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!

Last year's Conference Opening (2011)

eLearning 2.0 is now on Facebook!

eLearning 2.0 is now a Facebook group. Come and join!

eLearning 2.0 Slideshow

Welcome!

#elearning2 welcomes everyone to the first day of exciting presentations!

eLearning 2.0 hash tag

The Twitter hashtag for elearning 2.0 is #elearning2 Follow us on Twitter for the next two days!

Social Media and the End of Gender?

A talk by Johanna Blakley. Do you agree?

How to Find the Conference

elearning 2.0 will be held in the MBA Suite on the Brunel University campus in the Russell Building in Zone G (bottom right on the campus map). You can get directions and a map here.

How or when does technology enhance learning?

(On behalf of Andrew Middleton)

The term 'technology-enhanced learning' suggests that technologies can be used to improve learner engagement and their experience of learning. Heightened experience and engagement are often associated with a greater degree of personalisation. But is technology inherently more alien and impersonal? How or when does technology work particularly well in making us feel included, less isolated, and personally and socially involved?

Twitter or Facebook?

The use of Twitter is becoming widespread in modern business. Despite its 140 character limit, it has several advantages over Facebook for communication. But the vast majority of HE students are familiar with Facebook, not Twitter. Is it worth the effort to move them to Twitter for teaching? Comments please!

Final Programme Available

The final Programme can now be downloaded here. Please check whether you have been given responsibility for chairing a session.

Does Privacy Mean We Can't Use Facebook?

An oft cited reason for not using Facebook for teaching is that students don't want their teachers seeing what they are up to. Do you agree? Is there a future for Facebook in teaching?