This conference will be of interest to the list and if you can make it I
can personally say it is well worth the trip.
Chris
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From: John Odonoghue [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 25 June 2008 08:57
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Subject: ascilite 2008 Conference
The ascilite 2008 conference is being hosted by the Institute of
Teaching and Learning, Deakin University, Melbourne Australia November
30-December 3, 2008.
The ascilite 2008 conference theme is 'Hello! Where are you in the
landscape of educational technology?'
Don't miss out on early bird registration for the conference, visit:
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/register.htm
Keynote presenters include: Associate professor Piet Kommers, Associate
Professor Gary Poole and Dr Michelle Selinger.
Piet Kommers is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Behavioral
Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. His Keynote
presentation focuses on: Mobile and virtual presence in the learning
community.
Gary Poole is a member of the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology
at the University of British Columbia. His Keynote presentation focuses
on: A place to call a learning home.
Michelle Selinger joined Cisco in 2001 and in 2007 moved to Australia
from Europe to join Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group Public
Sector team for Asia-Pacific as Director of Education. Her Keynote
presentation focuses on: Through the looking glass.
Full papers, concise papers, posters and workshops will reflect on past
and current conceptions of the nature and dynamics of the educational
technology landscape in relation to the following themes:
1. Leading for unknown futures - who leads and for what
purposes in the changing landscape?
2. The emergence of Web 2.0 in the educational technology
landscape - everybody's talking, is anyone learning?
3. Who owns educational technology in the changing
landscape -
closed systems, open source, many agendas?
4. How can students, educators, researchers and
institutions act with integrity online in the educational technology
landscape?
5. What does it mean to be an online scholar in the
educational technology landscape - who, what, when, where, how and why?
6. Generation Why? Educational technology enabling learning
for all students in the landscape.
7. What are the changing relationships between people, the
virtual and the physical, and objects in the educational technology
landscape?
8. The internationalisation and globalisation of the
educational technology landscape - how far, how effectively, for what
purposes?
9. What counts as innovation in the educational technology
landscape?
You are invited to develop proposals for full papers, concise papers,
posters and workshops for ascilite 2008. The submission deadlines are:
Deadline for full and concise papers - 30 July 2008
Deadline for all workshop proposals - 30 July 2008
Deadline for all poster proposals - 15 October 2008
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