Next September 16th, eMadrid project members will be held the second Workshop on Software Engineering in elearning (ISELEAR'11) at the Faculty of Informatics, University Complutense of Madrid. This new edition maintains the goals set for the first successful edition of the workshop, ISELEAR10: to bring together researchers and software development experts in the field of e-Learning to present, compare and discuss the latest trends in the conception, design, development, deployment and maintenance of eLearning systems.

e-Adventure is an educational game creation tool that does not require any programming skills to develop educational adventure games. In the last few months, the research community in serious games has paid a lot of attention to its latest releases, and it is being downloaded about 1000 times per month. In order to support its growing user community, the e-Adventure website is presenting its new game repository, to allow users to see as many examples as possible.

Teachers Rosario Gil, Manuel Castro, Gabriel Diaz, Elio San Cristobal and Sergio Martin, from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and eMadrid network members, were awarded last May with the prize for best article in the FINTDI 2011 Congress (Fomento e Innovación con Nuevas Tecnologías en la Docencia de la Ingeniería) for the text entitled "Verification System for Fngerprint Tests in Moodle".

Series of interviews made at the II eMadid Workshop, held last June 1 and 2 at the UNED Psychology Faculty (Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid). The participants talk about various aspects related to the subject of this year, the Mobile Learning, its present and future and the changes that it has introduced into the learning process.

The European chapter (iED Europe) of the Immersive Education Initiative has been presented last May 13 during the iED Summit held in the city of Boston (USA). The Board Of Governors of this chapter was also defined. It’s led by Michael Gardener, Director of the Digital Lifestyles Centre, University of Essex, UK, and the other six members are international experts in the field of immersive education, including Delgado Kloos, eMadrid coordinator. 

A conference organized by the training and technology outreach program called Cibernàrium, in collaboration with the Learn3 project, will be held in Barcelona next June 30. Its title is "Learning 3.0: new technological advances in education challenges" and it will analyze the situation of "educational opportunities and challenges" in the new contexts created by technological advances. Carlos Delgado Kloos, eMadrid coordinator, will be one of the participants.

Next Tuesday, 21st June, the 4th edition of The Online Master in Management and Production in E-learning will be presented. This Master is developed by the University Carlos III of Madrid and the Institute of Online Learning, with the collaboration of the eMadrid network. The event will have place from 18:00 to 21:00 hrs at the Video 3.1.S08 Room, at the Pastor King Building (Library Building) of the Leganes Campus (UC3M).

Last Wednesday June 1st, 2011, during the II eMadrid Workshop held at the Psichology Faculty-UNED (Madrid), the eMadrid 2011 Awards were delivered. The winner of the ATOS-Origin award for best doctoral thesis was to Sergio Martin (UNED), and Jorge Fernández (URJC) was awarded in duplicate, to receive the MadridOnRails prize for best work or free software development related to education and the ATOS-Origin Award for best final degree project . Awards were delivered by Rafael San Miguel, CEO of Madrid On Rails, ando Lydia Montagon, Area Manager of Atos Origin. Winners presented their work on the second day of the event, June 2.

The town of Villablino (León) will host the Carlos III University Summer School between July 11 to 22. Among the various offers of education, there is one entitled "Exploring new realities: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, "directed by Carlos Delgado Kloos and taught by members of the eMadrid Network.

Date

June 1 and 2, 2011

Place

UNED, Ciudad Universitaria, Psichology Faculty, "Salón de actos".

Title

"Mobile Learning opportunities for University and companies"