On Thursday April 15, 2010 was held at the Campus of the Leganés UC3M a conference organized by the Network for The ICOPER eMadrid Reference Model: a New Interoperability for Higher Education, given by Dr. Bernd Simon of Knowledge Markets (Austria).

Schedule

The scheduled time of the conference is 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Place

• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Leganés Campus
• Audiovisual Room in the basement of the Library
• University Avenue, 30
• 28 911 Leganés (Madrid)

Getting There ( details )

• By Metro: stop "Leganés Central" line 12 "Metrosur"
• Renfe-Cercanías In: Stop "Leganés" in line C-5 (from Atocha Humanes direction)
• By car: See map of Google Maps

Summary

Driven by technological advances such as Web 2.0 and the new demands coming from their political interest groups, for example, expressed in the Bologna Declaration, higher education is actually in the midst of change.

The European project eContent + ICOPER is facing this change by developing a reference model for higher education based on new results. The model offers new ways to design curricula, course creation, content sharing, teaching, and conducting evaluation. This talk presents the first results of our activities aimed at developing interoperable technologies to support a new higher education.

Slides

Videos

Conferencia "ICOPER Reference Model" from eMadrid net on Vimeo.

Biography of speaker

Dr. Bernd Simon is senior researcher at the Institute of Information Systems and New Media at the Vienna University of Economics and Business , and Director General of Knowledge Markets , a spin-off of the university which was co-founded to provide IT consulting services to organizations based on knowledge.

In his research is involved in the field of technology-enhanced learning and knowledge management. In his articles and his work on open standards and specifications, has contributed specifically in areas such as

• evaluation of corporate learning environments,
• success factors for the implementation of technology-enhanced learning,
• interoperability of repositories of knowledge.

As managing director of Knowledge Markets , has provided consulting services to clients such as Daimler AG, Erste Group and the Austrian Ministry of Education.