To add to the liveliness of the conference and to encourage spirited dialogue, we are inviting people to present posters based around the conference themes. This is our first year with poster presentations. If you are interested in presenting a poster at the conference, you just need to submit an abstract and title, along your affiliation, for consideration. Authors of accepted abstracts should design posters formatted to A1 size and present them on the day of the conference. Abstracts will be included with the conference materials given to all delegates. Doctoral students are particularly encouraged to apply. Work in progress is welcome. Please send submissions to chris.evans@brunel.ac.uk with "eLearning2.0" in the subject line before 8th July.
Tuesday 30 June 2015
Thursday 18 June 2015
Deadline for Presentations
Today is the deadline for the 2nd call for presentations at #elearning2. This may be your last chance. Get your abstract in today!
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Monday 8 June 2015
Keynote speaker - Sue Beckingham
Our second #elearning2 Keynote Speaker is Sue Beckingham
Sue Beckingham is an Educational Developer, taking a Faculty lead role for technology enhanced learning (TEL) at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and also a Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association (where she is a member of the Executive Board). Her teaching portfolio includes Professionalism and
Communication; Digital Marketing; Web 2.0 in Business; Social Media Use in
Organisations; and Information Design. She is also a course designer and
facilitator of the cross institution open online course 'Bring Your Own Device for
Learning’ and co-lead of the weekly Learning
and Teaching in Higher Education online chat #LTHEchat.
Sue's research interests alongside TEL include digital
identity and connectedness, and the use of social media in higher education and
business.
Sue Beckingham is an Educational Developer, taking a Faculty lead role for technology enhanced learning (TEL) at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and also a Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association (where she is a member of the Executive Board).
Keynote speaker - Mark Childs
Our first #elearning2 Keynote Speaker is Mark Childs
Dr Mark Childs is a freelance academic, working for several universities and learning
organisations in the UK, USA, South Africa and Croatia. Since 1997 he has worked on nearly 40
technology-supported learning projects as an evaluator, manager and principal investigator,
predominantly in synchronous online communication. In parallel to this he has had posts in
academic development at Wolverhampton, Warwick, Coventry and Worcester Universities as
well as running staff development sessions in Singapore, Oman and Ethiopia. His PhD in
Education in 2010 was on learners’ experiences of presence in virtual worlds and he has written
and edited several books in this field.
2nd Call for Contributions
eLEARNING 2.0
Brunel University
London, UK
July 29, 2015
“The Paradigm Shift: Refocusing on the Student”
eLearning 2.0 is a lively international conference exploring technology-enhanced
learning and social media technologies. The conference is a collaborative space
for educators, students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and policy makers to share
their eLearning classroom successes, as well as new developments in their
research and workplace. The main theme of this year’s conference is “The Paradigm Shift: Refocusing on the
Student”. This educational paradigm shift is fuelled by the unprecedented
access that students now have to information coupled with a view of learning as
a constructive process consisting of selecting, organising and integrating
information.
The theme broadens
the discussion from last year’s theme of “Flipping the Classroom.” It seeks to
showcase any use of technology to enhance learning which requires us to “think
differently.” The conference seeks contributions on evolving pedagogical
approaches, as well as to raise the profile of research in technology-enhanced
learning; spread good practice in the use of technology to enhance learning;
and facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy
makers.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Chris Evans, Brunel
University London, UK &
Jennifer
Killham, University of Cincinnati, USA
INTERDISCIPLINARY KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Ellen Jameson,
Visiting Research Associate, Indiana University, USA
Gabriel Recchia,
Researcher, Centre for Digital Knowledge Cambridge, UK
Mark Childs, Senior
Research Fellow, Coventry University, UK
Sue Beckingham, Educational
Developer, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to: flipping the classroom, use of social media
for teaching, constructivist and connectivist theories of learning, games and gamification,
the maker movement, security, privacy, social networking, podcasting, wikis,
blogging, video sharing, screencasting, folksonomies, MOOCs, 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. Presentations will be in one of three formats:
· Traditional 20 minute presentations in PowerPoint or Prezi
· Shorter 5 minute 20 slide (Ignite) presentations in
PowerPoint
· Poster presentations
Powerpoint/Prezi presentations will be
recorded and published online as a series of screencasts. There are no full
papers published or required.
PARTICIPANTS
All welcome! Whether
you are conducting educational research, responsible for policies for
technology enhanced learning, or just experimenting or planning to experiment
with technology enhanced learning, you are very welcome to participate. Presenters
must submit a 500 word ABSTRACT and TITLE for BLIND REVIEW. Doctoral
students are particularly encouraged to apply. Submission indicates consent
for your presentation to be screen recorded.
CONNECT
CONFERENCE LOCATION
Brunel Business
School (Eastern Gateway building), Brunel University London, 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. It is a
25-minute drive from London's Heathrow airport.
SUBMISSION
chris.evans@brunel.ac.uk
with "eLearning2.0"
in the subject line.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of title and abstract DEADLINE: June 19, 2015
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