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“New skills for New jobs and New opportunities”
Foreword
This base document tries to include the main conclusions about the e‐round table
“New skills for New jobs and New opportunities” that was held at Lisbon Congress
Center on 15th October 2009 in the Creative Learning Innovation Marketplace.
We have arranged the main conclusion about the six topics discussed during the e‐
table:
1.‐ New Skills
2.‐ Students Profile
3.‐ e‐Learning Generations
4.‐ e‐meeting rooms – VC ‐video conference technology
5.‐ Educators and e‐tutor’s skills
6.‐ Collaborative work skills
We appreciate your comments and suggestions from your experience in order to
establish a final conclusions document supported by the all e‐round participants.
Please post your contribution at the Conclusions Forum
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Conclusions about the e‐round table “New skills for New jobs and New opportunities”
Our society becomes the “Knowledge and Information Society” that connects cultures,
countries and civilizations in real time.
TOPIC # 1: NEW SKILLS
Conclusions
1 New skills are consequence of permanent evolution and the increasing speed of change
2 New skills are consequence of permanent evolution and the increasing speed of change
3 If we want to succeed we must have a roadmap an strategy
4 more…
TOPIC # 2: OUR STUDENTS PROFILE
Conclusions
1 Our students are digital learners, with different learning styles and different learning
needs
2 We should adjust our methodologies and technologies to each one of our “clients”
profile
3 more…
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Conclusions about the e‐round table “New skills for New jobs and New opportunities”
TOPIC # 3: E‐LEARNING GENERATIONS
Conclusions
1 Today we are living a eLearning 3.0 moment using all types of tools, mainly synchronous
interactive:
2 Contents distribution
3 Tools
4 Blended learning
‐ Asynchronous (distributed contents)
‐ Synchronous (presence or virtual)
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Conclusions about the e‐round table “New skills for New jobs and New opportunities”
TOPIC # 4: E‐MEETING ROOMS – VC ‐VIDEO CONFERENCE TECHNOLOGY
Conclusions
1 Technical aspects:
most of the time software based VC is more efficient and less expensive than hardware
based.
Using low Bandwidth
More Flexible
Less installation cost + client free
Integrates more services: Audio, video, white board, screen share, chat
2 From the methodological point of view , Virtual classrooms are mostly recommended
to:
Online tutoring
Interactive debates
Introduce themes and highlights
Student´s presentations
3 more…
TOPIC # 5: EDUCATORS AND E‐TUTOR’S SKILLS
Conclusions
1 Teachers skills are a compromise between technologies and methodologies
2 New technologies and multimedia skills
Capture and edit images
Capture and edit audio
Produce Didactic films
Produce pedagogic games
Using communication tools
3 New Methodologies
Online tutoring
Didactic communication
Formative evaluation
4 more…
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Conclusions about the e‐round table “New skills for New jobs and New opportunities”
TOPIC # 6: COLLABORATIVE WORK SKILLS
Conclusions
1 New technologies and multimedia skills
Capture and edit images, audio
Using communication tools
2 New Methodologies
Multimedia communication semantics
Group work collaboration rules
3 more…
ADDITIONAL CONCLUSION
To appoint a work group in order to identify and rank the professional skills needed to deliver
excellence in the following areas: Teaching, training and other services operating in a
collaborative remote environment.
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Conclusions about the e‐round table “New skills for New jobs and New opportunities”
PANEL PARTICIPANTS.‐
António dos Reis – The Graal Institute Scientific Committee President
Anna Maria Sansoni – European Commission Information Society Media Directorate‐General
Filipe Carrera – Informal trainer expert ‐ ISEG / Lisbon University
George Siemens – Manitoba University – Canada
Johnny Widen – Senior Research Center of Distance Technology – Lulea University Sweden
Nicolau Wllenstein – Director of Geosciences Department – Azores University
Norbert Pachler – Co‐director: C EWL for Education Professionals at London University – UK
Stefan Bedin – CEO of WeZupport e‐solutions – Sweden
Paulo Pinto – Multimedia expert Computer Science Department ‐ Lusiada Lisbon University
Pedro Veiga – Pro Rector Lisbon Univesity ‐ Portugal
Theo Hug – Director of Multimedia Department at Innsbruck University – Austria
Victor Heredia – Director of eLearning Institute – California – USA
Xabier Basogain –e‐technology PHD program at Bask country Engineer’s University
“New skills for New jobs and New opportunities”
Base to debate
Lisbon 20th October 2009
Antonio dos Reis
antoniodreis@gmail.com
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