MLearn 2012 - Mobile Learning

Mobile Learning Workshop
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications
(ICNC 2012)
Maui, Hawaii, Jan. 30 ? Feb. 2, 2012
http://www.conf-icnc.org/
Workshop Chair: Mehdi Zargham, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
Email: mehdi-AT-cs.siu.edu
Workshop Co-chair: Jie Cheng, University of Hawaii at Hilo
Email: chengjie-AT-hawaii.edu
Scope and Topics
Mobile phones play an important role in learning and teaching because they provide an environment for active learning
and social interactions anytime and anywhere. With today’s mobile phones, we can do many of the tasks we can do with
our PCs. Mobile phones allow students to utilize videos, visualizations, interactive instructional materials, online
homework, games, discussion groups/boards, project demonstrations, and many free applications.
The Mobile Learning Workshop at ICNC 2012 explores every aspect of mobile learning, from apps development to
assessment and evaluation. It covers today’s practices for the use of tablet and smartphone technologies in education. We
are seeing that social networking, video, and mobile apps are having a major impact on the way we teach, and we are
welcoming contributions that help to advance the use of technologies to better support learning and educational purposes.
The workshop consists of four sessions; the first session provides a tutorial on mobile learning and state of the art
support. The other three sessions provide presentations on mobile learning research. Each of these sessions includes 5 to 6
speakers, each representing a related topic on mobile learning. In particular, we aim to explore the following topics:

Developing games and apps for mobile device


Social constructivist approaches

Technologies for mobile learning

Development tools for mobile learning

Case studies

Assessment and evaluation of mobile learning
Paper Submission
Please follow the author instructions at http://www.conf-icnc.org/author.htm
Direct paper submission link of this workshop can be found at http://www.conf-icnc.org/cfp.htm
In addition, please send a pdf file of your paper to mehdi-AT-cs.siu.edu
Important Dates
Paper Submission: July 31, 2011
Authors Notification: Sept. 20, 2011
Camera-ready Paper: Oct. 20, 2011

Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book