21st Century Learning and Teaching

18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTED LEARNING & TRAINING

THE LARGEST GLOBAL E-LEARNING CONFERENCE FOR THE CORPORATE, EDUCATION AND PUBLIC SERVICE SECTORS

REACHING BEYOND TOMORROW
The world has changed. Society is no longer the same. Today, people live, work, relax and, above all, learn very differently.

We expect flexibility – we want to be able to choose, to adapt. We don’t want the past or tradition to dictate to us. Technology has given us the freedom to do this.

As the overall theme for ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2012, 'Reaching Beyond Tomorrow,' will investigate how we get from our present situation in the midst of a crisis, to a brighter, better and more inclusive future in which technology enables everyone to improve and enrich themselves.

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Das Lernhauskonzept ist ein Modell, das pädagogische, architektonische und organisatorische Strukturen miteinander verbindet. Eine Schule wird dabei in Unterschulen unterteilt, die über jeweils eigene Strukturen und Räume verfügen. Lehrer*innen arbeiten in Teams, die die Schüler*innen über längere Zeit begleiten.

It has always been the case that teachers collect content for their classroom activities. In Austria, there is a saying: “Teachers are collectors and hunters”.

They collect all usable content and hunt for the best bits in order to reuse it for their classroom activities. This, of course, has never quite complied with copyright laws. But in pre-internet times this was not a major concern as teachers’ materials were almost never published outside of the classroom.

Now, however, teachers’ ability to ‘hunt and collect’, and the boundless opportunities to share their material online, make it necessary to look for new strategies and at the same time raise teachers’ awareness about copyright issues.

Some schools in Austria have actually received cease-and-desist orders from lawyers for copyright violations, for example using copyright protected pictures on their websites.

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