ICLS 2012 - 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - "The Future of Learning"

10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - "The Future of Learning"
2 - 6 July, 2012 in the University of Sydney, Australia
Brought to you by ISLS, hosted by the CoCo Research Centre at the University of Sydney

About the conference

The International Conference of the Learning Sciences is a bi-annual conference sponsored by the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). The conference brings together researchers in the sciences of learning, instruction, and design in order to address questions of how we can better understand and improve learning. Our theme for 2012 is the Future of Learning, and the conference will hosts workshops, panels, symposia, paper and poster sessions, and keynotes by leaders in the field, reflecting on what we have learned so far and considering directions for the future;. It's an opportunity to share and gain insight into critical debate and new research findings across the various disciplines of the learning sciences.

Where and when

The conference will be held from 2 - 6 July, 2012 and on its first trip to the Southern Hemisphere, ICLS 2012 will take you to the vibrant and cosmopolitan city of Sydney, Australia. The University of Sydney is Australia’s first university, founded in 1850, located just two miles from Sydney city centre. Sydney is a vibrant international city renowned for world-class arts and entertainment, stunning beaches, and gourmet dining, and also the ideal base to explore Australia.

Submissions

We will be receiving submissions for:

Full Papers
Short Papers
Posters
Symposia
Pre-Conference Workshops
Doctoral Consortium
Early Career Workshops

We encourage submissions that explore a range of research topics related to learning and education, including but not limited to prototypic research questions such as:

How can collaborative learning be effectively mediated by technology?
How can inquiry-oriented learning in disciplines such as mathematics and the sciences be guided with technology-enhanced learning environments?
How do students collaboratively construct knowledge and understanding?
How can intelligent tutors that help people learn complex subjects such as mathematics and foreign languages be designed and evaluated?
How can we foster mindful learning and metacognition so that learners are more strategic and effective when they seek to learn something new?
How to provide the right levels of assistive guidance in collaborative and online learning to foster self-regulation in learning?
How to teach not only for factual memory and procedural skills but for adaptive and flexible understanding that can be used beyond formal schooling and throughout life?
How does learning vary when its participants are in the same or different times (synchronous/asynchronous) or spaces (distributed/local)?
How can teachers productively create teaching and learning environments that support the needs of learners of diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds?
How can the capabilities of interactively visualizing data be incorporated in learning environments so as to make difficult subjects in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the social sciences, and the humanities more accessible and learning more coherent?
How can the creation and use of computational models of the physical and social worlds by learners become an integral part of educational practices?
How can the energies and motivations that accompany a learner’s interests be matched with learning resources to enable productive learning pathways?
What forms of CSCL organization and interaction make for productive online learning communities?
How can productive co-design partnerships between educational practitioners and researchers be fostered for scaling and sustaining innovative learning environments?
How does the physical embodiment of learning (e.g., gesture, gaze, pointing) contribute to learning processes and strategies?

Organising committees

Conference Chairs

Michael J Jacobson & Peter Reimann, The University of Sydney.

Conference Advisory Board

Shaaron Ainsworth | University of Nottingham, UK
Michael Baker | Telecom-paristech, Paris, France
Katerine Bielaczyc | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Paul Chandler | Wollongong University, Australia
Susan Goldman | University of Illinois, Chicago, United States
Kai Hakkarainnen | University of Helsinki, Finland
Yasmin Kafai | University of Pennsylvania, United States
Paul Kirschner | Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Marcia Linn | University of California, Berkeley, United States
Ric Lowe | Curtin University, Australia
Naomi Miyake | University of Tokyo, Japan
Stella Vosniadou | University of Athens (Greece) and University of Adelaide (Australia)
Uri Wilensky | Northwestern University, United States
James Pellegrino | University of Illinois, Chicago, United States

Doctoral Consortium

Susan Yoon | University of Pennsylvania, United States
Wouter Van Joolingen | University of Twente, the Netherlands
Nino Aditomo | University of Sydney, Australia

Early Career Workshop

Tom Moher | University of Illinois, Chicago, United States
Anne Newstead | University of Sydney
Tak-Wai Chan | National Central Taiwan University, Taiwan
Pre-conference Workshops and special sessions

Dan Suthers | University of Hawaii, United States
Carol Chan | Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Lina Markauskaite | University of Sydney
Nikol Rummel | Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany

Paper Review Coordination

Peter Freebody | University of Sydney
Eleni Kyza | Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Ton de Jong | University of Twente, the Netherlands
Nick Kelly | University of Sydney

Proceedings

Brian J. Reiser | Northwestern University, United States
Jan van Aalst | Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Cindy Hmelo-Silver | Rutgers University, United States
Kate Thompson | University of Sydney

About ISLS

ISLS is a professional society dedicated to the interdisciplinary empirical investigation of learning as it exists in real-world settings and how learning may be facilitated both with and without technology. ISLS sponsors two professional conferences, held in alternate years. The International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), first held in 1992 and held bi-annually since 1996, covers the entire field of the learning sciences. Visit the ISLS site at http://www.isls.org

About CoCo

ICLS 2012 will be hosted by the Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning andCognition (CoCo) at the University of Sydney. CoCo's mission it to contribute to theory and research in the field in order to discover how innovative learning technologies and pedagogical approaches can enhance formal and informal learning. Visit the CoCo site athttp://sydney.edu.au/education_social_work/coco/in...

Important Dates

2011 Nov 8 Submission deadline: Papers, Posters, and Symposia (1 week extension)
2011 Dec 18 Submission deadline: Pre-Conference Workshops Proposals
2012 Jan 30 Author acceptance notifications
2012 Feb 1 Registrations Open
2012 Feb 18 Submission deadline: Early Career Workshop and Doctoral Consortium
2012 Mar 1 Deadline for final revisions
2012 Apr 2 Program will be made available
2012 Apr 3 Submission deadline: applications to participate in Pre-Conference Workshops
2012 Apr 10 Pre-Conference Workshop participation notifications
2012 Jun 15 Deadline for preconference (online) registration
2012 Jul 2-3 Conference: Workshops and Doctoral Consortium
2012 Jul 3-6 Conference: Main program and Sessions

Registration

Conference registration will open on the 1st of February, 2012. Details of the types of contributions accepted are given below. It is possible to register to attend the conference without a submission.

Further information

Please visit the conference website for additional information: http://www.isls.org/icls2012/