Conference announcement and call for papers
"Mobile learning: Crossing boundaries in convergent environments" Conference
Monday to Tuesday, March 21st to 22nd, 2011 in Bremen, Germany
Submission deadline: January 7, 2011
The conference is hosted by the University of
Bremen, run by the Department for Media
Education and Design of Multimodal Learning
Environments and by the Institute Technology and
Education (ITB) in association with the London
Mobile Learning Group (LMLG), Pontydysgu and MirandaNet.
The 'Mobile learning: Crossing boundaries in
convergent environments' Conference builds on a
series of mobile learning research symposia
hosted by the WLE Centre for Excellence at the
Institute of Education, University of London
between 2007 and 2009. It will focus on the
challenges of developing new pedagogic
approaches and on the potential of mobile
devices for learning in formal and informal
contexts. As mobile learning is not only about
learning with mobile technologies, but also
considered to be "new" learning, the conference
will look at challenges for research and
practice in understanding the changing social
and technological structures allowing the use of
technology for learning that are present in our
personal lives, in school and in work places.
Thus mobile learning crosses the boundary of
institutional learning and looks at practical
fields like work-based learning and medicine,
too. Also, the conference will look at the
latest developments in hardware and software
which can support personalised learning. By
focusing on theory and practice, development and
use, teaching and learning, formal and informal
contexts, the conference intends to offer spaces
for researchers, practitioners, developers, the
industry and policy makers to exchange ideas,
experiences and research around issues and
approaches to mobile learning, including
sociological and educational issues and their
effectiveness and desirability as learning
spaces as well as the design of environments.
The conference is preceded by the EduCamp, a
BarCamp for people interested in media and
learning, which will take place in Bremen from
March 19-20, 2011. In collaboration with
MirandaNet, the conference is running a
MirandaMod on March 21-22, 2011 which addresses
teachers and practitioners who are interested in
teaching and learning with new technologies.
Pontydysgu will broadcast their live internet
radio show "Sounds of the Bazaar LIVE Radio Programme" from the conference.
The call for papers and further information is
available at the conference website:
<http://bremen.londonmobilelearning.net/>http://bremen.londonmobilelearning.net.
The conference fee is 50 EUR (students and unemployed are free)
Important dates:
* October 31, 2010: submission opens
* December N.N., 2010: registration opens
* January 7, 2011: submission closes
* March 6, 2011: registration closes
* March 21-22, 2011: conference
We look forward to seeing you in Bremen.
The Organising Committee
* Klaus Rummler (LMLG; University of Bremen,
FB12, Department for Media Education and Design
of Multimodal Learning Environments)
* Judith Seipold (LMLG; Bremen)
* Prof. Karsten Wolf (University of Bremen,
FB12, Department for Media Education and Design
of Multimodal Learning Environments)
* Prof. Norbert Pachler (LMLG; Institute of Education, University of London)
* Dr. Eileen Lübcke (University of Bremen,
Institute Technology and Education (ITB))
* Graham Attwell (LMLG; Pontydysgu)
