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Beyond Wikipedia
Hermann Maurer; Christian Safran
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4444–4450
Wikipedia and Google are probably the two most powerful 'portals' for information on the Web today. Google is 'just' a search engine very well tuned: it indexes a vast number of documents and does a good job ranking them, hence outperforming all...
Topics: Educational Technology
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The Impact of Web 2.0 on Learning at a Technical University - A usage survey
Christian Safran; Christian Gütl; Denis Helic
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 436–443
The recent years saw a lot of discussion about technologies and applications labeled "Web 2.0" and its influence on e-learning. "Web 2.0", labeling an idea rather than a concrete technology, lead to the definition of the related concept "E-Learning...
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A Concept-based Context Modelling System for the Support of Teaching and Learning Activities
Christian Safran; Victor Manuel García Barrios; Christian Gütl
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2395–2402
The goal of the Concept-based Context Modelling System (CO2) is to facilitate accurate background information resources, and thus assist users in their teaching or learning activities. The presented solution approach is based on the experiences made ...
Topics: Information Sciences, Computer Sciences
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First Experiences with OLPC in European Classrooms
Martin Ebner; Johannes Dorfinger; Walther Neuper; Christian Safran
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1226–1234
The use of laptops in educational settings is discussed by lots of e-Learning researchers for years now. Since 2002 the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC-project) tries to bring digital devices to developing countries avoiding the increase of the...
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Higher Education m-Learning and e-Learning Scenarios for a Geospatial Wiki
Christian Safran; Martin Ebner; Victor Manuel Garcia-Barrios; Frank Kappe
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 3678–3685
Several fields of higher education, like geology, architecture, or civil engineering, rely on visual information in the context of learning, a considerable part of it moreover location-based. Geotagging, a phenomenon recently spreading through he...