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ALT-C 2010 Conference

"Into Something Rich and Strange" - making sense of the sea-change

The 17th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology 

When: 7th September (8.30am) to 9th September 2010 (13.45pm)
Where: Nottingham University

Learning technology is part of the fabric of formal and informal learning. A sea-change is taking place involving a structural and pervasive shift in the nature of the Internet. Specifically: we and our learners are always connected; the devices we use are growing in capability and diversity; the information environment and the tools and services that we use to navigate and to interact with it and with each other are in great flux.

The challenge posed for education is great. It is to increase effectiveness, productivity, and quality, whilst institutional and agency budgets are reducing, rather than just to promise improvements. At the same time we need to ensure the spread of innovations that are scalable and of long-term value, both educationally and financially, whilst keeping learners and learning at the heart of our thinking.

Keynote Speakers:

Saul Tendler, the University of Nottingham's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning
Barbara Wasson, Professor of Pedagogical Information Science at the University of Bergen, Norway; Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University 
Donald Clark, Board Member of Ufi, and former CEO of Epic Group plc.

Read more here about the Keynote Speakers and Invited Speakers. 

The ALT-C 2010 Themes:

1. the changing paradigms and structures for learning;
2. increasing productivity and effectiveness, whilst mitigating risks;
3. responding to and shaping the organisational landscape;
4. meeting the changing expectations and needs of learners, employers, and society;
5. the changing design skills and knowledge needed to support learning and teaching with technology.

See latest programme of events

Booking closes: 13th August 2010 

For more information see conference website: http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2010/

INSPIRE Conference 2011

INSPIRE (International Conference for Process Improvement, Research and Education)

When: Monday 18th to Wednesday 20th April 2011
Where: Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK

The 16th Annual INSPIRE conference, organised in conjunction with the BCS e-Learning SG, addresses software process improvement related to teaching, training and research whilst SQM addresses issues relevant to business and industry.

 

Aims and Objectives:

• To improve awareness of process improvement issues
• To promote better understanding of software quality and process improvement issues
• To increase the effectiveness of process improvement
• To improve the quality of web communication
• To improve the quality of relevant courses for academia and for industry

Conference Topics:

• eLearning and e-safety
• Teaching and learning software quality and software process improvement
• Developing and support of high quality Resource Based Learning Environments and Materials
• The Bologna Process and computing curricula
• On-Line and Distance Learning
• Research and Learning Communities
• Teaching of Professional and Ethical Issues
• Continuous Professional Development for software practitioners
• Organisational Quality Management Systems in education
• Raising awareness of software quality issues
• Social Responsibility
• Greening issues

For more information visit: http://inspire.lboro.ac.uk/index.php or email: margaret.ross@solent.ac.uk

The CAL Conference 2010

Learning Futures: Education, Technology & Sustainablity

When: 13-15th April 2010
Where: Manchester UK
Submission Deadline: 24th September 2010

CAL (Computer Assisted Learning) is one of the leading international conferences in the field of education and technology. It brings together researchers across all education sectors, from primary years, to informal learning, to higher education, and across a range of disciplines from psychology to computer science, media and cultural studies. 

 

In 2011, the conference will lead a challenging international debate about the future of research and practice in educational technology.  CAL 11 aims to:

• Explore the role of educational technology research in addressing questions of global and social justice, widening participation and digital democracy
• Assess what role educational technology might play in the context of low carbon, energy, contrained futures
• Explore how emerging technologies from diverse fields (e.g. gaming, AI, biotech, ubiquitous computing) might offer new environments for learning
• Examine the informal learning practices emerging in children, youth and adults' digital cultures and their implications for education
• Reflect on what lessons have been learned over the last thirty years of education technology research, and what these might mean for the future of research in the field.

Theme 1: Sustainablity, globalisation and social justice
Theme 2: The future of learning technologies

Theme 3: Informal learning and digital cultures
Theme 4: Looking  back to look forward

For more information please visit: http://www.cal-conference.elsevier.com/

For those of you tweeting, the tag is #CAL11

 

2010 European LAMS and Learning Design Conference

The next European Conference is being held this July, following the success previous International LAMS and Learning Design Conferences held in Sydney (Australia), Greenwich (UK), Cadiz (Spain) and Milton Keynes (UK). The main theme for the 2010 European LAMS & Learning Design Conference is ‘Sharing Great Ideas’. This provides delegates with the opportunity to discuss sharing resources, technology and teaching practices in education and how it might relate to Learning Design.

When: 15^th & 16^th July 2010

Where: Wolfson College, Oxford
Submission Deadline: Monday, 22nd March, 2010 

See Conference Paper Call for more detials.

Conference Themes:
- Open sharing of Learning Designs:
- Open sharing of Learning Designs: Open licensing and Creative Commons

- Finding the tools and pedagogies for the next generation of e-learners

- Using Learning Design for strategic change in education

- Building communities of practice - opportunities and challenges

- Issues of collaboration and generating new knowledge

- Sharing and reuse - barriers and questions of practice

- Learning Design and the Library of the Future

- Who controls the curriculum? Student and teacher generated designs

- Lessons learnt from K-12

- Future directions and the needs of vocational and professional education

- Technical standards, architecture and tools

- Open source and open design

What tools, pedagogies, teaching and learning strategies do we need for the future? Where does LAMS fit within the new models? What can experience with LAMS tell us about teaching and learning? How is LAMS shaping up? What are the challenges for individuals and organisations? Where will Learning Design standards take us now? What can we learn from efforts to create generic learning design patterns? During the conference there were many opportunities to share lessons learnt with LAMS & Learning Design from all educational sectors.

The conference is co-hosted and sponsored by JISC and CETIS.

Further information can be found at the Conference Website.

CAA 2010

The International Computer Assisted Assessment (CAA) Conference Research into E-Assessment

The 2010 International CAA Conference is a two day research-led conference hosted by the University of Southampton and organised by its School of ECS and the IET at the Open University.  The Conference aims to advance the understanding and application of information technology to the assessment process (e-assessment) through rigorous peer-reviewed research.  As in previous years the conference will be accessible to those with an interest in implementation and pedagogy, the more technically minded, and those involved at a strategic level such as managers and support services.

When: 20th & 21st July 2010

Where: Southampton, UK
Submission Deadline: 30th April 2010 (Full papers, poster abstracts)

Call for Papers:

You are invited to submit proposals for full papers and abstracts for posters.  All proposals will be considered for inclusion by the programme committee.  The conference is negotiating a ‘special issue’ of an international journal where the highest rated papers will be put forward for publication (more details to follow).

Key themes:
1. Evaluation

2. Reporting

3. Innovations in CAA

4. Accessing skills and enhancing student learning

5. Strategic Developments

 

For more information see CAA Conference Website.

HCI 2010: Play is a Serious Business

The UK Human Computer Interaction Conference 2010
The BCS 24th Conference HCI 2010 - has as its theme Play is a serious business.At its heart, the conference wishes to consider the business of Play in relation to concepts, people and technology. But, as ever we are also interested in all things new and innovative in the world of HCI.

When:6th-10th September 2010
Where:University of Abertay, Dundee
Submission Deadline: 19th March 2010 (Full Paper - 8 Pages)

For more information visit conference website: http://www.hci2010.org

NordiCHI 2010

NordiCHI 2010: Extending Boundaries
Understanding, respecting, crossing and even expanding boundaries is a part of our daily lives. Boundaries underpin not only geographical and cultural differences between countries, but also differences between sectors and scientific disciplines. Understanding boundaries is an integral part of human computer interaction (HCI). It is a part of understanding how people behave and what they value, of learning how people express their needs, intentions and feelings.

This conference aims to encourage practitioners and researchers alike to think beyond, not only 10 or 20 years ahead, but towards grand challenges, yet knowing that every single advance, however small, is a key to accomplishing goals. Selecting Extending boundaries as the theme of NordiCHI 2010, the organizers want to encourage contributors and participants to consider HCI’s boundaries, staying within them, or to think beyond them to address grand challenges

When:16th - 20th October 2010
Where: Reykjavik, Iceland
Submission Deadline: Full Paper: 3rd May (10 Pages), or Short Paper: 16th July (4 pages)
Workshop Submission 12th April

 For more information visit conference website: http://www.yourhost.is/titlar-atburda/nordichi-2010.html

 

Future Learningscapes

Future Learningscapes: a 21st Century Challenge

The University of Greenwich is organising its eighth one day conference entilted Future Learningscapes at the Martime Greenwich Campus, on Wednesday, 7th July 2010.  Contributions to the conference programme are sought from students, practitioners and researchers in all education and training sectors that provide case study examples of, or project/research reports that address at least one of the conference aims.

When: 7th July 2010
Where: University of Greenwich
Submission Deadline: 16th April 2010 (short abstract and summary aprox. 1000 words)

For more information about topics please visit converence website: http://web-dev-csc.gre.ac.uk/conference/conf58/index.php?p=606

DIS 2010

The ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2010. 
The DIS conference addresses design as an integrated activity spanning technical, social, cognitive, organisational, and cultural factors. It brings together professional designers, ethnographers, systems engineers, usability engineers, psychologists, design managers, product managers, academics and anyone involved in the design of interactive systems. 

When: 16th-20th August 2010
Where: Aarhus, Denmark

Submission Details
Short Paper Deadline: May 1st 2010

For more information see conference website: http://www.dis2010.org  

CREATE10

Create10: Innovative Interactions
The challenge posed for education is great. It is to increase effectiveness, productivity, and quality, whilst institutional and agency budgets are reducing, rather than just to promise improvements.  The annual CREATE Conference is moving from London's BCS office to Edinburgh Napier University, inspiring this year's broad theme of 'transitions'.   Previous CREATE Conferences have been well received for providing a friendly and informal setting where networking, discussion and practical work are high on the agenda. 

When:   30th June - 2nd July, 2010
Where:  Edinburgh Napier University, UK  
Submission Deadline: 15th March 2010
(I page abstracts for papers, 2 page proposals for all other submissions)

Call for Participation:for academic papers, practical workshops, short papers or case studies, posters and demonstrations of installation-based exhibits or creative work in progress. Topics range from theoretical and research perspectives on the process of design innovation and approaches to creativity in HCI; how human factors can be integrated within a creative design process, methods that encourage creativity in interaction design, and the challenges of working in multi-disciplinary terms.

For more information please refer to conference website: http://companions.napier.ac.uk/~create2009/Site/welcome.html

CREATE is jointly organised by the Human-Computer Interaction Specialist Group of the Ergonomics Society, the British Computing Society's Interaction Specialist Group and Edinburgh Napier University' Centre for Interaction Design.