eHRM & eLearning

Survey on "Students' Acceptance of Learning Management Systems"

2010-05-27T11:11:00.004+02:00

At the Chair of Management Information Systems, located at Saarland University, we are currently conducting research on "Students' acceptance of Learning Management Systems."

In this context we would be grateful to know your opinion!

It's understood, all survey participants will be anonymous and there won't be any access to your personal data!

Many thanks for your support!

Click here to get to the questionnaire!

Akzeptanzstudie zu Learning Management Systemen

2010-05-26T16:59:00.013+02:00

Am Lehrstuhl für Management-Informationssysteme der Universität des Saarlandes beschäftigen wir uns derzeit mit dem Thema "Akzeptanz von Learning Management Systemen aus der Sicht Studierender."

In diesem Zusammenhang bitten wir Sie um Ihre Meinung!

Selbstverständlich bleiben Sie vollkommen anonym und Ihre Daten lassen keinen Rückschluss auf Ihre Person zu!

Vielen Dank bereits an dieser Stelle für Ihren aktiven Beitrag zum Gelingen unseres Forschungsprojektes!

Hier gehts zum Fragebogen!

eLearning Interface Design

2008-11-04T14:54:00.009+01:00

As one of the most underestimated drivers of learners' system acceptance and usage I will start to elaborate the influence of design characteristics on the antecedents of perceived usefulness & perceived ease, and in turn their influence on learners' behavior on the learning interface.

First collection of research on design (characteristics) in e-learning interfaces:

Interface design case studies
Calendar of Interaction Design Conferences
Interaction-Design: Encyclopedia/Glossary

Job Tagging & Social Tagging

2008-10-23T09:19:00.010+02:00

Latest issue is job-tagging & social tagging. Together with my Master candidate Kerstin I am working on two papers that are almost ready to publish.
To get a first impression on what we are focusing on watch this:

Job tag-cloud example
People tagging: IBM case study
Socially augmenting employee profiles with people tagging
to be continued...

Technology Adoption Research

2008-10-15T09:49:00.012+02:00

One of my major fields of research interest consists of evaluating (crucial influence factors of) the adoption of TEL environments.
Attached you will find some relevant information in this fielf of research:

Dr. V. Venkatesh's Technology Acceptance Homepage
Effie Lai-Chong Law's Publications
to be continued...

Beside, I start to elaborate appropriate evaluation tools:

smartpls.de

TEL Blogs, Journals & Publications

2008-10-10T13:49:00.012+02:00

Uni Graz e-Learning Blog
International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments
JISC e-Learning Programme: Overview of TEL Environments
Economist Intelligence Unit: The future of HE - How technology will shape learning
LONDON metropolitan university TEL BLOG
CHECK.point-eLearning (in German)
EJEL
eleed (in German)
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning
International Working Group on Educational Data Mining
Journal of Educational Technology and Society
Keel Publications
Zeitschrift für e-learning (in German)
e-teaching.org (in German)
Weiterbildungsblog (in German)

Blogging about E-Learning

2008-10-09T12:16:00.000+02:00

I think blogging is an excellent tool to note down your thoughts and knowledge bits in the course of scientific work on a subject. And a good way to share your knowledge, build reputation and get feedback from peers.

Martin Ebner gave a presentation at ICL 2008 on blogging during a PhD project: “Weblogs, more than just a toy?” or “Should I keep a e-Portfolio for my PhD study?”

At ICL I was in a workshop on Web 2.0 for e-learning of Steve Wheeler. He has a nice blog "learning with e-s".

Will soon start my own scientific blog ;-)

Nils

PLEs & VLEs

2008-10-08T18:25:00.002+02:00

Open Content Spaces, Open Content & OER

2008-10-08T17:54:00.004+02:00

I am fascinated by the idea "Giving Knowledge for Free."

Further information you'll find here:

Firefox (Add-ons) as PLE: Web of Trust & Surf Canyon

2008-10-08T17:43:00.001+02:00

I personally am a heavy user of Firefox and its cool add-ons.
Doing so, I found 2 very useful tools that both make the information retrieval process much more comfortable:

Web of Trust
Surf Canyon (Personalized search engine)

User Acceptance & Usage of Social Software in VLEs

2008-10-08T17:38:00.002+02:00

One of my students, Dominik, is actually writing his Master Thesis about:

"User Acceptance & Usage of Social Software in VLEs" (Invitation to contribute!)

In this context I found some good stuff around Social Software:

Top 100 (Social Software) Tools for eLearning
Business 2.0 (in German)
E-Learning 2.0 (in German)
Australian Flexible Learning Framework
IJCSCL (Journal)
Social Media Classroom

Social Recommendation Tools

2008-10-08T17:36:00.002+02:00

Try this out:

EPINIONS

Recommending OER

2008-10-08T16:36:00.001+02:00

How to make the OER selection process most efficient?

As OER (probably) lacks good metadata, one of my first steps is to more evaluate how to apply collaborative filtering (CF) techniques to get good OER recommendations, as content-based filtering (CBF) techniques doesn't seem to fit.

To better do so, I am now writing a conceptual article about a OER recommender framework in order to:

- better structure the different OER recommender application scenarios as well as
- to better select the right (combination of) filtering techniques

Conferences 08/09: eHRM, EDM, TEL

2008-10-08T16:34:00.003+02:00

European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 2008/Maastricht

USAB 2008 - Usability & HCI for Education and Work/Graz

Technology Enhanced Learning CONFERENCES 2008 / 2009

EDM'09

FUITEL09: Future Interfaces in TEL and Training/San Diego

ICEIS 2009

ICELW 2009

ICWL 2009

Learning Delivery Scenarios

2008-10-08T16:01:00.012+02:00

I am looking for cool and innovative learning delivery scenarios.

My approach is the following one:

- "Look where the LEARNERS are": iTunes(U), Social Networks (e.g. Facebook), YouTube,...

- Considering the formula: "the channel drives the content" (e.g. iTunes = mp3, Pod-/Vodcasts)

- Looking for good inspirations:

JISC: e-Learning Frameworks and Tools programme
JISC: Publications
EDUCAUSE CONNECT: Future learning scenarios
Facebook Page Best Practices for HE
The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Apps
Facebook Developers: Build social apps on Facebook Platform
How to develop a HIT Facebook app?
Facebook as LMS
Facebook as Learning Platform
Facebook Platform or VLE?
Slidestar as Social Learning & OER Sharing Environment for Higher Education
iTunesU as Social Broadcasting
Online Services at the Open University UK
YouTube at Open University UK
VoiceThread in Higher Education
VoiceThread in Business
eduStyle: Gallery of Social Sites
University Web Developers

- Categorizing state of the art learning delivery scenarios, and based on this step

- Building up a typology of innovative learning delivery scenarios applying a morphological approach