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Announcing eLit2006: Digital literacies and learning in the information
society - Call for papers
28th - 30th June 2005 at Loughborough University, East Midlands, UK.
eLit2006 is the 5th international conference examining the challenge of
eLiteracy. The conference is for all those interested in eLiteracy
issues, including information literacy, IT training and the challenges of
supporting the wide range of literacies which underpin online education.
It will draw together: Librarians and Information specialists, IT service
providers, IT trainers, Learning advisors, Learning technologists, Staff
developers, Educational researchers, Teachers and many others.
Keynote speakers are:
Hilda Kruger (Lecturer in Socio-Informatics, Centre for Knowledge
Dynamics and Decision-making, University of Stellenbosch)
Mark Stiles (Head of Learning Development and Innovation, Staffordshire
University)
John Traxler (Director of the Applied Innovative Digital Technologies
Research Group, School of Computing and IT, University of Wolverhampton)
The main themes of the conference are Digital literacies as a cultural
tool, Literacies for the Information Society, Pedagogy for an e-literate
world and Synergies for empowerment.
Call for papers: Deadline for submission of papers to eLit 2006 is
Friday 31 March 2006. Proposals can be submitted online at
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/eLit2006/index.html
All papers will be considered for publication in a joint issue of JeLit
http://www.jelit.org/ and Italics
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/index.htm
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