04.10.2007, 10h00 - 10h30

Hope or hype? The possibilities of Web 2.0 for e-learning as examplified by ILIAS

Media coverage of internet and e-learning is being dominated by the term "Web 2.0". Is "Web 2.0" actually instrumental for e-learning or just the latest buzz word?
Alexander Killing and Matthias Kunkel of the ILIAS Development Team present the concept of Web 2.0. Based on that they outline which aspects of it are already implemented in ILIAS as well as identifying the limits of the Web 2.0 approach for e-learning. Additionally hands-on practicable scenarios for using Web 2.0 in vocational education are presented.

 

Matthias Kunkel, ILIAS projectmanagement, University Köln

Matthias Kunkel has been concerned with e-learning for more than ten years and he has participated in the development of the learning platform ILIAS form the beginning. Together with Wolfgang Leidhold he iniciated the project ILIAS open source in the year 2000 and has coordinated it ever since.

Alexander Killing, director of the ILIAS software development, ETH Zurich

Alexander Killing works at ISN of ETH Zurich and is director of the ILIAS software development. Already during his studies of economic computer science at Cologne University he was part of the software development team, the direction of which he assumed in 2004.