Conference Themes...

Theme 1: ‘Sustainability, Globalisation and Social Justice’ particularly welcomes papers, workshops or symposia addressing the following issues:

• Educational technology for a low carbon, energy-constrained and economically viable future, including:
• mobile technologies;
• green or alternative energy technologies;
• solutions at the scale of the personal, the community and the institution;
   
• Widening participation, social justice and digital democracy, including:
• formal/informal technological solutions at the scale of the classroom, the community and the institution – such as global broadband access, community networks and facilities, and contextually appropriate technologies;
• the development and sharing of open educational resources, open source software and cloud computing (for schools / higher education / community use);
• the development of open governance in educational settings;
• equity and diversity; development of gaps and differences between South and North, East and West, cultural groups, including knowledge gaps, digital literacies & access
   
• Lessons from the global South, including:
• examples of co-ordinated action, sustained over time;
• the evaluation of initiatives at the scale of the classroom, the community, the institution, the region or country;
• the development of technical assistance/maintenance and capacity building; and
• community-focused solutions and community roles in sustainability and globalisation; global and local working in tandem.

Theme 2: ‘The future of learning technologies’ particularly welcomes papers, workshops or symposia addressing the following issues:

• Emerging pedagogies and practices, including:
• interactive, inquiry-based and collaborative pedagogies; mobile and distributed learning; games based learning; neuroscience and education;
   
• Cutting edge developments and their implications for education, including:
• ubiquitous and pervasive computing, augmented reality, bio-computer interfaces; genetics
   
• Educational institutions of the future, including:
• experimental designs for future classrooms, schools, universities; the development of alternative educational institutions outside and beyond current systems; new approaches to teacher/lecturer education and professional development
   
• Governance of emerging technologies in education, for example:
• the ethical challenges to education presented by emergent technological developments such as neuro/genetic/nano/bio tech; policy reflections on issues relating to access, inequalities and new digital divides

Theme 3: Informal learning and digital cultures particularly welcomes papers or symposia addressing the following issues:

• Children, young people and adult's accounts of their digital cultures, and the implications for learning;
• Participatory practices and informal learning;
• The role of digital culture in socially situated learning;
• Digital literacies and the implications of adopting new cultural tools and practices;
• Commercialised spaces and critical digital literacies;
• Digital media, the early years and emerging literacy;
• Digital ecologies, diversity and equity - everyday practices in different cultural settings;
• Digital migration - mobility towards, between and away from online cultures;
• The complexity of the landscape – from producers to consumers, and from young to old;
• Intergenerational learning; the implications of informal learning and digital cultures for educational practices.

Theme 4: Looking back to look forward particularly welcomes papers or symposia addressing the following issues:

• Research reviews or longitudinal studies
• Summary overviews of key issues in the field, collating knowledge and providing key messages over a longer historical period; comparative studies examining educational change over a longer period of time
   
• Historical analyses of education and technology
• Including historical and comparative accounts of early uses of digital technologies in education; or historical accounts of other technology use in education, and its implications for the CAL arena
   
• Challenges of archiving and collating knowledge and experience in the educational technology field
• Reflections on the policy and research fields in relation to the long term memory in the educational technology field

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