ML 2010 - IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2010

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2010
Porto, Portugal, 19 to 21 March 2010
(http://www.mlearning-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor John Traxler, Director, Learning Lab, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Professor Martin Valcke, Head of the Department of Education in Ghent University, Belgium

* Conference background and goals

Mobile Learning, a Retrospective Outlook

Since its inauguration in 2005, the IADIS Mobile Learning conference series has provided a forum to present, discuss and promote international mobile learning research.

Past conference themes have focused on pedagogical approaches most suited for mobile learning such as collaborative, contextual, and constructivist which support data collection, context & location awareness and distributed activities. In 2007 the conference aimed to harness an international perspective on the ‘big issues’ in mobile learning by discussing topics such as the conflict between personal informal learning and traditional classroom education, the evaluation of mobile learning and appropriate methods for this setting, the design of mobile learning activities and the integration of mobile devices in the broader educational scenarios, among others. In 2008, our concern was to explore various dimensions of the learners’ mobility for example, physical, conceptual and social, to discern how these in conjunction with mobile and fix technologies may support learning. Last year, the conference debated the increasing phenomenon of user generated content, in particular mobile media.

Five years on, the IADIS Mobile Learning 2010 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning research which provides a retrospective outlook of the field. We seek contributions under the topics below which illustrate developments in the field.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).
The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692) and also in other selected Journals.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions
are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics

We invite researchers, practitioners, developers and all those working in the mobile learning arena to submit work under the following topics:
? Pedagogical approaches and theories for mLearning
? mLearning in formal educational institutions
? Integrating mLearning with broader educational scenarios
? Informal and lifelong mLearning
? Learner mobility & transitions across physical, conceptual, social space and technologies
? User Studies in mLearning
? Mobile social media & user generated content
? Enabling mLearning technologies, applications & uses
? Evaluation and evaluation methodologies for mLearning
? Tools, technologies and platforms for mLearning
? Mobile Web 2.0 applications for mLearning
? Mobile game-based learning

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (2nd call): 8 January 2010
- Notification to Authors (2nd call): 5 February 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call): Until 22 February 2010
- Late Registration (2nd call): After 22 February 2010
- Conference: Porto, Portugal, 19 to 21 March 2010

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Porto, Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat-AT-mlearning-conf.org
Web site: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Mobile Learning 2010 Program Chair
Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Mobile Learning 2010 Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Steering Committee
to be announced

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.mlearning-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
e-Society 2010 (http://www.esociety-conf.org/) - 18-21 March 2010
Information Systems 2010 (http://www.is-conf.org/) - 18-20 March 2010

* Registered participants in the Mobile Learning’ conference may attend e-Society and Information Systems
conferences’ sessions free of charge.