The Conference language is English.
The theme for this conference is: Putting eLearning to Work in a Defence Environment
There will be three Invited Keynote Speakers. We encourage papers, presentations, and panels from all participants. These may address issues from theoretical to practical.
Conference Program at a glance
Conference Theme
E-learning is a very broad working field. While everything from CBT to Web2.0/serious gaming is referred to as E-learning, for this conference we will try to strand papers and presentations as:
Although any subject within the field of e-learning is worth talking and hearing about, for this conference we would like to focus on the sub-themes of:
The draft program.
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0800 Registration (in the lobby) 0830 Official Welcome |
0830 Speaker Anka Mulder Director, Technical University, Delft |
0830 Speaker Dr. Peter Sloep Should the internet revolution provoke a paradign shift in education? |
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0900 Keynote Speaker Profesor Stephen Heppell Learning in an uncertain world
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0930 Giurgui Increasing the e-learning capabilities in Land Forces Academy Kuldnokk MacLean & Sastry |
0930 Robinson Shaping virtual world collaborations: Working across government silos Smeulers Establishing the MoD wide architecture for education and training |
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1000 Morning Tea (auditorium lobby) |
1100 Morning Tea (auditorium lobby)
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1030 Morning Tea (auditorium lobby) |
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1030 Kourakos Technology acceptance as a critical success factor for a Training the Tratiners Course vis web Eijkman Into the looking glass: Web 2+ and the new neomillennial military learning culture Robinson Multiple realities: The emerging landscape of distributed learning |
1130 Invited Speaker Prof Stephen Heppell New spaces for learning. A detailed look at some radical alternatives
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1100 Esterhuyse Broos Gender perspective on e-learning: What do we know, what should we know? Roos |
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1200 Lunch |
1230 Lunch |
1230 WORKSHOP Sastry Workshop on e-assessment: Designing question items ALTERNATE PAPER SESSION Rossiter & Punt Fickweiler & Van Schaik Trends in e-learning - making your e-learning future proof |
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1300 Bjorkqvist Effective and inspiring learning with online simulation games
Kreiter Blended learning in the Netherlands Defence College Sagar |
1330 Savige Van Veen The hidden curriculum in military training simulators
Deschildre EArmy U e-learning program for US DoD
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1330 Lunch |
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1430 Afternoon Tea (auditorium lobby)
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1515 Afternoon Tea (auditorium lobby)
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1430 The Discussion we need to have. DACeL Research and Development Network: Collaboration in defence e-learning |
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1500 Sastry On transitional mathematics support in defence education Laubscher An overview of security and forensic issues pertaining to e-learning systems |
1530 Conference Dinner: A 'Walking Dinner Tour' of Delft
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1500 Review and Farewell
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1630 Panel Discussion Prof Stephen Heppell (Chair)
1800 WELCOME RECEPTION |
1530 Afternoon Tea & Depart
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Invited Keynote Speakers
The DACeL 2011 organising committee is pleased to announce the first of its key note invited speaker to April's conference. He is Professor Stephen Heppell, CEO of http://www.heppell.net/and Professor Bournemouth University, (Chair in New Media Environments )
Professor Heppell founded Ultralab in the 1980s. Over a score of years Ultralab grew to become Europe's leading learning technology research centre with projects that pioneered multimedia CD ROMs and on-line communities in the 1980s - before the web! Stephen left Ultralab to found his own flourishing policy and learning consultancy Heppell.net which now has a portfolio of international projects including: Learnometer and HorizonTAL.
In June 2006 Stephen was awarded the Royal TelevisionSociety's Judges Award for Lifelong Services to Educational Broadcasting and is retained by a number of organisations to help with future policy and direction, including the BBC, as an Associate of KPMG, and the UK government in Horizon Scanning work to advise on future directions for educational policy.
What has been said about Stephen Heppell:
"Europe's leading online education expert" Microsoft 2006.
"Stephen has a vast portfolio of successful, large scale, learning projects behind him". JISC 2006.
"the most influential academic of recent years in the field of technology and education" Department for Education and Skills (DfES), UK, 2006.
Stephen also has considerable consultancy experience with Defence.
His Keynote Presentation will be: Learning in an Uncertain World.
The old 20th century world of learning was characterised by a mass of certainties, and within it learners were being prepared to cope with the things they had met before. However, in this remarkable 21st century we are all facing new challenges, the certainty of uncertainty, and additionally are climbing a rapidly steepening exponential curve of technological change. In this changing and uncertain world learning is evolving rapidly too and this keynote explores the consequences, and the extraordinary opportunities, that are opening up as a result.
Dr. Peter Sloep has been a leading Dutch educational innovator for many years. Examples of educational innovation projects he was involved in are a project sponsored by one of the early European Framework programmes on erecting a network of European Study centres for distance learning, and the Virtual Company - a simulated company in which groups of students carry out authentic assignments. This prompted his move to the then research and development programme of the OUNL's Educational Expertise Centre (OTEC). This programme is still reknown for its development of the Educational Modelling Language EML, which underlies the IMS Learning Design specification.
Since the beginning of 2008, Sloep coordinates this programma, which has changed both name (R & D on Learning Networks) and focus. Its current topic is Competence Development, specifically in the context of Learning Networks, online social networks that are designed to support non-formal (informal) learning. This programme has received several research funds, notably through the TENCompetence Integrated Project by the EU's 6th Framework Programma. Currently, Sloep also coordinates an EU funded so-called STREP on collaborative, innovative product design (idSpace).
Main Conference Auditorium
