Conference on MOOCs, Language Learning and Mobility
When: 13-14 October 2017
Where: Naples, Italy
Deadline for submissions: 17 June
2017
The University of Naples L’Orientale
together with Federazione Nazionale Insegnanti Centro di iniziativa per
l’Europa (FENICE), as one of the partners of the project "MOOCs for
University Students on the Move in Europe" (MOVE-ME) funded by the
Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, invite you to attend the Second
International conference on "MOOCs, Language Learning and
Mobility".
The conference will take place on 13 - 14 October 2017 at
Palazzo Du Mesnil, via Chiatamone, 61 Naples 80121 in a central zone, near the
Castel dell’Ovo, the sea and in close proximity to some of the best city
hotels.
This second international conference aims to bring together higher education
professionals, linguists and language technologists from around the world to
debate issues relating to MOOCs, language teaching/learning and student
mobility, by providing a forum for exchanging ideas, research outcomes and
technical achievements. What the organisers say you can expect:
· Increase your knowledge of the topic.
· Share results achieved in innovative projects and initiatives.
· Meet and network with those having shared interests and goals.
· Bring new ideas and concept home to your institution.
Conference
attendance is FREE for
presenters and non-presenting attendees.
Download the registration form from the conference website movemeconference.eu and
email the completed form to fenice.eu@gmail.com by 30 June 2017 if you are a speaker or by 30
September 2017 if you are just attending..
For more information on the event, the keynote speakers and the call for
proposals please visit the conference website. Stay tuned for updates to the
conference program. If you have any enquiries, or wish to be added to the
mailing list, please write an email to fenice.eu@gmail.com.
We
are now calling for abstracts for your research-related papers, presentations
of case studies, work-in-progress and results of EU-financed projects.
Abstracts authors are invited for a 20-minute presentation. Details of how to
submit an abstract can be found in the conference website movemeconference.eu. The
closing date for submitting your proposals is 17 June 2017.
The abstracts and papers submitted will be peer-reviewed by the scientific
committee and the acceptance will be notified by 15 July 2017. All
accepted abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings and published
on the conference website.
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OLC Accelerate conference
When:
15-17 November 2017
Where:
Orlando, Florida, USA
Deadline
for submissions: 22 May 2017
Submission length for session: abstract 50 words, Please keep extended abstract under 1500
words.
The
Online Learning Consortium organises the OLC Accelerate 2017: Accelerating
Online Learning Worldwide, to be held
November 15-17, 2017 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel in
Orlando, Florida.
The
OLC Program Committee seeks proposals that reflect and showcase our vibrant
community of practice — promoting theory, research, methodology and/or applied
effective practices in online, blended, and web-enhanced teaching and
learning. Both research and evidence-based proposals are encouraged
for submission. Note that each individual is limited to no more than
three (3) submissions, including the roles of presenter, co-presenter,
panelist, or workshop facilitator.
The session type descriptions will be helpful to you
as you shape your submission. Please review the details on these CFP pages
before submitting your presentation proposal.
Be sure to read through all of the information in this
section of our website to ensure you understand what needs to be done and when,
including our submission checklist, conference tracks, session types and more!
Notifications
are sent to all authors on each submission. All submissions are sent
notification emails, regardless of acceptance status. Please be sure to
“whitelist” emails from the @onlinelearning-c.org domain. If you do not receive
a notification email by August 4, please contact us at conference@onlinelearning-c.org.
When registering, please include as much information
as possible in your user conference management system (CMS) profile, including
your biography, a profile picture, and most current contact information. All
additional co-presenters need to also be registered in the CMS with user
accounts. Please keep in mind that once you have registered or submitted a
paper, all conference-related information can be found here at the
OLC Accelerate 2017 website.
After you login and proceed to the conference
management system, you will be able to submit a proposal by clicking on “OLC Accelerate 2017” in the top menu navigation
within the CMS.
Be sure to align your abstract with any special
requirements outlined in the session type requirements.
Note:
Presenters should include active engagement methodology during presentations to
encourage audience/participants to ask questions. The CFP ratings are based on
the following major categories:
- Relevance
to the conference
- Clarity
- Audience
Appeal
- Interactivity
(Active Engagement)
If you need a PDF of the CFP pages for accessibility
reasons, we have prepared a simple PDF of the OLC Accelerate 2017 CFP
information.
The
submission deadline is May 22, 2017 at 11:59pm ET.
Thank you for your contribution. We look forward to
reviewing your presentation submission.
Timeline
of Important Dates:
- Proposals
due by 11:59pm ET May 22, 2017
- Notification
of acceptance by August 4, 2017
- Deadline for
presenters to accept is August 21 2017
- Deadline for
presenters to register is September 20, 2017
- Final date
for presenters to edit abstracts is September 20,
2017
- Final
presentation upload date is November 1, 2017
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Conference on Digital Universities in
the MOOC Era: Redesigning Higher Education
When: 20 – 22 September 2017
Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2017
The conference is organised
by ICEM and Federica WebLearning Center (www.federica.eu).
The conference features four
thematic areas:
·
video language and pedagogy;
·
digital educational
environments;
·
space vs interface design;
·
Platformism: new paradigms for online
learning.
Contributions for papers and
workshops in these areas are welcome
General information
The digitalisation of higher
education, as a consequence of technological development, has long been
confined to providing more efficient management systems. Only recently has the
digital culture made a major inroad into academic life, with the diffusion of MOOCs,
Massive Open Online Courses, as the new e-learning format to deliver top
quality content for free to millions of students worldwide. While HE
Institutions are broadening access to their academic offer to online users
worldwide, the corporate and NGO sectors are exploring the benefits of a more
qualified online approach to training and dissemination for both personnel and
clients, as well as the general public.
The unbundling of the different
processes involved in education delivery, especially credentialing, with the
emergence of new actors on the educational market leads us to question what the
future holds for traditional HE. What are the new social demands? How do
educational institutions intend to cope with these fast-changing audiences and
targets? Are corporate MOOCs a fierce competitor to HE institutions or a worthy
ally?
The answers lie in the intersection
among digital culture and educational environments. Bringing together people
from government, academia and media, the ICEM International conference
2017 intends to focus on the emerging of MOOCs as a disruptive innovation in
the traditional academic eco-system.
Speakers and contributors would
submit abstracts to shed light on specific aspects of these four strands:
1) Digital culture and educational
environments
The advent of MOOCs has opened up
new, and previously unthinkable, scenarios in higher education. Millions of
learners are now aware of this extraordinary offer, and platforms are
mushrooming all over in the world. As MOOCs become part of the established
institutional offer, HE institutions have to work out how these new distance
learning models fit with traditional institutional curricular design and
development, teaching, credentialing and research practices. What is the
strategic response to funding constraints and the need for flexible provision?
Are MOOCs destined to become a new form of shadow education? How is the MOOC
phenomenon going to be institutionalized?
2) Space vs. Interface design
A key aspect is the relationship between
MOOC formats and instructional design. One might expect MOOCs to play the same
disruptive role that books and printing literacy played in XV century learning.
However, books had a well-established format and interface that MOOCs do not
have yet. How to create an interface culture for the digital education? How
much do learning space and format influence education? How can the user
experience be improved both in the classroom and the digital world?
3) Platformism – new paradigms in
online learning
Today, two giant operating systems –
Microsoft MsDos and Apple Os – dominate the computer world, with two ancillary
developments – Android and iOS – controlling the mobile environment. In the
Higher Education environment there is still open competition among traditional
e-learning software solutions and those offered by the main MOOC providers. How
is platformism influencing learning environments, and what operational
conditions are necessary for learners to exercise their choices? Moreover,
should we expect a new oligopoly to emerge, concentrating the best of higher
education in a few giant hubs with their proprietary formats and
platforms?
4) Going visual: video language and
pedagogy
Finally, it seems that video is here
to stay. Talking heads, interactive videos, virtual labs augmented reality; all
kinds of magic can be reproduced through our screens. How do we expect the
traditional student-teacher relationship to be reshaped with the new
opportunities web-videos are offering to provide top quality educational
resources in a distance-learning environment? What is the role of quality and
aesthetics and personalisation? How do we accommodate the changing
relationships between teacher and student in the online environment?
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Online Educa Berlin 2017
Where: Berlin, Germany
When: 6-8 December 2017
Deadline for submssions: 29 May 2017
The theme of this year: Learning
Uncertainy: Can we learn to live with it? Can we accept it, manage it and even
thrive on it? We live in an age of acceleration. We are in the midst of a
sea-change - a profound, transformative shift in knowledge, experience and
perception. It is a new era defined by technology, globalisation, information
and, above all, uncertainty.
Our uncertainty is born of the rapid
and continuing change around us. Technology is already developing faster than
we can learn the skills we need to use it. Information is the world's most
valuable commodity. Demographic change, political turbulence, economic
challenges and environmental threats confront us. There has always been
uncertainty but this is different. We are facing the end of stability. Are we
ready for this new era? Are businesses, governments and societies really
prepared for our uncertain future?
Can we live with uncertainty? Could we
benefit from it? How can we use volatility and instability to our advantage?
How can we weather the storms? How should universities, colleges, schools and
workplaces adapt? What should employers do now to plan for the flexible
workforce they will need in the future?
Can we learn uncertainty? Is it a
language or an equation, a philosophy or a science? How should it be taught?
And how can we learn uncertainty when the future of learning itself is
uncertain?
OEB 2017 is about acknowledging
uncertainty and preparing for it. It is about how transformative education,
training and learning can equip businesses, organisations and individuals with
the skills to survive and prosper in our new era.
Become involved in shaping the agenda by proposing a
topic, talk or session by May 29th, 2017.
Accepted papers by registered speakers will be
included in the published OEB
Conference Book of Abstracts 2017. The ISBN number
is 978-3-941055-47-6.
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Digital Learning Innovation Award
opportunity
Part of the OLC Accelerate conference
When: 15-17 November 2017
Deadline for submissions: 30 June
2017.
Where is the award ceremony: Orlando,
Florida, USA
The Digital Learning Innovation Award
(DLIAward) program recognizes faculty-led teams and institutions for advancing
undergraduate student success through the adoption of digital
courseware. OLC is calling for submissions from accredited U.S.-based
institutions in two categories:
· Institutional Award – $100,000 (up to three awarded)
· Faculty-led Team Award – $10,000 (up to 10 awarded)
We ask that only those who are
serious about truly being innovative, creative, and dedicated to changing the world
of digital learning apply for this award. Join us for an informational webinar (optional dates to choose from).
The deadline for submissions
is 12:00 p.m. ET on June 30, 2017. All applications must be
submitted through the online submission portal.
Winners will be announced at theOLC Accelerate conference, Nov. 15-17 in Orlando, Florida.
Read our recent press release or visit the website for full details regarding the award
competition. We look forward to reviewing your submissions, celebrating your
successes, and identifying top innovators leading the digital learning
landscape.
