[ecrea] Call for Proposals – 12th DIVERSE conference. July 3rd - July 6th 2012. Leuven, Belgium

Call for Proposals – 12th DIVERSE conference. July 3rd - July 6th 2012. 
Leuven, Belgium

The DIVERSE Conference is an annual gathering of academics, teachers, 
technologists and students that engages participants in an ongoing 
dialogue on the effective uses of visual media in education. The event 
includes a large number of presentations, discussions and workshops on a 
range of topics related to the conference themes.

Conference website: http://www.diverse2012.eu/

** Call for Papers **

The Call for Papers is now open. We kindly invite you to submit papers 
about projects, ideas, experiences or research results related to one of 
the following conference themes:

1. Engaging Learning Materials
How to make video a  more engaging learning object: How and why are you 
working on the enrichment of video content? Are you working on the 
creation of open content? What are your experiences with the use of 
video in e-books? Which combinations of content work and which do not?

2. Innovative Learning Spaces
Visual resources and the future of education and research. Where does 
media fit in the future classroom? Will we see a convergence between the 
online learning space and the on-campus location in the future? How will 
upcoming technologies (mobile, virtual, community support, html5, etc.) 
change educational practice?

3. Access and Digital Ability
How can visual media support or help people with special needs? Which 
choices are helpful, which create a challenge? What is your experience 
with closed captioning, audio description, subtitles, etc. in relation 
to digital video (such as lecture capturing)?

4. Blended Learning
This track looks at practices and examples of blended learning 
initiatives, which can demonstrate the balancing act between physical 
classroom experiences and online learning experiences.
At its simplest, 
blended learning environments are a thoughtful alignment of physical 
classroom learning experiences with online learning experiences. On one 
end this alignment can be the integration of audiovisual materials to 
foster an extensive understanding of a particular concept related to the 
learning context. On the other end the alignment of physical classroom 
learning experiences with online learning experiences can be the 
implementation of streaming audiovisual content (for example web 
lectures) to replace one of the learning experiences. There is a 
considerable intuitive appeal to this approach and to the concept of 
integrating the strengths of real-life and virtual learning activities.

5. Projects & Cases
Interesting projects or experiments that think about other issues 
related to the use of visual media in education. This topic bundles all 
experiences or ideas you have and want to share with the DIVERSE community.

All paper proposals must be submitted via the online submission form 
(which will be available by January 15th, 2012) on the Diverse 2012 
website: http://www.diverse2012.eu/

• Abstracts must be submitted by March 15th, 2012.
• Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words.
• All abstracts will be peer reviewed prior to acceptance after which 
you will be notified whether your abstract has been accepted or not
• Accepted papers will be invited to extend their abstract into a full 
paper, considered for publication in the conference proceedings which 
will be published Spring 2013
• If you are unfamiliar with the themes, levels of technicality or 
academic register of DIVERSE, please review some of the abstracts for 
one of the previous DIVERSE Conferences in Haarlem