter eLearning conference, the participants decided to launch a virtual network on ning.com http://charter-elearning.ning.com/ in order to foster continued collaboration throughout the year and not just once a year.
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Comments Off We’re happy to announce that we now have the results of the votes on the date for our 3rd Charta eLearning Conference. And we are preparing everything to garantuee optimal conditions for the event.
It will be held on 30th October 2009.
We’re sorry for all those of you who will not be able to attend the conference on that Friday and hope to see you next year.
Now, the first step will be to ask you to confirm your presence for the chosen date, and to confirm your intention to give a presentation at the conference.
The second step will be to aks you to submit the title and abstract (and co-authors) of the presentation you’re planning to give.
The third step will be to look forward to welcoming you all on 30th October 2009 in Walferdange, Luxembourg!
Could you please reply to this message and state the following information:
1. Yes, I will attend / No, I will not attend
2. Yes, I will give a presentation / No, I will not give a presentation
3. The title of my presentation is: ………………….
4. The abstract of my presentation is: ………………….
5. The co-authors of the presentation are: …………………..
Thank you very much in advance for your collaboration.
Comments Off We are very sorry to announce that we have to postpone the 3rd eLearning Conference of the Charter Saar-Lor-Lux-Rheinland-Pfalz-Wallonie.
Unfortunatly, (1) so far we really have too few participants and (2) we have just been informed that there will be maintenance work on the campus on thursday and friday so that we are very likely to have problems with the electric power grid.
We are very sorry for those of you who have already confirmed their presence on 11th September 2009 and hope that this change of plans will not cause too much inconvenience.
We plan to postpone the conference to end of October 2009, but we need to check with our administration in terms of availability of meeting rooms. We should have more news tomorrow (09/09/2009).
We will organize some kind of poll or vote to see which day will allow most people to participate… We really want to welcome as many of you as possible.
Comments Off 3rd Charter eLearning Conference
eLearning in the 21st century: Challenges for Higher Education
11th September 2009, University of Luxembourg, FLSHASE, Campus Walferdange
Generally speaking, the charter conference should enable the involved universities and institutions to present their e-learning activities to identify and gear synergy capabilities among each other for future transboundary collaboration.
The initial conference (link) of the e-learning network of the SarLorLux (and Wallonia and Rhineland-Palatinate) charter took place on Tuesday, 22nd of May 2007 at the University Henri Poincaré in Nancy. The constituting meeting was mainly in the focus of getting to know the individual e-learning strategies (including the structural integration and portfolios of the support units) of the charter universities.
The second conference (link) explored how realised e-learning solutions are concretely used in daily practice to supplement, facilitate and extend traditional lecture methods. Live examples of selected e-learning tools and solutions developed and approved at the individual charter universities were presented and demonstrated.
The third conference will further explore concrete educational technology solutions as well as their impact on general learning and teaching strategies within higher education institutions of the charter network. Recent developments in the field of Information and Communication Technologies have indeed challenged and changed the way we think about and conceive learning and teaching in higher education. While for many years digital technologies were more or less used as substitutions of traditional educational media, the recent explosion of social media and mobile ICT has more fundamentally changed our relations to knowledge and to technologies. Higher education will have to move beyond simple transmission of existing knowledge in order to move towards the collaborative construction of new knowledge and its usage in meaningful settings. Universities of the 21st century will have to help their students to become empowered citizens and efficient and adaptable professionals in an ever evolving knowledge and information society.
