End of this week Learntec Austria 2008 is going to take place in ViennaVienna is the capital of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million (2.4 million within the metropolitan area, more than 25% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well .... I am going to give a short talk on “How to learn in the social semantic web” (in German) and I am already excited, because I can discuss some interesting questions: How has the process of learning changed over the last few years? Why is there such a big gap between all the new possibilities like “Learning Communities”, “Collaborative Platforms”, “Enterprise 2.0″ and the reality of Learning in all kinds of organisations?

I have done a lot of teaching in the last few years (especially at Universities of Applied Sciences) and in reality there is no systematic approach how New Media is used, neither for teaching at schools nor for continuing education at most companiesA company is a form of business organization. In the United States, a company is a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on an industrial enterprise. " Generally, a company may be a "corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock ....

But as time passes by more and more students and employees are fully aware of platforms like elgg, busuu or helpful search tools like cluuz.

Soon they will be asking: Why do we still moodle around?

Author: Andreas BlumauerAndreas Blumauer studied Computer Sciences and Business Administration and started his career as a software developer for financial services. In 1998 he co-founded punkt.net Services, a specialised software company, which has developed several national and international knowledge platforms. He ...