Microlearning Conference 2006
On this page you will find information about the Microlearning Conference 2006 which took place on June 8-9, 2006 in Innsbruck, Austria.
You can also have a look at speakers and presentations from other past and upcoming conferences.
- Programme from Microlearning 2006
- Photos from Microlearning 2006
- Conference Proceedings:
Hug, Theo; Lindner, Martin; Bruck, Peter A. (Editors) (2006): Micromedia & e-Learning 2.0: Gaining the Big Picture. Proceedings of Microlearning Conference 2006
Speakers and Contributors
Marie-Hélène Abel / Claude Moulin / Dominique Lenne (FR):
Technology University of Compiègne / CNRS – Heudiasyc, Centre de Recherches
de Royallieu (France)
Website
Paper: Learning Organizational Memory and Microlearning
Junichi Azuma (JP):
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: Creating
"Micro" Exercises Utilizing TTS (Text-To-Speech) Technology: New Horizons
in Foreign Language Teaching
Sinuhe Arroyo (ES):
Dr. Sinuhe Arroyo is a member of the Information Engineering Research Unit
at the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Mr. Arroyo's current research
interests focus on Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services and how they can
be applied to create robust middlewares that enhance current state-of-the-art
on Service Oriented Computing, Enterprise Service Buses and e-learning.
Website
Paper: A
Semantic Service-based Micro-learning Framework
Peter A. Bruck (AUT)
Conference Co-chair:
Peter A. Bruck is the founder and General Manager of the Research Studios 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 has taught at universities in Canada, the USA 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 USA and Canada. Peter A. Bruck continues to teach 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. He is the founder of the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg and has headed research institutes at universities and national research organisations in Canada and Austria.
Introductory Note: What is Microlearning?
Lynne Chisholm (GB)
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.
Foreward: Welcome to EAMIL Workshop Day 2006
Stephen Downes (CAN)
Senior Researcher e-Learning, Canadian National Research Council
He is not only the man who coined the term "e-Learning 2.0" - beyond the buzz, Stephen is also the leading expert in the world and the Web on the concepts and technologies that are already starting to have a great impact on the e-learning scene. He will give a keynote on that subject.
Presentation: E-Learning 2.0 - Platform, Not Medium
Sebastian Fiedler (GER)
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
Paper: Sebastian Fiedler/Barbara Kieslinger: Adapting to Changing Landscapes in Education
Roger Fischer
CEO Kaywa
Presentation: Mobile & Micro Future Perspectives of Mobile Data Services in a Micromedia Context
Gabriele Frankl (AUT)
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: Mobile and motivating: How something very small can become big.
Norm Friesen (CAN)
Simon Fraser University (Vancouver)
Norm is the principal investigator in the SSHRC-sponsored research project "Learning Spaces: A Phenomenological Comparison of Simulated and Mediated Computer Worlds". He has built quite a reputation in the e-learning Community as the author of fundamental contributions to the discussions of Learning Objects, both from the technological side as well as from the didactical side.
Presentation: Microlearning
and (Micro)Didaktik
Paper: Microlearning
and (Micro)Didaktik
Thomas Grüebler, Magnus Rembold (CH):
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zürich (Switzerland)
Website
Paper: www.theatertheorie.net: A Web-tool for eLearning and e-archiving linking theory and practice.
Elisabeth Gugerbauer (AUT):
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Telecooperation (Austria)
Website
Paper: A Framework for Authoring Mobile Learning Content
Mario Heller (GER):
DGB Bildungswerk e.V., Düsseldorf (Germany)
Website
Paper: Microlearning in Trade Union Education: Designing and Implementing Innovative Educational Services Using Microcontent
Alex Hickey / René Wicks (CDN):
Alex Hickey is Director of the Virtual Teacher Centre in Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada). René Wicks is a Professional Development Officer with the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association.
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Paper: Mind Shifting or Shape Shifting? Re-thinking Learning Paradigms for the Online Environment
Simo Hoikka
Nokia
Presentation: Mobile Learning, Mobile Knowledge Sharing
Theo Hug (AUT):
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).
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Introductory Note: Micromedia & eLearning 2.0
Nina Kahnwald / Thomas Köhler (GER):
Nina
Kahnwald, M.A., is a research associate at the Faculty of Education at the
Technical University of Dresden.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Köhler is Professor for Educational Technology at the Technical
University of Dresden (Germany).
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Paper: Microlearning
in Virtual Communities of Practice? An explorative analysis of changing
information behaviour
Michael Kerres (GER)
University Essen-Duisburg.
Professor for Media Pdeagogy (University Essen-Duisburg). Interested in the impact of "Web 2.0" on learning in academic and non-academic contexts. Wrote the first full version of the entry on "Web 2.0" in the German Wikipedia.
Presentation: Web 2.0 | and its implications for eLearning
Markus Ketterl / Robert Mertens / Karsten Morisse (GER):
Virtual Teaching Support Center & Dept. of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (Germany)
Website
Paper: Alternative content distribution channels for mobile devices
Nikolaos Korfiatis / Miltiades Lytras (DK, GR):
Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) / Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras (Greece)
Paper: Deploying Recommender Systems for Microcontent: An approach using Social Network Theory
Peter Krieg (GER):
Pile Systems Inc., Berlin (Germany)
Website
Presentation: RELATIONEN SIND ALLES
Paper: The Learning Game: A New Approach to eLearning and Knowledge Computing
Arnaud Leene (F)
Microcontent Consultant
One of very few experts in the emerging field of "microcontent services & markets".
Presentation: Microcontent and Micromedia
Paper: Microcontent
is Everywhere
Martin Lindner(A)
RSA Studio e-Learning Environments (Innsbruck)
Presentation: Micro Buzz Honey - A Stimulating Verbal Blend
Introductory Note: Learning in Micromedia Environments?
Miltiades Lytras (GR):
Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras (Greece)
Paper: The value approach on microcontent and microlearning
Tilmann Märk (GER):
Tilmann Märk is Vice-Rector for Research at Leopold-Franzens-University and Professor at the Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics in Innsbruck (Austria).
Website
Paper: Microlearning: an emerging field in science
Pasi Mattila (FIN):
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.
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Paper: Jukka Miettunen/Pasi Mattila: Experiences in Setting up a Virtual Learning Game Project. Two Cases: Adventure in the Castle of Oulu (1651) and Virtual Snellman (1822)
Heidi Möller (AUT):
Dean of the Faculty of Education at Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck (Austria).
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Foreward: Welcome to Microlearning 2006
Daniel Molnar (HU):
Coedu Ltd. (Hungary)
Website
Paper: Where do we go now?
Markus F. Peschl (AUT):
Department of Philosophy of Science, University of Vienna (Austria)
Website
Paper: Challenges for a Microlearning-Driven Process of Knowledge Creation
Daniel Purlich (ESP/F)
CEO, Knowledge Pills
After developing the concept of "Knowledge Pills" as Content Director of Educaterra, the e-learning division of global mobile provider Telefonica, Daniel started his own microlearning business and will launch his product at the conference.
Presentation: Knowledge-Pills
Jochen Robes (GER)
e-Learning Consultant (Frankfurt)
Jochen is working as a consultant for e-learning and Knowledge Management for German corporate clients. Before that he has been a the Deutsche Bank (Frankfurt) in the HR/Learning & Development division. Via his very popular blog www.weiterbildungsblog.de, Jochen has become well known in the German e-learning community for being the leading expert on "e-Learning 2.0" concepts in a corprate context.
Presentation: The Microlearning Stagnation
Daniel Rodríguez / Karsten Oster Lundqvist / S. Williams / K. Baker (UK):
Department of Computer Science, The University of Reading (United Kingdom)
Website
Paper: Personal metadata for cataloguing microcontent – linking to large ontologies?
Martina A. Roth (GER)
Director EMEA, Intel Education program
Up to this day Intel has spent over 1 billion $ on Education Programs. Dr. Roth is responsible for a number of quite successful Education programs (schools, Higher Education and others) in over 18 European countries.
Presentation: Intel®
Education Initiative
Paper: Micro-learning
Elements in the Intel® Advanced Training Course
Salvador Sánchez-Alonso / Miguel-Angel Sicilia / Elena García-Barriocanal / Tito Armas (ES):
Information Engineering Research Unit & Computer Science Department, University of Alcalá (Spain)
Website
Paper: From microcontents to micro-learning objects – which
semantics are required?
George Siemens (CAN)
Learning Theorist for the Digital Age
Educational Technology Specialist, Red River College (Winnipeg) Renowned worldwide and web-wide as author of the brilliant manifesto and essay "Connectivism: A Learning Theory of the Digital Age". But he is a leading practitioner as well.
Presentation: Learning and Knowledge
David Smith (UK)
Lecturer, Educational Technology Specialist, Radley College (Oxford)
Lecturer, Educational Technology Specialist, Radley College (Oxford) Working and thinking at the point of intersection where Humanities and the latest Digital Media Technologies (mobile,Web 2.0) overlap. He will give a keynote on that subject.
Presentation: Learning in Micromedia Environments
Richard Straub (F)
Director of Learning Solutions, IBM EMEA
Chairman, eLIG (European E-Learning Industry Group)
As Director Learning Solutions since 2002, Richard is responsible for developing and representing the e-learning portfolio of IBM (EMEA). Richard is teaching International Management, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning for distinct MBA programmes.
Presentation: Getting the Big Picture - The Corporate Context
Thomas Vanderwal (USA)
CEO, InfoCloud Solutions
Information architect, consultant, entrepeneur. Expert for organizing microcontent into "Personal InfoClouds" across digital platforms.
Presentation: The Personal Infocloud - The MicromediaRevolution