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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (1st call extension): 4 
December 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2010
Porto, Portugal, 19 to 21 March 2010
(http://www.mlearning-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor John Traxler, Director, Learning Lab, University of Wolverhampton, UK

* Conference background and goals

Mobile Learning, a Retrospective Outlook  
 
Since its inauguration in 2005, the IADIS Mobile Learning conference series 
has provided a forum to present, discuss and promote international mobile 
learning research.
 
Past conference themes have focused on pedagogical approaches most suited 
for mobile learning such as collaborative, contextual, and constructivist which 
support data collection, context & location awareness and distributed 
activities. In 2007 the conference aimed to harness an international 
perspective on the ‘big issues’ in mobile learning by discussing topics such as 
the conflict between personal informal learning and traditional classroom 
education, the evaluation of mobile learning and appropriate methods for this 
setting, the design of mobile learning activities and the integration of mobile 
devices in the broader educational scenarios, among others. In 2008, our 
concern was to explore various dimensions of the learners’ mobility for 
example, physical, conceptual and social, to discern how these in conjunction 
with mobile and fix technologies may support learning. Last year, the 
conference debated the increasing phenomenon of user generated content, in 
particular mobile media.
 
Five years on, the IADIS Mobile Learning 2010 International Conference seeks 
to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning 
research which provides a retrospective outlook of the field. We seek 
contributions under the topics below which illustrate developments in the field.

* Format of the Conference 
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The 
proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-
ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library 
(accessible on-line). 
The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their 
papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems 
(ISSN: 1646-3692) and also in other selected Journals. 

* Types of submissions 
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, 
Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions 
are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics

We invite researchers, practitioners, developers and all those working in the 
mobile learning arena to submit work under the following topics:
• Pedagogical approaches and theories for mLearning
• mLearning in formal educational institutions
• Integrating mLearning with broader educational scenarios
• Informal and lifelong mLearning 
• Learner mobility & transitions across physical, conceptual, social space and 
technologies 
• User Studies in mLearning
• Mobile social media & user generated content 
• Enabling mLearning technologies, applications & uses 
• Evaluation and evaluation methodologies for mLearning
• Tools, technologies and platforms for mLearning
• Mobile Web 2.0 applications for mLearning 
• Mobile game-based learning 

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (1st call extension): 4 December 2009
- Notification to Authors (1st call extension): 6 January 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call extension): 
Until 27 January 2010
- Late Registration (1st call extension): After 27 January 2010
- Conference: Porto, Portugal, 19 to 21 March 2010

* Conference Location 
The conference will be held in Porto, Portugal. 

* Secretariat 
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 
2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal 
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web site: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

* Program Committee 

Mobile Learning 2010 Program Chair
Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Mobile Learning 2010 Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Steering Committee
to be announced

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.mlearning-
conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
e-Society 2010 (http://www.esociety-conf.org/) - 18-21 March 2010
Information Systems 2010 (http://www.is-conf.org/) - 18-20 March 2010 


* Registered participants in the Mobile Learning’ conference may attend e-
Society and Information Systems 
conferences’ sessions free of charge.