EPIC 2014 - 12th international ePortfolio and Identity Conference

Bringing together researchers, academics, human resource professionals, policy-makers and technologists since 2003, the ePIC conference is a catalyst for in-depth exploration and interaction. Real outcomes include the creation of national and international networks, contribution to standardisation bodies and government policies, transnational projects, numerous publications and the establishment of partnerships across communities in the field of learning technologies, education, human resource development and digital identity.
ePIC 2014, the 12th international ePortfolio and Identity Conference, being held at the World Heritage Site of Greenwich University, is inviting authors to submit research papers, case studies, work in progress, position papers, workshops and posters in relation to Evidence-Based Learning.
Evidence-Based Learning covers two different and complementary perspectives:
1. Evidence-Based Learning in the sense of Evidence Based Practice as pioneered in the field of medicine and psychology.
2. Evidence-Based Learning to explore the wealth of new types of evidence at our disposal to lead and transform the learning experience.
Context
The emergence of Open Badges, xAPI, Learning Analytics, MOOCs and Open Data challenges our current understanding of the potential of digital technologies to support and enhance learning, in particular ePortfolios as tools to collect, organise, interpret and make sense of evidence collected during the learning process.
Call
To take into account the transformation of the technology landscape on which current ePortfolio initiatives are being built, authors are invited to address the following issues:
Evidence: how wide is the range of evidence we can collect to plan, support, assess and improve learning processes, as individual learners, professional educators, education leaders, employers and policy makers?
Collection: what are the methods and technologies at our disposal to collect this possible wider range of evidence?
Trust: how to insure and verify the validity of evidence collected?
Visualisation: how to represent collections of evidence to make informed decisions?
Interpretation: how good are we at making sense of this range of evidence? How can we improve it?
Practice : how the answers to the preceding questions should impact professional practice?
Technologies : how the answers to the preceding questions should impact ePortfolio and ePortfolio-related technologies?
Open ePortfolios, Open Badges, Open Credentials, Open Identities, Open Data and Learning Analytics will be amongst the key discussions at ePIC 2014.
Review
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by three members of the programme committee. After acceptance of abstracts, authors will be invited to register as presenter and submit a short/long paper that will be reviewed to be published in the ePIC 2014 proceedings under ISBN 978-2-9540144-4-9.
NB: the submission and review process is divided into 2 steps: abstracts are reviewed to select presentations for the conference, while papers are reviewed after the conference to select the contents of the proceedings. This 2 step process is designed to encourage authors to use the conference to get feedback from peers to finalise their papers.
Calendar
Important dates for the Call for Contributions:
3 March 2014 Deadline for submission of abstracts
31 March 2014 Authors notification of acceptance
9 June 2014 Deadline for the submission of long/short papers
9-10-11 July 2014 Conference
30 August 2014 Deadline for the submission of the final version of papers
October 2014 Publication of the proceedings
More information on the call: www.epforum.eu/call