ImageIn Terms for E-Learning

In a documentalist perspective on learning, agents within the learning process mutually internalize (read, watch, listen to, absorb) and externalize (write, talk, draw, execute/perform) symbolic expressions within the more general flows of activities. This mutual process is dependent on formal notational systems; text, document and collection structures as well as the agents' cognitive, perceptive and expressive abilities.

Visualization and semantic annotation are two current points of entry to the development of interactive learning architectures that may give structure and support to such processes.

Digital visualization has esthetical, dramaturgical and narrative dimensions of importance for interpretation and impartment. The narrative role of pictograms is predominant in current media-saturated society. More ideogrammatic approaches may be used to depict state changes, fluctuation (rhythmic change) and complex dependencies in many subject areas.

Semantic annotation and digital representation of subject terms and term structures (taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies) may be reconceptualized and used as didactical means. A subject term or statement is here taken as a junction between the (monoglossic) regulation and discipline by established/managed fields of knowledge on the one hand and contestation, transcendence and unruliness of (polyglossic, heteroglossic) socio-linguistic practices and competing fields on the other.

Here we refer to the two perspectives combined as "ImageIn Terms". This is a R&D perspective on the interaction and synergy between semantic annotation, subject theory, ideogrammatic renditions and an evolving set of described and visualized examples/cases. This conceptual framework may be used to chart possible paths for the development of e-learning solutions.

Read more about the two domains ImageIn  and Terms.

Conference & Workshop March 8th-9th 07

The Center for Educational Research and Development at Oslo University College hosts an international conference and workshop titled ImageIn Terms for E-Learning in Oslo Thursday 8th and Friday 9th of March, 2007. 

If you would like to attend, you are most welcome to contact Helge Høivik at helge.hoivik@hio.no. NB: Participation is by invitation only.

The event is sponsored by the KLOK research and development program at Oslo University College and by Norway Opening Universities.

Preliminary list of contributors and participants:

Internationally invited guests

• professor Wieslawa Limont, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
• professor Yu Shengquan, Beijing Normal University, China
• master degree student (to be named), Beijing Normal University, China
• (and others..)

Nationally invited guests

• assistant professor Helge Stensrud, Hedmark University College
• systems engineer Trond Bakaas, Hedmark University College
• assistant professor Torunn Mehus, Buskerud University College
• (and others..)

Participants from Oslo University College

• assistant professor Vibeke Bjarnø, Faculty of Education
• assistant professor Brian Ellingham, Faculty of Health Sciences
• associate professor Svein Gundersen, Faculty of Art, Design and Drama
• associate professor Helge Høivik, Center for Educational Research and Development
• assistant professor Kari Mari Jonsmoen, Center for Multicultural and International Studies
• associate professor Nils Pharo, Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science
• assistant professor Jorun Retvik, Faculty of Art, Design and Drama
• assistant professor Eva Strøm, Faculty of Art, Design and Drama
• (and others..)