In this post you can find three Call for Papers, two publication opportunities, and to start off multiple initiatives from EDEN (European Distance and eLearning Network) which has their online learning week (started yesterday, with free online seminars each day up until the 10th of November.
EDEN European Distance Learning week
An online, free event with daily seminars. The one for today is starting soon. More info
here or look at the upcoming events below.
You simply need to provide your name and email to get registered, and also receive the link to the recording.
Perspectives on Open Education
Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 13:00-14:30 CET
Format: Presentations and panel discussion
Moderator: Fabio Nascimbeni, EDEN Executive Committee member
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Designing Learning Spaces in Open and Distance Learning
Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 13:00-14:30 CET
Format: Presentations and discussion
Moderator: Lisa Marie Blaschke, EDEN Vice-President
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Re-considering Access, Quality and Flexibility of Education
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 13:00-14:30 CET
Format: Presentation and discussions
Moderator: Sandra Kucina Softic, EDEN Vice President
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International Experiences with OER
Friday, November 10, 2017, 13:00-14:30 CET
Format: Presentation
Moderator: Antonella Poce, EDEN NAP Steering Committee Chair
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EDEN Open Classroom Conference: Introducing Agenda for Open Professional Collaboration – Plenary broadcast
Friday, November 10, 2017, 9:45 – 11:45 CET
Format: Plenary Session live stream – Live streaming of the
plenary session of the EDEN Open Classroom Conference held in Kaunas,
Lithuania. Link to the broadcast will be announced soon. Participants
will be able to ask questions using the
conference website.
Moderators: Kristijonas Jakubsonas, Elena Trepulė
Keynote speakers:
- Digitally competent teachers in the area of Open Education, Yves Punie, European Commission – DG JRC – Directorate Innovation and Growth
- The Joyous Voyage: situating open learning in a fractured world, Alan Bruce, Universal Learning Systems, Ireland, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
- National ICT Implementation Initiatives for Educational Openness, Vaino Brazdeikis, Ministry of Education and Science of The Republic of Lithuania
- Implementing recognition of open non-formal learning. Organizational perspective, Airina Volungevičienė, European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN), Vytautas Magnus University
A conference on EdTech, MOOCs related to languages for digital lives and cultures.
Conference dates: 24-26 May 2018
Venue: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Abdisstraat 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium.
Call for abstracts deadline: 10 December 2018 (an 300 - 500 word abstract, more
CfP info here).
More information:
http://www.tislid18.ugent.be/
This conference offers a great opportunity to interchange knowledge and
experiences, both in a formal and informal, creative way, regarding
language-based digital realities. This event aims to promote
academic debate on digital language technologies, with a special focus
on their potential for promoting communication and (lifelong) learning.
The conference will include keynotes, paper presentations, posters, a
roundtable debate (on Thursday and Friday) and workshops (on Saturday).
14th International Conference Mobile Learning 2018
Conference dates: 14 – 16 April 2018, Lisbon, Portugal
Deadline for papers: 8 December 2017
* Conference ScopeMobile
learning is concerned with a society on the move. In particular, with
the study of “…how the mobility of learners augmented by personal and
public technology can contribute to the process of gaining new
knowledge, skills and experience” (Sharples et al. 2007).The
ML Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and
discussion of mobile learning research which illustrate developments in
the field. For more details and information about topics please check http://www.mlearning-conf.org/call-for-papers* Paper SubmissionThis
is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit
their papers in English through the conference submission system by December 8, 2017. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously. * Important Dates:- Submission Deadline: 8 December 2017- Notification to Authors: 8 January 2018- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 29 January 2018- Late Registration: After 29 January 2018* Paper PublicationThe
papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will
be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch. The
conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by IET’s
INSPEC, Elsevier, EI Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters Web of Science,
ERIC and other important indexing services. * Conference Contact: E-mail: secretariat@mlearning-conf.orgWeb site: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/
Subject: investigating the micro, meso and macro in digital learning landscapes
Deadline for submissions: 5 February 2018
Information on the call for papers/workshops:
http://www.eden-online.org/2018_genoa/submission/
Scope of the conference:
The demand for people with new, enhanced skills is growing. The
volume of information produced and shared in all fields is overwhelming.
Building the data economy became part of the EU Digital Single Market.
Powerful and sophisticated ICT is part of everyday life, and the world
of learning is not an exception. Pressure is on all players of the
online education community to keep up with new learning solutions, and
better supply the skills currently demanded by growing economies.
Open Education continues its success, providing radical advances in
knowledge acquisition, sharing, distribution, and improving business
models. Digital credentials and open badges are the new currencies which
are beginning to transform the economic models in education.
Social and economic tensions continue to raise the issues of
scalability, the micro-credentialling of education, training and skill
development processes. Practitioners and stakeholders are eagerly
seeking right approaches to providing learning opportunities, and many
scholars are researching holistic answers.
Micro, meso and macro aspects provide an interesting range of lenses
for considering the problem. These aspects may be applied in a general
sense, distinguishing between the learning of individuals (e.g through
mobile learning), learning at the institutional or group levels through a
meso lens, and the learning of organizations or societies directed
through policies through the macro lens.
EDENchat initiative, using the twitter chat approach on subjects related to distance, open and eLearning
#EDENChat is an online discussion event on Twitter
initiated by Steering Committee of the EDEN Network of Academics and
Professionals (NAP). It is mediated by members of the NAP community and
runs for approximately 1 hour. Anyone can join in and contribute to the
discussion which is presented in a Question and Answer format, and
focuses on current issues in distance, open and e-learning.
EDENchat schedule:
| European Distance Learning Week #EDENChat |
November 8, 2017 |
| What is Open Web? |
November 22, 2017 |
| What are Open Licenses? |
December 6, 2017 |
| What are Open Degrees & Open Badges? |
December 20, 2017 |
More information (and prior chat info):
http://www.eden-online.org/events/ and here
http://www.eden-online.org/resources/edenchat/
Opportunities for publication: one on mobile learning, and one on launching at technology driven university.
IGI global: Handbook of Research on Challenges and Opportunities in Launching a Technology-Driven International University
Publication edited byDr. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Executive Director of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA).
Deadline for chapter proposals: 30
November 2017.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by no
later than December 13, 2017 about the status of their proposals and
will receive chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be
submitted by January 30, 2018. All submitted chapters will be reviewed
on a double-blind basis. Contributors may also be requested to be
engaged as reviewers for this project.
To view the full call for papers, with recommended topic areas, please visit the link here:
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2913
The aim of this publication is to offer both empirical and theoretical research focused on the effective construction of technology-driven higher learning international universities. Themes such as: developing an accelerated and innovative curriculum, the recruitment and retention of internationally renowned faculty and researchers to lead courses, as well as the development of an on-campus and distance learning system will be presented. Also, taking into consideration the financial and economic impacts of launching a university – specifically, how to identify the appropriate locale for universities and/or branch campuses, which will ideally complement the local interest of business sectors within the selected location.
The target audience for this publication will be entrepreneurs, practitioners, academicians, instructional designers, administrators, government officials, and independent researchers and consultants focused on online education research and scholarship, educational leadership and administration, educational marketing, educational policy, course management, instructional design, educational theory and practice, human resources in educational settings, and curriculum design and management.
Mobile book looking for contributors, but it costs 350 Swiss Franks (approx. 300 EUR or 350 USD)
This looks like a good, yet paid, opportunity for those wanting to get a chapter in a research book on mobile learning. The publication is
international and Open Access, but indeed the publishers demand a downpayment to get accepted (so, only when you will be published) chapters published.
Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102,
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/education) is currently running a Special Issue "Mobile Learning" (
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/Mobile_Learning), which is guest edited by
Prof. Maria Uther, from the University of Winchester, UK.
The submission deadline is
31 May 2018.
You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted
papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
This Special Issue,
Mobile Learning, addresses the increasing
popularity of mobile devices and their potential for developing
learning. Articles are welcomed for inclusion
in this Special Issue that:
(1) provide empirical evidence on the
efficacy of mobile devices for learning applications; (2) showcase novel
uses or technical developments for mobile devices in learning; (3)
review pedagogical and user interface design considerations and develop
theories around the design of mobile learning applications; (4)
interface mobile technologies with other technologies to enhance
learning (e.g., speech recognition, augmented reality,
psychophysiological recording); and (5) offer examples of situated
learning (e.g. using augmented/virtual reality technology) with mobile
devices. The above topics are indicative and we would also welcome any
papers relating to mobile learning that do not immediately fit into the
above categories.
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/Mobile_Learning. We
also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to
the Editorial Office in advance (
education@mdpi.com).
If the Special Issue collects more than 10 papers, it will be made
available in printed book format. An example could be seen at
http://books.mdpi.com/.
/Education Sciences/ (ISSN 2227-7102) is an international and open
access journal, which is double-blind peer-reviewed. It is published by
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/education.
Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity
and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies.
Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. More
information is available at
http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.
If you decide to submit to this Special Issue, Article Processing
Charges (APC) of CHF 350 is applied. For more information on APCs please
visit
http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/
