Second webinar of the series on E-assessment and Learning Outcomes

2nd lecture: 18th February 2015 at 11.00 CET

The TALOE Partnership is organising its second webinar, entitled "Assessment Strategy: Managing and Supporting Assessment Designers" of the "Talks on E-assessment and Learning Outcomes" series on 18 February 2015 at 11:00 CET. The presenters from Dublin City University, Elaine Walsh and James Brunton, are going to introduce their project aimed at enhancing the quality of assessment writing.

Read the details here including how to join and can ask questions directly from the presenters.

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Conference Call: Smart Homecare - Investing in skills and service delivery

27th of March 2015
Palais de Luxembourg, Paris, France

The CARER+ project organises its main conference on digital competence development in the field of care and social care. Representatives of theory and practice meet to discuss the future of social services for people over 65 in a unique and beautiful place. High profile keynote speakers will address the key issues in the field of social affairs and development of ICT skills in social care. Participants will have the opportunity to attend panel discussions and learn about the CARER+ cases including a showcase summary as well as other similar initiatives’ results. A final debate will be held on the needs of elderly people and their families, carers and professionals to develop sustainable solutions.

To participate, you are requested to fill in the online registration form. Due to security reasons (the venue is in the building of the French Senate), no participant will be allowed to enter the building without previous registration. Registration closes on 20 March 2015 12:00 pm. Participation is free of charge.

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Resources available: Learn more about Learning Analytics

The LACE - Learning Analytics Community Exchange project continues to work on discussing important aspects of learning analytics and educational data mining as well as to promote this field of educational research through a series of introductory documents. We have launched the Learning Analytic Review Paper initiative with its first paper on Measuring and Understanding Learner Emotions and the partnership has started a set of FAQs about the concept, benefits and challenges of learning analytics. Let us also raise your attention to other valuable LACE resources concerning quality indicators, validity, openness and STEM-specific learning innovations.

www.laceproject.eu/

Digital skills for teachers: DigiSkills good practices on video

Three short videos were shot at the last European DigiSkills Workshop during the 2014 EDEN Annual Conference in Zagreb to introduce good practices by their representatives. As one of the outcomes of the discussions was that video explanations of these practices support the use and reuse of experiences, those who were happy to share their practices explained them on camera.

Take a look at the videos:

An online tool to support teachers in their use of social media for education:

An online assessment framework for visual arts teachers:

How teachers can use multimedia cards and bookmarks in their lessons:

www.digiskills-project.eu

Open Badges for all! - Badge Europe (BEU)

BEU - Badge Europe aims to provide a response to the concerns of the European Adult Education Association to the risks of deterring adults from informal learning if the formal recognition of informal learning was to take over. The project will provide a simple, yet revolutionary, technology supporting a number of processes related to the recognition of formal, non-formal and informal learning. The specific aims and objectives of BEU are:

• to promote the idea of “Open Badges for all!” in Europe, part of “Badge the World”, using Mozilla Open Badges to enable the worldwide recognition of in-demand workplace skills and create new employment opportunities for all
• to create the conditions for the Europe-wide and world-wide recognition of learning achievements; and
• to place formal and informal recognition of learning on a par

Meet with BEU on 10 June 2015 in Barcelona, at a full day dedicated event in conjuction with the ePic Conference and the EDEN Annual Conference.

openbadges.eu

Digital resources as a new strategical factor for a renovation of modernization in higher education (D-TRANSFORM)

This Strategic Partnership project aims to be a contribution to the modernisation of Europe’s higher education systems as outlined in the 2011 EU Modernisation agenda. Among key targets outlined by the Commission, D-TRANSFORM takes into account the need for: 1. improving the quality and relevance of higher education (HE) through new technologies and more flexible and personalized teaching and 2. increasing investment in HE, through more diversified and flexible funding sources (drawing, to a larger extent, on private funding).

The goal is to implement a training program for leaders of European universities (presidents, vice-presidents) focusing on the major role played by digital technologies (MOOCS, etc.) and Open Educational Resources (OER) in the necessary transformation of their institutions.

Meet with D-TRANSFORM in Barcelona in June 2015, at the EDEN Annual Conference. To kick off and stimulate the brainstorming, a panel of senior University leaders will be questioned in a provoking way about their needs of being advised on strategic issues of modernisation.

Open Professional Collaboration for Innovation (OpenPROF)

OpenPROF addresses key innovations in the training of teachers, trainers and adult educators: using the open educational resources; developing and licensing open curriculum; using open collaboration environments; designing curriculum for diverse target groups including the mode of work-based learning.

The recently launched initiative aims to foster open and international professional collaboration for innovation by training them to openly collaborate in the development of on-line innovative curriculum design using open educational resources.