Microlearning Conference 2005

On this page you will find information about the Microlearning Conference 2005 which took place on June 23-24, 2005 in Innsbruck, Austria.
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Conference Proceedings:
Hug, Theo; Lindner, Martin; Bruck, Peter A. (Editors) (2005): Microlearning: Emerging Concepts, Practices and Technologies after e-Learning. Proceedings of Microlearning 2005. Learning & Working in New Media.

Speakers

Bryan Alexander (Middlebury, USA):
"Going Nomadic: Mobile Learning in Higher Education"

Conference Sponsors:

Bryan Alexander Bryan is codirector of the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College, where he researches, teaches, and develops programs on the advanced uses of IT in liberal arts colleges. An amazing multi-tasker, Bryan specializes in digital writing, weblogs, copyright and intellectual property, information literacy, wireless culture and teaching, project management, information design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. As a literature instructor and professor, he developed courses using digital and mobile media to teach the eighteenth century, Gothic literature, and the experience of war. At the same time, he has created curricula for teaching about the digital world, from multimedia writing to cyberculture and media studies.
Website - Article

Arnaud Leene (Sivas, F):
"Microcontent is Everywhere: The Atomic Structure of the New Web"

Arnaud Leene has 14 years experience in leading positions at the research department of KPN Telecom, the incumbent telecom operator of the Netherlands. 1997- 2002 he was Senior Scientific Advisor and responsible leader of two large programs, focusing on research and e-commercial strategies in the field of new mobile and Internet services. The goal was to find new business opportunities beyond the classical telco. In 2001 he authored a study aiming at a new Mobile Portfolio description for the UMTS network of KPN Mobile. Since 2002 Arnaud Leene is living in France and working as a freelancer. He is an expert for new concepts and lines of business, based on the newly emerging microcontent-technologies, including the subjects blogging, micro-content, OpenReviews and related aggregator/networking services.
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Junichi Azuma (Kobe, JP):
"A Web-Based Metadata Repository For Language Teaching"

Junichi Azuma is a professor of media and communication studies and English as a foreign language at the University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences, Kobe/Japan, as well as a guest researcher at IICM, Graz University of Technology, Austria. He holds a Master of Education degree from Hyogo University of Education. His research covers several academic domains, such as phonetics, applied linguistics, media studies, and marketing. His current research focuses on the Internet as an educational medium, marketing strategies of agri-tourism projects, and electronic commerce.
Website - Paper

Beverley Oliver (Perth, AUS):
"Mobile blogging, 'Skyping' and Podcasting: Communication Skills In Transnational Learning Contexts"

Beverley Oliver Beverley is Senior Lecturer and Manager of Teaching Development at the Centre for Educational Advancement, Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Australia). At present she is engaged in a project aiming at first year Engineering and Business university students in Australia, Africa and Malaysia, bringing them to use handheld computers (HP iPAQ 5550s) to communicate with peers to form transnational learning communities which focus on their achievement of key learning outcomes.
Website - Paper

Robin Jewsbury (London, UK):
"T-Mobile: A New Look At Innovative Data Services"

Robin Jewsbury Robin has been working in the computer industry for over 20 years for Logica, Reuters and T-Mobile International. For T-Mobile International he has been the Architect of the International Download Centre. He now runs the t-zones Innovations team which has created the award nominated News Express offline newspaper (based on Flash).

Riitta Vänskä (Helsinki, FIN):
"Nokia Innovations: Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Applications"

Riitta Vänskä Riitta is Senior Specialist for mobile learning at the Nokia Mobility Office in Helsinki (Finland), is responsible for concepting and launching mobility for m-learning, mobile collaboration and mobile knowledge management in Nokia. Vänskä has been the key contributor to the launch and development of e- and m-learning in Nokia since 1996 when she joined the company. She was heading the New Learning Solution team in years 1998-2001. Vänskä that the added value in m-learning is in informal learning and collaborative learning and in the way it opens new possibilities for virtual teams to operate and build communities of practice.
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Norm Friesen (Vancouver, CAN):
"Where's the Learning in (Micro)-Learning Content?"

Norm Friesen Norm is a SSHRC Postdoctorate Fellow at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver). He is the principal investigator in the SSHRC-sponsored research project "Learning Spaces: A Phenomenological Comparison of Simulated and Mediated Computer Worlds". He has been working in the area of instructional Web development at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University since 1997 and had held a position with the CAREO Project (Campus of Alberta Repository of Educational Objects).
Website - Presentation

Sebastien Paquet (Montreal, CAN):
"Web 2.0: It's Impact On Learning And Knowledge Acquisition"

Sebastien Paquet Sebastien is well known in the World Wide Web as one of the most competent bloggers on the transformations of knowledge and education in the new web and network culture. His most notable home blog is Seb's Open Research, but he also contributes to Many2Many, the famous group blog for social software. Seb has lately joined Socialtext, a successful enterprise focusing on new microcontent-based applications. Before that he had been research officer in the e-learning group of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC)'s Institute for Information Technology. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Montreal with a thesis titled "A Socio-Technological Approach to Facilitating Knowledge Sharing Across Disciplines". Seb is specifically interested in is online communities of people who focus on sharing knowledge and ideas. These communities are commited to building public, reliable sources of knowledge. Related to this is his interest for Knowledge Representation, a subfield of Artificial Intelligence that is chiefly concerned with ways to encode knowledge for intelligent software systems.
Website - Presentation

Erich Neuhold (Darmstadt, GER):
"Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis eLearning?"

Erich Neuhold is Professor of Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Technology and Director Emeritus of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (IPSI) also in Darmstadt, Germany. He has been Professor at the University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Vienna and he has also worked in research and management positions for IBM and Hewlett Packard both in Europe and the USA. His areas of expertise in databases include distributed databases, object-oriented databases, databases for the Internet (e.g. semi-structured data and XML), information retrieval, information visualization and their applications in digital libraries, cultural heritage and e-commerce. He currently holds the chairs of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Data Engineering and the Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. He is also the Chair of the ICDE Steering Committee and also member of the JCDL at ECDL Steering Committees. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Website - Presentation

Peter A. Bruck (Salzburg, AUT):
"Microlearning and e-Learning Environments As Strategic Research Fields In Austria"

Peter A. Bruck is the founder and General Manager of the Research Studios Austria (more) within the Austrian Research Centers, and division head for e-technologies and smart media at the ARC Seibersdorf research GmbH, the national public-private technology research organisation of Austria. He is also the honorary President of the ICNM - International Center for New Media, Salzburg, the chairman of the Board of the European Academy of Digital Media-EADiM, Netherlands, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the UN World Summit Award. He studied at the universities of Vienna, Iowa and at McGill, Montreal, and holds doctorates in law and communications, and master degrees in sociology and economics. He has taught at universities in Canada, US and Western Europe plus Israel and Poland and has over 25 years of experience in research and consulting in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Portugal, the US and Canada. Peter A. Bruck continues some teaching as Honorary Professor of Information Economy and New Technologies at the Institute of Economics, Faculty of Law, at the University of Salzburg and holds an appointment as Research Professor of Communication and Journalism at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has founded the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg and headed research institutes at universities and national research organisations in Canada and Austria and has been senior partner in ICRA - International Communications Research Associates, Ottawa, Canada. From 2001 to 2002 Peter A. Bruck was on the Board of Management and head of the Business Unit on Interactive Media of the Jet2Web Internet Services GmbH of the Austrian Telekom Group.
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Kurt Fendt (M.I.T, USA):
"Creative Learners - Collaborative Tools: New Modes of On-line Learning and Teaching"

Kurt Fendt is Research Director in the Comparative Media Studies Graduate Program and Research Associate in Foreign Languages and Literatures at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is head of the HyperStudio, a development laboratory for educational media projects in the humanities at MIT. He is Principal Investigator and Manager of the /Metamedia/ project. His work includes the conceptualization and implementation of multimedia applications for the humanities, with a special focus on foreign-language and culture education, and research on hypertext theory. Fendt also teaches several courses in the CMS Graduate Program, in Foreign Languages and Literatures, and the Literature Section.
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Sebastian Fiedler (Nürnberg, GER):
"Microdidactical Concepts In Collaborative Web 2.0 Environments"

Sebastian Fiedler Sebastian is a doctorate student at the University of Augsburg / GER (Media Pedagogy), where he is also teaching graduate courses in Media Pedagogy. His special interests are constructivist and constructionist theories of learning and knowing, human-centered design and usability, dynamic personal Web publishing: Weblogs, Wikis, Webfeeds, Social bookmarking, etc., self-directed and self-organized learning ... Sebastian has built quite an insider reputation as the organizer of the BlogWalks, international workshops on the latest developments in blogging, and as owner of the collaborative seblogging-blog, concentrating on subjects around knowledge and learning within new web environments.
Website

Pasi Mattila (Oulu, FIN):
"Moop - Mobile Learning Environment as Part of Daily School Work"

Pasi Mattila Pasi is a member of the Finnish MOOP project team (City of Oulu, Board of Education; Schools of Korvensuora, Oulunlahti and Patamäki; Incode Ltd.). Moop is an interactive m-learning environment for situations where primary school pupils take use of a mobile phone to analyze their surroundings and to communicate within groups. Through Moop, a pupil makes observations and saves and manages information in the mobile and network learning platform. Moop project is based on needs of schools and teachers: the traditional learning environment is broadened from class room to observation in the surroundings. This developing project responses to the needs of the information society, to utilize information and communication technology in pedagogy and to raise citizens of tomorrow's information society.
Website - Presentation

Silvia Breu, Franz Lehner:
LL2 (Learners Learn 2gether) - a P2P-based E-Learning System

Franz Lehner is professor for Computer Science in Economics at the University of Passau (Germany), with a special interest in mobile technologies (mobile business, mobile computing, mobile learning). The presentation has been held by co-author SILVIA BREU, a computer scientist currently working at the Open University Hagen (Germany), who has earned her diploma with a thesis on "Aspect Mining Using Event Traces".
Website - Paper

Tilmann Märk (Innsbruck, AUT):
"Media Research and Instructional Design At the University of Innsbruck"

Tilmann Märk Tilmann Maerk is Rektor for Research at the University of Innsbruck.
Website - Introduction note

Lynne A. Chisholm (Innsbruck, AUT):
Panel 1: Micropedagogy

Lynne A. Chisholm Lynne Chisholm, Univ.-Prof. Dr., holds the Chair for Education and Generation at the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck in Austria and is Director of its Institute of Educational Sciences. A widely published specialist in education, training and youth affairs in comparative and intercultural context, she is also regularly involved in undertaking European and international studies and reports in these fields for the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the European Economic and Social Committee, European Parliamentary committees and the United Nations. Following two decades as a university lecturer and professor at universities in Northern Ireland, England, Canada and Germany, she worked for five years at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture in Brussels on prospective policy development. Before returning to academic life, she spent three years working on lifelong learning at CEDEFOP (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Education and Training) in Thessaloniki, Greece, combining this with research professorships at the University of Newcastle (UK) and then at the Danish University of Education in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is also actively involved in international professional associations and policy groups focusing on Youth Research.
Website - Introduction note

Chris Langreiter (Innsbruck, AUT):
"Snips & Spaces: Managing Microlearning [with Andreas Bolka]"

Chris Langreiter Chris is a young virtuoso programmer in Tyrol, who in late 1999 possibly has built the first wikiblog in the world (Vanilla). He is doing business with his own small enterprise (Synerge, Kufstein) as well as a main collaborator in the start-up System One (Innsbruck), which is currently creating a revolutionary new application for open and dynamic semantic workspaces. His co-presentator ANDREAS BOLKA, a longtime Vanilla-fan and co-developer, is currently studying at the University of Vienna.
Website - Paper

Johann Lackner (Linz, AUT):
Panel 3: Microknowledge - Technologies & Markets [IVG Data]

Johann Lackner is General Manager of IVG Data, Linz, the Austrian market leader in conception and production of e-learning projects for corporate training.
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Christian Stary (Linz, AUT):
Panel 3: Microknowledge - Technologies & Markets

O.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Stary (University of Linz) is the Head of the Competence Centre for Knowledge Management and Head of the Institute for Economical Computer Science - Communications Engineering. His focus of research is on Organizational Learning as well as on User-Centered and Task-Based Interface Development, designed for new ways of Working and Learning.
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Markus F. Peschl (Vienna, AUT):
"Triggering Process of Understanding in Microlearning - A 'Microlearning Laboratory'"

Markus F. Peschl O.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Stary (University of Linz) is the Head of the Competence Centre for Knowledge Management and Head of the Institute for Economical Computer Science - Communications Engineering. His focus of research is on Organizational Learning as well as on User-Centered and Task-Based Interface Development, designed for new ways of Working and Learning.
Website - Paper

Silvia Gabrielli (Rome, ITA):
"The Design of MicroLearning Experiences: A Research Agenda"

Silvia Gabrielli Silvia is a researcher at the University of Roma "La Sapienza", and presented a paper she has authored along with professor Tiziana Catarci and Stephen Kimani. She has been involved in human-computer interaction as a researcher since her master degree in Occupational Psychology (University of Padova, Italy), in 1994. During her PhD in Cognitive Sciences (1996-2000) she has worked on the design and evaluation of educational technologies for young children, by participating to different European Projects and collaborations. She was a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex' School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences within the Equator EPSRC project. She is currently involved in researching 'Mobile Learning in Mixed-Reality Places' and in the 'Design for Future Needs' (DFFN) European project.
Website - Paper

Christian Swertz (Vienna, AUT):
Customized Learning Sequences By Metadata - Ontology of Web-Didactics

Christian Swertz is Professor for Media Pedagogy at the University of Vienna, focusing on new media in the academic education an der Universität Wien. Christian has a background in computer science is interested in Theory of Media Education, Media Didactics, and practical and emirical aspects of e-learning.
Website - Paper

Pryakorn Pusawiro (Bremen, GER):
"Just-In-Time Learning: Re-Design of Micro Learning Platform"

Pryakorn Pusawiro is a researcher and PHD student at the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics (University of Bremen, Germany).
Paper

Richard Eichenauer (Linz, AUT):
"The Complementary Character Of Microlearning"

Richard Eichenauer is a programmer and production manager at IVG Data (Linz), the Austrian market leader in conception and production of e-learning projects for corporate training. Only recently he has earned a Ph.D. with his research on "Evolutionary Cointent Specifications in the Field of e-Learning".
Website - Paper

Roger Fischer (Zürich, CH):
"kaywa.com: Microlearning with Mobile Blogs"

Roger Fischer Roger is CEO of Kaywa, a swiss start-up concentrating on mobile blogging. He believes that the time has finally come for the synthesis of mobile phones and the internet. The trend has been labelled "Life Caching" - possibly the future mainstream practice of aggregating all personal data (private life, knowledge and work) in one cross-platform and cross-device database.
Website - Paper

Gernot Tscherteu (Vienna, AUT):
"The Blogosphere Map: Visualising Microcontent Dissemination - Inspired by Maria Montessori"

Gernot Tscherteu Gernot is a media designer with his own enterprise, realitylab, in Vienna / Austria, who has earned his PH.D. with a dissertation on "New Media Cultures". His professional and theoretical interests include Interfacedesign, Content Managament, Knowledge Management, Social Software, and Gamedesign / Edutainment.
Website - Paper

Christina Schachtner (AUT):
"Precise And Succinct Yet Interlinked - Requirements For E-learning In The Workplace"

Christina Schachtner is professor at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria), focusing on the field of new media and their technological and cultural impact. She is leading a number of projects in the fields of e-learning and its sociocultural consequences, with special regard to feministic issues.
Website - Paper

Theo Hug (Innsbruck, AUT):
"Microlearning: A New Pedagogical Challenge"

Theo Hug, PhD, is Associate Professor of Educational Sciences at Innsbruck University (Austria) and Head of the ARC Research Studio eLearning Environments. His present areas of interest are media literacy, emerging forms of instant knowledge in new media culture, methodology of qualitative research in social sciences, e-learning and media communities, and philosophy of science, especially radical constructivism as a basic approach to e-learning. Theo Hug edited the video series Innsbruck Lectures on Constructivism, featuring Ernst von Glasersfeld and S.J. Schmidt. He is editor of many books, among them Media Education and Globalization (Frankfurt/M. et al, 2000), Instantwissen, Bricolage und Tacit Knowledge ... Wissensformen in der westlichen Medienkultur (Innsbruck, 2003; with co-editor Josef Perger).
Website - Introduction note

Martin Lindner (Innsbruck, AUT):
Panel 2 (Moderator): Microcontent - Microlearning

Martin Lindner Martin is a researcher at the RSA Studio eLearning Environments (Innsbruck) and teaching Media Studies as a visiting professor / lecturer at the University of Innsbruck. He holds a Ph.D. (University of Munich) and a "habilitation" degree (University of Passau) in German Literature. After 15 years of teaching and researching in various academic projects, and working as a publicist, ad copy writer and curator of museum exhibitions, he became especially interested in new web and mobile technologies, and how they transform the knowledge, culture and the society as a whole.
Website - Presentation sheet

Bruno Haid (Innsbruck, AUT):
Panel 3: Microknowledge - Technologies & Markets [System One]

Bruno Haid Bruno is the ingenious Head of Strategy of the Tyrolean start-up System One. His firm is developing a new kind of personalized and collaborative "knowledge environment", using the latest "Web 2.0" and Semantic Web technologies. The System One project is still in stealth mode, but eagerly awaited to release a beta version before th end of the year.
Website - The product

Ernst Winter (Linz, AUT):
"E-Learning and Microlearning As Part Of A Strategy for the Improvement Of the Efficiency of Personnel Trainings"

Ernst Winter, as Head of Internal Personnel Training at the Employment Market Service Austria (AMS) in Linz, Austria, is responsible for conception, organisation and realization of the basic internal training for new employees. AMS Austria probably has the most modern and comprehensive computer database and application structure of any labour market administration in the world. As a consequence training for computer work is essential. Since 1999 the AMS uses intensively WBT and CBT modules for local and time-independent learning. Ernst Winter has earned grades in social pedagogy and economics. Before working for AMS, he has been CEO of a consultany firm specializing in training and education matters.
Website - Presentation

Stephan Mosel (Giessen, GER) :
"Self Directed Learning With Personal Publishing And Microcontent"

Stephan Mosel Stephan is just about finishing his studies at the Department for Adult Education at the University of Giessen (Germany). He has gained some reputation as the owner of plasticthinking, indeed one of the most popular (and quite early) German blogs, focusing on web culture and media pedagogy subjects.
Website - Paper

Gabriele Frankl (Klagenfurt, AUT) :
"Workspace Learning Project: Designing Parts of A Puzzle"

Gabriele Frankl is a researcher at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies (Research Unit: New Media - Technology - Culture) at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria).
Website - Paper

Hagen Graf (GER) :
"machm-it.org - A Mobile Learning Community (Open Source Project)"

Hagen Graf Hagen is a programmer (or rather: an ingenoius hacker), software book author and consultant. He is co-founder of machm-it.org, a non-profit open learning community in Ausleben (Germany), lately concentrating on mobile learning.
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