From a Jisc press release:
Over 14,000 items of archived TV footage from 17 European countries are now available via the EUscreen online portal for teaching, research and general interest.
EUscreen – the result of a collaboration between 36 partners across Europe – provides a rich insight into Europe’s television heritage with content dating from the 1920s to the present day.
The portal includes rare footage and commentary on key events in history, including a 1962 interview with Martin Luther King about racial discrimination in the US.
John Ellis, Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway and principal investigator on the EUscreen project, said: “This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in social history or indeed TV history, as it brings together tens of thousands of clips from across Europe. The portal is available to anyone (not only academics) and it is very easy to get absorbed and spend hours browsing all of the footage.”
The expansive footage has also proved popular as a learning aid for foreign language students, with clips available in 14 languages.
By the end of September 2012, there will be around 30,000 items of digital content freely available on the portal as the European providers continue to add carefully selected material.
Explore the EUscreen footage
Open online seminar
Jisc are hosting an open, online seminar on ‘Making Assessment Count (MAC)’ on Friday 3rd Feb – 1-2pm. The presenters are Professor Peter Chatterton (Daedalus e-World Ltd) and Professor Gunter Saunders (University of Westminster).
The mailing for the seminar says” “The objective of Making Assessment Count is primarily to help students engage more closely with the assessment process, either at the stage where they are addressing an assignment or at the stage when they receive feedback on a completed assignment. In addition an underlying theme of MAC is to use technology to help connect student reflections on their assessment with their tutors. To facilitate the reflection aspect of MAC a web based tool called e-Reflect is often used. This tool enables the authoring of self-review questionnaires by tutors for students. On completion of an e-Reflect questionnaire a report is generated for the student containing responses that are linked to the options the student selected on the questionnaire.”
You can find out more ans sign up for the seminar at http://jiscmac.eventbrite.co.uk/
EC-TEL 2012
The EC-TEL 2012: Seventh European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills takes place on 18-21 September 2012 at Saarbrücken in Germany.
The focus for the conference includes:
- How can schools prepare young people for the technology-rich workplace of the future?
- How can we use technology to promote informal and independent learning outside traditional educational settings?
- How can we use next generation social and mobile technologies to promote informal and responsive learning?
The deadline for proposals is April 2.
Visitors and Residents
David White (University of Oxford) and Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway (OCLC) have been attracting quite a stir with their JISC-funded work on Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment?, being undertaken as part of the Developing Digital Literacies programme webinar series.
Slides, audio and a recording of the Blackboard Collaborate session where they presented some of the findings of their work can be found at http://bit.ly/jiscdiglitvr.
The keynotes, videos, radio shows and interviews from the ECER 2010 Conference in Helsinki:
To be honest – i share the moment of blended learning a bit more pessimistic. Thought at the first moment i’ve heard it this could be the admit of the defeat of the dream of the perfect and ultimative eLearning – understood as the solution for all problems. In fact you are right. BL enables bringing back the context to the pure content – and by this way it brought back more the pedagogy to the eLearning-Scenario. But this doesn’t mean that there has not been any pedagogical thoughts inside pure eLearning. But it’s dammed hard to assume all eventualities of understandings – misunderstandings- learning processes – … in awareness of the real students. And now going so far: Blended Learning in one scenario and Blended Learning in the other may differ completely. So that’s no assurance beeing pedagogical heard. More than that I expect the need for a plus of pedagigical engagement and less instructional design maybe more useful. This includes also that information transport can just be one part in a chain.
Blended learning has definitely a very broad meaning. But, I would not necessarily accept that blended learning is the pedagogy of e-learning, rather than the technology. Blended learning is the idea of integrating face-to-face learning with distance education.
The combinations of the two modes of delivery can be much more challenging but, it is definitely not only the pedagogical engagement and less instructional design. It is the effectiveness and efficiency of course design techniques integrated with both face-to-face and distance learning.
As we know, technology could deliver learning contents as a tool, but instead learning instructional design. Instructional design for online learning is to make and guide particular activities and certain fields more effective. The traditional class room teaching processes has some characteristic which more teacher-centered rather than using a lot of technologies. But the use of technology definetly makes instructional design more active and posssible. Therefore, the combinition of two modes could be as a trend to apply for online learning. Howver it is a challenge for educators to figure out which degree of strategies and instructional design are more adaptive during online learning.