RECmondo is a documented trip across various countries in Asia, Oceania and Europe aiming to give voice to the children. The project, launched by the Spanish NGO Cultural Planet, will provide 40 children in 20 countries tools to help them share their daily reality.
RECmondo will provide a video camera to the participating children, who will record one day in their lives without any adult intervention an in complete freedom. The NGO’s volunteers will later on interview the children and capture footage of the place where they live to complete the documentary.
The goal of the project is to see how children throughout 3 continents think, feel and act.
This crwodfunded project will start on September 2013 and will last at least 10 months. The first stop of RECmondo will be Auckland (New Zealand).
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Par Grégory Vespasien. Alors que l'engouement entour des MOOCs bat son plein, Alicia Mitchell propose une lecture critique et à contre courant d'un phénomène quil, en dépit des apparences, rencontre un certain nombre d'obstacles.
Pour en savoir plus, veuillez consulter le lien suivant : http://www.elearning-africa.com/eLA_Newsportal/moocs-les-inegalites-sous-jacentes/.
Miríada X, a Massive Open Online Courses platform launched in Spain in January 2013, is offering this Autumn two new courses in collaboration with the University of Salamanca.
Founded in 1218, Salamanca’s University is the oldest university in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe. The two first MOOCs to be held throughout the Miríada X platform will be totally free and registration for them is already open.
A 10 hour course on the use of social media to support Lifelong Learning Project (LLP) managers and partners beginning in September is now open for registrations. This course is made up of 5 one hour weekly webinars and a series of tasks and activities carried out by participants in their own time.
Drawing on the expertise of the Web2LLP partners, this course will also feature inputs from colleagues all over Europe with experience in the use of social media to support LLP projects. The sessions cover the following topics: setting up a web strategy and communication action plan, selecting and choosing social media tools, managing and measuring your social media presence, sharing online content and a final round-table session with experienced managers about the typical issues and experiences LLP managers face in their use of social media. Domain experts leading this course include Gary Shochat and Nicholas Standage from PAU Education Spain and LLP social media users who will participate in the sessions to share their experience include Valentina Garoia, European Schoolnet, Belgium, Ildikó Mázár, EDEN and Kamakshi Rajagopal, Open Universiteit, Netherlands.
The course in English will begin on Wednesday 4 September at 15.00 CET, and in French on Friday 6 September at 10.00 CET. Register for the English course here and for the French course here
The 4th International Conference on eLearning, to be held on 26-27 September, 2013 in Belgrade (Serbia), seeks papers addressing technology, design innovation and pedagogical aspects related to online distance education. The deadline for submissions is 6 September.
The eLearning 2013 forum will pay special attention to Technical Concepts such as Learning Management Systems (LMS), Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and mobile learning technology; Instructional Design, including design and development of online courses, simulation and gamification of learning, and Pedagogical and Psychological Aspects of e-Learning. All papers must be written in English and presented following a specific set of instructions.
Mozilla’s Web Literacy Standard is a new online framework drawn up to help people read, write and participate on the web. Launched in its beta version in July 2013, the standard comprises a map of competencies and skills that Mozilla and its community of stakeholders believe are important to help millions of people create new tools and content for the web, rather than simply absorbing it as passive users.
The Web Literacy Standard isn't just about coding - It covers every part of web literacy, from learning basic coding skills to a base knowledge about privacy and safety. The new framework is made up of three strands: Exploring, Building, and Connecting. In turn, each strand is made up of several competencies, and each competency is comprised of a number of skills.
While working to release version 1.0 at the Mozilla Festival in October, the project is currently looking for feedback from educators, from policy makers and from learners, who are invited to map existing curricula and resources against the Web Literacy Standard.
Organized by: The University of Western Australia
The central theme of the 6th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity which will take place 2-4 October 2013 at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia is to encourage scholarly discussion among practitioners regarding the various issues we face in this translation process. Accordingly, the overarching theme of 6APCEI is From Policy to Practice—bridging the gap. Naturally, this theme subsumes a number of relevant topics. Papers are being solicited on all topics relevant to this theme.
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This event is organized by the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA), a scientific society to provide a European-wide forum for all researchers engaged in education of adults and adult learning.
The conference wants to promote discussions about the developments of adult education on national and European levels: new goals, new actors, new institutions and new forms of teaching and learning.
Contributions for this issue can be made in the form of research papers no longer than 500 words. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 January 2013.
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This event, North America's largest higher education sustainability conference, will be organized by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). Registration will open in the Spring.
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