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Educamp09 and EVOLVE in Partnership!
Tue 20 Jan 2009
Yesterday we officially started a partnership between Educamp09 and the EVOLVE Community. This was the first of a series of open online conversations that will be happen on a monthly basis until the face to face Educamp09 meeting in Ilmenau, Germany, this following April.
Question: Why are we doing these online sessions when some [...]
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Thought Fest
Mon 19 Jan 2009
Thought Fest is a two-day event being organized by Pontydysgu with the support of the JISC Evolve network and the European Mature-IP project. The event will bring together researchers in Technology Enhanced Learning in an open forum to debate the current issues surrounding educational technologies and discuss how and where research impacts on practice and [...]
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Open Learning
Tue 13 Jan 2009
This is the motto for 2009 as far as EVOLVE is Concerned. It is also the year we will try to connect to more learning initiatives all over Europe and beyond, if possible.
As part of our Open Learning approach we are also open to suggestions and new ideas.
And to start the year the best way, [...]
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Evolve Open Seminar Series
Wed 22 Oct 2008
This month it's about Moocs and Open Course Models
When: 3rd November 2008, at 1800 UK Time (check your local time here)
Where: Elluminate (enter here)
Speaker: Dave Cormier, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Dave will be speaking about his experiences, so far, of the CCK MOOC and touch on the technological platforms being used to support participants, [...]
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Upcoming Event - Open Seminar
Thu 4 Sep 2008
After the summer, it's time to start warming-up with new discussions. The Open Seminar Sessions @ EVOLVE are back! ;-)
This Month is about PLEs. Hopefully a lot of food for thought here!!
This month our guest speaker is Scott Wilson from CETIS UK, who will share some thoughts about Personal Learning Environments
The idea of a PLE [...]
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Mentoring and 21st Century Skills
Thu 3 Jul 2008
Anne Fox was our Guest speaker for the June topic. The presentation focused on Mentoring and 21st Century Skills. Anne provided us with some quite thought provoking ideas on the new challenges education is facing regarding the demands of the 21st Century Society.
Anne advocates the mentoring as key for lifelong learning and ongoing further development, [...]
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Bee Dieu’s Keynote Session
Fri 30 May 2008
Bee Dieu's Session is now available here.
We would like to thank Bee and all of those who take part in the Evolve Launch Event. It was great to connect to you all.
For those who couldn't make it, you can link to the recording of the session and listen to it (the wonders of technology!).
We can't [...]
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