In this years eLearning Africa my own mission is to spread the word about the Open ECBCheck initiative which we have launched about one and a half year ago (www.ecb-check.org). I have organised 2 workshops and will give 2 presentations about Open ECBCheck.
Today we were running a workshop on the Open ECBCheck. The workshop was attended by about 50 persons and was quite interactive. It is interesting how the participants feel addressed the topic of quality for education and e-learning. Another impresssion is that workshops are more and mre organised in an interactive mode. We integrated several elemtns of moving around the room, speed discussions between ad-hoc groups and rotating discussions and voting exc ercises to nt TRANSFDER knowldge to particiants but to get them into an interactive mode thinking about the relevance of the topic from their own persoective and experiences.
In the afternoon I gave a presentation to the 3rd Internationa TV Summit on the subject of Qualit for Capacity Building. I presented (again) the Open ECBChek Initiative (www.ecb-check.org) which is gathering over 20 capacity building organisations into a community of practice engaing into self-assessment and peer-review exercises about their e-learning programmes and courses.
In the good tradition of workshop hopping I also attended an amazing pre-conference workshop in the afternoon about UNiversities 2.0. the workshop was organised by the United Naions University. The organiser were working with strong elements of grahic facilitation and mayn interactive elements like world cafes methods and experience sharing, speed dating elements, etc.
I strongly believe that if we meet in these international conference we should more and more move to forms which allow us to expand our visions by sharing them between us and carrying forward our common shared objectives.
Submitted by Ulf Ehlers on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 14:34
