WORKSHOPS

SPECIAL WORKSHOP
Analyzing Learning and Teaching Interactions
by Using Computerized Tools
Up to 100 participants
To register send us an email to m-icte2005@formatex.org. All the attendees to this workshop must be registered to the conference. No additional fees will be charged.
Registrants will be accepted in a first come first served basis.

Leaders
Elchanan Gazit (Tel-Aviv University & LIRT Lab CRI, University of Haifa, Israel)
Tamar Wittenberg-Szekely (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Benefits
This three hours workshop, covers the main principles and steps for using computerized tools for analyzing, learning and teaching interactions. The workshop provides new insight regarding the use of different computerized tools for analyzing, learning and teaching interactions within different settings, such as school classrooms and dynamic cyberspaces.

Features
Participants will be introduced to:
• Pros and cons for using computerized tools for qualitative educational research.
• New possibilities in using computerized tools for analysis data within the educational domain.
• Use of different computerized tools for analyzing learning and teaching interactions. (The Observer, The Multi Video Notes, and the Atlas.Ti ).
• Relevant research projects examples which use computerized tools for analyzing, learning and teaching interactions.
• Main dilemmas researchers face during the process of analyzing data using computerized tools.
• Future trends in the use of computerized tools for analyzing, learning and teaching interactions.

Audience
Educational researchers, education practitioners, and psychologists with an interest in learning about computerized tools for analyzing learning and teaching interactions, usability specialists with an interest in learning how to apply computerized tools for studying user learning patterns in dynamic virtual environments, interaction and software designers interested in computerized analysis tools for qualitative assessment.

Presentation
Lecture and practical demonstration using field research examples followed by questions and answers session. Presentations Handouts, list of bibliography and software demos will be distributed.

Instructors resume
Elchanan Gazit is a fellow researcher at the LIRT Lab, the Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science, at the Caesarea Rothschild Institute, University of Haifa, Israel. Recently, Elchanan finished his Doctorate at Tel-Aviv University School of Education. Over the last five years he has been studying & analyzing real-time learning interactions within virtual reality environments by using computerized tools. He holds a Master's in Science Education from Tel-Aviv University.. His most recent work is on using computerize tools for analyzing real-time collaboration within Video-Games based learning environments and for assessing innovative multi-users interfaces.
Tamar Wittenberg-Szekely is a Ph.D Candidate finishing her thesis at the Spitzer Department for Social Work at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Tamar is also a Researcher in the Israeli Center for Qualitative methodologies (ICQM) in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev .She is the Head of electronic database analysis field and lecturer of Atlas.Ti Software. Tamar serves as an academic teacher of the department and in Ashkelon College, specializing in qualitative research methods and the use of the Atlas.Ti Software. Additionally, She works at the Smith-Kalka Research Institute in Israel.

STANDARD SESSION-WORKSHOPS
»» 1. Open Standards and Open Source Developments
»» 2. e-Learning Standards: Learning Objects and Repositories
»» 3. Challenges of Mobile Learning (mLearning) Technologies in Education
»» 4. Multimedia and ICTs in Science Education
»» 5. Quality Assurance in Distance and Distributed Learning Systems
»» 6. Constructivistic Learning on the Web
»» 7. Communities of Practice and Organizational Learning
»» 8. Integrated Knowledge Managment (KM) and Learning Solutions
»» 9. Design of Interactive Visual Interfaces

Papers to be presented to these standard session-workshops will follow the same review procedures that those being presented to the genreal program. In order to include your paper in one of these workshops, just point it out in the abstract submission form.

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