[Air-L] Conference announcement and call for papers: "Mobile learning: Crossing boundaries..." in Bremen

[Klaus Rummler]

Conference announcement and call for papers*
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*"Mobile learning: Crossing boundaries in convergent environments" 
Conference*

Monday to Tuesday, March 21st to 22nd, 2011 in Bremen, Germany

Submission deadline:January 7, 2011

The conference is hosted by the University of Bremen, run by the 
Department for Media Education and Design of Multimodal Learning 
Environments and by the Institute Technology and Education (ITB) in 
association with the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG), Pontydysgu and 
MirandaNet.

The 'Mobile learning: Crossing boundaries in convergent environments' 
Conference builds on a series of mobile learning research symposia 
hosted by the WLE Centre for Excellence at the Institute of Education, 
University of London between 2007 and 2009. It will focus on the 
challenges of developing new pedagogic approaches and on the potential 
of mobile devices for learning in formal and informal contexts. As 
mobile learning is not only about learning with mobile technologies, but 
also considered to be "new" learning, the conference will look at 
challenges for research and practice in understanding the changing 
social and technological structures allowing the use of technology for 
learning that are present in our personal lives, in school and in work 
places. Thus mobile learning crosses the boundary of institutional 
learning and looks at practical fields like work-based learning and 
medicine, too. Also, the conference will look at the latest developments 
in hardware and software which can support personalised learning. By 
focusing on theory and practice, development and use, teaching and 
learning, formal and informal contexts, the conference intends to offer 
spaces for researchers, practitioners, developers, the industry and 
policy makers to exchange ideas, experiences and research around issues 
and approaches to mobile learning, including sociological and 
educational issues and their effectiveness and desirability as learning 
spaces as well as the design of environments.

The conference is preceded by the EduCamp, a BarCamp for people 
interested in media and learning, which will take place in Bremen from 
March 19-20, 2011. In collaboration with MirandaNet, the conference is 
running a MirandaMod on March 21-22, 2011 which addresses teachers and 
practitioners who are interested in teaching and learning with new 
technologies. Pontydysgu will broadcast their live internet radio show 
"Sounds of the Bazaar LIVE Radio Programme" from the conference.

The call for papers and further information is available at the 
conference website: _http://bremen.londonmobilelearning.net 
<http://bremen.londonmobilelearning.net/>_.

The conference fee is 50 EUR (students and unemployed are free)

Important dates:
* October 31, 2010: submission opens
* December N.N., 2010: registration opens
* January 7, 2011: submission closes
* March 6, 2011: registration closes
* March 21-22, 2011: conference


We look forward to seeing you in Bremen.

The Organising Committee
* Klaus Rummler (LMLG; University of Bremen, FB12, Department for Media 
Education and Design of Multimodal Learning Environments)
* Judith Seipold (LMLG; Bremen)
* Prof. Karsten Wolf (University of Bremen, FB12, Department for Media 
Education and Design of Multimodal Learning Environments)
* Prof. Norbert Pachler (LMLG; Institute of Education, University of London)
* Dr. Eileen Lübcke (University of Bremen, Institute Technology and 
Education (ITB))
* Graham Attwell (LMLG; Pontydysgu)