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Seminar on learning sciences and emerging technologies

07 of October, 2014 By: Susanna Nordmark

Wednesday, October 8th 2014 @ 3-4 PM, Dr Robert K Atkinson, Associate Professor at Arizona State University, USA, will give a research seminar in Media Technology in room D2272, building D, Växjö. The seminar is entitled Learning Sciences and Emerging Technologies: Examples of Recent Advances in Education.
This talk will highlight several projects underway in the Advancing Next Generation Learning Environments (ANGLE) lab at Arizona State University under the direction of Dr. Robert Atkinson. Research in the ANGLE lab (http://angle.lab.asu.edu) is guided by our growing understanding of how people learn from the field of the learning sciences and seeks to identify emerging technologies that can help support and optimize the learning process. The overarching goal of the research is to create innovative learning environments that support personalized learning that can occur anytime, everywhere.
The talk will describe our research involving a state-of-the-art physiological sensor suite that includes a neurosignal, wireless headset capable of monitoring learners’ cognitive and affective states during learning including their cognitive load and engagement. Dr. Atkinson will also share about another project that leverages recent advances in mobile computing, cloud computing, and augmented reality to create augmented reality systems that support learning.

Best Paper Award to Claudio Alvarez and Marcelo Milrad at the 7th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, (CollabTech 2014) in Chile

05 of October, 2014 By: Editor Web

Dr Claudio Alvarez and Professor Marcelo Milrad have presented a long paper at the 7th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, (CollabTech 2014) that took place between September 8th-10th, 2014 in Santiago de Chile. Their contribution (see reference below) has won the best paper award. Alvarez, C., Milrad, M., Borie, F. & Luna, M. (2014). CollPhoto: A Paper + Smartphone Problem Solving Environment for Science and Engineering Lectures. In: T. Yuizono et al, Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, CollabTech 2014, Santiago, Chile, September 8-10, 2014, (pp. 1-15). Springer Berlin/Heidelberg.
Access to the full paper can be found at Springer´s web site:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-44651-5_1
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We at CeLeKT are very proud for getting for the 6th time in the last five years the "best paper award" at an international conference. In July 2009, Martin Svensson got the best paper award at the 9th IEEE ICALT 2009 Conference in Riga, Latvia; Anna Wingkvist received the best PhD student paper award at mLearn 2009 in Orlando, USA and Bahtijar Vogel received the best PhD student paper award at the IEEE WMUTE 2010 conference in Tainan, Taiwan. Lately, PhD candidate Dan Kohen received the best technical paper award at ICCE 2011 in Thailand and PhD candidate Miguel Perez the best full paper award at IEEE ICALT 2014 in Athens.