BILD Connect Event, Glasgow

October 15th, EPICT UK, Hillington Business Park, Glasgow, G52 4RU

Using technology to achieve return on investment

The British Institute for Learning and Development (the BILD) is pleased to announce the next BILD Connect event which will be FREE to BILD members. Non members are welcome for £95 + VAT and there is a special rate for eLearning Alliance members of just £40 + VAT.

Speakers confirmed so far include:

EPICT UK
eCom Scotland
Aberdeen College
Etestme (TADS Media Ltd)
The BILD

Each speaker will talk about new and innovative ways in which technology based learning is being used effectively to achieve Return on Investment (ROI) in variety of learning situations accross different sectors.

To book a place for this event, please contact: swills@thebild.org

The BILD is very grateful to EPICT UK for hosting this event!

The presentation

ROLE was presented by Ralf Klamma at E-Learning 2009 Conference, Berlin in a 30 minutes presentation with about 40 participants (slides at Ralf’s blog). He explained the general goals and approach of the project, to create the basis for open responsive learning environments. Reaction from the audience was quite positive. One question was what is unique in the ROLE approach compared to existing E-Learning approaches. Ralf stated that the ability of the learner to assemble an own learning environment from small tools (like widgets) and content elements and social contacts (to co-learners/ tutors) is the main differentiator compared to classical learning environments and educational offerings.

The booth

ROLE is represented by Nils Faltin at the IMC booth together with projects PROLIX, GRAPPLE (see picture). Several of the presentation audience approached the booth to learn more about the project.

The conference

E-Learning 2009 is one of the major events of the german speaking e-learning research community, combining the yearly meetings of the society for media in science (Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft) and German Computer Society E-Learning chapter (GI Fachgruppe E-Learning). This year it has roughly 400 attendees.

On September 3rd, at 11:00 the EA-TEL SIG “ProTEL” was kicking off its activities in the framework of this year’s I-Know conference in Graz.
This special interest group focues to promote the achievements of different projects, the establishment of links to other projects, the exchange of activities and plans, and to help each other in the evaluation of the innovative technologies in the framework of professional learning.
The kick-off meeting was visited by researchers, project managers, coordinators and business representatives who identified already some first challenges of professional learning like sharing evaluation data, results and experiences, the need for commonly organized dissemination activities, the development of effective exploitation strategies and the aim to strenghten the professional training aspect in TEL. ROLE, as well as many other projects committed to actively support this initiative.
A similar meeting of EA-TEL SIG will be held during the EC-TEL conference in Nice. All interested stakeholders are welcome to join (contact: martin.wolpers@fit.fraunhofer.de and slind@know-center.at)

As a continuation of the successful cooperation within the SEE-ERA.NET project, a Joint Call for European Research Projects has been published on September 1, 2009 within the SEE-ERA.NET PLUS project including one focus on

ICT – I) Software systems for learning process management and support

The participating eligible countries are: Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia), EU Member States (Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Romania and Slovenia) and Turkey as an FP7 Associated Country.

This call is aimed at projects with a duration of one to two years, with a total budget for the call is €3.5 million. The funds will be provided by the participating countries and the European Commission. Each approved project will receive up to €150,000.

For further information on the rules for application and proceedures pl. visite the SEE-ERA.NET PLUS webpage.