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Jay Cross is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. The Internet Time Alliance, which he chairs, helps corporations and governments use networks to accelerate performance. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay's calling is to help people improve their performance on the job and satisfaction in life. He was the first person to use the term eLearning on the web. He literally wrote the book on Informal Learning. He is also co-author of Implementing eLearning and The Working Smarter Fieldbook. His philosophies on the power of informal learning and net-work have fundamentally changed the world of learning in organizations. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. Jay and his wife Uta live with their miniature longhaired dachshund in the hills of Berkeley, California. Panel: Plenary Session Changing Society |
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Lee Bryant Lee Bryant co-founded Headshift in 2002 to focus on the emerging area of social software and social networking. He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, and has a strong belief in the empowering potential of the internet. He is also a board member of a social enterprise, Involve, and a trustee of the Foundation for Science Technology and Culture.
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Cristina Costa Cristina Costa is the Learning and Research Technologies Manager for the Research and Innovation Division at the University of Salford in the UK. Her role is to champion innovative means of convening and disseminating research and learning activities, and promote collaborative research ventures with the use of new web technologies within and beyond the institution.
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 | Tim Hall The NetKnowing 2.0 didactical products for SMEs and organizations Tim Hall is Director of EMRC- Educational Media Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland. EMRC’s interests encompass all aspects of TEL Technology Enhanced Learning. Panel: Workshop: |
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Head of Learning Department at PT Inovação and invited Lecturer at Aveiro University. Project manager for eLearning and bLearning, particularly in the areas of design, implementation and evaluation of training processes, development of educational multimedia and management training. Responsible for the concept, design and implementation of an eLearning platform service (Formare®), a national reference learning management system (LMS). Supervisor, research and development project leader in areas such as knowledge management, distributed learning communities and lifelong learning. Author and co-author of several books, papers and communications concerning areas like management training, long distance education, blended learning and eLearning.
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Rogério Marques graduated with a Masters in Biochemistry in 2008, since then he has dedicated himself to the field of science communication in collaboration with the science communication company Take The Wind.He's activities range though the conception of new products for medical learning and the clarification of the general public. He develops 3D animation films from the research and the script-writing, acompanying all the process involving storyboard and 3D animation artists. Rogério also maintains a deep concern and sense of social responsibility, thus he has dedicated himself for several years now to raising public awareness for the socio-economic problems in all our current and historical context, which are largely misunderstood by the population even though they suffer from their consequences.
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Teacher in Estoril Higher for Tourism and Hotel Studies, where assumed the coordination of several projects related to learning and entrepreneurship. Master in Human Resource Development Policy and PhD in Management by Univ. of Évora where develops her thesis in the area of innovation and intrapreneurship.
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With a degree in media by the School of Journalism of Oporto, has experience in newspapers, radio and TV. Has started working in sports newspapers like «O Jogo», «Record» and «Maisfutebol» and than passed to a national online newspaper like «PortugalDiário», before changing to TV newschannel TVI24. He was sent to cover important events abroad and in Portugal. He is currently editor of tvi24.pt, host of "Battle of Blogs" and commentator on technology issues in TVI24.
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Director of AIP-CCI. Executive Board Member of IPN (Instituto Pedro Nunes). Expert evaluation of Community Programs. Representative of the AIP-CCI in several international groups of Education and Training.
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Journalist. Editor of Economics weekly newspaper SOL . Prior to that he worked as a journalist in Jornal de Notícias, TSF Online and Diário de Notícias. Studied Biology and Communication.
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Lawyer, by the Portuguese Catholic University, postgraded in Legal Business (ISG) and Company Law (UCP). He is currently the Representative for Investor Relations and Corporate Communications of a Portuguese economic group. José Pedro is also a member of the Board of Directors of "Brazelton-Gomes Pedro Foundation for Baby and Family Science." Practice meditation, pilates and play football (when the bones permit). Topics: Inspiration.With a great sense of humor and assertiveness, José Pedro inspires us and challenges us to take responsibility for who we are and what we do in life and how we can participate actively in a better world. Citing the Speaker: "I think we should give back to life the best of ourselves, living it with enthusiasm, .... I started telling funny stories in my group of friends and soon had many requests to bring these messages to more people. Every week I go to Hospital Santa Maria telling stories to children, which I call "I exchange a story for a smile ".... Despite a very demanding and serious profession, I cannot do it without humor and comedy became a hobby that fulfills me, and finding whenever possible availability to act together in solidarity institutions and other entities .... Reminding the words of John Cleese from Monty Pyton: "Laughter is the best way to take life seriously"
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 | Ileana Hamburg Storytelling (case study): Informal and social collaborative learning through mentoring and Communities. She is a research fellow at the Institut Arbeit und Technik, FH Gelsenkirchen (IAT) and lecturer for Informatics at the Open University (FU) of Hagen. She works and coordinates German and European projects particularly in the field of eLearning and new media. The main target groups of the projects are people with particularly needs, trainers, consultants, emigrants, SME staff. Hamburg was the coordinator of the European projects ARIEL and SIMPEL. Workshop: |
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With experiences in diverse areas like: Primary Prevention, Event management, Clowning and several Non Formal Education Projects, for the last years Anita settled down as director in Team MAIS, a company specialized in non-formal learning, designing and organizing trainings, events, consulting and developing educational games/group dynamics. As a trainer she is passionate about Creativity and Innovation and on an international level, develops training actions for SALTO - an international platform of support for EU programmes. As a community worker (that’s her academic background, now complemented with a master in Creativity and Innovation) she maintains her engagement with several social causes and with the sustainable growth of communities, enterprises and NGO’s. Anita is also a lecturer in Santarem Higher Education School. |
 | Lúcia Moreira Lucia Freitas Moreira works in the Department of Exploratory Innovation at Portugal Telecom Inovação which is responsible for the development of multimedia contents for training and eLearning. Author and co-author of articles and communications in the area of multimedia communication, usability of web interfaces, eLearning and virtual learning new scenarios. Research and development project leader in areas such as knowledge management, learning objects and communication mediated by technology (in research projects as eContents, Multis, POLO and Serious Game).
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Antão is the Strategic Software Development Director at YDreams. He currently leads the YVision team, that develops a platform for applications based on Natural User Interfaces (NUI) and Augmented Reality (AR). Antão from 1996 to 2000 worked at the Silicon Valley in two startups. At Sense8, he developed Virtual Reality applications for several Fortune 500 companies. At Paraform, he was the responsible for the design and development of the user interface and the application architecture. The application is still used by leading companies in the automotive, toy and movie industries.
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Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (S’01 - M’06 - SM’06), is a Professor in the Department of Informatics of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, and a Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, associated Lab, Portugal. He received a five-year B.S. degree (licentiate) in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal and the M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Informatics Engineering from the University of Beira Interior, Portugal. His main research interests include delay-tolerant networks, sensor networks, high-speed networks, e-Learning, e-Health, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. He is the leader of the NetGNA Research Group (http://netgna.it.ubi.pt) and the founder and leader of the IEEE ComSoc CSIM Special Interest Group on modeling and simulation tools (http://mst.it.ubi.pt). He is the Secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on eHealth and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Software. He has authored or coauthored over 170 technical papers in refereed international journals and conferences, book chapters, a book, and a patent. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on E-Health and Medical Communications, the editor-in-chief of the Recent Patent on Telecommunications Journal, and also served several Special Issues as a Guest Editor. He has served as General Chair, Technical Program Committee Chair, and symposium Chair for many international conferences. He participated in tens of international TPCs and several editorial review boards. He is a licensed professional engineer (as a senior member), and he is member of ACM SIGCOMM, a member of the Internet Society, an IARIA fellow, and a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Education Society. |
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Ph.D in Organizational Psychology; board member of Apgico; lecturer at the ESGHT and the Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics (CIEO)/University of the Algarve, Portugal
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