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The Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Scotland, UK. February 9-12th,
2003
Refereed Paper Track
GLOBAL DIRECTIONS IN eLEARNING: Assessing "Promising Practices" and the
Future(s) of eLearning in Organizational Transformation
Call for Papers
Scottish Enterprise, the national economic development agency for Scotland, is
hosting a major international conference designed to facilitate an open and
honest discussion among practitioners, consultants, academics and government
officials on global developments and promising practices and products in
eLearning. The conference has attracted a large number of world-renowned
keynote speakers and track speakers from four continents, including
representatives of business, government and the academy (see the outline
conference programme). This is an event which will help those attending gain a
deep understanding of eLearning and the eLearning industry and where important
networks and collaborations will be built . As such the conference will be one
of the most important of its kind in the world during 2003 and is a "must
attend" for practitioners, academics and consultants with an interest in
eLearning in organizations and education. The main conference themes are:
* Global developments in eLearning: Do cultural differences
matter in eLearning? Can we think global and act local in eLearning? What can
we learn from other countries? How does eLearning impact on corporate and
employer branding?
* "Promising practices or best practices" in eLearning? Key
issues and promising practices and products in the European corporate and
higher educational worlds.
* ELearning, national economic and organizational performance:
Can nation states and organizations leverage eLearning for success? If so, what
are the key factors that are likely to facilitate or hinder such developments?
* What is the relationship between eLearning, organizational
learning and knowledge management? Is there likely to be a fusion between the
two industries? How can organizations learn through web-enabled communication
and what can't they learn?
* The problems of globalising eLearning: "one-size-fits-all" or
"horses for courses"? Are there any rules in this game that organizations can
usefully use in the increasingly unknowable world? If so, what are they and how
universal are they?
* How can we best support the eLearner? What are the barriers to
eLearning and how can they be overcome?
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Measuring the impact of eLearning in organizations: How do we know that
it is all worthwhile and what of the future(s)?
As part of our global examination, we wish to reflect thoroughly on existing
"promising practices" and the future(s) of eLearning as they apply to
organizational learning, change and performance. Consequently, we are inviting
papers from academics and reflective practitioners that address these broad
topics. All papers will be refereed by an international advisory board of
leading academics and practitioners, and those authors that have their papers
selected will be invited to present them in a refereed paper stream at the
conference.
The conference organizers and sponsors are donating prizes for up to the twelve
"best papers" as judged by the academic and practitioner referees. If accepted
for presentation at the conference, the author(s) will be awarded an honorarium
of £1000 in total towards the cost of travel, accommodation and other expenses.
In addition, the conference fee will be waived for presenting authors. For the
paper that is judged to be the most outstanding of the twelve, one of the main
conference sponsors are putting up an additional award of £2000 to be used to
help the author(s) further their research or practice.
Papers that are accepted for presentation but fall outside those judged to be
in the "best paper" category, will be presented online in the official
conference website. Participants will have the opportunity to post their papers
and engage in online discussion over a period of one year following the
conference. Participants who fall in this category will be entitled to a
substantially reduced conference rate for paper track presenters.
All authors with papers accepted after the refereeing process will be invited
to submit their work to a special edition of a leading academic journal in HRD
and/or a book on Global Directions in eLearning, currently under negotiation
with a major UK publisher.
The conference is being held at the International Conference Centre in one of
Europe's most attractive capital cities, well served by international airports,
rail and motorway connections. Edinburgh is a short flight from London and most
European capital cities as well as being only a short drive from Glasgow
International Airport, which has direct flights to the US. The conference
organizers have negotiated favourable rates with a range of local hotels within
walking distance of the Conference Centre.
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Submission details:
The advisory group for the conference invites submissions of abstracts on
leading edge thinking and practice in eLearning, especially those which address
the main conference themes. The conference is seeking all kinds of qualitative,
experience-based and quantitative papers, as well as case studies of promising
practices and lessons from less-than-successful practice. These may be reports
of work-in-progress from academics, practitioners, consultants, vendors and
government departments.
Abstract details: No more than 750 words to be received by 30 Sept 2002.
Abstracts must include, in the main body of the document, a title, names and
affiliations of all authors. We also require a postal address, telephone number
and email address for at least one contact author. Only the title should be in
14pt type, centered and in bold. The names and affiliations of all authors
(including the details of the contact author) should be centred, but not in
bold. The rest of the text should be in 12 pt type and left aligned. The
preferred font type is Times New Roman.
The Abstract should state clearly (1) the main aim of the paper, (2) the key
issues, "conversations" and/or literature that the paper will address or draw
upon, (3) the nature of any data, case study material, reviews of literature,
etc., (4) what has been found from preliminary analysis of any data, etc., and,
(5) the intended/actual contribution of the paper to knowledge and practice in
the field of eLearning.
File type: Word for Windows.
Submission: By e-mail attachment to Graeme Martin (Best Paper Track Chair),
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Full paper: Only required on acceptance of abstract and not to be more than
6,000 words. Submission date will be no later than December 31st, 2002.
Important dates:
<<...OLE_Obj...>> Abstract submission deadline: 30th Sept 2002
<<...OLE_Obj...>> Notification of acceptance: 7th November,
2002
<<...OLE_Obj...>> Final copy of full paper due: 31st December,
2002
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