Dear Colleague,
Please find below details of our annual educational technology conference
Shock of the Old 8, which is on the 2nd April 2009. This year's conference
theme is "Digital literacy: the place of new media in higher education".
We currently have an open "Call for Papers and Posters" for the conference
and the deadline for submission is Friday 9th January 2009 with notification
to authors on 19th January 2009. Full details on submission are available
via the web site at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock2009
Whilst web-based tools are rapidly becoming standard in education and in the
workplace and technologically-mediated communication is the norm, fluency in
information, visual, and technological literacy is not formally taught to
most students, according to the Educause 2008 Horizon report. We therefore
need new definitions of academic digital literacy.
Presentations and Posters should address either:
Research reports and case studies of teaching using student- or
teacher-created audio, video, images, simulations, hypertext or virtual
worlds in academic subjects which:
* explore the challenges that the use of these new technologies brings to
received wisdom in the planning, design, assessment and evaluation of
teaching and learning activities.
* explore the impact that the use of these new technologies has on
motivation, participation and differentiation.
* reflect on the skills and knowledge (competencies) required by students
and staff in this context.
* identify new approaches to relevant skills training.
Or:
Theoretical or position papers on new academic literacy in areas such as
modelling, collaborative working, computer gaming, mash-ups, co-creation and
open content .
As a slight departure from previous years the conference will be followed
the next day not by the Beyond Debate, but this year we will be hosting a
conference "Beyond Walls", concerning production, processing and
distribution of digital media such as video, audio and podcasts. Details of
this are still being finalised but we hope to circulate before Christmas.
We hope that you will find this information of interest and hope to see you
again at the conferences.
Kind regards
Paul
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Dr Paul V Davis
Deputy Head, Learning Technologies Group
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN
Tel: 01865 283414
The Educause Horizon report:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/2008HorizonReport/45926
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