Second time in the row, the OU Team has been awarded for their extraordinary dissemination commitment and activities. The team has delivered 5 presentations or workshops, participated in 5 scientific publications, published 4 audiocasts and 2 screencasts including the ROLE Online Course Screencast and SRL Teaser Videos in German, English and Chinese (in cooperation with other partners). Continue reading →

Submission of extended abstract (recommended-not obligatory): 1 April, 2012 (by email)

A growing body of learning infrastructures and aggregators is making digital learning resources available to any user searching for educational content on various topics, through federations of learning repositories. The fundamental reasons behind this trend include growing educational demands in all countries, the limited capacity of face-to-face education, the effort and cost involved in building multimedia learning materials, and the new possibilities offered by the Internet. Continue reading →

Date: July 8-15, 2012
Venue: Corfu, Greece
Website: soul.di.ionio.gr/

Deadline for Call for Papers: April 1, 2012 Continue reading →

The first round of the 3^rdROLE Widget Enchantment Competition is now closed and we have three winners!

1^st place: classON Questions Widget

2^nd place: Learning Resources Affective Recommender

3^rd place: Math-Bridge Search Widget

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Date:  June 14-18, 2012
Venue:  Crete
Website:  srlet.idoroll.org/its12

Deadline for Call for Papers: 30 March, 2012

Workshop on Self-Regulated Learning in Educational Technologies (SRL@ET) is held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2012)

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The first Build A Widget Day took place at the Open University (OU) campus on March 14, and was organised by the British Institute for Learning and Development (BILD) and the OU. The event was attended by approximately 12 representatives of BILD member organisations. Continue reading →

Date:  July 16-20, 2012
Venue:  Montreal, Canada
Website:  adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/pale2012/

Deadline for Call for Papers: 13 May, 2012

International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE)
will be held in conjunction with UMAP Conference. Continue reading →

3rd ROLE Widget Enchantment: deadline extension!
Join the competition! Create a widget! Win a prize!

The deadline for the first round of the Widget Competition has been extended! You have two more weeks to contribute your Widget Specifications until March 18, 2012!  Read more…

The Winner of the first round will be notified on March 26, 2012.

Date:  2-4 September 2012
Venue:  Sinaia, Romania
Website:   www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012/

Deadline for Call for Papers: 18 April, 2012

The conference program consists of high quality technical papers that are reviewed and selected by an international program committee. Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of web-based learning and related technologies, including but not limited to the following topics: Continue reading →

Date:  14 March 2012 (+ an optional day in April 2012)
Venue:  The Open University, Milton Keynes
Registration:   www.surveymonkey.com/s/XJRLXRL

The ROLE project has developed a substantial range of tools and widgets and is keen to involve BILD/ and possibly other external members in trying them out and giving feedback. We would therefore like to invite you to two very special UK events, the first of which will be held on 14th March 2012 at the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. The second day, which is optional, will take place in April.

There are 25 places and booking will be on a first come first served basis. Places are initially offered to the BILD members but will be open to the wider ROLE/Open Social community from 7th March 2012. Continue reading →