Digital Soft-Skills for Doctoral Students

CUSO Workshop (19/25 june 2012)

In order to complete their research, graduate students often have to develop a bunch of informal skills on their own. These acquition and practices of those skills can advantageously be translated into timesavings and efficiency in everyday tasks.

The objective of this seminar is to combine theoretical and practical guidelines to hepl graduate students take appropriate praxis to explore digital resources, get more pertinent information, and optimize their informational awareness so as to better face the ever-evolving technologies in their research field.

The seminar will mainly focus on three poles:

1. Acquiring skills in the fields of documentary, bibliographical and scientific information search on the Web;

2. Developing and/or improving efficiency in personal organization and collaborative work through fresh methodologies and better awareness and uses of Web 2.0

3. Sensitizing and/or improving knowledge in digital copyright issues in teaching and research.

This CUSO seminar, besides providing an opportunity for all participants to share their own practices, will enable participants to actually work with the proposed methods and tools as to encourage knowledge transfer into indivividual practices. It will futher be extended in the form of an online forum inviting discussion so as to eventually build a community of interest and a resource center for graduate students.

The seminar is scheduled on two separate days:

  • Day 1 (June 19th, 2012): Formal presentations followed by 3 workshops
  • Day 2 ( June 25th, 2012) Workshop's completion and collaborative work and synthesis of the seminar.

Speakers:

Omar Benkacem, University of Geneva

Pierre-Yves Burgi, University of Geneva

Denis Gillet, EPF Lausanne

Raphaël Grolimund, EPF Lausanne

Laurent Moccozet, University of Geneva

Hervé Platteaux, University of Fribourg

Patrick Roth, University of Geneva

Nadia Span Bovey, University of Lausanne

Program and activities progress:

1/ Tuesday 19 june 2012

8h30 - 9h00 : Reception

9h00 - 9h15 : Welcome and introduction

9h15 - 10h15 : Documentary, bibliographical, and scientific information search on the web/ Raphaël Grolimund

10h15 -10h30 : Coffee break

10h30 -11h30 :Digital Copyright for Education and Research( copyright as creator and consumer)/Pierre-Yves Burgi

11h30 - 12h15 : Personal Research Environment( Graasp)/ Denis Gillet

12h15 - 13h15 : Lunch

13h15 - 14h45 : Workshops

  • Bibliographical resources ( presentation and practice  of the bibliographical tool " Zotero")
  • Digital copyright for Education (Case studies DICE)
  • Organize, manage your Personal Research Environment: the case of Graasp

14h45 - 15h00 : Coffee break

15h00 - 16h30 : Workshops' continuation

2/ Monday 25 june  2012

9h00 - 10h30 : Use and practice of Web 2.0 for researchers / Laurent Moccozet & Omar Benkacem

10h30 - 10h45 : Coffee break

10h45 - 12h30 : Use of ePortfolio by PhD Students / Nadia Span Bovey, Patrick Roth

12h30 - 13h30 : Lunch

13h30 - 14h30 : Common workshop

  • Didactic use and practice of Web 2.0 tools / Hervé Platteaux

14h30 - 15h15 : Common workshop

  • Science 2.0. How to succeed your hesis in the era of social networks and distributed information / Denis Gillet

15h15 - 15h30 : Coffee break

15h30 - 16h15 : Synthesis and experince sharing of the seminar.

16h15 - 16h30 : Quiz and feedback on the 2 days seminar.

Useful information

Audience: PhDs in all research fields

Dates: 2 days: Tuesday 19th and Monday 25th of June, 2012

Schedule: 9:00 AM to 16:30 PM, welcome at  8:30 until 9:00 AM

Location : EPF Lausanne : 

Content and resources of the two day seminar are partially based on the  DICE and PLE projects, developed within the AAA-SWITCH program and financed by Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) under the federal program of education, research and innovation 2008-2011.

Registration until June 9th 2012 (30 places)

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