Important dates:
- Full
paper submissions - 5 May 2011
- Notification
of
acceptance - 10 June 2011
- Last
date
for early-bird registration - 26
July 2011
- Full
paper
and/or slide show for Technology
Showcases - 1 September 2011
- Submission
of
full papers to special issues of
JCAL and IJMBL - 30 November
2011
All accepted
papers will be considered by the
Programme Committee for
Outstanding Paper Awards.
Certificates will be issued to 10
outstanding papers of at least one
registered author. There is an
opportunity to be invited to
deliver the keynote speech at
mLearn 2011.
mLearn was
the first
conference on Mobile Learning and
is widely recognised as the
premiere
international conference on
learning with mobile technologies
and learning
across contexts. Each year, it
attracts a great number of
participants from
more than 60 countries
representing all continents, and
acts as a forum for
knowledge sharing and transfer
across
cultures. The past mLearn
conferences were held in the UK,
Italy, Australia, South Africa,
Canada, the
USA, and Malta ( http://www.iamlearn.org/resources/).
It is the
first time that mLearn
comes to East Asia.
This tenth annual conference will
be hosted by Beijing Normal
University (http://www.bnu.edu.cn/eng/)
in collaboration with IAMLearn -
the International Association for
Mobile Learning (http://www.iamlearn.org/).
CONFERENCE
THEME: Mobile and Contextual
Learning: Culture and Change
The
conference aims to stimulate
critical debate on and
research into theories,
approaches, and applications of
mobile and contextual
learning; to bring together
researchers and practitioners from
all over the
world to share their knowledge,
experience and research in the
field of mobile
learning; and to create dialogue
and networking for
knowledge sharing and transfer
across the globe. The conference
is now open for
submission, and we welcome
contributions from
academic researchers, developers,
professionals, practitioners, and
educators
from school education, higher
education, industry, government,
international
organisations, etc.
Topics
of interest are:
- mobile learning across formal
and informal settings
-ubiquitous and ambient learning
and technology
- models for learning in a mobile
context
- open and distance education with
mobile devices
i- nteroperability and standards
for mobile learning
- socio-cultural context of mobile
learning
- assessment for learning with
mobile devices.
- challenges for mobile learning
in developing countries
- strategies of mobile learning in
schools, higher institutions,
industry, and organisations
- ethics of researching and
implementing mobile learning
- adaptive, virtual or
collaborative environments for
mobile learning
- mobile learning: theory, design
and pedagogy
- innovative approaches to
learning by means of current and
emerging mobile technologies
- mobile learning across cultures
and sub-cultures
- research methods in mobile and
contextual learning
- mobile and contextual aspects of
social media and user-generated
content
- mobile learning: yesterday,
today and tomorrow
Submissions
are invited for:
- Long papers (8 pages)
- Short papers (3 pages)
- Workshops (2 pages)
- Posters (300 words)
- Panels (500 words)
- Industry showcase
&presentation (1-2
page)
- Doctoral Consortium (4
pages)
All
submitted papers
will be blind reviewed by
at least three members of an
international panel of research
leaders in the
area of mobile and contextual
learning. Accepted papers
of at least one registered author
will be published in the printed
and the CD
versions of the proceedings. The
proceedings will also be published
via the web
for Full Open
Access. Authors of accepted papers
will have the opportunity to have
their
submissions considered for
special issues of
the SSCI-indexed Journal of
Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL)
and
the International Journal of
Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL).
log in
