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What’s new on my iPad: Guidebook Conference App

October 1, 2013

I have recently downloaded the app ‘Guidebook’ on my iPad to plan my conference visit to ISSOTL 2013 in Raleigh this week. The app provides the conference schedule, a map of the convention center, a list of presenters, a photo … Read more

ISSOTL online: Transfer Learning

September 11, 2013

Yesterday, I attended the first session of the ISSOTL 2013 online pre-conference in the strand Studying and Designing for Transfer. The first week introduces transfer theories. The expert chat with Rebecca Nowacek, associate professor at Marquette University and Director of … Read more

AACE E-Learn 2013

September 10, 2013

Organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), the annual, international conference ‘E-Learn’ takes place at varying locations in the US, Europe and Canada. The event regularly attracts over 1000 participants from all over the world. … Read more

UNC Chapel Hill meets coursera: MOOC on Metadata

September 5, 2013

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a hotly debated trend: The New York Times declared 2012 to be “The Year of the MOOC”. While sociology Professor Mitchell Duneier recently stopped offering his content on the MOOC platform Coursera over licensing … Read more

Elon Teaching and Learning Conference 2013

August 28, 2013

The annual Teaching and Learning Conference at Elon University is a free, regional event that brings together instructional designers, teachers, students, curriculum specialists and others interested in educational technology and pedagogical approaches. The 10th edition of this one-day conference took … Read more

Book Chapter: L3T 2.0

August 28, 2013

What do media theorists like Marshall McLuhan or Jaques Derrida have to do with instructional design? In a book chapter for the German open content textbook ‘Learning and Teaching with Technology’ I explore theoretical and philosophical aspects of digital media … Read more