Nordic edition

Vol. 5 - Issue 2 2009 - ISSN 1504-4831

Nordic

Nordic edition

PhD-kurset i mediepedagogikk - takk for denne gang!

Hei! PhD-kurset i mediepedagogikk nærmer seg slutten, det eneste som nå mangler er tilbakemeldinger fra Kirsten Drotner og Lars Qvortrup på de innleverte papers. For de som vil se og høre Kirsen og Lars sine forelesninger igen, så finner du videolenker til disse etter innlogging. Vi på Lillehammer vil gjerne takke for denne gang med noen bilder fra kursdagene.
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PhD kurs i mediepedagogikk - nedlasting av papers

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Hele 32 deltakere er påmeldt PhD-kurset i mediepedagogikk på høgskolen i Lillehammer 26. - 28. april. 17 har så langt sendt inn utkast til papers. Disse er tilgjengelig her på seminar.net/nordic for seminardeltakerne hvis man logger seg inn med det brukernavnet og passordet som man har fått tilsendt.

Deltakerne har også anledning til å laste opp nye versjoner av paperet (etter innlogging). NB: Filnavnet kan ikke inneholde "særnordiske" bokstaver (æ/ä, ø/ö og å) eller mellomrom.

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Educause Conference 2008 - A brief report

Using iPhones on Campus, Learning in Second Life, Social Media in Higher Educaton, engaging the YouTube Generation in the classroom, are just a few examples of topics presented at the Educause Annual Conference, this year held in Orlando, Florida, USA, October 28-31. If interested in the new technological stuff and gadgets related to IT in higher education, this is the event, at least for Americans. The purpose of this review is to give an idea of some of the main topics at the conference.

Edited by Heidi Philipsen and Lars Qvortrup

Publisher: Samfundslitteratur Press: Frederiksberg Press, 2007.

Reviewed by
Stephen Dobson
Professor
Lillehammer University College
Email: stephen.dobson@hil.no

Introduction
Two questions can be asked: firstly, not do we need another book on remediation, but why? And secondly, if this is the case, what kind of book should it be? This review spirals around these questions.

Global perspectives on E-learning.

Rhetoric and reality by A. A. Carr-Chellman (Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2005

Reviewed by

Dr. J. Ola Lindberg

Department of Education, Mid Sweden University
Email: Ola.Lindberg@miun.se

Dr. Anders D. Olofsson
Department of Education, Umeå University
Email: Anders.D.Olofsson@educ.umu.se

It seems suitable to begin this review by giving a brief description of the context in which the texts of this book are produced. If it fails to be regarded as a description, then we hope at least it can be regarded as one possible understanding of the context. When contextualizing a book, a good idea seems to be to start with a few words about the editor, Alison A. Carr-Chellman.

by George Lakoff, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

Reviewed by
Geir Haugsbakk
Ph.D.-candidate in Education
Lillehammer University College

Email: Geir.Haugsbakk@hil.no

“To lose freedom is awful; to lose the idea of freedom is even worse.” This statement by George Lakoff is at the core of his attention in his last book. And his opinion is that the loss of the concept of freedom is a tragic incident that has struck a large part of the American people, not least since September 11, 2001.