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GEN Update July 31, 2003
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GEN Update
July 31, 2003
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http://globaleducators.net
In This Update
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1. Begins Tomorrow! Modelling Students: Personalizing Student-Computer
Interaction
2. Upcoming Seminars
3. eLearning Champions of Innovation Series
4. Order Your Book Now for GEN's First Reading Group Seminar
5. Support GEN!
6. Global Educators Community Connection
7. Manage Your Membership
8. About the global-educators-network Mailing List
1. Begins Tomorrow! Modelling Students: Personalizing Student-Computer
Interaction
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Dates: August 1 - 14, 2003
Moderator: Sasikumar Mukundan
The biggest impact of e-learning will be when personalized instruction comes
of age. Computer-based education provides us a one-to-one interaction
between a student and his computer -- an ideal ground for personalization.
Exploiting personalization requires powerful devices to model a student's
current state of understanding, learning preferences, background, etc as
well as a matching representation of learning content.
This 2-week seminar, moderated by Sasikumar Mukundan, a senior research
scientist with India's National Centre for Software Technology (NCST), will
provide an opportunity for a practical discussion about this comparatively
little exploited domain. Please join us!
Seminar Description:
<http://vu.cs.sfu.ca/GEN/activities/270.html>
Access the seminar directly:
<http://vu.cs.sfu.ca/vu/tlnce/cgi-bin/VG/dspcnf.cgi?ci=270>
2. Upcoming Seminars
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Browse current and upcoming activities at:
<http://vu.cs.sfu.ca/GEN/activities/list.html>
Professional Reading Group Series
Book: "The Virtual Student: A Profile and Guide to Working with Online
Learners" by Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt
Date: August 15 - 30, 2003
Moderator: Alice Bedard-Voorhees
Help support GEN by purchasing this book through our website
<http://vu.cs.sfu.ca/GEN/supportGEN/amazon.html>
Bring Online Guest Discussants to Your Classes
Date: September 15 - 24, 2003
Moderators: Ben Varner and Alice Bedard-Voorhees
Math on the Web with Learning Objects
Date Fall, 2003
Moderators: TBA
Human Resources & eLearning
Date: Fall, 2003
Moderator: Anglea Hildyard
This seminar is sponsored by University of Toronto
Learning Management System Series
Towards a Pattern Language for Learning Management Systems
Date: Fall, 2003
Moderator: Paris Avgeriou
Learning Management System Series
Online Learning and Web-Based Course Authoring Tools: Concepts, Strategies,
and Application
Date: Fall, 2003
Moderator: Nada Dabbagh
If you have an idea for, or would like to sponsor, a GEN seminar, Event, or
Special Interest Group, please contact Sylvia Currie
<sylvia@globaleducators.net>. Keep those proposals coming!
3. eLearning Champions of Innovation Series
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During this active eLearning Champions of Innovation Series, learners
enrolled in Linda Harasim's "Issues in the Information Society" course at
Simon Fraser University presented 5 separate week-long case studies. We
would like to extend a special thank you and congratulations to our student
moderators!
Browse the archives and access weekly seminar summaries:
<http://vu.cs.sfu.ca/GEN/activities/264.html>
4. Order Your Book Now for GEN's First Reading Group Seminar
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Help to support GEN by purchasing "The Virtual Student: A Profile and Guide
to Working with Online Learners" by Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt through the
GEN website:
<http://vu.cs.sfu.ca/GEN/supportGEN/amazon.html>
The upcoming seminar moderated by Alice Bedard-Voorhees August 15-30, 2003
marks the launch of our Professional Reading Group series at GEN. The
authors will be joining us and look forward to your questions and feedback.
Order your book now so you'll be sure to have it before August 15th!
5. Support GEN!
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Thank you to all GEN members who have responded to our GEN Sponsorship
campaign. We have received individual monetary and in kind donations as well
as commitments for seminar sponsorship. GEN's future will only be sustained
by its membership and your contributions are appreciated.
How can you help to support GEN?
* Garner support from your respective institutional affiliations.
* Spread the word about GEN by forwarding this GEN Update to colleagues.
* Volunteer to moderate a GEN seminar or organize a Special Interest Group.
* Sponsor or co-sponsor a GEN seminar. See the list of proposed topics at:
<http://vu.cs.sfu.ca/GEN/eModerate/topics.html>
* Purchase your books by clicking through the GEN website to Amazon.
<http://vu.cs.sfu.ca/GEN/supportGEN/amazon.html>
* Consider an individual donation. Secure online payment through Paypal is
now available at the GEN website <http://globaleducators.net>.
Through your involvement we can continue to offer free seminars and enhance
our community together.
6. Global Educators Community Connection
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This section features events that are of interest to online educators. Thank
you to GEN members who contributed events this month.
@ MERLOT International Conference
<http://conference.merlot.org/conference/2003/>
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
August 5 - 8, 2003.
@ International Forum of Educational Technology & Society
<http://ifets.ieee.org/>
Discussion Topic: Should Online Course Design Meet Accessibility Standards?
Moderator: Peter Paolucci, York University and Learn Canada, Canada
October 6-15, 2003
7. Manage Your Membership
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<sylvia@globaleducators.net>.
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8. About the global-educators-network mailing list
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This mailing list is for GEN Updates and occasional announcements.
Read GEN Update on the Web:
<http://www.sfu.ca/~scurrie/global-educators-network/>
GEN Update is prepared by:
Sylvia Currie, Coordinator
Global Educators' Network
sylvia@globaleducators.net
<http://globaleducators.net>
Free seminars...by online educators for online educators.