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Hamdan Bin Mohammed University - Leading Transformation to Sustainable Excellence, March 3 - 5,2014
‘Leadership, design, and technology for XXIst century learning’ will be the theme of the 6th e-Learning Conference that will be held in Dubai in March 2014 under the umbrella of the HBMeU 2014 Congress.
Educational resources nowadays are increasingly available online, from simple drill and practice exercises to full courses offered online for free by the most prestigious universities. Online social practices are supporting collaborative learning and distributed leadership. However, as rightly noticed by MIT Professor Mitch Resnick in a public lecture on TED, “young people today have lots of experience interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating or expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.” From K12 to universities, educators also deserve appropriate design methodologies to create and express themselves with new technologies, so as to harness the desired synergy between technology and educational practices making learning more effective.
We invite you who are engaged in triggering this synergy to support changes, innovation, and excellence in education to submit full papers, extended abstracts, case studies, or poster presentations, and share your experiences and practices. All submissions need to be made against a particular subtheme of the 6th
- Teaching, Design and Quality
- Quality frameworks for online institutions
- Social Online Learning (SOL)
- Massively Online Open Courses (MOOCS)
- Cultural integration of OERs
- Educational leadership and technological innovation
Kindly check the event homepage for further details.
Open Education Challenge – the first European Incubator for Innovation in Education
Submissions open until 17 March, 2014
The Open Education Challenge gives educational practitioners, innovators passionate about education a new opportunity to create, develop, strengthen and fund their start-up in Europe.
The Open Education Challenge – under the patronage of Mrs Androulla Vassiliou, Member of the European Commission – has been launched on 22nd January in London.
The Challenge is open to all and a European jury, chaired by Lord Puttnam, will select the ten most promising start-up ideas.
The selected start-ups will be invited to join the European Incubator for Innovation in Education where they will be given the opportunity of developing their project by having:
- 12 weeks of intensive distance mentoring and presential coaching in successive European cities: Barcelona, Paris, London, Berlin and Helsinki
- The support of Europe’s best experts in education, technology and entrepreneurship
- Up to 20.000 Euros of initial seed funding per start-up and access to investors gathered in the Open Education Investment Club
This initiative is part of our overall commitment at P.A.U. Education to contribute to innovation in education.
The whole information is available on the website: www.openeducationchallenge.eu and we invite you to watch the short explanatory video.
