is it just me

I’m pretty excited because tomorrow is the first meeting of the joint seminar of Nina Heinze (University of Augsburg and Knowledge Media Research Center) and me. Some months ago we talked about a cooperation for STELLAR and came to our teaching tasks in this semester and decided to jointly organise a seminar. What we came up with is pretty cool (at least we think it is) and we described it in a recent paper as:

Even if there are heavy transformations in technology, science and society taking place in the recent years, university courses often still emphasize heads-on teaching methods with classic learning methods and learning resources. At the end of a course students had often acquired second hand knowledge, which is often detached from experience-based, constructive learning. The use of new media, the process of working in teams with application of these services as well as problem-solving scenarios remain out of students’ grasp. In this paper we introduce a participative and cooperative seminar setting at two German Universities that tries to overcome those limitations. We report about the pedagogic design and the practical implementation of the course, list objectives and intentions and describe the organizational structure of the seminar.

So if you notice a lot of buzz on Twitter, Facebook and Delicious tagged with #fsln10 – it because of our cool students that rock the social web. A tweetwall for the seminar can be found here

Here are the introductory slides from the seminar (in German):

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