The book Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. edited by Okada, A., Buckingham Shum, S. and Sherborne, T. was launched on 4th of November 2008 – 400 pages, with all the maps and images in colour! It is a great pleasure to announce that the 2nd edition of this book will be published in 2014 by…
Learning anytime anywhere was the key theme of the VIII International Conference on ICT in Education – Challenges 2013, which was held in July 2013 in Portugal. Organised by the ICT in Education Competence Centre of the University of Minho Institute of Education, the conference covered a plural range issues, structured in three main topics: Emerging…
The kickoff meeting of the weSPOT project took place in Heerlen, Netherlands. Funded by the European Commission, 9 partner institutions will collaborate throughout the next 3 years to provide a Working Environment with Social, Personal and Open Technologies for Inquiry Based Learning across European higher academic institutions and schools. The weSPOT environment will support users…
Innovating learning through Education 3.0 was the key theme of the first conference InovaEduca 3.0, which was held in Sao Paulo Brazil, 1st of October. This event provided a forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss the wide-ranging of principles and practices on the uses of technology for improving competences and skills in…
“Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources”. Edited by Ale Okada Teresa Connolly Peter J. Scott (Open University, UK) The purpose of this book is to understand how OER and Web 2.0 can be deployed successfully to enrich the collaborative learning experience and ensure a positive outcome in terms of user generated knowledge and development of…
Today, the National University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil launches the first handbook of research on Moodle pedagogical strategies and case studies. This book, published in Portuguese, was edited by Dr. Lynn Alves from the UNEB University (Brazil), Dr. Daniela Melare from UNED (Spain) and UALG (Portugal) and Dr. Alexandra Okada from the Open University,…
OpenLearn tools created by KMi are helping educators and researchers develop innovative practice and learning methodologies across the world! Paulo Moreira (Minho), Daniela Melare (UNED) and Ale Okada (KMi) participated as keynotes in the Web Curriculum Conference in Brazil describing the best learning projects from CoLearn Community with KMi Tools: Compendium and FlashMeeting Project. The…
It is a great pleasure to announce that our book Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques has been published. It is a fantastic feeling to see the 400 pages, with all the maps and images in colour! This book shows the current state of the art in knowledge mapping. It is the first book…
