Thursday 21 January 2016

Call for papers: mobile and online learning #CfP

Just a couple of open calls to get papers and/or speaking proposals in:

Practical Pedagogies 2016: 3 - 4 November 2016 in Toulouse, France.

A high-impact, grass-roots training conference for classroom teachers by classroom teachers. Two days of inspiring keynotesworkshops and evening social events: only 100 Euros*
Workshop leaders attend free of charge - submit your proposal here in January 2016!
not-for-profit event at the International School of Toulouse, November 3rd/4th 2016.
Important dates: Proposals need to be submitted by 30 January 2016.

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EDEN Annual Conference 2016, Budapest

Re-Imagining Learning Environments

Dates: 14-17 June 2016
Venue: Budapest, Hungary
More information/website here.

Important dates:
Submission for all Categories: 1 February 2016
Except: Synergy Submission: 29 February 2016
Registration Open: mid-February 2016
Notification of Authors: 31 March 2016
Conference Dates: 14-17 June 2016


Description: The responsibility of the scholarly community includes widening the concept of learning and its role in society and exploiting transformative knowledge to drive social change.
We need renowned reflections of practice that support paradigm-changing transformations based on systematic knowledge.
Join the Conference in Budapest to tell about your research, projects and experience!
Networking and interactivity, sharing and discussion will be core aspects of the conference experience, focusing on what you can learn from and with your peers.
Submissions that relate to the Conference Scope and one or more of the Conference Themes are welcome in paper, poster, workshop, training, demonstration and synergy formats.

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12th International Conference Mobile Learning 2016, will take place 9 - 11 April 2016 in Algarve, Portugal
(http://www.mlearning-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Andreas Dengel, Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Kaiserslautern, and Professor, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

* Conference Scope
Mobile learning is concerned with a society on the move. In particular, with the study of ".how the mobility of learners augmented by personal and public technology can contribute to the process of gaining new knowledge, skills and experience" (Sharples et al. 2007).
The ML Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning research which illustrate developments in the field.
For more details and information about topics please check http://www.mlearning-conf.org/call-for-papers

* Paper Submission
This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously.

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (last call): 5 February 2016
- Notification to Authors (last call): 29 February 2016
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call): Until 18 March 2016
- Late Registration (last call): After 18 March 2016

* Paper Publication
The papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch.
The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by IET's INSPEC, Elsevier, EI Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, ERIC and other important indexing services.
Authors of the best published papers in the Mobile Learning 2016 proceedings will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the "International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (ISSN: 1941-8647)".

* Conference Contact:
E-mail: secretariat@mlearning-conf.org
Web site: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

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Call for Papers: Special Section on Hot Spots in Learning Analytics from Latin America
More information: SOLAR / LAK website here.

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Submission by: 25 February 2016
* First reviews: 10 June 2016
* Revised submission: 10 July 2016
* Final reviews: 25 August 2016
* Final versions: 10 September 2016
GUEST EDITORS:
Cristian Cechinel, Federal University of Pelotas, UFPel (Brazil)
Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Politécnica Superior del Litoral, ESPOL (Ecuador)

AIM & SCOPE
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Learning Analytics has been distinguishing itself as one of the fields of learning technologies with the highest growth in the last years. This growth and attention has to do with the fact that Learning Analytics has become a multidisciplinary area where computer scientists, learning researchers, educational managers and practitioners can all cohabit. Learning Analytics aims to use the knowledge developed by these different professionals not just to understand, but also to improve learning processes. Through the analysis of digital and analogical traces left by students and professors during the process of teaching and learning, researchers of this field extract key indicators that allow for the development of systems and tools that are able to improve the effectiveness of the process itself.

This new field of investigation has been widely developed in Anglo Saxon countries. USA, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are amongst the main contributors to this domain. Latin America is also starting to measure and optimize teaching and learning processes through Learning Analytics; however, the existing efforts in this direction are very isolated as there is a lack of a regional community to foster the interchange of ideas, methodologies, tools and local results in the field. In 2015, during the 4th Brazilian Conference of Informatics in Education (CBIE) and the X Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technologies (LACLO), the First Latin American Workshop on Learning Analytics (LALA’15) was organized as a forum for researchers of Learning Analytics in Latin America to meet each other and share their investigations. The aim of the present Call for papers is twofold, first, to widespread the best papers presented at LALA’15, and second, to enable other Learning Analytics groups from Latin America to present their research work to the international community.
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Global Learning in College

A Network for Academic Renewal Conference
October 6-8, 2016 in Denver, Colorado; USA.
More information/website here: http://www.aacu.org/meetings/global/16 

Proposals Due Friday, February 26, 2016
The Association of American Colleges and Universities is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for AAC&U’s 2016 Conference on Global Learning in College.
Sessions at this conference will examine how institutions are integrating and assessing global learning across the curriculum and in general education; creating, implementing, and assessing globally-focused courses and programs; developing and implementing global civic engagement experiences at home and abroad; integrating international students in meaningful ways; providing global learning experiences for new majority students; and examining global sustainability issues.
AAC&U invites proposals that examine how faculty, student affairs educators, and all campus sectors are working individually and collaboratively to advance student understanding of, commitment to, and agency for effectively and meaningfully engaging the global issues of their time. Proposals that showcase evidence-based practices that reflect any of the themes below, and that can be adapted readily to a wide range of institutional types, including community colleges and minority-serving institutions, are encouraged.
  • Outcomes, Assessment, and Curriculum/Co-Curriculum Global Learning Pathways
  • Ethical Obligations to International and Domestic Students and Community Partners
  • Strategic Planning for Global Learning: Designs for Greater Inclusivity
  • Integration of Global Learning with Other High-Impact Educational Practices
Visit the Call for Proposals to find out how to submit a proposal to share your work at the conference.
For more information, please call 202.387.3760, or write to Karen Kalla atnetwork@aacu.org.