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Bahtijar Vogel successfully defends his Licentiate thesis

02 of February, 2012 By: Arianit Kurti

On January 16th Bahtijar Vogel successfully defended his licentiate thesis in computer science entitled "Architectural Concepts: Implications for the Design and Implementation of Web and Mobile Applications to Support Inquiry Learning" . The opponent was Professor Tommi Mikkonen, Department of Software Systems, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. For further information about this thesis you can contact Bahtijar Vogel directly at: bahtijar.vogel@lnu.se
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Best Technical Design Paper Award to Dan Kohen at the 19th ICCE Conference in Thailand

04 of December, 2011 By: Marcelo Milrad

Dan Kohen, PhD candidate at CeLeKT, has presented a long paper at the 19th International Conference on Computers and Education (ICCE) 2011 that took place between November 28th - December 2nd, 2011 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Dan´s contribution (see reference below) has won the best technical design paper award. Kohen, D., Ronen, M., Ben Aharon, O., & Milrad, M. (2011). Incorporating Mobile Elements in Collaborative Pedagogical Scripts. Proceedings of the 19th ICCE Conference held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 28th-December 2nd, 2011. 187 contributions including long, short and poster papers were presented at ICCE 2011 and published at the conference proceedings. Congratulations to Dan for this excellent achievement!
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We at CeLeKT are very proud for getting for the 4th time in the last two years the "best paper award" at an international conference. In July 2009, Martin Svensson got the best paper award at the 9th IEEE ICALT 2009 Conference in Riga, Latvia; Anna Wingkvist received the best PhD student paper award at mLearn 2009 in Orlando, USA and Bahtijar Vogel received the best PhD student paper award at the IEEE WMUTE 2010 conference in Tainan, Taiwan in April last year.

Mobile Digital Storytelling Tlokwe - Växjö

22 of November, 2011 By: Susanna Nordmark

On Monday Nov 21, an international project on Mobile Digital Storytelling and Mobile Library Services took off at the Växjö City Library, with Marcelo Milrad & Susanna Nordmark, as CeLeKT representatives. The visitors from SouthAfrica will together with their Swedish colleagues collaboratively create, process, publish and share mobile digital stories for inspiration and insights into what mobile technologies can support and signify. The project activities continues throughout the week, ending with story presentations, reflection and evaluation on Friday, Nov 25. A new round of trials will take place in February next year, while the Swedish representatives from Växjö City and CeLeKT will visit South Africa.
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Social Media Week

08 of November, 2011 By: Marcelo Milrad

CeLeKT and the department of Media Technology are organizing a very interesting program including lectures, seminars and workshops with people coming from academy and industry actively working in the field of social media. Among others, scholars from the USA and representatives from IBM will contribute with their expertise to this event. More detailed information about the program is available at:
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Oskar Pettersson successfully defends his Licentiate thesis

02 of September, 2011 By: Oskar Pettersson

Oskar Pettersson successfully defends his Licentiate thesis entitled "Towards a Mobile Learning Software Ecosystem". The opponent was Dr Richard Torkar from Blekinge Institute of Technology. For more information see the information page or contact Oskar Pettersson directly at oskar.pettersson@lnu.se.

MobileHCI 2011 Workshop

31 of August, 2011 By: Daniel Spikol

Yesterday as part of the conference CeLeKT as part of the NORDICLEAF network ran the workshop, "Exploring Design Methods for Mobile Learning". Sixteen participants from all over took part in the day long workshop. The major topic of discussion for the day was to better understand the role of design and how it different methods can be used to support all types of learning with mobile devices. See more at "MobileHCI 2011":http://www.mobilehci2011.org/

Daniel Spikol receives the Linnaeus Academy Research Foundation's prize

31 of May, 2011 By: Susanna Nordmark

The Linnaeus Academy Research Foundation's prize of 35 000 SEK for the best doctoral thesis in 2011 has been awarded Daniel Spikol, lecturer in Media Technology at the School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics. The Foundation states: "For his commitment to promoting new ways to support learning and teaching with the help of mobile technology. Daniel Spikol's thesis in computer science argues that design can facilitate learning. To develop strategies for, create and use a design tool kit may break old habits and provide innovative teaching efforts at all levels." Daniel Spikol's thesis is entitled "A Design Toolkit for Emerging Learning Landscapes Supported by Ubiquitous Computing" and was presented in November last year.

The Science Center to Go project was presented at the Swedish Natural Science biennial in Halmstad

25 of April, 2011 By: Richard Guilfoyle

Every second year the Swedish Natural Science and Technology biennial takes place in different cities. This year the event was carried out in Halmstad and more than 300 elementary school teachers attended. The Science Center to Go was presented as a part of an interactive workshop with more than 25 participants. Three of the 5 miniatures AR exhibits were presented, namely those illustrating the mini-wing, the Doppler effect and the Boltzman´s constant experiments. We got a lot of valuable feedback from the participants that will help us to improve our future work. The picture below shows one of the participants interacting with the exhibit:
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Osama Mansour successfully defends his Licentiate thesis

25 of April, 2011 By: Richard Guilfoyle

On April 19th Osama Mansour successfully defended his licentiate thesis entitled "Share with Social Media: the case of a Wiki . The opponent was Dr Dave Randall, Manchester Metropolitan University, England. For further information about this thesis you can contact Osama Mansour directly at: osama.mansour@lnu.se
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Professor Mikkonen visits the Media Technology Department

22 of March, 2011 By: Arianit Kurti

Professor Tommi Mikkonen from Tampere University of Technology in Finland will visit the School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics at Linnaeus University (LNU) in connection to the International Workshop on Mobile Application Development that will be held between April 4th-5th in Växjö. During his visit to LNU, Professor Mikkonen will give a lecture entitled “Doing software for Nokia platforms”, as well a hands-on workshop on Nokia’s Qt Development Framework. More about professor Mikkonen’s work can be found here Information about the workshop, as well as the detailed program can be found here. For further information regarding the workshop, please contact Arianit Kurti, Associate Professor of Media Technology.