Winter School 2007

e-Learning in the Environmental and Geosciences

These are the archived pages of the Winter School 2007, for new information please visit the homepage of the Winter School 2008.

The second DAAD Winter School "e-Learning in the Environmental and Geosciences" will be held at the Freie Universität Berlin from Wednesday, January 10 (day of arrival) to Wednesday, January 24 (day of departure). The principal objective of this School will be the integration of the content generated by the groups in a Content Management System (CMS) with the purpose of building a joint e-Learning web presence for shared use.

The central topics of the forthcoming workshop will include:

• Advanced e-Learning knowledge, skills and techniques;
• Conceptual enhancements and realization of a a common e-Learning portal for the Geosciences using a CMS;
• E-Learning didactics and interactivity;
• Basic tools for future networking and exchange of e-learning modules (incl. materials, didactics and techniques);
• latest developments in Environmental and Geoscientific Research, principally by the Department of Earth Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin.

The conference language will be English. The total number of participants will be approximately 25 earth science educators from diverse countries and mostly include former DAAD alumni from Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Niger, Tunisia, Mongolia, China, Taiwan, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Cuba and other countries.

The structure of the second Winter School "e-Learning in the Environmental and Geosciences" will again include of a mix of plenary sessions and project-oriented group work, with emphasis on the latter. In the plenary sessions experts will present on various aspects of e-learning, followed by discussions. The practical training includes computer sessions with CMS and interactive items and is largely supported by tutors. The results of the Winter School – in the form of e-learning projects designed and created by five groups (see programme below) - will be made available on the Internet so that participants can use and develop them further.

For further information see the programme of the second Winter School.

Please click on the following link to download the programme. Please note that you need the Acrobat Reader to open the document.

• Programme (english)