2012 Screencasts now available!

Screencast recordings of the conference are now available here http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCF6FF57F5D91B75A&feature=view_all. These are unlisted so they are only viewable if you have the URL. You are welcome to circulate this playlist link, or the link to your own presentation, to colleagues if you wish. Please note that three screencasts suffered from lack of sound so we have not published them. If your presentation is missing, this may be the reason why.

Photos from the Rest of the Conference 2012

Slideshow from the remainder of the conference talks http://youtu.be/CG0aPkwcWp8

Photos from Day 1 2012

Slideshow of photos http://youtu.be/BgHwQ_eDLI4

New student-teacher pedagogies

#elearning2 Maggie's new student-teacher pedagogies http://bit.ly/KX7Dk7

eLearning 2.0 on Twitter

eLearning 2.0 uses the Twitter hashtag #elearning2 and you can follow @elearning2

How do I locate the conference?

In 2012s eLearning 2.0 was held in Brunel Business School's MBA Suite on the first floor of the Russell Building, the second building on the left from the entrance. This is the same venue as last year. We originally hoped to use the School's new building which you can see at the entrance, but they are sill putting the final touches to the furnishings. You can see the location of the Russell building on the Campus Map from the Downloads link.

See you tomorrow!

Wishing all delegates a good evening and a restful night. See you tomorrow morning!

Final Programme and Abstracts available

The final programme and book of abstracts for eLearning 2.0 2012 is now available from the Downloads link at the top of the page. There is only one minor correction of presentation from the printed version to be issued to delegates tomorrow.

Giving a presentation?

Please bring a copy of your presentation on a USB key for copying on to our Presentation PC at Registration or at the latest at the break preceding your presentation. This will help minimize any delay and unnecessary stress at the start of your presentation!

Need special software?

All conference presenters will need to use the provided Windows PC for their presentations as we are using special screen-recording software. If you have any special software requirements other than the Web, please contact our systems manager gary.wright@brunel.ac.uk urgently to discuss your eLearning 2.0 requirements.

Please note it is an official holiday here in the UK on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th when most people will be unavailable.

Programme Updated

Minor updates to the conference programme and abstracts are available reflecting one last minute change of presentation

Abstracts available

Abstracts of the conference presentations are now available for download from the Downloads link

Down to Chair a Session?

There is a brief Guide for Session Chairs available from the Downloads link

Programme Available

The draft programme for eLearning 2.0 2012 is now available from the Downloads link at the top of the page. Presenters should check whether you are also down for chairing a session.

Conference Taster

We have an exciting line up of presentations for eLearning 2.0. Here's a taster of some of the topics:

• Microblogging tools used by academics
• Online dialogic discussion groups
• Serious games
• Facebook usage by students
• Twitter for teaching
• Diigo for teaching
• Peer assessment and electronic voting

Participant countries of origin include: UK, Canada, USA, Ghana, Georgia, and Australia. Programme available shortly!

Live link to Canada

Keynote speaker Maggie McPherson is planning a live video link with Francois Desjardins in Canada on the first day of the conference. Hope the technology works!

Only 17 days to go!

eLearning 2.0 opening Keynote is on 7th June. If you have not yet submitted your registration form, please do so immediately. Looking forward to meeting you all.

Deadline approaching!

Don't forget, the deadline for title and abstracts for the next round is 8 May 2012. We are looking forward to reading them!

Call for Presentations

Limited places available! The deadline for title and abstracts for the next round is 8 May 2012.

eLearning 2.0 Journal Publication - get your work published!

Presenters at this year's eLearning 2.0 conference will be invited to have full papers fast-tracked for publication in the Social Media in Business and Education Special Issue of the Journal of Enterprise Information Management. More details here.

Keynote Speaker - Steve Wheeler

Steve Wheeler is Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at Plymouth University, UK.

He specialises in research on e-learning and distance education, with particular emphasis on social media and Web 2.0 tools.  Steve is the author of more than 150 scholarly articles and is an active and prolific edublogger. His blog Learning with ‘e’s is a regular online commentary on the social and cultural impact of disruptive technologies, and the application of digital media in education and training.

Steve is chair of the Plymouth e-Learning Conference. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of learning technology and education related journals including Research in Learning Technology (formerly ALT-J), the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning and Digital Culture and Education.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

eLEARNING 2.0

Brunel University, UK

June 7th and 8th, 2012

www.elearning2.org

eLearning 2.0 is an international conference exploring Technology-Enhanced Learning and Web 2.0 technologies including Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Wikis and YouTube. The next eLearning generation will involve social networking, document sharing, collaboration and interoperability. The conference will consider evolving pedagogical approaches and raise the profile of research in technology-enhanced learning; spread good practice in the use of Web 2.0 technologies for learning; and facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers.

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Chris Evans & Ray Hackney, Brunel University, UK

OBJECTIVES

- explore the potential impact of Web 2.0 on technology-enhanced learning

- spread good practice in the use of Web 2.0 in technology-enhanced learning

- consider evolving pedagogical approaches using Web 2.0

- raise the profile of research on Web 2.0 and technology-enhanced learning

Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to: evolving pedagogies for Web 2.0, security, privacy, social networking, podcasting, wikis, blogging, video sharing, screencasting, folksonomies, eLearning 2.0 and people with disabilities, the potential impact of eLearning 2.0 on the Third World, creativity and Web 2.0, Human-Computer Interaction, and Business.

FORMAT

eLearning 2.0 will comprise invited keynote speakers and individual presentations. The presentations will be recorded and published online as a series of screencasts. Presenters will be invited to have full papers fast-tracked for publication in the Social Media in Business and Education Special Issue of the Journal of Enterprise Information Management.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Maggie McPherson, School of Education, University of Leeds, UK.
Steve Wheeler, School of Education, Plymouth University, UK.

PARTICIPANTS

All welcome but presenters must submit a 500 word ABSTRACT and TITLE for BLIND REVIEW

SUBMISSION

chris.evans@brunel.ac.uk with "eLearning2.0" in the subject line.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of title and abstract of presentation DEADLINE: May 8, 2012

CONFERENCE LOCATION

Brunel Business School, Brunel University, West London, UK. Brunel University is in Uxbridge on the western edge of London. Uxbridge is in a prime location for reaching the transport network that embraces London and South-east England. It is a short drive from the M4, M40 and M25 and has the added benefit of being on the edge of the London Underground network and 25-minute drive from London's Heathrow airport.

Learning Without Frontiers

Lots of good eLearning 2.0 ideas. You can follow on twitter #lwf http://www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com/

Keynote Speaker - Maggie McPherson

Maggie is a Senior Lecturer for ICT in Education within the School of Education at the University of Leeds and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is currently co-editor for the Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE) Emerald Journal and co-chair of the IADIS eLearning Conferences. Over the last two decades, Maggie been involved in various EU and UK funded technology-enhanced learning research projects and has published extensively in this field. She is a research funding evaluator for the EU-FP7 SME-ICT programme. She was also a funding evaluator for the ESRC, EPSRC, Academy of Finland, and for the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

Keynote Speaker confirmed!

Our first keynote speaker is confirmed as Maggie McPherson from the School of Education at the University of Leeds. More details soon.

Join us on Facebook!

Click to join our Facebook eLearning 2.0 page

eLearning 2.0 2012 at Brunel Business School

Back to Brunel! Brunel Business School is moving to a brand new building and we have decided to host eLearning 2012 in our new building (close to the old one) on 7th and 8th June. More details soon!