Thematic Workshop The Open Educational Resources (OERs) movement is growing rapidly over the last 20 years, as many institutions adopt the idea of openness and universal access to educational content. Indeed, this movement was originally inspired by the open-source community, with a focus on broadening access to information through the use of free, open content. […]
Thematic Workshop Digitalization and digital competencies are going to play an increasingly important role in pedagogical practice. Immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality, are becoming an important part of the technological toolkit of teachers and trainers. The interest in the teacher community for applying these technologies is very high. However, […]
Methodology Workshop As researchers, we need to acknowledge that not all the research output that we produce is going to be implemented directly in real-world scenarios. With the term “Actionable Research” we define the type of research that can be put “in action”; this type of research methodology prioritizes the implementation of the research results […]
Soft-Skills Workshop The Summer School is just in time for the second EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium Deadline. This year the EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium introduces a new “Ideas” Track for early stage Ph.D. candidates. This creates the opportunity for getting valuable feedback in your initial ideas and offers the opportunity to grow your network in the TEL […]
Thematic Workshop Recent research indicates that learning analytics (LA) can advance our knowledge and deepen our insights in a wide spectrum of TEL problems. The aim of this workshop is to help PhD students that work (or intend to work) with educational dataset in digital formats to develop their critical understandings about LA research. The […]
Thematic Workshop In this project psychologists (Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia) and game designers (Technical University Cologne) will develop and evaluate an innovative digital game-based preventive intervention for adolescents with increased risk for substance misuse and dependencies. The development will include participation of professionals from the addiction and youth care system and from […]
Informal Learning Session Introduce yourself with one slide in 40 seconds! This session is inspired by the well-known presentation format (Pecha Kucha) and adapted to our needs and time requirements. The purpose of the presentations is that people with similar interests can find each other. Every participant has to prepare a single slide about themselves […]
Methodology Workshop As PhDs and researchers at some point, we need to report our research. In this workshop attendees will create a draft of a paper while learning important steps about academic writing; including the purpose of an academic paper, structure of a paper, objectives, and content of each of the sections. The workshop will […]
Thematic Workshop Embodied Education has been defined as the basic concept which includes Embodied Teaching and Embodied Learning (Lindgren & Johnson-Glenberg, 2013). Embodied design and learning provide an alternative form of teaching and learning, enriching the conventional educational practice (Abrahamson 2013). As explained by Nguyen and Larson (2015) in embodied learning contexts, students are not […]
