Dr. Marco Kalz

Yesterday was the kick-off for the iPad pilot of the Law faculty of the Open University of the Netherlands. Before the pilot several course modules, additional study material and several law digests have been transfered into an electronic format. Bef…

photo credit: Cea. Last week I gave a lecture about the “Structuration of Personal Learning Environments” in the context of the MUPPLE lecture series at The Open University (UK). The lecture series is a follow-up activity of our three MUPPLE workshops that we have organized at the European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning from 2008 – [...]

The recent Wired article about feedback loops by Thomas Goetze has helped me to understand the phenomenon of sensors, feedback, learning and behaviour change better. Or better to say, after the article I was aw…

photo credit: DieselDemon On May 5 I have given a lecture in the E-Learning course of the i9-group at the RWTH Aachen. The students consistes of a group of computer science students and teachers for informatics. At the start of the lecture the students have presented some very creative video clips about their concept of [...]

Over here at the Ning community about the use of iPads in education there is an interesting discussion going on about using external screens together with the iPad and especially the combination of an iPad and a Smartboard. I have tested the mentione…

Nielsen has published a new piece about mobile content and readability of text. I was surprised that that they still define reading on a mobile device with a "peephole" metaphor. In contrast, my experiences with reading mobile content on th…

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center has published two interesting studies that analyze existing educational apps in the Apple App store. In the first report researchers have conducted a content analysis of the educational category of the App store. The top 1…

photo credit: ccarlstea I have just been appointed as one of the ambassadors of the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in October. In this context I haven been asked what my special interest is to attend the conference. This is a very good opportunity to publish a posting that has been waiting until end of May. In [...]

photo credit: The Lightwor David Wiley once coined the sentence that content is only the fireplace that we use to gather around. One could continue that learning does not happen via the burning wood alone but learning is always happening in a given (social) context that influences the learning process. For mobile learning the topic [...]

During the ECTEL-Conference last year Mike Sharples had pointed to an interesting paper which has been published in the highly recognized journal Science. Due to the fact that this journal does not publish often articles related to Technology Enhanced Learning I was curious what the paper “Foundations for a new Science of Learning” is about. [...]