Recently, during a skiing holiday with friends they asked me to explain what I am doing in my job. And in the evening of that same day we had a friendly debate about what Wittgenstein’s impact on our time was. I spared no effort explaining and discussing, yet both questions are still open in my [...]

During the last week of January 2012 the SIG ePortfolio – myself together with 5 experts form 5 Swiss universities – worked on guidelines for ePortfolio. Based in Basel for 5 days of concentrated writing and discussing, we have drafted papers for students, university teachers, technical staff and decision makers, always with an eye on [...]

Our study Comparing reading processes on e-ink displays and print is now published in the Elsevier journal Displays. In the study we analyze and compare reading behavior on e-reader displays and on printed paper. The results suggest that reading behavior on e-readers is indeed very similar to reading behavior on print. Participants shared similar proportions of [...]

An unseren neuen Webinaren können Sie bequem von Ihrem Arbeitsplatz oder von Zuhause aus teilnehmen – tatsächlich haben die Webinare bei den letztjährigen Teilnehmenden eine positiven Resonanz erhalten. Folglich finden sich auch im neuen Kursprogramm die zwei Webinare zu Tablets im Einsatz Aktuelle Praxis-Erfahrungen mit FFHS-Kursen Zudem werden Präsenz-Workshops angeboten. Ganz neu: Herstellung guter Multiple-Choice-Fragen [...]

Good news from the BBC, in British schools ICT will be replaced by a creative computer science educational programme. To quote the education secretary: «Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word or Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animation». Harsh [...]