Donetsk team educates colleagues to use online tools for learning

Members of the Donetsk team were teaching their colleagues from the Deparment of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the Donetsk National University, how Internet can enhance learning.  

During the Department meeting, we presented the Department's new blog, which was created in the summer, and pages in social network. Some basic tools which could be of use for blended learning were presented. New equipment, purchased within the project - demostrated and tested.

Some useful resources for students and researchers

You may be interested in:

1. A free online demo 'What to expect from academic study' which the publisher Palgrave Macmillan are using to promote a new study skills book.  (Hopefully it is accessible from outside the UK).

2.  A very useful resource developed by the University of Portsmouth to help students and reserachers cite and reference correctly.  Focusses on Havard APA v6, Oscola and Vancouver referencing 'styles'  http://referencing.port.ac.uk/

Вебквест - организация работы студентов и их оценивание

Сегодня на е-Неделе мы проходим Вебквест (webquest.org), задание команд - подготовить концептуальную презентацию возможного Вебквеста для студентов по своему курсу. 

Наш курс связан с обучением основам написания научных исследований - курсовых работ - для студентов младших курсов.

Moodle introduction

Today @ e-Week we will discuss Moodle! 

Moodle allows instructors to add all content and activities on the course homepage. Students are able to see and access all related content and activities from the main course page rather than having to navigate between various areas of the course to access different types of materials.

Эффективное обучение

Процесс обучения результативен, если есть целеполагание и мотивация, коим адекватны результаты.

Приложения для е-образования должны быть бесплатными и с открытым кодом!

Сегодня был второй день е-Недели в ZHAW.ch. Наши проекты обрастают новыми деталями - все листы флип-чартов скоро не будут помещаться на стенах аудитории.

Особенно интересно было услышать опыт других университетов в освоении е-Образования.

Not revolution but evolution - Google Knowledge Graph

http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html

Please find some infos about Google Knowledge Graph as an enhancement to
the search functions offered by Google.

Christian

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Research tool - Google Docs Help

<https://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2481802>

Google added some new functions to Google Docs in order to add researches
from the web to your Doc.

Christian
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Virtual research environment programme : JISC

<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre.aspx>

With delight I digested an article (unfortunately in German) sent to me by
a colleague who is Librarian. The topic are so called "Virtual research
environments - VREs" see also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_research_environment

This topic suits very well to the first phase of our project addressing
"everything that helps young researchers". In part the issue is addressed
by the platform for information retrieval and management
www.recherchieren-im-internet.ch to be translated in Russian soon. Note
however also the strong focus of VREs on collaboration and coordination
using Web 2.0 tools (Blogs, Wikis, Project Management platforms like
Teamlab/ Zoho/ Basecamp etc). So exactly the tools we looked at in the
last weeks.

Related to information retrieval for resachers note also the trend towards
"discovery tools" like eg http://konstanz.summon.serialssolutions.com/en/
You put your topic in the the "search slot" and get most of existing
scientific articles, books out. Although this discovery tools are
mushrooming a fundamental problem remains - as user you usually have no
clue which databases etc the tools themselves use. Also you have no clue
which algorithm is used for ranking the results. However, it could also be
argued that this is not really a problem - meanwhile it seems impossible
to track all of the literature published even on a very small area of
research. Maybe we have to say goodbye to the idea that we manage to deal
with "all" literature even if we focus only on a small research topic ...

Christian

Why it is worth getting to know Google Tools

An interesting news just came. In Germany usage of smartphones related to brands looks like that (from the source below):

• 24 % Samsung,
• 22,4 % iPhones 
• 21,6 % Nokia
• HTC (10,5 %),
• Sony (8,2 %) and
• Blackberry RIM (2,8 %).

re:publica 2012

<http://re-publica.de/12/en/>

re:publica started as a small meeting of Bloggers (people that write
blogs) in 2007 and became, as far as I know, the biggest conference on all
kind of internet-issues in Germany.

Eu Commissioner Neelie Kroes attended and informed that 41% of Italian
citizens still have no experience with the internet (source
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/re-publica-Res-gestae-stationae-1568843.html).
I am wondering what the figures in Eastern Europe are.

In any case it can be seen that the question how internet (with it
ubiquitous computing i.e. "always online" as realised with the smartphone
boom) effects our societies is increasingly on the (research) agenda.

Christian

In the article quoted above is stated that WLAN did not work for some time
resulting in huge confusion of the participants. They just were cut off.
Interestingly it seems not too many people had prepared a fall back
solution. Lessons Learned - when applied in teaching make sure you still
have a piece of chalk in the pocket...

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Команда проекта обменивалась опытом и училась блоггингу

Донецкая команда проекта "іTeach SCOPES" провела видеоконференцию о блоггинге.

Материал тут: http://goo.gl/Xiyli.

Приглашаем тех, кто не смог принять участие, зарегистрироваться на удобное для себя время тут: http://www.doodle.com/mhkxunswcfzueytr

EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world

EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to
millions of people around the world

http://www.edxonline.org/

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Планируйте улучшить познания в блогинге вместе с нами!

В рамках проекта "іTeach SCOPES" в формате видеовстречи Google Донецкая команда будет презентовать возможности блогинга и обучит базовым навыкам.

Проголосовать за удобное для Вас время можно тут: http://doodle.com/frazqf56vmw3fyqx.

Очередная видеовстреча проекта - осваиваем TeamLab

Команда проекта из Армении презентует портал проекта в ТимЛаб, а также возможности этой платформы. 

Презентация проходит в формате видеовстречи, которые стали регулярными и все больше участников научились пользоваться Гугл+.

Google in Education - News

http://hackeducation.com/2012/04/24/google-apps-for-education-and-the-new-google-drive/



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Проходит первая большая видеовстреча проекта - презентация MindMeister

Киевская команда презентует возможности MindMeister - онлайн редактора карт мышления. 

Спасибо Нине Иларионовой за презентацию.

Искусство исследования - теперь ближе

В адрес Донецкой команды проекта пришли книги: The Craft of Research, Research Design in Political Science и Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences.

Издания доступны в Центре политологических исследований на историческом факультете Донецкого национального университета.

Good and up to date book on electronic tools for teaching

http://www.amazon.com/Technology-Toolbelt-Teaching-Jossey-Bass-Education/dp/0470634243/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333042653&sr=8-1

Guess I will hand over a copy to each of the participants of our workshop.

Best,
Christian

Проходит вторая видеовстреча проекта

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