Date

June 13 and 14, 2013.

Place

Campus de Leganés, Salón de grados del edificio Padre Soler, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Leganés)

Títle

"The Transformational Effect of Technology over Education"

Attendance is open and free.

Registration: http://bit.ly/emadrid4J

The Gradient Lab Group of Telematics Applications and Services (laboratorio Gradient del Grupo de Aplicaciones y Servicios Telemáticos, GAST) from the Carlos III University of Madrid, an eMadrid network partner, and the company Simumak have developed two training simulators. The first one is a tool for the training of entrepreneurs in which the user is immersed in an adventure game during which a mentor will guide you through the process of creating your own business.

The Research Group GICAC-UPM, included in the eMadrid Network, and The OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC) has developed a search tool for open educational content. This search engine, called "Serendipity", offers more than 7,000 courses available in open and heterogeneous repositories of higher education institutions worldwide.

Date

Friday 17 May, 2013

Programme

• 15:00-15:30: Functions of a Facilitator in a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC), Pedro María Marauri (IUED-UNED).
• 15:30-16:00: Collaboration and Innovation as a Key to the MOOC Development and of Entrepreneurship Communities in Latin America. The unX Project and the Mobile Venture Community, Raquel Fernández (CSEV) and Marta Cáceres (CSEV).
• 16:00-16:30: Degrees of Openness in Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC), Michael Totschnig (Independent e-learning consultant, Germany)

Free seminar without pre-registration.

A MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), will start next May 1 on the UNED COMA platform. This course has been created by members of the UNED in eMadrid. Under the title "Basis of Electronics Circuits and practice", this MOOC consists of eight modules and will last five months. The only condition to follow the course is a free registration in the UNED COMA platform.

During the days between next 17 to 20 September 2013, the fifteenth edition of the International Symposium on Information Technology and Communication in Education (SINTICE) will be held in conjunction with the Spanish Conference on Informatics (CEDI 2013) in Madrid (Spain). This new edition is on the advances in learning technologies and their widespread and practical application from a Web 2.0 sight.

The research group e-UCM from Complutense University of Madrid, included in the eMadrid Network, has developed a video game that recreates the play La Dama Boba (Lope de Vega) and allows players to play as one of the characters. These actions are included within the project " e-Learning a escena” which main motivation the teaching of classical theater to high school students of the Community of Madrid.

Program

• 15:00-15:30: Conceptualizing and Implementing MOOCs - Experiences and Lessons learned from OPCO12 and an Outlook on COER13, Anne Thillosen (Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen).
• 15:30-16:00: "There's a tsunami coming" - How MOOCs Disrupt Education and How iversity Wants to Bring the Movement to Europe, Jonas Liepmann (iversity, Berlin).
• 16:00-16:30: How to Make a MOOC within a Nutshell, Monika König (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences).

Free seminar without pre-registration.

The fourth edition of the IEEE EDUCON, to be held in Berlin (Germany) from 13 to 15 March 2013, will host this year a new session promoted by the eMadrid Network. The six talks included in this session will be clustered under the title “The Power of Analytics to Engage and Guide: Experiences at the eMadrid Excellence Network”. These conference will be about several aspects of the enforcement of web analytics to online and open education. This session is held Thursday 4th in the morning and is also a contribution of the eMadrid Network to the Open Education Week 2013. Its complete content can be seen here.

The Science Of Computer Programmign international journal makes a call for papers for the preparation of a special issue entitled Special Issue on Software Development Concerns in the e-Learning Domain. The journal is indexed in the JCR with an impact factor of 0.622 in 2011. The important dates are: