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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (1st call extension): 19 
November 2008 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2009
Barcelona, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2009
(http://www.mlearning-conf.org/)


* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Angela McFarlane, Director of Content and Learning at the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
Professor Hiroaki Ogata, University of Tokushima, Japan

* Conference background and goals

User Created Content & Mobile Technologies: From Consumers to Creators 
bypassing the Learning opportunity?

Over the pass three years Mobile and Social technologies have featured 
strongly in the Horizon Report series which examines emerging technologies 
likely to have an impact on teaching, learning. Mobile devices have progressed 
from an adoption 
projection of two to three years in 2006, to a much more imminent adoption 
prediction trajectory of a year or less in 2008. 
Whether earlier the educational value of mobile technologies was thought to 
be delivery of content to people’s devices, the emphasis now has clearing 
changed to focus on their capabilities that enable users creating and sharing 
content.    

The ‘former audience’ combines traditional activities such as searching, 
reading, watching and listening, with producing, commenting, sharing, and 
classifying its own content. New genres of filmmaking and photography where 
the message gains ground over the form are developing. The proliferation of 
user-created content is fuelled by the wide availability of at-hand mundane 
technology such as mobile telephones, and the wider broadcasting outlets. 
These are mainly web-based however increasingly user-created content such 
as videos of breaking news stories feature in traditional broadcasting channels 
as for instance television.
The increasing range of web 2.0 and mundane technology choices, facilitating 
the development of user-created content and providing opportunities to meet 
and collaborate, offers immense potential for teaching and learning. However, 
the danger remains that the transition from consumer to creator might miss 
the learning opportunity. 

The IADIS Mobile Learning 2009 International Conference seeks to provide a 
forum for the discussion and presentation of mobile learning research. In 
particular, but not exclusively, we aim to explore the transition from content 
consumer to 
content creator in experiences that take advantage of the learning 
opportunities this provides.

* 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
- Collaborative, cooperative, and Contextual mLearning
- Creativity and mLearning
- Gaming and simulations in mLearning
- mLearning in educational institutions: primary, secondary and third level
- Informal and Lifelong mLearning  
- New tools, technologies, and platforms for mLearning
- User Studies in mLearning
- The social phenomenon of mobile devices and mLearning
- mLearning in developing countries
- Speculative ideas in mLearning: where next?


* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (1st call extension): 19 November 2008
- Notification to Authors (1st call extension): 17 December 2008 
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call extension): 
Until 12 January 2009 
- Late Registration (1st call extension): After 12 January 2009 
- Conference: Barcelona, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2009

* Conference Location 
The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain. 

* Secretariat 
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 
2009
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 2009 Program Chair
Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Mobile Learning 2009 Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Steering Committee
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Open University, UK
David Parsons, Massey University, New Zealand
John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Mike Sharples, University of Nottingham, UK

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 2009 (http://www.esociety-conf.org/) - 25-28 February 2009
Information Systems 2009 (http://www.is-conf.org/) - 25-27 February 2009 


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