News

Active Participation in the University´s Open House Day

24 of February, 2008 By: Marcelo Milrad

On February 10th, more than 3000 people came to the open house day at Växjö University. CeLeKT was actively involved in this event. Marcelo Milrad hold an open lecture describing some of the on-going activities underway at CeLeKT aiming at bridging informal and formal learning activities using mobile technologies. Daniel Spikol gave visitors the chance to test the mobile game "Skattjakt". Teacher students from Växjö University helped to guide those visitors (see picture below) that participated in the game.
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New Publications from Two of CeLeKT´s Members

23 of February, 2008 By: Marianne BjÃ¶rn

Marcelo Milrad and Daniel Spikol have recently published a new article describing the results from the MUSIS project. The paper is included in the latest issue of the Journal of Education Society and Technology. Marcelo Milrad has been the guest editor of this special issue focusing on "Current Approaches to Network-Based Learning in Scandinavia". The content of this special issue can be found at:
http://www.ifets.info/issues.php?show=current
Moreover, Spikol and Milrad have also a full paper that will be presented at the IEEE WMUTE 2008 Conference to be held in Beijing, China next month. Their paper entitled "Combining Physical Activities and Mobile Games for Designing Novel Ways of Learning" describes the results of the latest efforts from the Treasure Hunt project.

Skattjakt in Skoggsport Magazine

22 of February, 2008 By: Daniel Spikol

Skattjakt was the cover article in the Sweden’s National Orienteering Magazine, ??Skogssport?? that has over 100,000 members. The article details the research project as a technique to get the entire school on their feet with mobile maps. The article talks about how Skattjakt is bringing new technology to the sport while helping to interest young people in the sport and physical activity by having them participate in the design of novel mobile activities. You can download the article "here":http://www.celekt.info/publications/skogssport2008_nr1.pdf