CAL09 – Learning in Digital Worlds

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The CAL biennial conference, in association with Computers & Education, and Elsevier, is one of the premier international conferences addressing computers and learning.  It has a proud tradition of engendering critical debate on the key issues being tackled by researchers and practitioners in all areas and levels of, amongst other things, Educational Research, Evaluation, Learning Technologies, Teaching, Technology Enhanced Learning, Social Networking, Education Policy and Subject Specific Applications of Technology in Education and Learning.

There will be three international keynote speakers, paper presentations, symposia and poster presentations. All presentation formats should include some opportunity for further discussion.

We invite symposia from research groups or networks who are active in one or more of the themed areas. These would consist of a cluster of related short papers which may cover work in progress, methods and theories as well as completed studies.

Conference Themes

Exploratory Learning in Digital Worlds: environments, experiences and trajectories

  • Place and space: physical, virtual and social
  • Designing learning environments and experiences
  • Problem solving
  • Studying trajectories of exploration and development
  • CAL/TEL in informal learning contexts
  • Neuroscience and Technology Enhanced Learning
  • New tools for interdisciplinary working

Collective Learning in Digital Worlds: communication, collaboration and inclusion

  • Dialogue
  • Networks
  • Digital inclusion
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Development

Planning Learning in Digital Worlds: design, pedagogy and policy

  • Teaching and learning: what, how, why?
  • Mainstreaming technology integration
  • Teacher education
  • Policy and practice
  • Personalisation

Rethinking Learning in Digital Worlds: imagination, innovation, and investigation

  • New perspectives
  • Theoretical frameworks for research
  • Multidisciplinary research
  • Future directions
  • Disruption and contradictions
  • Sustainable Education vs Globalisation & Innovation
  • Creativity and Technology Enhanced Learning

Location: Brighton, UK