Almar Halldorsson (su6109@eclipse.co.uk)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:29:21 -0000
From: "Almar Halldorsson" <su6109@eclipse.co.uk> Subject: [ifets] Re: Personal welcome from IFETS forum moderator Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:29:21 -0000
My name is Almar Halldorsson and I am a postgraduate at the University of
Exeter, currently doing a one year course MSc in Psychological Research
Methods. I graduated for the University of Iceland in 1996 and since then I
have had some tutoring experience. I´m very interested in the incorporation
of technology into the educational applications. I was intending to follow
the discussion in the forum and do not at the moment have any precise
theoretical problems to present.
Best regards,
Almar Halldorsson
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From: IFETS <ifets-info@gmd.de>
To: su6109@eclipse.co.uk <su6109@eclipse.co.uk>
Date: 22. október 1998 07:09
Subject: Personal welcome from IFETS forum moderator
>Forum website: http://ifets.gmd.de/
>List address to send mail to all members: ifets@gmd.de
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>Dear new forum member
>
>Thank you for your interest in the forum. I welcome you on the behalf of
>all the initiators and well wishers of the forum.
>
>I would like to take this opportunity to briefly introduce myself and
>explain the intended working of the forum. My name is Kinshuk and I will
>work as the central point of contact for the forum. I am currently involved
>in developing interactive learning systems enhanced with intelligent
>assistance while my research pursuits also focus on the contexts of their
>practical implementation.
>
>The purpose of the forum is to initiate discussions and try to find some
>conclusive answers to the problems we are facing as educators and
>educational technology developers. If the forum can effectively present the
>different perspectives of and bridge the gap between these two communities
>a little, its aim will be fulfilled.
>
>There are two types of discussions in the forum:
>
>The 'Formal discussions' are theme based and they take place for a
>pre-defined time period of one to two weeks. They are moderated to keep
>the discussion on line to reach to some conclusion which includes an
>overall sense of the forum with clearly identified dissent. The discussions
>will be summarised identifying principal contributors as joint authors, in
>consultation with the moderator and appear in forum's electronic periodical
>'Educational technology & Society' (ISSN 1436-4522). It goes without saying
>that the summaries themselves can be commented on subsequently and form a
>basis for further discussion. The forum will also seek to convey some of
>these articles in special issues of paper based journals.
>
>The details of the formal discussion topics and schedule are available at:
>http://ifets.gmd.de/discuss.html
>
>The 'Informal discussions' can take place any time without any warning and
>any member can initiate them by sending their ideas to the forum. These
informal
>discussions will feed in to identifying themes for formal discussion.
Attempts
>will be made to summarise the informal discussions over somewhat longer
>period of time, if some conclusive trends are observed.
>
>I invite you to give a little introduction about yourself, as a reply to
this
>email. Please also include some practical or theoretical problems you would
>like to discuss with regards to the implementation of educational
technology
>in real life, questioning the purpose and contexts of both education and
>educational technology.
>
>Forum also welcomes various announcements regarding call for papers in
>journals, conferences, job postings and so on if they are related to the
>forum's activities and of interest to the forum's participants.
>
>Finally, the forum depends on its members and their expression of frank and
>honest opinion towards discussions. Please do not hesitate to post if you
feel
>it is relevant to forum. Looking at the diversity of forum's membership, I
am
>sure we would have a very rich and fulfilling discussion on a variety of
issues.
>
>Let us have a ferment in the forum!
>
>Kinshuk.
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>Dr. Kinshuk kinshuk@ieee.org kinshuk@gmd.de
>Human Computer Interactions Institute
>German National Research Center for Information Technology
>GMD-FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany
>Tel: (49) 2241 14 2144 Fax: (49) 2241 14 2065
>URL: http://zeus.gmd.de/hci/pages/kinshuk.html
>
>
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