The 3rd International scil Congress offers a great opportunity for both educational managers and researchers to learn from good practices, reflect on own experiences and become familiar with new trends in learning and educational management. Early registration discounts are available until 29 February 2008.

The congress will revolve around the central theme: "the changing face of learning" and will focus on creating value through the right balance.

- New Learners? Balancing the needs of different generations and types of learners- New Learning Models? Balancing the right learning mix- New Learning Content and Systems? Balanced Learning Infrastructure- New Learning Business Models? Balanced Governance Scorecard- New Learning Issues? Balancing strategic priorities for learning

Detailed information and congress registration on http://www.scil.ch/congress

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The 3rd International scil Congress offers a great opportunity for both educational managers and researchers to learn from good practices, reflect on own experiences and become familiar with new trends in learning and educational management. Early registration discounts are available until 29 February 2008.

The congress will revolve around the central theme: "the changing face of learning" and will focus on creating value through the right balance.

- New Learners? Balancing the needs of different generations and types of learners- New Learning Models? Balancing the right learning mix- New Learning Content and Systems? Balanced Learning Infrastructure- New Learning Business Models? Balanced Governance Scorecard- New Learning Issues? Balancing strategic priorities for learning

Detailed information and congress registration on http://www.scil.ch/congress

Best regards,your scil-team ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/resources-management/educational-controlling/2008-kleimann-kapazitaetseffekte/
Den Ausgangspunkt dieser Studie zu moeglichen Kapazitaetsseffekten von E-Learning bildet die unter dem Einfluss der aktuellen Studienanfaengerprognosen gefuehrte Debatte ueber Strategien zum Umgang mit der bis zum Jahr 2020 erwarteten stark steigenden Zahl an Studienanfaengern. Im Rahmen dieser Studie wird die Annahme betrachtet, dass der Ausbau der "virtuellen Lehre" eine interessante Loesungsoption fuer die potenziellen Kapazitaetsengpaesse im deutschen Hochschulsystem in den naechsten Jahren ...

Review by Dr. Ingrid Schönwald, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Thu, 08 May 2008 11:27:20 GMT publicationid425 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/pedagogy/2008-entwistle-et-al-conceptions-of-learning-higher-education-study-behaviour/
Entwistle and Peterson set out to give a comprehensive overview of concepts describing influences on student learning in higher education. The aim of their literature review is to integrate these concepts into a model of how students react to different learning environments, according to individual preferences. From this vantage point they draw some conclusions for the design of so called "powerful" learning environments. The authors start by introducing the most important concepts dealing with...

Review by Tobias Jenert, IWP-HSG - Institute of Business Education and Educational Management, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Tue, 06 May 2008 16:55:25 GMT publicationid423 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/competence-development/competence-vocational-training/2007-scott-jackson-et-al-online-learning-management-development/
The whitepaper contains the results of a study initiated by the Chartered Management Institute, carried out by the Centre for Applied HR Research at Oxford Brookes Business School. The purpose of the study was to analyse the value from on-line learning in management development. In the context of multi-method research design, the study focused on the following three interested groups and research methods: - Employers: in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 major public companies, a public s...

Review by Prof. Dr. Sabine Seufert, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Mon, 05 May 2008 18:10:32 GMT publicationid421 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/technology/2008-meyer-et-al-bildung-neuen-medium-wissensformation-kunst-partizipation-kollaboration-web20/
Mal anders: Bildung im Netz aus Sicht von Bildungstheorie und Kunstwissenschaft Viele der Autor(inn)en, die zu webbasierten Bildungs- und Lernformen veroeffentlichen, stammen aus dem Bereich der eher quantitativ orientierten Erziehungswissenschaft, der Didaktik, der Informatik oder der paedagogischen Psychologie. Das vorliegende Buch mit Beitraegen von Kunsthistorikern, Bildungstheoretikern, Kulturwissenschaftlern packt das (scheinbar) vertraute Thema "Bildung im/mit dem Web" da ueberraschend...

Review by Dr. Sandra Schaffert, Edumedia Salzburg Research, Austria. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Mon, 05 May 2008 18:30:58 GMT publicationid422 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/human-computer-interaction/2008-user-communication-behavior-computer-mediated-environments/
The article (in press) addresses the question how the communication behavior in computer mediated environments (CMEs) can be explained through a number of variables. In particu-lar, they look at the effects of the level of interactivity of an environment on the users' attitu-des and intentions towards using online communication tools. In addition, they included the variables perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness which have recently been identified as important determinants of users' acc...

Review by Taiga Brahm, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT publicationid420 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/technology/learning-management-systems/2007-gaiser-et-al-bildungsportale/
Netzbasierte Bildungsressourcen und Bildungsportale Der Computer und das Internet wurden von Paedagogen lange Zeit v.a. als Uebermittler von Lernprogrammen bzw. als Kommunikationsplattform wahrgenommen. In den letzten Jahren, nicht zuletzt durch die Erfolge von Wikipedia und anderen Wissensdatenbanken und Fachangeboten, ruecken die Moeglichkeiten des World Wide Webs als Quelle fuer Informationen und Bildungsressourcen in das Interesse der Bildungspraxis: Immer mehr Bildungsportale und netzbasie...

Review by Dr. Sandra Schaffert, Edumedia Salzburg Research, Austria. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT publicationid418 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/competence-development/competence-vocational-training/2007-jacobsen-brath-managers-learning-at-work/
The paper aims to provide a literature survery on managers' learning in the workplace. The survey of the two authors was conducted between June and September 2007 and was mainly focused on the research questions: why, when and how managers learn whilst going about their daily work. And more specificially, how action learning can be a benefit for management development whilst an organisational problem can be solved in addition. The literature report is structured in 4 section with the following...

Review by Prof. Dr. Sabine Seufert, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT publicationid419 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/technology/2008-horizon-report/
The 2007 edition of the Horizon Report - issued by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative - is a research-oriented collection of emerging technologies which are deemed to have an impact on higher education in the near future. To identify the relevant technologies, first, key challenges for learning organizations are identified. These challenges will be summed up in the following: - Changes in scholarship and research cause a need for innovation and leadership at the di...

Review by Taiga Brahm, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT publicationid417 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/strategy/2007-keegan-e-learning-initiatives/
Do you remember the euphoric mood at the end of the nineties, when e-learning came up and reports on new e-learning initiatives promised the start of a kind of "gold rush" in education, where the pioneers tried to claim their territories? Since then, ten years have past and some high expectations have been dissapointed. This report emerged from the Leonardo da Vinci project "Megatrends in e-learning provision" and provides an analysis of ten case studies of e-learning initiatives, which did not ...

Review by Dr. Ingrid Schönwald, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT publicationid416 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/technology/communications-technology/2007-stegbauer-jaeckel-socialsoftware-kooperation-netzwerke/
Social Software Mit dem Begriff "Social Software" werden Internetanwendungen bezeichnet, die die Zusammenarbeit und das (gemeinsame) Erstellen von Inhalten unterstuetzen. Dazu gehoeren also Wikis, Weblogs, aber auch Online-Communitys und -Portale wie Flickr (Fotos) oder YouTube (Videos). Fuer Bildungspraktiker(innen) und -forscher(innen) ergeben sich mit diesen Entwicklungen neue Herausforderungen und Moeglichkeiten fuer das Lernen wie auch den Unterricht. Hintergrund Das Sammelband "Social S...

Review by Dr. Sandra Schaffert, Edumedia Salzburg Research, Austria. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT publicationid415 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/technology/2007-mach-ratcliffe-podcasting-bible/
For a few years now, a lively debate has been going on about developments in the World Wide Web labelled "Web 2.0". At the core of this are new technologies (e.g. AJAX) that enable web based applications and tools to be used through a web browser. These technologies and applications make it rather more simple than before for users / visitors of web pages to actively contribute content and collaborate with one another. Prominent examples of this emerging "read-write Web" is so-called social softw...

Review by Dr. Christoph Meier, imc information multimedia communication AG, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT publicationid414 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/quality/quality-elearning/2006-quality-assurance-best-practices-online-programs/
Quality is an old and nevertheless current subject in the field of education. The article "Quality Assurance - Best Practices for Assessing Online Programs" by Qi Wang deals with the questions how to measure and continuously improve quality of online programs (for instance in distance education). Based on the so-called five pillars of quality which were published in by the Sloan Consortium in their report "Elements of Quality: The Sloan-C Framework", the author takes a closer look at the curren...

Review by Taiga Brahm, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT publicationid413 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/strategy/1995-gravan-stakeholders-strategic-human-resources/
Translated to the human resource development (HRD) context a stakeholder theory suggests that each stakeholder group has a right not to be treated as a means to some end and should therefore participate in determining the future direction of hu-man resource development activities within the organisation. Thus, the paper high-lights the need for the application of a stakeholder theory to HRD within the organiza-tion. To be able to develop people as part of an overall human resource strategy and t...

Review by Jasmina Hasanbegovic, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT publicationid411 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/pedagogy/2007-adams-grean-second-generation-elearning/
The purpose of the article is to develop the concept of "second generation" e-learning as a new paradigm for designing online learning environments. The authors argue that an absolutely new thinking about online learning compared to"first generation e-learning"is necessary and that is the reason why they called their research project "NewMindsets". The research method represents an action learning methodology and evolved through the stages: 1) conceptuali-zation, 2) rapid prototyping, 3) pilot ...

Review by Prof. Dr. Sabine Seufert, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT publicationid412 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/culture/learning-culture/2007-proserptio-teaching-virtual-generation/
This article analyses the effects of virtual technologies on learning styles and deduces requirements for teaching approaches. The authors use an article of Gioia and Brass (1986) about the "TV generation" as a point of departure to reflect about the changes of learning styles within the last twenty years. With the widespread presence of Internet tools, computer simulations and games, and computer-mediated communication in the everyday lives of nowadays students, a new "virtual generation" eme...

Review by Dr. Ingrid Schönwald, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid410 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/culture/learning-culture/2007-toledo-digital-culture/
In 2001 Marc Prensky presented a model addressing the differences between current students and their teachers. The purpose of this article is to address some advanced reflections on the models and discuss cultural implications for the role of students and teachers. It is a conceptual paper, which is based on a substantial literature review. Starting from an outline of Prensky's analogy of digital natives and digital immigrants the author addresses some of the nuances of each group, e.g. differ...

Review by Dr. Ingrid Schönwald, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid409 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/pedagogy/communication/collaborative-learning/2007-context-knowledge-construction-collaborative-group-level-individual-combining/
In their article, Arvaja and colleagues have a closer look at the methodological possibilities of research in collaborative learning. They start out with a short review on how research in (computer-supported) collaborative learning has mainly focused on the connection between student interaction and individual learning. It was found that this interaction indeed adds to the cognitive development of the individual learner. However, such a view misses that knowledge construction is also based on th...

Review by Taiga Brahm, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid408 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/pedagogy/learning-design/2007-web-based-learning-self-regulated-learning/
This article deals with the support of self-regulated learning in web-based environment. Its specific focus is on specific and general meta-cognitive strategies which are necessary to promote students' self-regulated learning. Self-regulated learning is defined as a "learning situation in which learniners, in addition to setting their learning objectives, plan, conduct, regulate and evaluate the learning process independently" (p. 1128). In a literature review, the authors identify a number of p...

Review by Taiga Brahm, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid407 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/culture/learning-culture/2007-smith-leadership-learning/
Self-directed learning (SDL) is a key element in many concepts of eLearning. This article explores the role of the leader in facilitating workforce development in terms of employees' self-directedness for learning. The authors refer to the conceptualisation of self-directed learning of Brockett and Hiemstra (1991) differentiating between the external instructional process in which the learner assumes responsibility for their learning process and the internal desire for assuming responsibility f...

Review by Dr. Ingrid Schönwald, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid406 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/strategy/organisation/2004-ashton-impact-organisational-structure-workplace-learning/
The purpose of the article is to analyse the impact of the wider organisational process on workplace learning. The starting argument of David Ashton is that most of the research concentrates on efforts to identify the charac-teristics of workplace learning as experienced by the learners, so individual learning is dominant. The factors of wider organisational factors is often neglected. Therefore, the author develops and validates a model for work-place learning with considering the organisationa...

Review by Prof. Dr. Sabine Seufert, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid404 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/pedagogy/learning-design/2007-geissler-et-al-virtuelles-selbstcoaching/
Verfechter des klassischen Coachings koennten wie bei so vielen Innovationen mit einer Abwehrhaltung reagieren, wenn Sie ueber eine Verbindung von Coaching und eLearning lesen. Erst recht wenn es sich um virtuelles SELBSTcoaching handelt. Die groesste Reaktanz gegen virtuelles Selbstcoaching entspringt bei vielen "Laggards" wahrscheinlich der fehlenden Beratungsbeziehung zwischen Klient und Berater. Die Autoren jedoch begruenden den Verzicht mit der Nutzung anderer zentraler Wirkfaktoren des C...

Review by Jasmina Hasanbegovic, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid405 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/strategy/organisation/2005-pfeffer-thomas-sindler-alexandra-pellert-ada-kopp-michael/
Das Autorenteam geht in seinem Beitrag auf Fragen des Einsatzes neuer Technologien und der Organisationsentwicklung an Hochschulen ein. Dabei wird der Einsatz Neuer Medien in der Hochschullehre nicht als Aufgabe von Einzelpersonen oder speziell dafuer eingerichteten Abteilungen, sondern als eine Aufgabe der Hochschulleitung betrachtet, da der Einsatz von ICT an Hochschulen zu Veraenderungen im Aussen- und Innenverhaeltnis der Hochschule als Organisation fuehren kann. Aus der Perspektive der Orga...

Review by Dr. Denise Da Rin, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid401 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/strategy/implementation/2007-netteland-e-learning-large-organization/
This paper explores the hindering factors in the implementation of e-learning by a case study in a large telecommunication company in Norway. The study takes departure in the activity theory, which views activities as dynamic processes and non-isolated units, continuously influenced by other multi-organizational activities and changes. The aim is to understand the network of interacting activity systems and identify the underlying causes of the problems during the implementation. The company un...

Review by Dr. Ingrid Schönwald, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid402 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/pedagogy/communication/collaborative-learning/2004-factors-social-cognitive-transfer-of-learning-group-individual/
This article investigates if and how individuals learn in collaborating working groups. The main research questions are: "How does group interaction influence subsequent individual performance? Do individuals learn from having worked in a group, and if so, what processes account for such learning" (p 441). Regarding the main limitations of prior studies which include missing control groups in the re-search design and also inadequate tasks for the investigated question, the authors see the main p...

Review by Taiga Brahm, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid403 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/pedagogy/communication/collaborative-learning/2005-environments-learning-collaborative-computer-supported-sociability/
This article deals with the social side of learning which the authors see as a rather under-represented area in the field of educational research. The objective of this article is to develop a measurement instrument for the sociability of computer-supported learning environments. The authors start out with a literature review on whether current CSCL environments support meaningful social interaction. They conclude that the majority of research and practice seems to rely on functional CSCL envir...

Review by Taiga Brahm, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid399 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/strategy/implementation/2007-stensakar-use-apdating-integrating-ict-higher-education/
This article focuses on the organisational processes requirements for the use and interaction of ICT in teaching and learning. In the last years some studies have been publicised that introduce normative check-lists of important organisational factors for a successful integration of ICT in higher education. However, empirical studies indicate, that the normative characteristics of these checklists seldomly fit the empirical realities. This is the starting point of this article that tries to anal...

Review by Dr. Ingrid Schönwald, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid398 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/strategy/2007-cipd-reflections-latest-learning-trends/
The paper aims to provide a reflection on the CIPD's learning and development survey in 2007. Five commentators, mainly researchers, have been invited to deeper reflect and comment on different aspects of the survey findings and to identify main implications of the findings for practictioners. Therefore, five chapters focus on different topics identified as main trends and challenges by the CIPD survey 2007: 1) Line manager involvement in learning and development within organisation 2) Increasi...

Review by Prof. Dr. Sabine Seufert, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid397 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/quality/quality-in-higher-education/2006-froehlich-werner-juette-wolfgang/
Hans-Rudolf Frey beschreibt am Beispiel der Eidgenoessischen Technischen Hoch-schule Zuerich (ETH) wie Qualitaetssicherung in der universitaeren Weiterbildung kon-kret aussehen kann. Der Autor gibt zunaechst einen kurzen Einblick in die strukturel-len Bedingungen der schweizerischen Hochschullandschaft und die Auswirkungen auf universitaere Weiterbildungsstrukturen, die durch Heterogenitaet gekennzeichnet sind. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden Homogenisierungsbestrebungen, die mit der Bologna-Refor...

Review by Dr. Denise Da Rin, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid396 New Review http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/pedagogy/2007-teams-distributed-technology-mediated-efficacy/
The concept of efficacy has a long tradition in the learning sciences. Efficacy as the belief in one's ability to accomplish a particular behavior (Bandura, 1997) can be applied to a number of different context. The article reviewed focuses on collective efficacy in virtual teams which has not been studied yet. The main research question is how efficacy operates in a virtual team. The authors want to further explore prerequisites and consequences of virtual team efficacy. In their study of the l...

Review by Taiga Brahm, SCIL - Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. ]]> contact@elearning-reviews.org Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT publicationid395