Professor John Traxler, Director, Learning Lab, University
of Wolverhampton, UK
Professor Martin Valcke, Head of the Department of Education
in Ghent University, Belgium
* Conference background and goals
Mobile Learning, a Retrospective Outlook
Since its inauguration in 2005, the IADIS Mobile Learning
conference series has provided a forum to present, discuss and promote international
mobile learning research.
Past conference themes have focused on pedagogical
approaches most suited for mobile learning such as collaborative, contextual,
and constructivist which support data collection, context & location
awareness and distributed activities. In 2007 the conference aimed to harness
an international perspective on the ‘big issues’ in mobile learning by
discussing topics such as the conflict between personal informal learning and
traditional classroom education, the evaluation of mobile learning and
appropriate methods for this setting, the design of mobile learning activities
and the integration of mobile devices in the broader educational scenarios,
among others. In 2008, our concern was to explore various dimensions of the learners’
mobility for example, physical, conceptual and social, to discern how these in
conjunction with mobile and fix technologies may support learning. Last year,
the conference debated the increasing phenomenon of user generated content, in
particular mobile media.
Five years on, the IADIS Mobile Learning 2010 International
Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of
mobile learning research which provides a retrospective outlook of the field.
We seek contributions under the topics below which illustrate developments in
the field.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form
of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital
Library (accessible on-line).
The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended
versions of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and
Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692) and also in other selected
Journals.
* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers,
Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All
submissions
are subject to a blind refereeing process.
* Topics
We invite researchers, practitioners, developers and all
those working in the mobile learning arena to submit work under the following
topics:
• Pedagogical approaches and theories for mLearning
• mLearning in formal educational institutions
• Integrating mLearning with broader educational scenarios
• Informal and lifelong mLearning
• Learner mobility & transitions across physical,
conceptual, social space and technologies
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