All posts by sansch

04Mai/20

[publication] Open Educational Resources in Austria #oer #austria #oerat

Quelle: Sandra Schön Autor: sansch

As part of the book Current State of Open Educational Resources in the “Belt and Road” Countries we did a chapter about the current state in Austria.

Abstract:
In Austria, located in the center of Europe, when compared earlier in relation to other German-speaking countries in Europe, individuals and groups started to develop and work on the idea of freely available and usable learning content on the Internet. A first Austrian milestone was the coordination of an international conference on open educational content in 2007 as the final activity of the first European project that was focused on OER (olcos.org). Within the contribution an overview of current state and developments of OER activities in Austria is given, also describing its infrastructure, policy, existing resources, curriculum and teaching methodologies, outcome, stakeholders and impact for education. The chapter gives a comprehensive overview of all OER activities in Austria and outlines the benefits for the educational system as well. It can be summarized that the Austrian way seems to be successful even though the steps forward are often small.

[Chapter @ Journal’s Homepage][Chapter @ ResearchGate]

Reference: Schön S., Ebner M. (2020) Open Educational Resources in Austria. In: Huang R., Liu D., Tlili A., Gao Y., Koper R. (eds) Current State of Open Educational Resources in the “Belt and Road” Countries. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. pp 17-33. Springer, Singapore

29Apr/20

What a debut :-D #tugraz #happyresearcher

Quelle: Sandra Schön Autor: sansch

Nowadays, the value of a researcher is evaluated with scientific output and indices like the h-index. At my previous employer, the Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, my publications were listed in the top ten in Research Gate Statistics. This is not particularly surprising, as publications did not play a major role among my colleagues. – I also had the company’s highest RG index.

With one of my new employers, Graz University of Technology, things look quite different, of course. Here I am just a literally „small number“. As I just started at first of April at the TU Graz: Only one publication currently adorns my research profile at Graz University of Technology.

And hey, it’s not real research either. But last week, this first and single article had THE HIGHEST READS of all the contributions of Graz University of Technology at Research Gate.

I’ll print it out and frame it. ? – what a debut! – And we are again on top this week ?

Thanks a lot to my co-author Martin Ebner and to Jochen Robes who wrote about the article <3<3<3

27Apr/20

[publication] Was macht ein gutes Erklärvideo aus? #video #tel #tugraz

Quelle: Sandra Schön Autor: sansch

Für das Buch „Lehren und Lernen mit Tutorials und Erklärvideos“ durften wir einen Kurzbeitrag zu „Was macht ein gutes Erklärvideo aus?“ schreiben.

Zusammenfassung:
Basierend auf der Analyse und der Gestaltungspraxis von Erklärvideos in der Hochschulbildung stellen Dr. Schön und Dr. Ebner die wichtigsten medialen und didaktischen Gestaltungskriterien für großartige Erklärvideos vor.Basierend auf der Analyse und der Gestaltungspraxis von Erklärvideos in der Hochschulbildung stellen Dr. Schön und Dr. Ebner die wichtigsten medialen und didaktischen Gestaltungskriterien für großartige Erklärvideos vor.

Teaser des Beitrags

[Entwurf bei ResearchGate]

Zitation: Schön, S. & Ebner, M. (2020) Was macht ein gutes Erklärvideo aus? In: Lehren und Lernen mit Tutorials und Erklärvideos. Dorgerloh, S. & Wolf, K. (Hrsg.). Beltz. ISBN 978-3-407-63126-8. S. 75-80

16Apr/20

Published: Statements on DOIT in CORDIS magazine #DOITEurope #h2020 #cordis

Quelle: Sandra Schön Autor: sansch

Proud about DOIT Europe: multilingual descriptions with some of my answers were published in CORDIS magazine just after my leave from Salzburg Research:

(c) CORDIS 2020

CORDIS Europe (2020, 2nd April): DOIT: practical experiences for future innovators, URL: https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/415749-doit-practical-experiences-for-future-innovators

14Apr/20

Welcome, #OER at #HEI, #fnma & #tugraz!

Quelle: Sandra Schön Autor: sansch

Some people were upset about my „cliffhanger“ – and because of corona and homeschooling I just didn’t make it earlier – SORRY! ? .

This is where I ended up after my departure at Salzburg Research at first of April 2020:

1. First of all, I started a new project called „Development of an OER certification body for universities“ at the Forum Neue Medien in der Lehre Austria (Association for New Media in Teaching Austria) as project leader. OER stands for „Open Educational Resources“ and within the next four years, we should have made it possible that all Austrian higher education institutions could certifiy themselves and their lecturers their OER expertise and activities. I am looking forward to working with many old acquaintances as well as new people and last but not least to the friendly reception:

„I don’t think we could have found anyone more perfect for the job.“

(blush) – I hope I will not disappoint the high expectations. ?

In fact, the project is amibitioned and, despite all the positive attitudes towards OER, not at all a self-runner: many different positions and stakeholders have to be considered and involved.

2. Furthermore, I started, also part-time, at the Graz University of Technology and support the team of Martin Ebner and „Educational Technology“ in research and publications. What was previously a wild cooperation has now become formal ?

And I am delighted that I was able to start working with Martin’s wonderful team at this highly exciting time – one of our first projects is a paper on the corona effects in e-learning at Graz University of Technology. ?

3. And then, as before, I have further research and teaching assignments as T3C, among others. One of them sounds pretty crazy and I couldn’t quite believe it either – I am now also part of the staff of the Universitas Negeri Malang (State University of Malang, Indonesia). More about that later ?

31Mrz/20

Keynote: Lernraum Makerspace – Chance und Herausforderung für Schulen

Quelle: Sandra Schön Autor: sansch

Am 31. März hätte der RFDZ Informatik Fachtag in der Steiermark eigentlich als reale Veranstaltung stattfinden sollen. Nun wurde auch hier umgestellt auf eine Online-Veranstaltung und ich freue mich, dort die Keynotes vortragen zu dürfen. Herzlichen Dank für die (wiederholte!) Einladung!

Schön, Sandra (2020). Lernraum Makerspace – Chancen und Herausforderungen für Schulen. Online-Keynote auf dem RFDZ Informatik Fachtag der Steiermark, 31. März 2020

31Mrz/20

Servus, #salzburgresearch! Danke für die Blumen …

Quelle: Sandra Schön Autor: sansch

Also Abschied nehmen hat auch etwas Gutes: Man bekommt unglaublich viele nette Nachrichten. Danke, ihr lieben Kolleginnen und Kollegen bei der Salzburg Research, ich freu mich schon auf das nächste öffentliche Event und einen Besuch bei uns Euch!

„Ich finde es sehr schade, dass du jetzt nicht mehr Teil des Teams bist. Deine Energie und dein innovativer Blick nach vorne waren nach meiner Wahrnehmung beispiellos! Mit dir geht auf jeden Fall ein Unikat verloren!“

„Es war immer mit viel Freude verbunden, mit dir zu arbeiten. (…) Schade, dass du uns verlässt.“

„Danke für die angenehme Zusammenarbeit die wir hatten. Ich wünsche dir alles Gute für deinen weiteren Weg!

„Ich wünsche dir viel Freude und Erfolg im beruflichen Umfeld und weiterhin soviel Kreativität.“

„Danke für die vielen tollen und spannenden Jahre der Zusammenarbeit!“

26Mrz/20

Thanks, dear #DOITEurope partners and people!

Quelle: Sandra Schön Autor: sansch

After my leave I got so many wonderful messages – I was pretty surprised about so much kindness and farewells. How does this sound?! ?

„It’s been a privilege to work with you. DOIT has been the largest consortium I have participated in and also the best managed. There were a lot of good practises that have informed my future work in research project management.“

Some of the messages I took on this collage and if I will take a glimpse on it to comfort myself from time to time ? . Thanks <3<3<3

25Mrz/20

A farewell: Goodbye, @salzburgresearch, @DOIT_Europe_Net!

Quelle: Sandra Schön Autor: sansch

(c) Salzburg Research, March 2020.

On 31 of March is my last day as an employee of Salzburg Research and I had already my last day as coordinator of the H2020 Initiative 2020 DOIT.

For 13,5 years I worked for Salzburg Research in various projects and positions – as project manager and/or key / senior researcher. I am grateful for this time – I was able to contribute to and shape various challenging research topics over many years – from social media and online communities to makerspaces and open eduational resources. And it was also uncomplicated with three children in my own household – thanks to part-time work and home office arrangements. An academic career at a university with children would probably be unthinkable – thank you, Salzburg Research! A warm goodbye to my dear colleagues – I am sure we will meet again in the future ?

Leaving an H2020 project as coordinator 6 months before completion is a challenge for the remaining project management. But the great team will surely succeed. I will think of you – especially on October 21st! Bring the project to a great end!

Doit

A change after such a long time is well thought out and I am looking forward to announce in next week where I will be involved in the future – with much enthusiasm and (pre-)joy!

29Jan/20

[publication] Designing a Makerspace for Children – Let’s Do It #makereducation #research

Quelle: Sandra Schön Autor: sansch

Our contribution to the Edurobotics conference 2018 got published right now. According to the title „Designing a Makerspace for Children – Let’s Do It“ we described our first Makerdays 2015.
Abstract: When makerspaces are designed for children, special motivation and reasoning needs to be made. Within this article, we describe a case study: A temporary four-day open makerspace for about 40 children per day. Motivation, considerations and the development process as well as the actual realization are described and discussed. We comment on how such a space for children and adolescents should be arranged for future studies. As described, considerations in terms of participation, peer tutoring and gender mainstreaming influence the design of the space, the methods used, as well as the general setting. Abstract of the publication
[article @ publisher’s homepage] [draft @ ResearchGate] Reference: Schön S., Ebner M., Grandl M. (2020). Designing a Makerspace for Children – Let’s Do It. In: Moro M., Alimisis D., Iocchi L. (eds) Educational Robotics in the Context of the Mak-er Movement. Edurobotics 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 946., pp. 3-15 Springer, Cham –>