2002

The origin concept of G1:1, Sweden

The first IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE2002) was held in Växjö University, Sweden. The host, Marcelo Milrad, proposed the idea of establishing an academic and industry consortium to promote wireless and mobile technologies for learning in the continents of Europe, North America, and Asia.

First G1:1 Workshop, Taiwan

The first workshop called Global Platform for Public-Private Partnership (G4P) with participants from USA, Germany , Switzerland, Sweden, and New Zealand was hosted by Tak-Wai Chan at National Central University in Taiwan. They had laid its international embryonic form as "Global Collaborative Testbed Network for 1:1 Technology Enhanced Learning".

The visitor group of Taiwan

A group of researcher representative of National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning of Taiwan leads by professor Liu, Chung Laung by paying visit to the University of Berkeley, USA, Stanford Research International, the Stanford University, Hewlett-Packard Laboratory, The Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception, University of Michigan, National Science Council and other academia and governmental organization. After they went to Europe to visit Laboratoire Leibniz of France, University of Duisburg-Essen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland, Växjö university, Sweden and so on to enhance the common consensus relationship between each researcher of each country.

Second G1:1 Workshop, Taiwan

This event was host before Second IEEE International Workshop in WMTE to gather more international members to participate within. Also, laying out the particular plans to be ready to action and the Research Center for Science and Technology for Learning of National Central University builds an united communicate website ( www.g1to1.org ) for the research centers from all over the world to share the information can be more convenient.

Third G1:1 Workshop, Taiwan

Topic: Collaboratively Envision the Future of CSCL, Hosts: Research International, USA and the Research Center for Science and Technology for Learning from National Central University, Taiwan

G1:1 Panel, CSCL, Taiwan

Topic: The Impact of International Collaborative Initiatives on CSCL Research
Host: Tak-Wai Chan (Taiwan), Ulrich Hoppe (Germany)

G1:1 Panel, IEEE ICALT, Taiwan

Topic: Educational Computing in Global Digital Classrooms (G1:1), Host: Kinshuk ( New Zealand )

G1:1 Panel, Kaleidoscope Symposium , Germany

Topic: How to Link and Share Innovative Technology-Enhanced Learning
Practices World-Wide? Host: Nicolas Balacheff ( France ), Ulrich Hoppe ( Germany )

G1:1 Panel, Summer Institutes of IKIT, Canada

Topic: Education Reform, Host: Marlene Scardamalia ( Canada ), Mary Lamon ( Canada )

Forth G1:1 Workshop, South Africa

The workshop was hosted by the mLearn to gather more researchers from different counties to participle in G 1:1.

Fifth G1:1 Workshop, Japan

Using "Global 1:1 community building and collaborative research model(s)" as the topic before the WMTE to discuss the main elements of sharing collaborative mechanism, Host: Kinshuk ( New Zealand ), Hiroaki Ogata ( Japan ).

G1:1 Panel, ICCE, Singapore

Topic: G1:1 Computing, Host: Chee-Kit Looi (Singapore), Michael Jacobson (Singapore)

G1:1 Open Letter: Learning with the $100 Laptop

There are 26 researchers from the five main continents globally to represent G1:1 and enunciate academia points of view and the discussion threads mainly focus on the plan from Media Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology of $100 dollars laptop. This consider as an important literary release in the research filed of "1:1 Technology Enhanced Learning".