MEDEA Awards 2008 presented at DIVERSE Conference
Submitted Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 14:27
Two members of our Organising Committee, Clive Young (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom) and Helle Meldgaard (The Danish IT Centre for Education and Research (UNI-C), Denmark) gave an engaging and excellent presentation about the MEDEA Awards 2008 at the DIVERSE 2008 Conference.
In this presentation Clive and Helle look at the trends in video and multimedia and how we can use new technologies and media for education.
They also refer to the MEDEA press release (23th May 2008) in which the Prize Sponsorship was announced. Five finalists will be invited to the Award Ceremony that will take place on 4 December in Berlin and will have the chance to win the first MEDEA Award. Prizes for 2008 will include the award itself and hardware to the value of 6,000 Euro.
The recorded presentation can be viewed online thanks to Collegerama, where a list of all presentations is available.
VENUS Summer School on the Application of Web 2 in Education and Training
Submitted Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 15:40
The summer school organised by the VENUS project, http://www.venus-seminars.net/, in which ATiT is a partner, highlighted Social Software and its uses in Business and Higher Education. Run from 3 to 7 September, this summer school was a lively mix of face-to-face workshop sessions, practical hands-on tutorials and networked cross-border discussion sessions. Thought-provoking presentations from leading practitioners in education and business were used to stimulate discussion amongst the sites participating in 7 different countries who were linked via a videoconferencing network throughout the summer school.
Virtual Mobility Forum
Submitted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 09:01
The Virtual Mobility Forum (November 28, Berlin) is a one day Forum is organised as a pre-conference event of Online Educa 2006 and brings together experts and practitioners in the area of Virtual and Physical Mobility. It is a mix of presentation and discussion formats, combining case examples and practical experience with discussions and brain-storming exercises in an effort to come up with clear advice and good practice that others can use in their own Virtual Mobility schemes.
The forum is organised by the Being Mobile and VICTORIOUS project teams.