8th JTEL Summer School ‘12

Estoril, Portugalhttp://www.prolearn-academy.org/

Events/summer-school-2012

Goals

• Develop research skills• Increase knowledge base• Collaborate with others in own and

complementary research areas • Engage in debate• Have access to experts in the field• Discuss own work

Participants• 64 PhD students from Germany, UK, Serbia ,

Slovenia, Malaysia, China, Switzerland, Russia, Spain, Qatar, Brazil, Iran, Sweden, Greece, Israel, Iraq and Portugal.

• About 20 lecturer and researcher, mainly from :– Germany: RWTH Aachen – UK: Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield, Open Uni.– Portugal

Programme

• Lectures and Interactive Workshops• Very diverse topics– TEL Research Landscape– Learning Theories– Learning analytics– Games– Informal Learning– …

Programme Highlights

• P Scott, F Wild: The grand challenges of TEL research (teleurope.eu/pg/challenges)

• A Pardo:Let me intervene. Influencing a learning environment through analytics.

• E Duval: Research 2.0• J Wishart: Learning Theory for Mobile

Learners in the 21st Century

Social Activities

• 2 Organized Events• Networking made easy– Even I did it

• Self-organized events– Every evening– Senior researchers DO party– Most interesting discussions happen there!

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