Tag Archives: Call for Demos

04 October

Demo presentations have been selected

Education Worldwide

We are happy to announce the winners of the call for demos for the upcoming Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide-approach.

As you know, we had two rounds of the call for demos and the Comittee eventually evaluated 25 proposals. We would like to congratulate you all for your interest and effort.

These are the demos that have been selected by the Program Comittee and will be presented in the Seminar:

  • Azra Naseem, Transforming higher education through faculty professional development in blended learning. Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED), Aga Khan University, Pakistan.
  • Cathy Ellis, Self-organised Learning in the context of Vocational Education and Training (VET) – a consequence of Moore´s Law? North Hertfordshire College, UK.
  • Montserrat del Pozo and Monika Horch, Transformations for sustainable innovation. Col·legi Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Rosanna de Rosa, An open education model for teaching and learning: The Federica System. University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
  • Jim Lengel, Video Analysis of Teaching at Hunter College. School of Education, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA.
  • Tíscar Lara, UniMOOC – Massive Open Online Course. EOI – Escuela de Organización Industrial, Madrid, Spain.
We are giving the finishing touches to the Seminar’s program, so don’t forget to come back!
27 June

IX International Seminar - Call for Demos OPEN

Education Worldwide

IX Seminar Logo

The UNESCO Chair in e-Learning at UOC is pleased to host its ninth annual International Seminar. It will take place on November 26-27, 2012 in Barcelona, at the MediaTIC Building.

The theme of this year is: Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, as outlined in Presentation.

Despite multiple crises making current conditions of teacher work ever more difficult, educational landscape shows tha there are lots of experiments and creative search for innovation going on in classrooms. Sometimes they even go aheard of research, thus marking its future directions more clear. We encourage you to showcase your innovative project or experiment in educational practice, even if it is in process of development yet. This could be a good opportunity to make an informative and relevant case out of it, to share your results, successfull practice, but also your doubts.

Do not shy away if your project has not worked out as expected. We fully subscribe  to the idea  that we might learn more from a failure than from success; the main thing is to understand: Why? What would be a better solution?

Accepted projects will have 20 minutes to demonstrate the case and then will be followed by 20 minutes of discussion with other speakers and participants.

We expect the presentations to be very specific, practical, rather than theoretical or analytical.

In particular, the seminar organizers are keen to receive proposals that:

  • Are based on or supported by research (or not!)
  • Demonstrate an experimental or alternative approach to coursework, curriculum, assessment, etc (see topics of the Seminar)
  • Are related to issues of social inclusion and development
  • Stimulate and provoke a good discussion

Topics may be proposed from the full range of creative practice on different levels of education. Organizers would ask to identify a central idea or theme that have a direct relevance wihtin the Seminar´s scope.

Submission deadline: Proposals should be sent by email to   catedraunesco [ at ] uoc.edu  by July 25.

Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of faculty peers.

Notification of acceptance and additional information will be provided before the end of September.

18 October

VIII International Seminar: Demo Proposals Worth-Reading

ICT4D, Teacher Development

 

The VIII International Seminar “Teacher Training: Reconsidering Teacher’s Roles” took place more than a week ago. Now, while we keep posting the presentations of our keynote speakers and demo presenters, we have also decided to publish some of the demo proposals received during the Call for Demos. Of course,  the authors have given us the permission to share their demo proposals in this blog. Although this demo proposals were not selected to be included in the definitive program of the Seminar, we are sure you will find them quite interesting.

1) Case Studies & Country-based Demo proposals:

Teacher Training in Qurban & Surraya Educational Trust. Case study from Pakistan

(See Demo Proposal. PDF, 174 KB)

Author: Mrs Abida Mahmood (PGCE- London) (TEFL-London) (MA Eng- PU)
Qurban & Surraya Educational Trust (Administrator )
Pakistan Education Watch (General Secretary )
Teacher Trainer from UK
Member: IATEFL (UK), NATE (UK), SPELT (Pakistan), Focus (Pakistan)

Professional Development of Primary School Teachers in Iran  (Challenges and Perspectives)

(See Demo Proposal. PDF, 184 KB)

Author: Fouzieh Sabzian
PhD Student in Education
University of Sains Malaysia
Pinang, Malaysia

Providing e-learning Capacity Training Courses to Teachers Working in Early Child Care Centres (A Case Study)

(See Demo Proposal. PDF, 184 KB)

Author: Doris Anusi and Jecinta Anagbogu
Senior Programme Officers (Lagos Office)
Programming
Society for Promotion of Education and Development (SPED)

 

2) Platform-based Demo proposal:

OpenSE Project – Towards an Open Educational Framework for Software Engineering

(See Demo Proposal. PDF, 172 KB)

Author: José Carvalho
Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI)
Project website: www.opense.net

 

3) European Project:

ITEMS Project: Improving Teacher Education in Mathematics and Science

(See Demo Proposal. PDF, 48 KB)

Author: Bernat Martínez
ITEMS Coordinator
ITEMS Project website: itemspro.net/moodle/
ITEMS Project blog: itemspro.net

23 March

Call for Demos: VIII International Seminar -Teacher Training: Reconsidering the Teacher Role-

Teacher Development

VIII Seminar

CALL FOR DEMOS en CATALÀ | ESPAÑOL

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with the experts participating in the VIII International Seminar of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning. The topic of this year is Teacher Training.

We encourage you to showcase your project, even if it is in process of development yet. You can make an informative and relevant case out of it, to share your results, your successfull practice, your discoveries but also your doubts.

Do not shy away if your project did not work out well! We fully subscribe to the idea that we might learn more from a failure than from success; the main thing is to understand: Why? What is a better solution?

Accepted projects will have 30 minutes to describe its methodology, results and so, followed by 20 minutes of discussion with the other speakers and attendees. We expect these presentations to focus on results and to be very descriptive, rather than theoretical or analytical.

In particular, the seminar organizers are keen to receive proposals that:

  • Are based on or supported by research
  • Identify the interdisciplinary nature of teacher training
  • Related to the issues of social inclusion and development
  • Analyze the impact on real communities
  • Stimulate and provoke a good discussion

Submission details:

  • Send us catedraunesco[@]uoc.edu a one-page description of your project, showing the aspects that will be more relevant to the audience according to the abovementioned criteria
  • Submission Deadline: July 1, 2011
29 July

Call for Demos extended: 6 September - eLChair10

Learning Technologies

The Call for Demos deadline for the VII International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Mobile Technologies for Learning and Development has been extended to September 6 due to a slow summer pace. We want to give more people and institutions the opportunity to submit their experiences, cases and contributions to the seminar.

We also want to remind you that the microsite of the seminar has been uptaded with new information on speakers, program, venue and accommodation, moreover, you can now register online.

We also want to note that the venue of this year will be a very special and gorgeous place: Casa Asia, a public multicultural building with a astonishing architecture, located in the very centre of Barcelona, that reflects the will to bring together the Asian and the Western Cultures.

Casa Asia