WIERZBICKI.ORG is media sponsor at the 2014 New York Polish Film Festival in the USA.

The 10th Anniversary edition of The New York Film Festival will present at Anthology Film Archives eclectic program which reflects diversity of styles and subjects of newest Polish cinema. Most of feature films presented at NYPFF was awarded and have been earning wide acclaim on numerous international festivals. “Wałesa : Man of Hope” ( Wałęsa: Czlowiek z nadziei) by Master of Polish cinema (and our festival’s Honorary Patron) Andrzej Wajda, is an amazing story of “Solidarity” leader and was Poland’s Oscar submission this year.

Prof. Wierzbicki and Peter Böhnke continue their research on human behaviour utilising virtual environmants.

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Peter Böhnke is member of a Junior Research Group at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida. The research is beeing done within the context of the project PrävEm supported by The European Social Fund (ESF) and the Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts (SMWK) in 2013.

The research follows the concept of “Blended Nurture” which aims at modelling social and/or personal behaviour through participation in virtual reality based games (“Nurture Games”) combined with a moderated live part.  A coach (psychologist) must ensure that experiences are correctly classified and that the correct behavioral patterns become fixed in the mind.

BIT’s 2nd Annual World Congress of Emerging InfoTech-2013 (InfoTech-2013) was held in Dalian, China on June 20 to 22, 2013. The theme of the conference was “The World IT Frontier Trends: Challenge and Opportunity“.

The annual congress comprised 10 chapters following the ceremony, including “Web Applications and Services”, “E-Business and E-Government”, “Mobile Communication I, “Mobile Communication II, “High-End Software Engineering”, “Next Generation Network”, “IT Security”, “High Performance Integrate Circuit”, “Computer Education”, “Information and Knowledge Management”, “Novel IT Device” and “Communication Technology”.

Prof. Wierzbicki chaired the session “Computer Education“.

IWOOTI was set up by the EUROPEAN VIRTUAL ACADEMY in 2012. IWOOTI was seeking to bring top research and proven best practices in online teaching and learning. IWOOTI 2012 was intended partly as a summary of the results from the two years of the project EVA, funded by the European Commission. Project Number: 509941-LLP-1-2010-1-RO-ERASMUS-EVC.

The IWOOTI workshop committee welcomed both academic and practitioner papers on a wide range of topics and scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers as well as project reports and short demonstrations. Topics included, among others, the following:

• Online courses, online-learning platforms and virtual universities
• Modern approaches and activities included in virtual teaching
• Online pedagogy
• Technology enhanced learning
• Research in progress
• Case studies of E-Learning projects
• Evaluation of strategies to achieve/deliver online learning

The Consortium of the European Virtual Academy invites you to submit a paper for the 1st International Workshop on Online Teaching Initiatives (IWOOTI). The workshop will be hosted by the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida, Germany, within the frame of the 22nd International Scientific Conference Mittweida, October 24-25, 2012. Papers presented at the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings. IWOOTI is seeking to bring top research and proven best practices in online teaching, learning and research together.

IWOOTI 2012 is intended partly as a summary of the results from the two years of the project EVA – EUROPEAN VIRTUAL ACADEMY. The workshop committee welcomes both academic and practitioner papers on a wide range of topics and scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers as well as project reports and short demonstrations. Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Modern approaches and activities included in virtual teaching
• Online courses, online-learning platforms and virtual universities
• Online pedagogy
• Neurobiological mechanisms of learning, contemporary models of the human brain, memory and cognitive behavior
• Technology enhanced learning
• Digital culture
• Research in progress
• Case studies of eLearning projects
• Evaluation of strategies to achieve/deliver online learning

Please visit the IWOOTI website for more details: www.iwooti.eu