Introduction:

mLearn, the world's flagship mobile learning conference, will take place in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ironbridge in Shropshire, England in October 2008, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

The conference started in Birmingham and has since taken place in London, Rome, Cape Town, Banff and Melbourne.

The aims of the conference are to bring together the world's leading mobile learning researchers, developers and activists in an environment that will stimulate significantly increased deployment of mobile learning and catalyse dramatically enhanced innovation.

Formats and Important Deadlines:

• Full papers: 8 pages, final date for submission for review is 14 April 2008 midnight GMT
• Short papers: 1 page, final date for submission for review is 28 April 2008 midnight GMT
• Posters: 1 page, final date for submission for review is 28 April 2008 midnight GMT
• All submissions will be returned to authors by 9 June 2008 and all amended submissions need to be received for inclusion in the conference by no later than 4 August 2008
  

Themes:

·       mobile learning, mobile knowledge, mobile societies: covering discourse, identity, knowledge and learning with               pervasive, ubiquitous, mobile technologies; social, individual and cultural aspects of mobile learning

·       devices, systems, technology and standards: convergence, diversity, frontiers, trends
·       mobile learning landscape: work-based, informal, subject-specific, context-aware, social
·       mobile learning for all: inclusion, assistivity, scalability, embedding, participation, development, evaluation,                       evidence, assessment

Review Panel:

·       Dr Mohamed Ally, Athabasca University, Canada
·       Dr Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
·       Jill Attewell, Research Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning, LSN, UK
·       Dr. Tom Brown, Midrand Graduate Institute, South Africa
·       Professor Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University of Taiwan
·       Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, University of Nottingham, UK
·       Dr Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Open University, UK
·       Professor Chee-Kit Looi, National Institute of Education, Singapore
·       Professor Angela McFarlane, University of Bristol, UK
·       Dr Marcelo Milrad, Växjö University, Sweden
·       Dr. Dick Ng'ambi, University of Cape Town, South Africa
·       Professor Roy Pea, Stanford University, USA
·       Professor Mike Sharples, University of Nottingham, UK
·       Dr. Mark van't Hooft, Kent State University, USA
·       Professor Herman van der Merwe, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
·       Professor Earl Woodruff, University of Toronto, Canada

We anticipate linking with three respected journals for special editions. Proceedings will have an ISBN number.

The conference dates are: Wednesday 8th to Friday 10th October 2008.

Further details and submission templates: www.mlearn2008.org & www.mlearn2008.mobi

For informal queries on submissions, contact John Traxler, Brendan Riordan or Chris Dennett via the conference web-site by emailing enquiries@mlearn2008.org