OBJECTIVES

The TENCompetence Winter School is considered as an intense training and collaboration on the core topics related to the TENCompetence project (http://www.tencompetence.org), building the European Network for lifelong competence development. The first two TENCompetence Winter Schools received a positive feedback from the attendees. The main theme of the third one will be Competence Management in Learning Networks. The programme includes lectures and hands-on sessions from leading experts in the field. We want to offer enough space for interactive sessions, informal discussions, group work, and students'presentations. Our ambition is to stimulate emergence of communities of practice and learning networks as well as to support joint research opportunities. PhD students and other interested people are invited to participate and contribute to creation of an exciting learning experience.

PROGRAMME

Programme for the winter school is available here

TOPICS

Personal Competence Development

Replacing Teachers with Crowds

Networks for Learning Professionals

Learning Activity Design

Simulation & Game Based Learning

Educational Theories, Concepts, Methods Mash-Up

Personal Learning Environments

Competence Development Networks

Disagreement Management

Telepresence & Streaming Media Systems

Personalized Adaptive Learning

Oranizing Project Dissemination

LECTURERS

Albert Angehrn, INSEAD, France

Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada

Dai Griffiths, University of Bolton, United Kingdom

Hannes Ebner, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Davinia Hernández-Leo, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Wolf Hilzensauer, Salzburg Research, Austria

Rob Koper, Open University, Netherlands

Ruud Lemmers, LogicaCMG, Netherlands

Jocelyn Manderveld, SURF Foundation, Netherlands

Ambjörn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Sandra Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria

Peter Scott, Open University, United Kingdom

Peter Sloep, Open University, Netherlands

Fridolin Wild, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration,Austria

Scott Wilson, University of Bolton, United Kingdom

ORGANISATION

Milos Kravcik, Open University, Netherlands

Christian Glahn, Open University, Netherlands

Wolfgang Greller, Open University, Netherlands

Sebastian Kelle, Open University, Netherlands

Mieke Haemers, Open University, Netherlands

Sabine Maassen, Open University, Netherlands

VENUE

The winter school will take place nearby Innsbruck, an internationally renowned winter sport centre in western Austria. The participants will stay in the Tiroler Bildungsinstitut - Grillhof (http://www.tirol.gv.at/themen/bildung/einrichtungen/grillhof).

COST EUR 550 (including accommodation and meals, excluding traveling expenses).

TENCompetence is not allowed to provide any grants to external students. We encourage especially the project partners from the PRO-LC Cluster (http://www.professional-learning-cluster.org) to enable their members attending the event and support exchange of knowledge among these closely related projects.

APPLICATIONS

The winter school is intended for PhD students and other researchers investigating the issues related to lifelong competence development and technology enhanced learning. People are invited to submit applications to milos.kravcik@ou.nl. The application should include a Curriculum Vitae and an abstract describing the research objective. The deadline for submissions is October 31st, 2008. The school will be limited to 40 participants.

DEADLINE

The deadline has been extended until NOvember 16th.

In case of interest, please contact Milos at  milos.kravcik@ou.nl as soon as possible.