INFORMATION
NEWS
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The difficult economic environment that we experienced in the past two years has put on the table the need to change some models and to promote new initiatives to revive the economy at different levels. Some of these initiatives have citizens as the new center and hub for innovation.
This is achieving increasing importance of new forms of social and economic reorganization, virtual social networks aimed at knowledge production with a high value due to the possibility of applying different fields of activity, or entrepreneurship with a strong anchoring in territorial issues.
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The growing popularity of virtual social networks (RSV), both from the more professionalized, as in the leisure and entertainment, is based on a social reorganization process on an unprecedented scale. The RSV are not only emerging as one of the most popular tracks in Internet use in the most varied fields of activity, but which, in turn, are an endless source of innovation processes related to new social and economic models.
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Researchers, educators and experts from around the world will meet from the 7th to the 9th of July to participate in the first conference on Personal Learning Environments (PLE), a current educational trend over future prospects, in which the students shape their own learning process. The PLE Conference 2010 aims to create a space where researchers and teachers can exchange experiences, reflections and research on the development and implementation of PLE, including their changing technological, sociological and pedagogical implications and its effectiveness as learning spaces.
NewsINTERVIEWS
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Rhubarb Radio is a surprising web 2.0 experiment clever enough to convert an online radio into a social media community with more than 25,000 fans in the UK city of Birmingham. More than 340 volunteers see to all of its daily information needs, often broadcasting live the content that they as local people want to hear, connected by local bloggers who follow the music scene and diverse local arts projects.
OPINION
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Dr. Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology and media and the Coordinator of Information and Communications Technology at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Canada. Alec works with undergraduate and graduate students to develop their understanding and competencies in working with technology and media in K12 environments. He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as open education, social & networked learning, instructional design, digital citizenship and critical media literacy.
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Rhubarb Radio is a surprising web 2.0 experiment clever enough to convert an online radio into a social media community with more than 25,000 fans in the UK city of Birmingham. More than 340 volunteers see to all of its daily information needs, often broadcasting live the content that they as local people want to hear, connected by local bloggers who follow the music scene and diverse local arts projects.
STUDIES
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This monographic gathers all the research centers that, informed or stimulated by Catalunya's Autonomous government, fulfill certain structural, financial requirements and of management, as for example if they have juridical own personality, if they rely on the Autonomous government of Catalonia as majority member in its maximum organ of government and, specially, if they have signed contract programmes with the department responsible for scientific research (see attached file, in Catalan language).
