<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Apologize for unintended cross-mailing ========================================================= Invite your students to live the fantastic experience of the second edition of the 2018 International Student Design Contest “PEOPLE CENTERED SMART LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS” @ 3rd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development The interplay of data, technology, place and people May 23-25, 2018 University of Aalborg, Denmark <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://slerd.org/2018/contest">http://slerd.org/2018/contest</a> Contact: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:aslerd.org@gmail.com">aslerd.org@gmail.com</a> ========================================================= <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/Aslerd/index.php?s=232&link=Contest2017Fin">Link</a> to the abstracts of the finalist projects of the first edition. 2017 Winner: Raffaele Di Fuccio (University of Naples Federico II) ========================================================= Deadline for ideas submission: February 15, 2018 ========================================================= <p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Call for ideas and proofs of concept <p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;">The call invites students to submit ideas (first phase of the contest) and proofs of concept/prototype (second phase of the contest) on how to make learning ecosystems smarter. It is open to individuals and groups of students (bachelor, master and PhD students). The winner (individual or group) will be awarded with 500 €. Three individuals or groups (finalists) will be selected to present their proofs of concept at SLERD 2018 and attend the conference for free. ASLERD will cover also stay expenses (hotel and meals) for two representatives per finalist. <strong style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT and GOALS <p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Smart Learning Ecosystems should perform at best on all the dimensions that contribute to the well-being of students and all players involved in the development of a learning process: infrastructures, food, environment, info/admin services, mobility, safety, social interaction, satisfaction, challenges, self-fulfillment [1]. Being inspired by the flow theory [2] and by the Maslow’s pyramid [3], we can state that: ecosystems are smart when “individuals that take part in the local processes achieve a high level of skills and, at the same time, are also strongly motivated and engaged by continuous and adequate challenges, provided that their primary needs are reasonably satisfied”. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The smartness of learning ecosystems, thus, is not created merely through the availability of digital infrastructures and applications. When technologies are both available and adopted enthusiastically, they can start to make a difference in both simplifying and accelerating progress toward the achievement of system smartness. One has to keep in mind, however, that technologies are smart not because they are capable of replacing human reasoning but, rather because they can help towards achieving a people centered smartness, through streamlining mundane organisational tasks, and enhancing the skills of all actors involved in learning processes. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Our duty, with the help of technology, is to support learning ecosystems (formal, informal, non-formal) to develop their people centered smartness towards becoming incubators of social innovation and engines of sustainable regional development. Smartness is a goal and we can support our learning ecosystems along the process to achieve it by proposing solutions capable to solve or mitigate problems that prevent the learning ecosystems to be people centered. Examples of problems detection can be found in the draft of [4]. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We expect students, wishing to take part in the contest, to analyze their learning ecosystem, detect problems and find solutions that can help their, and as well other learning ecosystems, to get smarter. ========================================== Important dates: --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for ideas submission: February 15, 2018 • Selection of best ideas: March 15, 2018 • Submission of final proofs of concept and prototypes: March 30, 2018 • Selection of the best 3 proofs of concepts and prototypes: April 15, 2018 • Presentation and demo at SLERD 2017 and winner announcement: May 23 and 24, 2018 ========================================================= Join ALSLERD (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASLERD">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASLERD</a>) and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning Ecosystems: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATION_F.pdf">Timisoara declaration</a> See ASLERD website (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.aslerd.org">www.aslerd.org</a>) for Request of membership, membership fees and legal ========================================================= </body> </html>