TENCompetence Winter School

TENCompetence Winter School 2007 - Innsbruck, Austria, January 22nd – 26th, 2007 -

http://www.tencompetence.org/node/88

Call for Participation

TENCompetence Winter School 2007

EXTENDED DEADLINE: December 8^th, 2006

Innsbruck, Austria

January 22^nd – 26^th, 2007

http://www.tencompetence.org/node/88

The TENCompetence Winter School is considered as an intense training and collaboration on the core topics related to the TENCompetence project (http://www.tencompetence.org), building the European Network for lifelong competence development. The programme includes lectures and hands-on sessions from leading experts in the field. Our ambition is to stimulate emergence of special interest groups and learning networks as well as to support joint research opportunities. PhD students from the PRO-LC Cluster as well as from outside are invited to participate and become part of the TENCompetence research community.

TOPICS:

• Educational Principles
• Knowledge Management
• Education Process Modeling
• Learning Design
• Competence Development
• Personal Learning Environments
• Simulation & Game Based Learning
• Semantic Web
• Social Software
• Open Source & Open Standards
• Software Engineering with UML
• Web Services

LECTURERS:

• Albert Angehrn, INSEAD, France
• Boyan Bontchev, Sofia University, Bulgaria
• Alexandar Dimov, Sofia University, Bulgaria
• Dai Griffiths, University of Bolton, United Kingdom
• Christopher Kew, University of Bolton, United Kingdom
• Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
• Rob Koper, Open University, the Netherlands
• Ruud Lemmers, LogicaCMG, the Netherlands
• Jocelyn Manderveld, Stichting SURF, the Netherlands
• Yongwu Miao, Open University, the Netherlands
• Daniel Olmedilla, L3S, Germany
• Andrey Ruskov, Sofia University, Bulgaria
• Petko Ruskov, Sofia University, Bulgaria
• Wolf Siberski, University of Hannover, Germany
• Marcus Specht, Open University, the Netherlands
• Miguel Arjona Villanueva, Altran SDB, Spain
• Scott Wilson, University of Bolton, United Kingdom

 
ORGANISATION:

• Milos Kravcik, Open University, the Netherlands
• Marcus Specht, Open University, the Netherlands
• Christian Glahn, Open University, the Netherlands
• Marlies Bitter, Open University, the Netherlands
• Mieke Haemers, Open University, the Netherlands

 
VENUE:

 The winter school will take place nearby Innsbruck, an internationally renowned winter sport centre in western Austria. The participants will stay in the Tiroler Bildungsinstitut - Grillhof:

 
http://www.tirol.gv.at/themen/bildung/einrichtungen/grillhof

 
COST:

 EUR 500 (including accommodation and meals, excluding traveling expenses). Project partners of the PRO-LC Cluster (http://www.professional-learning-cluster.org) will provide grants to their PhD students and PRO-LC projects may also provide grants to their associate partners for this purpose. Please, contact the respective partners directly.

 
APPLICATIONS:

 The winter school is intended for PhD students investigating the issues related to lifelong competence development and technology enhanced learning. PhD students are invited to submit applications to milos.kravcik at ou.nl. The application should include a Curriculum Vitae and an abstract (approximately 2 pages) describing the student’s dissertation. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2006. The school will be limited to 40 participants.