The JTEL2010 organising committee has accepted our contribution and included it in the preliminary programme which you can see posted at the Summer School website, which contains the workshop description: http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/summer-school-2010/index_html. The workshop is in 2 parts (on Monday and Thursday). JTEL takes place in Ohrid, Macedonian, 7th June 2010 to 11th June 2010. John will be funded by MATURE to represent LTRI.

Some preliminary thoughts on the nature of what I am calling Augmented Contexts for Development; an extension of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development that takes into account the characteristics of 21st Century mass media structures and practices. Presentation at Education in the Wild, Alpine Rendez-Vous, within the framework of the STELLAR Network of Excellence. December 3-4, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.

I will talk with colleagues in Garmisch about extending my notion of Augmented Contexts for Development to work based learning. I would welcome any comments from MATURE colleagues about how it relates to the MATURE model.

Download short paper: http://bit.ly/70mDJn
Slides for my talk: available in slideshare http://bit.ly/7VsaOB.

The full paper that the above is based on:
Cook, J. (in press). Travelling Without Moving: Design-Based Research into Augmented Contexts for Development. Journal of Interactive Media in Education. Invited paper for special issue from the CALRG 30th Anniversary Day. Contact me for a copy.

Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning starts this weekend: http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/summer-school-2009 Follow it on twitter with hash tag #telss09

Cook Phases Of Mobile Learning

Carl Smith and John Cook are also running a workshop on context sensitive mobile learning.

On Tuesday 3rd Feb 2009 John Cook, Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning and consortium workpackage leader, gave his inaugural lecture, called “The digitally literate learner and the appropriation of new technologies and media for education”

For the state of the art report
John Cook

I have been working in the area of informal learning for some years now, e.g. see http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ltri/research/informal.htm