[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 103, Issue 23

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Hi Marius. May I recommend these two books of mine. The more recent book gives an overview of the area of e-learning, with attention to socio-technical issues (e.g., readiness to adopt new technology, changes in teaching practice, etc.). The attention is both to e-learning as online learning, but also e-learning as a new way of learning in general (e.g., self-motivated online searching). The Handbook is a collection of papers by top researchers in the learning and e-learning area. The focus is on research approaches.  

Haythornthwaite, C. & Andrews, R. (2011). E-learning Theory and Practice. London: Sage.

Andrews, R. & Haythornthwaite, C. (Eds.) (2007). Handbook of E-Learning Research. London: Sage.

/Caroline

Caroline Haythornthwaite
Director and Professor
The iSchool at UBC
http://haythorn.wordpress.com/

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> On 16/02/13 3:02 AM, "Marius Rohde Johannessen" <marius80 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am trying to get a quick overview of research on e-learning in higher
>> education, focusing on how universities apply digital tools in teaching
>> and
>> project work, as well as how technology is used to provide additional
>> material for students. Does anyone have tips of relevant literature and/or
>> literature reviews?
>> 
>> Marius Rohde Johannessen
>> PhD student University of Agder
>> marius80[at]gmail.com
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> Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Workshop Creativity and Attention in the age of
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
> WORKSHOP ON CREATIVITY AND ATTENTION IN THE AGE OF THE WEB
> http://ac.aup.fr/croda/tclab/creativity&attentionWorkshop2013.html
> AT ACM WEB SCIENCE 2013
> PARIS, MAY 1 2013
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> OBJECTIVES
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> Many researchers have highlighted the connection between attention and creativity. The Web environment significantly affects the manner in which we allocate attention to information, tasks, and people.
> This workshop addresses the question of what impact this has on creative pursuits. We look at creativity at many levels, from personal creativity (e.g. the different ways in which a student may solve a problem) to big-C creativity that generates new high impact findings. We concentrate on the effects that the Web environment has on on human attention and on all these types of creativity. In particular, we will focus on empirical/experimental as well as conceptual research connecting topics such as: new types of creativity enabled by the web; the influence of Web-based environments on human attention; cognitive offload and its consequences; group creativity; creativity outsourcing.
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> INTRODUCTION
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> We are living in the age defined by innovation driven economy. The ubiquity of the web in our lives (work and leisure time) forces us to reconsider our fundamental preconceptions regarding the creative and innovation processes. The complexity and the requirements of this new environment tell us that the age of the lone asocial romanticist genius is gone. Collaboration and collective creation is a must. Does the web facilitates these processes? And, if so,then in what way? What can we do to take advantage of what the web offers? How does it affect individuals? What are the consequences for education?
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> All these questions have prompted an unprecedented academic interest on creativity that is well represented by several academic meeting such as the International ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013 in Sydney, the AAAI 2013 Spring Symposium on Creativity and Cognitive Development in Stanford, the Mobile Learning and Creativity Workshop in Saarbr?cken (September 2012), and the Creative Web Symposium: Computational Creativity as a Web-Service in South Corea (December 2012). Our workshop, while aligning with the meetings above, aims at exploring more specific issues of creativity that are immediately related to the particular environment created by the Web.
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> Every new medium introduces new creative opportunities and shortens the path from the creator to the consumer: from the invention of writing, the printing process, photography, movies, to the radio and TV, the telephone, digital computer to the current era of hyper connectivity, always-on, instant messaging, instant content producing and sharing. Unprecedented amount of all humane knowledge becomes easily available for many and our expectations of others (individuals and institutions) in terms of reactivity, productivity and efficiency is raised. Some researchers believe that the more constraints we have to overcome, the easier it becomes to create. Would then democratization of access to information and cheap communication actually lessen creativity, or reduce it to trivial creations?
> On the other hand, creative behaviour has been connected with breath of attention (e.g. Kasof 1997, Friedman et al. 2003) and in general, wide attention deployment and defocused attention are considered to lead to greater creativity. Several researchers share the view that creativity requires variations in the field of attention (Gabora 2007, Vartanian 2009) and some experimental results hint that distractions improve creativity (Baird et al. 2012; Gallate et al. 2012). Based on these considerations one could expect that forced changes in attention focus such as those generated by many Web 2.0 applications, may actually improve creativity. However, previous research also tells us of other related factors that may intervene with a possible negative effect. For example it has been observed that stress or arousal, generated for example by time pressure or evaluation apprehension, may reduce breadth of attention and therefore hinder creativity (Karau and Kelly 1992; Smith, Michae
> l, and Hocevar 1990); that interruptions are more likely to hinder, rather than improve, creativity, and that different types of interruptions may have varying degree of impact on different creative activities (Roda et al. 2013).
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> CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
> 
> In this half-day workshop we invite researchers and practitioners for an exploration of the influence of the Web environment on human attention and creativity. We welcome short papers reporting empirical/experimental as well as conceptual research connecting topics such as:
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> New types of creativity enabled by the web
> The influence of Web based environments on human attention
> Cognitive offload and its consequences
> Group creativity
> Creativity outsourcing
> 
> We invite full papers (8 pages), short / position papers (2-4 pages), and/or demonstrations to be submitted to gstojanov at aup.edu<mailto:gstojanov at aup.edu> by March 21
> 
> Demonstrations should be available online and be accompanied by a short description (no more than 2 pages).
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> All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee.
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> We will pursue the possibility of publishing a selected number of papers in the special issue of a journal.
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> IMPORTANT DATES
> Papers/Demo due March 21 2013
> Review feedback March 29 2013
> Workshop May 2 2013
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> ORGANISATION
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> Organising committee
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> Georgi Stojanov - The American University of Paris (France)
> Claudia Roda - The American University of Paris (France)
> Bipin Indurkhya - International Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (India) and AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow (Poland)
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> Program committee
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> Sandra Bruno, Universit? de Cergy-Pontoise
> Jayson P. Harsin, The American University of Paris
> Thomas Kirste, University of Rostock
> Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie, Goldsmiths' College, University of London
> Amitash Ohja International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
> Sebastian Pannasch, Technische Universitaet Dresden
> Goran Trajkovski, Virginia International University
> Giovanni Vincenti, Towson University
> Sharon Wood, University of Sussex
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> Claudia Roda
> Professor of Computer Science
> American University of Paris
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> +33(0)1.40.62.07.01
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> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:14:45 +0100
> From: Geert Lovink <geert at desk.nl>
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> Subject: [Air-L] INC Unlike Us Social Media Research Reader Out Now
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> Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (eds), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media  
> Monopolies and Their Alternatives, Amsterdam: Institute of Network  
> Cultures, 2013. ISBN: 978-90-818575-2-9, paperback, 384 pages.
> 
> Freely downloadable as pdf on:
> http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publication/unlike-us-reader-social-media-monopolies-and-their-alternatives
> 
> To order a free print copies of the reader, visit http://networkcultures.org/publications
> 
> Check the book trailer here: https://vimeo.com/59997671
> 
> The Unlike Us Reader offers a critical examination of social media,  
> bringing together theoretical essays, personal discussions, and  
> artistic manifestos. How can we understand the social media we use  
> everyday, or consciously choose not to use? We know very well that  
> monopolies control social media, but what are the alternatives? While  
> Facebook continues to increase its user population and combines loose  
> privacy restrictions with control over data, many researchers,  
> programmers, and activists turn towards designing a decentralized  
> future. Through understanding the big networks from within, be it by  
> philosophy or art, new perspectives emerge.
> 
> Unlike Us is a research network of artists, designers, scholars,  
> activists, and programmers, with the aim to combine a critique of the  
> dominant social media platforms with work on ?alternatives in social  
> media?, through workshops, conferences, online dialogues, and  
> publications. Everyone is invited to be a part of the public  
> discussion on how we want to shape the network architectures and the  
> future of social networks we are using so intensely.
> 
> Contributors: Solon Barocas, Caroline Bassett, Tatiana Bazzichelli,  
> David Beer, David M. Berry, Mercedes Bunz, Florencio Cabello, Paolo  
> Cirio, Joan Donovan, Louis Doulas, Leighton Evans, Marta G. Franco,  
> Robert W. Gehl, Seda G?rses, Alexandra Hach?, Harry Halpin, Mariann  
> Hardey, Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Yuk Hui, Ippolita, Nathan Jurgenson, Nelli  
> Kambouri, Jenny Kennedy, Ganaele Langlois, Simona Lodi, Alessandro  
> Ludovico, Tiziana Mancinelli, Andrew McNicol, Andrea Miconi, Arvind  
> Narayanan, Wyatt Niehaus, Korinna Patelis, PJ Rey, Sebastian  
> Sevignani, Bernard Stiegler, Marc Stumpel, Tiziana Terranova, Vincent  
> Toubiana, Brad Troemel, Lonneke van der Velden, Martin Warnke and D.E.  
> Wittkower.
> 
> Next conference: Unlike Us 3, Amsterdam NL, March 22-23 2013.
> 
> URL: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/3-amsterdam/program/
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