Webinars (from "web" & "seminar") are organised monthly. Their duration is of one hour each. During the webinars you can present your e-learning projects, exchange views, experiences and best practices about new technologies used in higher education with the community.
How to reach and maintain high quality in distance learning Quality is not only where you expect it to be. The higher you climb, the wider a perspective...
Empowering students Students like questions to help them prepare for exams. However, it's hard to provide enough questions for many self-assessments and...
Das Webinar bietet eine Einführung in das Thema Open Educational Resources und beantwortet folgende Fragen: Was sind Open Educational Resources? Wie...
Open Educational Resources (OER) made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of MIT's Open Courseware initiative. In the roughly 17 years since, OERs...
As already discussed in the previous webinar on eCollaboration: Collaborative learning has been shown as an effective way to develop both the range and...
Hypervideos – or interactive videos – add to the benefits of a traditional video four main features: advanced navigational control, that allows users to...
First impressions and thoughts Last October, Microsoft released "Windows Mixed Reality", and head-mounted displays are seen more and more....
Putting students into the Moodle driver's seat – How StudentQuiz motivates students to share questions to prepare for exams Students like questions to...
Collaborative learning has been shown as an effective way to develop both the range and depth of student competence. Participants who work together...
The Safe Exam Browser (SEB) is a lockdown browser, which enables secure online-exams. Initially, the Safe Exam Browser was developed by the ETH Zurich...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a new embodiment of Digital Education that has been gaining momentum around the world since 2012. These are...
Annotating academic videos While video content seems omnipresent in higher education nowadays, its use is often limited to pure consumption – lacking...
Since 2016, EPFL offers staff and students the possibility to use G-Suite for editing, sharing and organising documents. We clarified the legal...
Subtitles, closed captions and open channels on SWITCHtube SWITCHtube received another very nice software update which we would like to present in this...
Although blended learning has become a standard teaching method in higher education, institutions and professors alike fall back to asynchronous paper...
The MOOC phenomenon is growing. At the moment there is a constant offer of more than 1'500 courses online from 400 universities/institutions on...
Since 2010, the Sauder School of Business has successfully delivered over 40'000 online high stakes BYOD onsite exams. Over the years, processes have...
Students like preparatory questions for exams. However, it’s hard to provide a large quantity of questions for self-assessments and exams. That’s where...
The burning question of the rights on data from MOOCs hosted on US platforms pushes European universities to distribute their MOOCs on local platforms...
Scenarios based on SWITCHcast and its Moodle-Plugin Videos are being increasingly used for teaching and learning. Recent technological advances have...
In March 2015, the Luebeck University of Applied Sciences started its own MOOC platform mooin. In 160 days of development, we made Moodle look sexy...
In this webinar we propose to share our reflections about the MOOC production at EPFL as from 2012, and our findings about their impact on campus based...
First Steps with the New OpenCast Video Solution of SWITCH for Automated Lecture Recording For almost 10 years SWITCHcast has been the well-known video...
Ever since the launch of MOOCs, globalisation and digitisation have definitely reached higher education. While the effects can be neglected today, MOOCs...
Higher education students work with their own personal learning environment (PLE). PLE environments can be understood as a technology: platforms where...
Communication and counseling skills are crucial for Social Work professionals. As Bachelor courses suffer from lack of lecture time, student workload,...
The burning question of the rights on data from MOOCs hosted on US platforms pushes European universities to distribute their MOOCs on local platforms...
The individual contexts of learners are important influencing factors for successful learning. Especially with e-learning services, such as MOOC...
With the growing popularity of MOOCs phenomenon, there emerged various for-profit and non-profit organisations providing platforms to host or offer...
This webinar is a follow up of the webinar "SWITCHtube – How to Share Academic Videos" presented on January, 22, 2015. This time we will go...
Concepts and standards This webinar focuses on the new opportunities of using e-books on smart phones and tablets. It treats expanding electronic...
The all-in-one tablet solution for e-assessments E-assessments have become increasingly popular lately. A growing number of educational institutions...
A life-like experience to train user requirements elicitation skills – From the idea to the realisation and use of a behavioural simulator to train web...
Various support materials for e-portfolio work have been developed within the eduhub SIG e-Portfolio. A working group produced papers for students,...
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, in short LSP, is a methodology developed at the end of the 1990s, which fosters creative thinking and innovation through the uses...
How an LMS can support the mobile generation The development of the LMS OLAT started 1999 at University of Zurich as a student project. 15 years later,...
How to gamify learning with design and technology At the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), we developed a...
Mobile learning environments Since the mid-1970s, universities began to use email and asynchronous text-based conferencing to complement their courses....
Prototype presentation and testing In an ongoing research project (Social Media as a Catalyser for Cross National Learning SoMeCat), utilising a mixed...
Using Google Glass in a learning environment Cyberlearn celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2014 and in this context wants to participate to outlining...
Collaborative solutions quick and clean The webinar presents the solution finder model, a method for developing collaborative solutions of high quality...
The task market supports students in the phases of accompanied and autonomous self-study. Students are requested to formulate practical problems and...
Mobile voting movo.ch is a web application allowing live voting during an event. Participants need only a web enabled mobile device. Teachers prepare...
The ADL Co-Labs published the Experience API, short XAPI, early in 2013. The XAPI has been primarily developed by the TinCan project in order to...
The academic e-identity project aims at identifying the main core ideas of future online services targeting students during their studies and beyond,...
How to conduct online examinations using Safe Exam Browser 2.0 Online examinations are an increasingly important means of assessing performance at...
Methods for optimising the learning process Learning processes should always be adapted to the needs of learners, teachers and higher education...
A collaborative storytelling model Once upon a time… this sentence brings us right into the magic wonderland of fairy tales where everything is...
Enabling the agile construction of Personal Learning Environments In the framework of the ROLE European research project on Responsive Open Learning...
Quality at Swiss Higher Education Institutions (HEI) becomes more and more important. During the webinar we will present and demonstrate two tools and...
The first educational app of HES-SO offers students (and others) a drill on their iPhones, iPads or iTouch (and soon on Android too) to improve their...
Discuss your digital copyright issues in education with a legal expert This webinar is intended for people who already have a basic knowledge in digital...
Concept and first results from clinical design research project We will start this webinar by briefly presenting concept and first results from...
This webinar focuses on the usage of social software and Web2.0 for teaching and learning. The webinar gives an overview on available web-tools and...
AI in virtual global lecture halls Virtual worlds are not only used for entertainment, they may also enrich learning environments. In the ShanghAI...
In this webinar we are going to explore different aspects, such as the experiences made in the tablet didactics pilot project of the FFHS, the...
In this webinar we will provide models of game mechanics and game dynamics and present “exemplary not yet tested ideas” on how to facilitate...
A methodology to approach digital copyright in education The DICE project (digital copyright in education) aims at providing support to Swiss Higher...
This webinar will introduce you to literacy management, an emerging professional field at the intersection of research on writing and reading,...
A case study and considerations about the technological and instructional choice This webinar will go through the different phases of a project...
The research department of the Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (Fernfachhochschule Schweiz, FFHS) has created an idea management tool two...
eLesson Markup Language (eLML) is an XML framework allowing authors of e-learning lessons to create structured and sustainable content. The aim of the...
The SIG “Games and learning” proposes this online meeting organised by Luca Botturi for an online showcase of instructional games designed and developed...
Peter Purtschert and Jan Melissen from the Medien- und Informationszentrum MIZ at the ZHdK will present their AAA-project and are keen to get more...