Next Generation eLearning, Nikolas Apostolopoulos, Center of Digital Systems (CeDIS), Freie Unitversitaet Berlin
- Cedis working within Teaching, Learning & Research using the following teams FU e-Learning Grants, External Guests, Authoring, Content Management System (CMS), e-Publishing open access, Learning Management System (LMS)
- The Dialect model presented - Learning Materials Workflow using multiple authors with different roles then edited and commented as well as stored into repository then utilized into LMS - in my view this is already past thinking
- e-Learning at a traditional university coordinated action plan going towards web 2.0 - media and design are important in nowadays learning
- multiplicator effect – allowing all the projects to develop and to implement their projects with small financial etc. support - dissemination of results has been helped by blogs and wikis - also utilization eLearning advisers proposing different approaches - different services provided for university students in different phases including blogs and wikis etc.
- web 2.0 — a combination of technologies: Ajax, RSS Feeds, social software, blogs and wikis, mashups, open API, creative commons licenses, podcasts, affiliation “the long tail” — it is a big step from web 1.0 into web 2.0
- there are still big challenges for traditional university to take new things in web 2.0 into use
Yrityssuomi.fi webservices, Jaana Lappi, Ministry of Trade and Industry
- 15 knowledge centers directed by 3 ministries, in the beginning of 2008 Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Trade and Industry
- webservices seen as a good tool for harmonizing the offering in order to reduce standard work of into eServices and then freeing more time to tailored customer service
- yritys.fi –services covers
– regional company services also covered — growing business services investing into the companies who have got a significant growing potential including customer account person model — innovation services
– how ideas could be commercialized into companies –universities
– regional innovation services should be coordinated — internet and telephone service was combined as including a lot of synergy — expert register
– private business consulting services, public service providers
– potential for extranet services etc…
- currently in use www.yrityssuomi.fi now seen mainly as portal launched about 5 years ago http://www.enterprisefinland.fi/ with limited content in English — Fujitsu Net Services in use - new type of services do include analyses and tailored services including a business plan version — idea is that the company could create a business plan and modify it as well as invite experts for commenting and giving feedback — versioning is in use, using .pdf reporting — especially when a company is going international, the business plan will be reviewed and updated — target group: entrepreneurs, persons aimed entrepreneurs, SME companies, consultants, experts, coming entrepreneur generation: public school students and their teachers
- service proposition: — giving telephone service via one telephone number — trusted and up-to-date information and webservices — easy-to-use and confidentiality
- vision 2012: — full service environment incl. founding a company using eServices — a community of all the actors including both private and public expert services, companies + other communities
- strategic goals: — efficiency in customer services — organizations and their interest groups efficiency — process development and process direction efficiency — eServices — IT support — customer focus and locality aspect — knowing the customer and its business — using the right service portfolio — putting customer and service provider together - multi-channel approach - projects in progress: — eServices — eCustomer service development — customer account pilot for customer — Katso services in yrityssuomi.fi including taxation authority etc. — Telephony services — Service concept and content creation — English services — entrepreneurship training — expert pool — eBusiness — Communication — TiMe (IT as a success factor) seminar “eCustomer Services for Companies” — Joint newsletter — brand clarification — IT architectures — key word development — environment knowledge portal — regional views — technologymarkets
eLearning virtual world using Second Life, Kim Holmberg/Isto Huvila, Åbo Akademi
- 80 % of active Internet users will have a “Second Life” or equivalent in the virtual world by 2011 based on Gartner
- opened 2003 including 10 million users about 30000 logged into system at the same time
- 54% Europeans, average age 33 with 41% women, every day 1 Million USD spent
- avatars are highly emotional for the their users, so I am walking on the screen..
- immersive system reflecting the reality for example in discussion forum the group formed around the teacher without asking them to do that
- Åbo Akademi using since 1 year
- IBM using Secondlife as a video/webconferencing for their staff, because SecondLife is immersive and getting more attention. BMW is providing a test drive
- lecturing made via that - no with audio feature possible - when nearer to the speaker the audio is louder
- groupworking possible, visualizing and dramatizing like Trafalgar battle redramatizing, hospital surgeries reflected - a lot of possibilities
- all the issues built on the basic features using ball and bricket items
- survey results:
– moving,navigating,asking easy, and even discussion
– compared to face-to-face it was a little bit more difficult, a lot of funnier and easier to discuss with a lower threshold
– not clear view whether better, but better than typical LMSes
– group working - funny and with better results with the feeling making the things together
Processes renewed ! - Humap Tool making internal and customer processes more effective, Ilkka Mäkitalo, Development Manager, Humap Oy & Marja-Liisa Sarkki, training manager, Fintra
- training related for export companies owned by Finnish state
- own Fintra personnel planning training, but trainers coming business therefore the external consultants and business persons as trainers use the Humap tool for realizing the training programme
- people are learning together in groups using the tool
- using for show case studies
– students do act and show the knowledge by passing the tests or tasks
– creating plans for show case studies
– using Humap tool makes the things more effective showing the things with one view
- also used as a tool for internal Fintra development starting to develop the issues in PDP need then gradually growing for other issues also will be linked into the renewed intra
- Humap Oy tools do include: Humap Tool, Work Plays and Adobe Connect Pro
- principles:
– simplicity
– linking principle (face-to-face or at the network)
– process development (first rethinking and then going forward)
– restructuring the message