Friday, October 31, 2014

EC-TEL 2014 doctoral consortium in Graz, Austria


As I mentioned earlier, it has always been a privilege to be involved in TEL community (EATEL, JTELSS) and I try to participate in the events organized by them. Great researchers and experts from across Europe and the rest of the world are coming together to make constructive discussions and conversations around TEL topics which provide great support especially to doctoral students and researchers in TEL. 

Continuing from TEL summer school in Malta, I planned to attend the doctoral consortium of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014) 16-19 September 2014 in Graz, Austria. I submitted my doctoral research project to the consortium to be reviewed by expert reviewers and other doctoral student fellows. I was quite surprised by the review results I received on my proposal both the number of people who have reviewed my manuscript (ten reviewers!) and the quality of comments and feedback they provided. In addition to the reviews of the proposal, we (six doctoral students) presented at the doctoral consortium and received more feedback from the senior researchers and professors present at the conference. I should thank professor Mike Sharples from the Open University UK for his valuable and really constructive comments he provided both in the review process and during my presentation. 

Keynoter Etienne Wenger elaborated on the latest development of social learning theory in regards to open learning and teaching which was the theme of the conference. 

#ectel2014




Thursday, May 22, 2014

TEL summer school in Malta



This year in late spring, I had a chance to once gain attend the 10th European Summer School on Technology Enhanced learning held from 27 April to 2 May in Malta. 

It was great that I could participate this year after three years (last time was in Crete, Greece, 2011) to meet friends from previous summer school and making news friends. Since I joined TEL community through EATEL and took part in this summer school, I like it and I enjoy networking, interactions and friendship in this community. 

There were different lectures and workshops which I enjoyed amongst them:  from PLE to MOOC by Denis Gillet and  Basics of paper writing and publishing in TEL by Michael Derntl and colleagues. 
I also enjoyed a lot the excursions organized  by committee in Malta and Seabank resort which was a very nice place.