1. 8th JTEL Summer School ‘12
Estoril, Portugal
http://www.prolearn-
academy.org/Events/summer-school-
2012
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3. Goals
• Develop research skills
• Increase knowledge base
• Collaborate with others in own and
complementary research areas
• Engage in debate
• Have access to experts in the field
• Discuss own work
4. Participants
• 64 PhD students from Germany, UK, Serbia ,
Slovenia, Malaysia, China, Switzerland, Russia,
Spain, Qatar, Brazil, Iran, Sweden, Greece,
Israel, Iraq and Portugal.
• About 20 lecturer and researcher, mainly from
:
– Germany: RWTH Aachen
– UK: Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield, Open Uni.
– Portugal
5. Programme
• Lectures and Interactive Workshops
• Very diverse topics
– TEL Research Landscape
– Learning Theories
– Learning analytics
– Games
– Informal Learning
–…
6. Programme Highlights
• P Scott, F Wild: The grand challenges of TEL
research (teleurope.eu/pg/challenges)
• A Pardo:Let me intervene. Influencing a
learning environment through analytics.
• E Duval: Research 2.0
• J Wishart: Learning Theory for Mobile
Learners in the 21st Century
7. Social Activities
• 2 Organized Events
• Networking made easy
– Even I did it
• Self-organized events
– Every evening
– Senior researchers DO party
– Most interesting discussions happen there!
