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MICROLEARNING2008 :: Microlearning & Capacity Building took place on June 25th-27th, 2008 in Innsbruck, Austria.

And it was a great conference indeed! Thanks to our speakers and to all of the participants who made it such a striking success.

Conference Proceedings:
Bruck, Peter A.; Lindner, Martin; (Editors):
Microlearning and Capacity Building. Proceedings of the 4th International Microlearning 2008 Conference

Here you can find the presentations:
Judy Breck - Presentation
Judy Breck - Educational Technology Magazine article
Ulf-Daniel Ehlers - Tom steps up the Ladder - Competence Development through E-Learning
Ulf-Daniel Ehlers - Keynote
Further presentations to follow.

Videos of presentations:
Judy Breck and Teemu Arina

Conference photos and an edited list of blogposts will follow in the coming days.
Please stay tuned, as we will permanently update this site in the next days and weeks to document all the ideas and people of the rapidly emerging micro-network.

(You can also have a look at speakers and presentations from our past conferences, Microlearning 2005, 2006, and Microlearning 2007.)

For further information, please view the blog-based Conference homepage.

Dear colleagues and friends,

We are aware that you are actively involved in eLearning and the use of digital technologies to enhance skill levels and build human capacities in your organisation and country. We thus cordially invite you to take part in the international conference MICROLEARNING2008:

Microlearning & Capacity Building
June 25th to 27th, 2008, in Innsbruck/Austria

(Sponsored by Intel Education, organized in co-operation with University of
Innsbruck and the Learntec Fair)

Capacity Building is about empowering individuals, organisations, and societies to keep pace with the global Knowledge Society, notably through the use of internet-based and mobile ICT. Under the conditions of the global digital climate change, everyone needs to adapt: We see the emergence of new technology-driven practices, new patterns of attention, new aggregate states of knowledge beyond orality or literacy.

The exceptional blend of participants, as well as the relaxed, intimate atmosphere present opportunities to make new contacts and lead inspiring discussions which would otherwise not have have been possible. Participants come from all of Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Arab Region and feature the quite diverse backgrounds: IT architects and university graduates, eLearning practitioners and educators, knowledge managers and corporate trainers, large corporations and small start-ups,e.g.

For further information please check the preliminary program and register online.

We welcome your participation!

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Martina A. Roth Conference Co-Chair Director, Intel Education

Prof. Dr. Peter A.Bruck Conference Co-Chair General Manager, Research Studios Austria

PD Dr. Martin Lindner Program Chair

WIRED on "Snack Culture" in TV, print, pop, computer games ...
including dialectical twist by Steven Johnson.

great compendium. blend with Manovich's thoughts on "micromedia" and the "Microchunk It" discussion.

then think about consequences for knowledge & learning.
(and put them in a comment here in this blog ...)

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nice one! here as an embedded slideshare-file, but also as ppt and audio.

(Stephen always was a brilliant thinker, but now the visual media design for the messages has definitely improved.)

(Did you notice that slideshare is dramatically changing Powerpoint to a microcontent-user experience?)

"So, boosting creativity by providing tools for people to jointly work on Microcontent that is naturally intertwingled is really the main challenge we face with todays Information Management solutions."
Michael Schuster in the SystemOne journal, and here he is adding something on the Memex machine, microcontent and memes.

a blog "about David Weinberger’s book (May, 2007) and how we’re pulling ourselves together now that we’ve blown ourselves to bits." (#). and here is the technorati-tag-list for "small pieces loosely joined".

"But each site is still in many ways like a standalone application. Data inside of one site is contained within a silo. Sure, we can cut and paste text string fragments from here to there, but the excitement on the web these days is all about “structured data” such as Contacts and Profiles, Events and Calendars, and Shopping Carts and Receipts, etc. And in most cases, the structured form of this data, which could be externalized as an XML item or a microformat, generally isn’t. It’s trapped inside the page, relegated to a pretty rendering. So, where’s the clipboard of the web ..."

Ray Ozzie (Microsoft) on Live Clipboard in 2006, reminded via preoccupations-blog

Hug, Theo; Lindner, Martin; Bruck, Peter A. (Editors) (2006): Proceedings of Microlearning 2006. Micromedia & e-Learning 2.0: Gaining the Big Picture

George Siemens points to Pløn Verhagen' critique of his 2004 article on Connectivism, and provides a follow-up.

Tag: Connectivism.

According to this study by comScore Networks, 34% of the German internet users do occasionally use mobile phones to access the internet, while there are only 19% mobile web users in the United States:

Of the countries examined, the highest mobile Web penetration is seen in both Germany and Italy (34 percent for each), followed by France with 28 percent, Spain with 26 percent and the UK with 24 percent. The U.S. figure of 19 percent is the lowest of the set.

Unfortunately, very little detail is given about the study. [via Nico Lumma]

Tag: MobileWeb.