This is my final blogging post in my Mini-Series “Teaching with Facebook”. The story so far: I was totally hyped after viewing the Facebook F8-Developer keynote, when Mark Zuckerberg demoed FaceBook as the new social media platform (it seems, that Mark has learned to create his own Reality Distortion Field) First I researched what I […]

Dieses Semester führe ich eine Veranstaltung “Video als Lernmedium: Potenziale und Beschränkungen aus lerntheoretischer Sicht” hier an der Universität Bremen durch. Im Rahmen dieser Veranstaltung konzipieren und produzieren die Kommilitoninnen und Kommilitonen Lehrvideos zu Themen nach eigener Wahl. Diese werden Anfang Februar hier vorgestellt werden. Nun stellt sich aber die Frage, wo diese denn nun […]

Now that we have settled on using a humble FaceBook group (Open Content for Open Education), we are doing our course work using the boring “Posted Items” and “Discussion Board”. So far this is rather non-innovative and could be done with any other tool, so we don’t have any advantage by using FaceBook (see the […]

I am just sampling some apps in FaceBook to see, if they could be used to support classes as a CSCW tool or a mini Learning Environment. Here are my observations so far: Notes (a FaceBook app) Description: This is an obvious app because it is a Facebook app. You can post and tag notes, […]

Nachdem die iTunes University wohl der 500-Pfund-Gorilla der Educational Podcast Szene wird, fragt man/frau sich als potentieller Podcaster/in: Was kann mann denn mit so einem Podcast nun alles im Bildungskontext machen. Die E-Learning-Queen (ihr eigener Titel!) Susan Smith Nash hat eine gute Liste zusammengestellt, die ich hier mal kurz zusammenfasse: Aufnahme einer Vorlesung / eines […]

Updated 06/10/07 Open Content meets iTunes: see it for yourself. Browse the catalog in iTunes – there is a new category iTunes U available. A very sleek experience. Now let’s dive into the content. I am mostly interested into educational sciences, educational technology and psychology by the nature of my teaching and research fields. So […]

There is a interview with me in SeOPPI magazine from Oili Salminen in Finnish. Here is an english version of the interview: State of the union: eLearning Q1: The use of eLearning is growing much at least in the countries where ICT has become a part of every day life. Why does it happen? KDW: […]