[ecrea] LINQ 2015: Calls for Papers, Projects and Workshops

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



LINQ 2015 Calls for Papers, Projects and Workshops on Learning 
Innovations and Quality for Changing and Opening Up Education



LINQ Conference 2015 Announces Motto as “The Need for Change in 
Education: Openness as Default?”



The 4th annual international conference “Learning Innovations and 
Quality” (LINQ 2015) has published its three calls related to this 
year’s theme, “The Need for Change in Education: Openness as Default?” 
Continuing the successful series of conferences from 2013 in Rome and 
2014 in Crete, LINQ returns to its birthplace in Brussels to discuss the 
place of open education and research in contemporary society. From 12 to 
13 May 2015, LINQ will convene international learning experts and 
practitioners from all educational sectors. Interested parties are 
invited to submit research papers, project overviews, and workshop 
proposals on the following themes by 4 February, 2015:



· Vision and needs for change in education through open learning worldwide

· Strategies and implementations of openness in learning processes

· Global aspects of high-quality open education

· Quality indicators and methods to describe, measure and evaluate 
quality for open education, OER and MOOCs

· Conceptual contributions on new and innovative quality models, 
methodologies, standards and approaches for open education and e-learning

· Practical experiences and reports with implementations of quality 
approaches for open education

· Competences required by institutions as well as by learners for 
designing, practicing and improving the quality of open learning

· Methodologies for and experience of increased recognition of open 
learning in formal, non-formal and informal learning, education and training

· Certification of open education and e-learning in institutions, 
programs &courses

· Integrated innovation and quality approaches for opening up education

· International, national and regional quality projects related to the 
themes of the conference



Submissions to both calls must be sent by 4 February, 2015, using the 
official LINQ templates available on the conference website (see below). 
All submissions to the call for papers are limited to a maximum of eight 
pages and will be reviewed by the international scientific LINQ 
Programme Committee through double-blind peer review. All submissions of 
research project descriptions to the call for projects are limited to 
one page and all submissions to the call for workshops answer all 
questions on the template completely.



Submitters will be informed of their acceptance by 20 March 2015. All 
accepted papers and project descriptions can be presented at the LINQ 
conference, will be published in the official proceedings (with ISBN) 
and distributed to all conference participants worldwide and online 
under open access guidelines. Selected papers will be invited to be 
published in an international journal.

Specific guidelines and requirements can be found on the conference 
website: www.learning-innovations.eu.



Attendance at the LINQ 2015 is subject to a conference fee and requires 
registration through the LINQ website, as space is limited. The 
conference fee includes all provisions, including warm lunches, coffee 
breaks, the conference bag, and a copy of the official conference 
proceedings. At least one author has to register for the conference for 
the publication of an accepted paper in the proceedings.



Overview of the important dates:

- Paper submission deadline: 4 February 2015

- Notification of acceptance: 20 March 2015

- Camera-Ready copy due: 31 March 2015

- LINQ Conference (preliminary): 12-13May 2015 in Brussels



For the latest information on the conference, please visit and like the 
LINQ Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LINQConference and follow the 
LINQ Twitter account @LINQ_Conference.



Direct enquiries and full papers can be sent to the LINQ Conference 
Manager Mrs Tatiana Shamarina-Heidenreich at the University of 
Duisburg-Essen, Germany ((Tatiana.Shamarina-Heidenreich /at/ icb.uni-due.de)).

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About the 4th European Conference on

Learning Innovations and Quality:



“The Need for Change in Education: Openness as Default?”





The main goal of LINQ 2015 is to bring together a variety of experts and 
professionals active in the field of innovations and quality in lifelong 
learning (LLL). LINQ will support an innovative exchange of the latest 
developments in learning, education and training innovations and quality 
on both a European and international level. Potential points of access 
to this field include new learning methods and design, open learning and 
education, technology-enhanced learning (TEL), quality standards and 
certification, human resources development, competences and skills, 
digital resources, learning materials, and online collaboration and 
communities.



LINQ 2014 attracted hundreds of submissions from throughout Europe, as 
well as Asia, America, and Africa. LINQ 2014 thus showed a continuation 
in the high level of interest which made LINQ 2013 such a successful 
conference with more than 200 participants from four continents. LINQ 
2015 will continue this trend in and return to its birthplace in 2012 in 
Brussels, Belgium.



More information about LINQ online:

www.learning-innovations.eu











LINQ 2015 Contact:

Conference Manager: Tatiana Shamarina-Heidenreich

Organization: University of Duisburg-Essen

Address: Universitaetsstr. 9 (ICB)

45141 Essen, GERMANY

E-Mail: (Tatiana.Shamarina-Heidenreich /at/ icb.uni-due.de)




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