Ana Landeta

SocialTV – Redesigning the Television Experience.

Social television is an active area of research and development. Most existing social television systems are on a conceptual stage, or exist as lab prototypes, beta or pilot versions.

MIT CFP—VCDWG Working Papers: Innovation at the Edge: Social TV and Beyond

The Learnovation Open Forum: Removing the barriers to creativity and innovation?

Learnovation Open Forum, 27th May, Brussels: an agenda for change in Education and Lifelong learning beyond 2010 proposed in Brussels.

The Learnovation Open Forum entitled “Removing the barriers to creativity and innovation? Listening to stakeholders’ voice”, was held on 27 May 2009 in Brussels, gathering the main European networks in the field of innovation and ICT for Education and Training. This event was organised by the Learnovation Roundtable with the support of the European Commission as a contribution to the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, and resulted in the launch of the “10 imperatives for change” to make European education and lifelong learning a lever for innovation.

More and more observers are claiming that, despite the attention given by EU policy makers to creativity and innovation, as testified by the fact that he year 2009 has been dedicated to these issues, education and training systems are not facilitating enough the emergence of creative skills and attitudes but rather are often hindering their potential.

Check up the blog:http://learnovation.wordpress.com/

Project info: www.learnovation.eu

Read more in Elearningeuropa.info

The Conference was focused on:

1. what concrete elements can be brought in the agenda corresponding to the expectations and concerns of stakeholders in relation to barriers of innovation and use of ICT for learning;
2. how stakeholders voice can be heard in the definition, implementation and evaluation of creativity and innovation policies and initiatives.

The Conference gathered around 100 participants, including representatives of the European Commission, European Parliament, Member States, research networks dealing with education, content industry, university networks, and civil society actors and networks.

The University of Europe: accessible to all

By making more content available to more students, open content learning could change the face of higher education in Europe forever

* Mandy Garner guardian.co.uk

Universities in Europe are looking to embrace a new form of learning, called open content, which could blow away the division between university students and the rest of the population.

In the UK, the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) and the Higher Education Academy are launching a £5.7m pilot scheme to investigate the impact of open content and to look at issues of how to contextualise existing online material so anyone can make sense of it. Several European academics are already experimenting and the European Commission has expressed interest. More »