[Air-L] Call for papers- mlearn 2011, Beijing, China

[Yinjuan Shao]

 The 10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning Beijing, China
18 –21 October 2011

Full paper submissions  – *5 May 2011*
*N*otification of acceptance – 10 June 2011
Last date for early-bird registration – 26 July 2011
Full paper and/or slide show for Technology Showcases – 1 September 2011
Submission of full papers to special issues of JCAL and IJMBL – 30 November
2011

mLearn was the first conference on Mobile Learning and is widely recognised
as the premiere international conference on learning with mobile
technologies and learning across contexts. Each year, it attracts a great
number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all
continents, and acts as a forum for knowledge sharing and transfer across
cultures.  
The past mLearn conferences were held in the UK, Italy,
Australia, South Africa, Canada, the USA, and Malta (
http://www.iamlearn.org/resources/). It is the first time that mLearn comes
to East Asia. This tenth annual conference will be hosted by Beijing Normal
University (http://www.bnu.edu.cn/eng/) in collaboration with IAMLearn – the
International Association for Mobile Learning (http://www.iamlearn.org/).


*CONFERENCE THEME: Mobile and Contextual Learning: Culture and Change**
***

The conference aims to stimulate critical debate on and research into
theories, approaches, and applications of mobile and contextual learning; to
bring together researchers and practitioners from all over the world to
share their knowledge, experience and research in the field of mobile
learning; and to create dialogue and networking for knowledge sharing and
transfer across the globe.
The conference is now open for submission, and we
welcome contributions from academic researchers, developers, professionals,
practitioners, and educators from school education, higher education,
industry, government, international organisations, etc.

*Submissions are invited for:**
** *

   - Long papers (8 pages)
   - Short papers (3 pages)
   - Workshops (2 pages)
   - Posters (300 words)
   - Panels (500 words)
   - Industry showcase &presentation (1-2 page)
   - Doctoral Consortium (4 pages)

 The proceedings will also be published via the web for Full Open Access.
Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to have their
submissions considered for special issues of  the SSCI-indexed Journal of
Computer Assisted Learning (*JCAL*) and the International Journal of Mobile
and Blended Learning (*IJMBL*).

 More details are available at the conference websites http://www.mlearn
.org/mlearn2011 or http://mlearn.bnu.edu.cn/


-- 
Dr. Yinjuan Shao
NIE
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore