News of the London Mobile Learning Group

Call for Participation in the ICLS Workshop

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:31:32 +0100

The International Conference of the Learning Sciences
Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, June 29 - July 2 2010 (Preconference June 28-29)

Call for Participation in the ICLS Workshop (June 28th 2010) "Three Perspectives on Technology Support in Inquiry Learning: Personal Inquiry, Mobile Collaboratories and Emerging Learning Objects"

To register for this workshop, go to: http://www.isls.org/icls2010/. Workshop fee is payable to ICLS 2010. Full day workshop: June 28th, 9:00-17:30. Lunch and coffee breaks are included in the workshop registration fee.

Workshop-Wiki:
http://icls2010workshop.collide.info

Coordinators:
Astrid Wichmann (wichmann@collide.info)
Daniel Spikol (daniel.spikol@vxu.se)
Stamatina Anastopoulou (stamatina.anastopoulou@nottingham.ac.uk)

Proposers:
Heidy Maldonado (Stanford University)
Ulrich Hoppe (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Marcelo Milrad (Linneus University)
Roy Pea (Stanford University)
Ton de Jong (Twente University)
Mike Sharples (University of Nottingham)

Workshop Summary:
Our hands-on workshop convenes educational designers and learning technology architects to author inquiry learning activities and user experiences. Participants will use a scenario editor to design classroom and field activities based on pedagogical approaches such as personal inquiry. Designs will be implemented using modeling tools, mobile devices and inquiry management tools provided by the organizers. Participants will gain insight into new pedagogicaland technological approaches for inquiry learning and discuss implications for their future work.

Audience:
We invite researchers working in the fields of educational technology and science learning who are interested in designing and running activities in inquiry-based environments. Participants should ideally have experiences in designing or using software to support science classroom or outdoor learning activities. Sharing experiences before the workshop is considered crucial to safeguard successful fulfillment of the workshop aims and to tailor the workshop activities to the participants needs. Young researchers are especially encouraged to apply.

Activities:
The workshop is divided into four sessions that include discussions and hands-on work with the different technologies. The first session contains a brief overview of three prominent approaches in computer-based inquiry learning: Personal Inquiry, Mobile Collaboratories and Emerging Learning Objects. Their relevance in three ongoing science projects will be presented. The second session is Designing Inquiry Activities that sets the content and structure for the next sessions. The third session consists of three concurrent work activities. In each of these activities the participants will work in groups running different learning scenarios based on the three projects. The experiences from the previous session’s activities and created artifacts will inform the fourth session, the debriefing session. The aim of this fourth session is to discuss how inquiry based science learning supported with technology can be implemented more effectively in schools and what challenges this creates for the research, design, and ultimately practice.

Participation:
To participate in this workshop, please submit position statements (max. 1000 Words) to icls2010workshop@collide.info. Participants are asked to anticipate activities related to inquiry learning that they would like to design and run during the workshop. The statements should include cases or problems with respect to specific areas of content (e.g. how to produce healthy milk, understanding eco systems), envision inquiry learning activities resulting in pedagogical scenarios (e.g. develop a concept map, run experiments etc.). Please review the Workshop-Wiki to see what kinds of inquiry tools are available. Submissions will be reviewed by the proposers of the workshop. People, who have not submitted a position paper may attend the workshop, provided there are seats left. Maximum number of participants is 20.

Deadline for submission of position statements:
March 15th Feedback to participants: March 30th

Elisabetta Adami, University of Verona, presents results of her Nokia N95 social semiotic analysis

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:03:29 +0100

On Sunday,January 31st, 2010, Elisabetta Adami from the University of Verona will present the results of her social semiotic analysis with the Nokia N95 phone.
Title of the presentation (in Italian language): "I phone therefore I am: how mobile technologies are changing our lives".
The event is organized by the University of Verona and open to the public. Information is available at http://www.infinitamente.univr.it/default.html.

Elisabetta Adami, University of Verona, on mobile technologies and how they are changing our lives

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:59:03 +0100

On Thursday, January 28th, 2010, Elisabetta Adami will be expert in a talk show at the local TV channel in Verona, Italy. Her focus will be on mobile technologies and how they are changing our lives.

Norbert Pachler, IoE, agreed that mobile learning was "the big game in town"

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:57:02 +0100

Norbert Pachler, IoE, agreed that mobile learning was "the big game in town". In Times Higher Education from 21 January 2010: "Technological gizmos to revolutionise study"

5th International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning (IMCL2010)

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:27:56 +0100

IMCL2010 will be held in Sousse University in Tunisia on 7-8 July 2010, co-located with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (July 5-7, 2010). Beside the multidisciplinary programme, the conference will include a rich set of social events which will help networking and the exchange of ideas in the beautiful framework of Sousse location.

Keynote speaker: Prof. John Traxler

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IMCL 2010 - Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning

CALL FOR PAPERS and PARTICIPATION
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TO BE HELD AT SOUSSE UNIVERSITY, SOUSSE, TUNISIA 7-8 JULY 2010
http://www.imcl-conference.org

IMPORTANT DATES
March 20, 2010 Submission of Full and Short Paper
April 20, 2010 Notification of Acceptance
May 15, 2010 Author Registration Deadline
May 15, 2010 Camera-Ready Papers

PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE
The 5th International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, IMCL2010, which will be hosted by Sousse University, Tunisia, in Conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, July 5-7, 2010. IMCL2010 comes as a response to this challenge in the Middle East. The conference is part of an international initiative to promote technology-enhanced learning and online engineering world-wide. The initiative includes a series of conferences such as the International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning - ICL, the International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Blended Learning - ICBL, and the International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation - REV. All of these conferences are organized under the umbrella of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) and are supported by the online journals: the International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) and the International Journal for Online Engineering (iJOE).

This is an opportunity to find out what is going on now in the field of learning with mobile devices and ambient intelligence, and to share ideas and experiences, contributing to the future research agenda of Technology-Enhanced Learning.

THE PROGRAMME
This will have a number of parallel tracks relating to the use of mobile/handheld devices, wireless networks and mobile content. Fields of interest are expected to be:
* ambient intelligence
* ambient learning
* intermittently connected learners
* blended learning
* contextual learning
* informal and lifelong learning
* development of content/teaching materials
* development of international standards
* innovation in concept, design and pedagogy
* learning management systems
* researching/evaluating mobile learning
* situated collaborative learning
* supporting and engaging the mobile learner
* architecture of Context Aware Learning Technology Systems
* mobile spaces for learning communities
* learning methodologies
* instructional design theories
* ad hoc networks for organisational learning
* learning objects and metadata for mobile learning
* mobile learning applications

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This event will appeal to a wide range of audiences who are interested in developing opportunities for learning anytime everywhere with mobile and wireless handheld devices, including:
* colleges/training providers
* higher education institutions
* independent research organisations
* community and voluntary organisations
* content developers
* Learning and Skills Councils
* Local Education Authorities
* mobile device manufacturers and service providers
* schools
* software and technology developers
* government departments
* publishers
* telecom operators

CALL FOR PAPER
Submissions are invited in the following categories:
- Full research paper: 5 pages
- Short developers paper: 3 pages
- Posters: 2 pages

EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
The conference will host an exhibition that will allow organisations to showcase their mobile learning products, give demonstrations, offer solutions and delivery mechanisms for handheld devices to an interested audience.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
We would like to invite sponsorship from organisations who have an interest in mobile learning. There are various opportunities, which could take the form of the following:
- Lead Sponsorship (single company sponsorship)
- Co-Sponsorship (sponsorship shared with other organisations)
- Drinks reception sponsor
- Inserts in to the Delegate Pack

If you would be interested in finding out about sponsorship arrangements for the IMCL2010 event, please e-mail us for further information, since broad range of options is available.

MoLeaP - the mobile learning project database: submission section now open for public

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:50:15 +0100

MoLeaP's submission section is now open for the public (www.moleap.net). Register, go to 'my moLAB' and submit your m-learning project, application or resource.

MoLeaP is a public and free-of-charge online database for teachers, researchers and other (education) professionals interested in learning and teaching with mobile media, available in English and German.

MoLeaP offers users different ways of getting involved:
* Be a user: Users are people who are browsing the website and using the database by searching for specific items. Users do not need to be registered in order to use the database.
* Become a contributor: Contributors are users who submit projects, applications or resources to the database. Once a user is registered, they can use the full functionality of the database.
* Become a partner: Partners can provide their logos which will be displayed in the partners section on the MoLeaP website. In return, partners are asked to provide the MoLeaP logo and some additional information on their websites and other distribution channels.

Please feel free to distribute information about MoLeaP amongst interested people. Promotion material is available at
http://www.moleap.net/downloads/MoLeaP-Flyer_2009-09-26.pdf (English)
and
http://www.moleap.net/downloads/MoLeaP-Flyer_DE_2009-09-26.pdf (German)

LMLG's Mobile Learning Literature Database - more than 1800 references with wider relevance to mobile learning

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:33:49 +0100

The literature database of the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG) contains a vast range of references with a wider relevance to mobile learning. Besides the almost 400 references that were cited in the book 'Mobile Learning: Structures, Agency, Practices' (Springer, 2010) this resource contains approximately 1400 additional references.

read more
see database

John Cook is one of 25 selected experts worldwide invited to take part in Mobile Learning Expert Study

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:12:38 +0100

John is one of 25 selected experts worldwide invited to take part in Mobile Learning Expert Study (part of EU-funded STELLAR Network of Excellence http://stellarnet.eu/). The study is titled 'Location-based and contextual mobile learning', and will be conducted by the Learning Sciences Research Institute (University of Nottingham) and the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (Open University of the Netherlands).

New book: Mobile Learning: Structures, Agency, Practices

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:04:27 +0100

Since yesterday, Norbert Pachler's, Ben Bachmair's and John Cook's authored book 'Mobile Learning: Structures, Agency, Practices' is available on SpringerLink.

About: As with television and computers before it, today's mobile technology challenges educators to respond and ensure their work is relevant to students. What's changed is that this portable, cross-contextual way of engaging with the world is driving a more proactive approach to learning on the part of young people.

Mobile Learning: Structures, Agency, Practices.
Authors: Norbert Pachler, Ben Bachmair and John Cook, with contributions from Gunther Kress, Judith Seipold, Elisabetta Adami and Klaus Rummler
Publisher: Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4419-0584-0

The title is available as hardcover in February 2010.

Publisher's website
SpringerLink

New book: 'Medienbildung in neuen Kulturräumen. Die deutschprachige und britische Diskussion' (Medienbildung in new cultural spaces. The German and the British discussion)

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:48:19 +0100

Last week, Ben Bachmair's edited book 'Medienbildung in neuen Kulturräumen. Die deutschprachige und britische Diskussion' was published. It contains English and German speaking contributions, also with relevance for mobile learning.

With contributions from (excerpt):
Mike Sharples, Josie Taylor and Giasemi Vavoula
David Buckingham
John Traxler
Gunther Kress
Sonia Livingstone
Judith Seipold, Klaus Rummler and Julia Rasche
John Cook
Norbert Pachler

Bachmair, Ben (2009): 'Medienbildung in neuen Kulturräumen Die deutschprachige und britische Diskussion.' VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. ISBN: 978-3-531-16755-8

Publisher's website
SpringerLink

Miranda Mod "Mobile learning; Handheld learning?" What do we mean?

Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:54:04 +0100

"Mobile learning; Handheld learning?" What do we mean?

WLE Centre or Online 8th December 2009; 16:00 - 21:00

Free Refreshments

Programme:

All seminar speakers and MirandaMod participants should add the titles of your proposed contribution, together with your email and website links. Sign up for a talk of between 2 - 5 minutes: it will depend on the number of contributors! Avoid 'death by presentation software' if you can!

    * 16:00 Coffee
    * 16:30-18:00 Seminar:

Norbert Pachler, London Mobile Learning Group
Graham Brown-Martin, Handheld Learning
John Traxler, Professor of Mobile Learning Wolverhampton University
Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, Research Fellow (Nottingham University and Melbourne University

MirandaMod:

    * 18:00 - 18:30 Refreshments
    * 18:30 - 19:45 MirandaMod debate:
    * 19:45 - 20:00 Refreshments
    * 20:00 - 21:00

Information, Registration, Participation:

For further information about MirandaMods see MirandaNet.

Please sign up via this page to indicate if you are planning to join all or individual sessions; Max terrestrial spaces at WLE = 35

Contribute to the MindMeister online collaborative concept map.

Can't attend? Then sign in for the FlashMeeting.

Relaunch of the LMLG website

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:20:08 +0100

The London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG) is pleased to be able to present their re-designed website. Have a look at www.londonmobilelearning.net and see what's on.

Upcoming event: LMLG workshop at the Alpine Rendez-Vous

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:15:58 +0100

LMLG workshop at the Alpine Rendez-Vous, within the framework of the STELLAR Network of Excellence.

Workshop 'Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation'

November 30 to December 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria

Workshop leader:
Norbert Pachler, WLE Centre/LMLG, Institute of Education, London, http://www.norbertpachler.net

see details
download background paper
twitter hashtag: #telc09
cloudworks cloudstream: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/event/cloudscape/1926

Brief description of workshop:
This workshop is organised by the convenor of the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG) (www.londonmobilelearning.net), housed at the Centre for Excellence in Work-based Learning for Educational Professionals (www.wlecentre.ac.uk) at the Institute of Education, London (www.ioe.ac.uk).
download download background paper

The LMLG comprises an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers from the fields of educational, media and cultural studies, social semiotics and educational technology.

The workshop inter alia seeks to explore the following questions and issues:

    * What relationship is there between user-generated content, user-generated contexts and learning? How can educational institutions cope with the more informal communicative approaches to digital interactions that new generations of learners possess?
    * Learning as a process of meaning-making for us occurs through acts of communication, which take place within rapidly changing socio-cultural, mass communication and technological structures. Does the notion of learner-generated cultural resources represent a sustainable paradigm shift for formal education in which learning is viewed in categories of context and not content? What are the issues in terms of 'text' production in terms of modes of representation, (re)contextualisation and conceptions of literacy? Who decides/redefines what it means to have coherence in contemporary interaction?
    * What synergies are there between the socio-cultural ecological approach to mobile learning, which the group has developed through its work to date, with paradigms developed by different TEL communities in Europe?
    * What pedagogical parameters are there in response to the significant transformation of society, culture and education currently taking place alongside technological innovation?

The LMLG sees learning using mobile devices governed by a triangular relationship between socio-cultural structures, cultural practices and the agency of media users / learners, represented in the three domains. The interrelationship of these three components: agency, the user's capacity to act on the world, cultural practices, the routines users engage in their everyday lives, and the socio-cultural and technological structures that govern their being in the world, we see as an ecology, which in turn manifests itself in the form of an emerging cultural transformation. Another significant trend, which requires pedagogical responses, is the prevalence of what we call 'user-generated contexts'. We are currently witnessing a significant shift away from traditional forms of mass communication and editorial push towards user-generated content and individualised communication contexts. These structural changes to mass communication also affect the agency of the user and their relationship with traditional and new media. Indeed, we argue that users are now actively engaged in shaping their own forms of individualised generation of contexts for learning through individualised communication contexts. New relationships between context and production are emerging in that mobile devices not only enable the production of content but also of contexts. They position the user in new relationships with space, i.e. the outer world, and place, i.e. social space. Mobile devices enable and foster the broadening and breaking up of genres. Citizens become content producers who are part of an explosion of activity in the area of user-generated content. What, we ask, are the implications for education?

The workshop will be attended by the following colleagues from across Europe who work in and across various aspects of the fields of education and educational technology:
Elisabeth Adami, Verona
Graham Attwell, Pontydysgu
Ben Bachmair, Kassel
Jörgen Bang, Aarhus
Margit Böck, Salzburg
John Cook, London Met
Theo Hug, Innsbruck
Ambjörn Naeve, Stockholm
Norbert Pachler, WLE/IoE (convenor)
Christoph Pimmer, Basel
Maren Risch, Rhineland-Palatinate
Daniel Spikol, Växjö
John Traxler, Wolverhampton
Kevin Walker, LKL

The 2-day workshop will be sub-divided into the following themed 2-hour sessions:

1. opening session (Pachler): socio-cultural transformation, ecology, user generated/responsive contexts
2. MyMobile project/pedagogy (Bachmair, Risch)
3. work-based learning (Pimmer, Attewell, Pachler)
4. design challenges (Spikol, Walker)
5. content (Hug, Bang)
6. literacy (Cook, Adami, Boeck)
7. sustainability (Traxler, Naeve)
8. closing session (Pachler)

Each contributor will have put together a briefing paper prior to the workshop with key questions, which will be explored with reference to the key components of the LMLG's emerging theory of mobile learning and its key components: structures, agency, practices; user-generated, responsive contexts; transformations etc.

Please contact Norbert Pachler for further information ().

Call for papers: IADIS international conference mobile learning 2010: 1st call extension

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:50:15 +0100

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (1st call extension): 4 December 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2010
Porto, Portugal, 19 to 21 March 2010
(http://www.mlearning-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor John Traxler, Director, Learning Lab, University of Wolverhampton, UK

* 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
. User Studies in mLearning
. Mobile social media & user generated content
. Enabling mLearning technologies, applications & uses
. Evaluation and evaluation methodologies for mLearning
. Tools, technologies and platforms for mLearning
. Mobile Web 2.0 applications for mLearning
. Mobile game-based learning

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (1st call extension): 4 December 2009
- Notification to Authors (1st call extension): 6 January 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call extension): Until 27 January 2010
- Late Registration (1st call extension): After 27 January 2010
- Conference: Porto, Portugal, 19 to 21 March 2010

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Porto, Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@mlearning-conf.org
Web site: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Mobile Learning 2010 Program Chair
Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Mobile Learning 2010 Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Steering Committee
to be announced

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.mlearning-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
e-Society 2010 (http://www.esociety-conf.org/) - 18-21 March 2010
Information Systems 2010 (http://www.is-conf.org/) - 18-20 March 2010

* Registered participants in the Mobile Learning' conference may attend e-Society and Information Systems
conferences' sessions free of charge.

LMLG workshop at the Alpine Rendez-Vous

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:50:54 +0100

Workshop title: Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation

November 30 to December 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria

Workshop leader:
Norbert Pachler, WLE Centre/LMLG, Institute of Education, London, http://www.norbertpachler.net

Brief description of workshop:
This workshop is organised by the convenor of the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG) (www.londonmobilelearning.net), housed at the Centre for Excellence in Work-based Learning for Educational Professionals (www.wlecentre.ac.uk) at the Institute of Education, London (www.ioe.ac.uk).

The LMLG comprises an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers from the fields of educational, media and cultural studies, social semiotics and educational technology.

The workshop inter alia seeks to explore the following questions and issues:
· What relationship is there between user-generated content, user-generated contexts and learning? How can educational institutions cope with the more informal communicative approaches to digital interactions that new generations of learners possess?

· Learning as a process of meaning-making for us occurs through acts of communication, which take place within rapidly changing socio-cultural, mass communication and technological structures. Does the notion of learner-generated cultural resources represent a sustainable paradigm shift for formal education in which learning is viewed in categories of context and not content? What are the issues in terms of 'text' production in terms of modes of representation, (re)contextualisation and conceptions of literacy? Who decides/redefines what it means to have coherence in contemporary interaction?

· What synergies are there between the socio-cultural ecological approach to mobile learning, which the group has developed through its work to date, with paradigms developed by different TEL communities in Europe?

· What pedagogical parameters are there in response to the significant transformation of society, culture and education currently taking place alongside technological innovation?

The LMLG sees learning using mobile devices governed by a triangular relationship between socio-cultural structures, cultural practices and the agency of media users / learners, represented in the three domains. The interrelationship of these three components: agency, the user's capacity to act on the world, cultural practices, the routines users engage in their everyday lives, and the socio-cultural and technological structures that govern their being in the world, we see as an ecology, which in turn manifests itself in the form of an emerging cultural transformation. Another significant trend, which requires pedagogical responses, is the prevalence of what we call 'user-generated contexts'. We are currently witnessing a significant shift away from traditional forms of mass communication and editorial push towards user-generated content and individualised communication contexts. These structural changes to mass communication also affect the agency of the user and their relationship with traditional and new media. Indeed, we argue that users are now actively engaged in shaping their own forms of individualised generation of contexts for learning through individualised communication contexts. New relationships between context and production are emerging in that mobile devices not only enable the production of content but also of contexts. They position the user in new relationships with space, i.e. the outer world, and place, i.e. social space. Mobile devices enable and foster the broadening and breaking up of genres. Citizens become content producers who are part of an explosion of activity in the area of user-generated content. What, we ask, are the implications for education?

The workshop will be attended by the following colleagues from across Europe who work in and across various aspects of the fields of education and educational technology:
Elisabeth Adami, Verona
Graham Attwell, Pontydysgu
Ben Bachmair, Kassel
Jörgen Bang, Aarhus
Margit Böck, Salzburg
John Cook, London Met
Theo Hug, Innsbruck
Ambjörn Naeve, Stockholm
Norbert Pachler, WLE/IoE (convenor)
Christoph Pimmer, Basel
Maren Risch, Rhineland-Palatinate
Daniel Spikol, Växjö
John Traxler, Wolverhampton
Kevin Walker, LKL

The 2-day workshop will be sub-divided into the following themed 2-hour sessions:
1. opening session (Pachler): socio-cultural transformation, ecology, user generated/responsive contexts
2. MyMobile project/pedagogy (Bachmair, Risch)
3. work-based learning (Pimmer, Attewell, Pachler)
4. design challenges (Spikol, Walker)
5. content (Hug, Bang)
6. literacy (Cook, Adami, Boeck)
7. sustainability (Traxler, Naeve)
8. closing session (Pachler)

Each contributor will have put together a briefing paper prior to the workshop with key questions, which will be explored with reference to the key components of the LMLG's emerging theory of mobile learning and its key components: structures, agency, practices; user-generated, responsive contexts; transformations etc.

Call for papers: IADIS international conference mobile learning 2010

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:26:25 +0200

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 30 October 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2010 Porto, Portugal, 19 to 21 March 2010 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/)

* 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
. User Studies in mLearning
. Mobile social media & user generated content
. Enabling mLearning technologies, applications & uses
. Evaluation and evaluation methodologies for mLearning
. Tools, technologies and platforms for mLearning
. Mobile Web 2.0 applications for mLearning
. Mobile game-based learning

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: 30 October 2009
- Notification to Authors: 27 November 2009
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 18 December 2009
- Late Registration: After 18 December 2009
- Conference: Porto, Portugal, 19 to 21 March 2010

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Porto, Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@mlearning-conf.org
Web site: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

* Program Committee
Mobile Learning 2010 Program Chair
InmaculadaArnedillo Sánchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Mobile Learning 2010 Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Steering Committee to be announced

Committee Members:
* * for committee list please refer to http://www.mlearning-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
e-Society 2010 (http://www.esociety-conf.org/) - 18-21 March 2010
Information Systems 2010 (http://www.is-conf.org/) - 18-20 March 2010

* Registered participants in the Mobile Learning' conference may attend e-Society and Information Systems conferences' sessions free of charge.

Call for Papers: MoLeNET Mobile Learning Conference 2009

Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:38:16 +0200

CALL FOR PAPERS (ABSTRACTS)

MoLeNET Mobile Learning Conference 2009
1 December 2009, Central London, UK

General page: http://www.molenet.org.uk/learningconference2009/

Call for Papers:
http://www.molenet.org.uk/learningconference2009/papers/

The MoLeNET Mobile Learning conference to be held on 1 December 2009
includes a research strand, in addition MoLeNET projects' dissemination
strands, and a variety of mobile learning and mobile technologies
sessions together with a small exhibition. We invite mobile learning
researchers and practitioners in any education or training environment
to submit an abstract to take part in this conference strand, which will
also include presentations from researchers working in selected MoLeNET
projects. The aim is to share research and evidence of impact across
the wider mobile learning community.

For more information on how to submit an abstract to present at the
conference, go to MoLeNET Mobile Learning Conference 2009 page at
http://www.molenet.org.uk/learningconference2009/.

Important Dates:

1 September 2009 - Online registration for conference opens

30 September 2009 - Submission deadline for abstracts

19 October 2009 - Notification of acceptance of successful abstracts

24 November 2009 - Online book of abstracts made available

1 December 2009 - Mobile Learning in Practice Conference

Conference organised by the MoLeNET Programme (www.molenet.org.uk) at LSN (www.lsnlearning.org.uk)

A book of abstracts will be published for the conference by LSN.
Following the conference, presenters will be invited to submit full
papers for publication in early 2010.

Date, time and place of the ECER 2009 presentation 'Researching mobile learning - a socio-cultural ecology as framework for qualitative research standards'

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:33:03 +0200

Seipold, J., Pachler, N.: 'Researching mobile learning - a socio-cultural ecology as framework for qualitative research standards'. EERA/ECER 2009 'Theory and Evidence in European Educational Research'. Vienna, September 28-30.

Date, Time and Place:
Network: 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Session: 06 SES 07
Session Title: 06 SES 07: Media and space in education
Time: 29/Sep/2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Room: NIG, HS 3C

The conference takes place in the Main Building of the University of Vienna, Dr.-Karl-Lueger- Ring 1 and the Juridicum, Schottenbastei 10-16.

Website: http://www.eera-ecer.eu/ecer/ecer-2009-vienna/

Call for Papers: 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2010)

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:22:47 +0200

6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2010)

Mobile Social Media for Learning and Education
in Formal and Informal Settings

April 12-16, 2010 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

hosted by National Central University (Taiwan)
http://wmute2010.cl.ncu.edu.tw/

(IEEE Computer Society Sponsorship solicited)

General Conference Chairs:
Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan
Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece

Program Chairs:
Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Roy Pea, Stanford University, USA
Chen-Chung Liu, National Central University, Taiwan

Call for Papers
Based on shared research interests between the two communities, IEEE WMUTE (International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education) and IEEE DIGITEL (International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning) conference 2010 will be jointly held in Kaohsiung Taiwan.  Participants of both conferences will be able to interact and exchange ideas which we hope can stimulate more exciting ideas for future research.
The convergence of global adoption of smart phones integrating hi-quality media capture devices and trends in social networking, participatory media and cyber infrastructure provide remarkable opportunities for making mobile social media integral to distributed learning environments. Social networking and user-generated media like YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and Flickr are moving beyond the stationary PC onto mobile devices like iPhone and low-price netbook computers. Social applications are also becoming a new communication and networking method in sectors such as business, entertainment and education. We expect to see mobile social media, incorporating video, photos, social networking and communication capabilities to be one of the major new applications for the mobile web, and we welcome contributions that help advance visions, technologies, research and theories to better support learning and educational purposes.
Arguably the impact of mobile social media will be universal, augmenting with distributed social media tools the face-to-face social interactions that now enable learning and teaching interactions. Learners may tap social networks and recommendations for learning in pursuit of their interests over informal and formal settings. Students could learn from a broader universe of user-generated content, beyond “prescribed” content provided by teachers or textbooks. The mobile social network can potentially foster richer parent-child interactions for learning, and enable different parent roles supporting education, and more vibrant and productive interactions between learning at school, home and neighborhood. In classroom settings, mobile devices can enrich interactivity and inter-operability of digital expression and potentially provide supervision and decision support for teachers. The well-documented powers of informal learning in workplaces can be served well with social mobile media. Therefore, WMUTE 2010 hopes to initiate a new line of research and practice that highlights both social and technological innovation in order to support and amalgamate contemporary social learning theories. This theme-based conference will expose the results of current research efforts in this field as well as identify future challenges and research priorities. The scope of WMUTE 2010 will cover but not be limited to:
*      Mobile social media
*      User experiences in mobile social media creation and collaboration
*      Specific roles for video in mobile learning and working
*      Theories and applications for modeling collaboration in mobile environments
*      Emerging mobile video development platforms and user interfaces
*      Context-aware learning environments and mobile social media applications
*      Open educational resources for WMUTE
*      Mobile video story-telling and communities
*      Human-computer interaction aspects of technology-enriched classrooms
*      Mobile and ubiquitous computing support for collaborative learning
*      Mobile Web 2.0 applications for learning and teaching
*      Learning scenarios with wireless sensor networks *   Small-screen interface design
*      Mobile collaborative learning systems
*      Implementation of learning models exploiting one-to-one technology
*      New devices for learning and instruction
*      Game-based learning with ubiquitous and one-to-one technologies
*      Adaptive and adaptable learning environments using mobile and ubiquitous devices
*      Agent support for ubiquitous learning and one-to-one classroom settings
*      Architectures and infrastructures for one-to-one classroom settings
*      Methods of interaction analysis in mobile and ubiquitous learning scenarios
*      Evaluation and evaluation methodologies for WMUTE

Submission deadline
September 26th, 2009, for all submissions

Submissions types
Full papers: 8 pages
Short papers: 5 pages
Posters: 3 pages
Workshop proposals: 2 pages
Panel Proposals: 2 pages
Tutorial proposals: 2 pages

Workshop entitled 'Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformations' accepted for Alpine Rendez-Vous

Mon, 6 Jul 2009 18:00:41 +0200

LMLG workshop at the Alpine Rendez-Vous

Workshop entitled 'Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformations'
November 30 to December 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria

In the workshop the group inter alia will seek to explore the following questions and issues:

* What relationship is there between user-generated content, user-generated contexts and learning? How can educational institutions cope with the more informal communicative approaches to digital interactions that new generations of learners possess?
* Learning as a process of meaning-making for us occurs through acts of communication, which take place within rapidly changing socio-cultural, mass communication and technological structures. Does the notion of learner-generated cultural resources represent a sustainable paradigm shift for formal education in which learning is viewed in categories of context and not content? What are the issues in terms of Text production in terms of modes of representation, (re)contextualisation and conceptions of Literacy? Who decides/redefines what it means to have coherence in contemporary interaction?
* What synergies are there between the socio-cultural ecological approach to mobile learning, which the group has developed through its work to date, with paradigms developed by different TEL communities in Europe?
* What pedagogical parameters are there in response to the significant transformation of society, culture and education currently taking place alongside technological innovation?

We see learning using mobile devices governed by a triangular relationship between socio-cultural structures, cultural practices and the agency of media users / learners, represented in the three domains. The interrelationship of these three components: agency, the user's capacity to act on the world, cultural practices, the routines users engage in their everyday lives, and the socio-cultural and technological structures that govern their being in the world, we see as an ecology, which in turn manifests itself in the form of an emerging cultural transformation. Another significant trend, which requires pedagogical responses, is the prevalence of what we call user-generated contexts. We are currently witnessing a significant shift away from traditional forms of mass communication and editorial push towards user-generated content and individualised communication contexts. These structural changes to mass communication also affect the agency of the user and their relationship with traditional and new media. Indeed, we argue that users are now actively engaged in shaping their own forms of individualised generation of contexts for learning through individualised communication contexts. New relationships between context and production are emerging in that mobile devices not only enable the production of content but also of contexts. They position the user in new relationships with space, i.e. the outer world, and place, i.e. social space. Mobile devices enable and foster the broadening and breaking up of genres. Citizens become content producers who are part of an explosion of activity in the area of user-generated content. What, we ask, are the implications for education?

Please contact Norbert Pachler for further information (n.pachler@ioe.ac.uk).

The Alpine Rendez-Vous is organised within the framework of the STELLAR Network of Excellence (www.stellarnet.eu) by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. The LMLG workshop will take place from November 30 to December 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria.

Book available now: Researching mobile learning

Thu, 7 May 2009 14:13:33 +0200

G. Vavoula, N. Pachler, A. Kukulska-Hulme (Eds.) (2009):
'Researching mobile learning: frameworks, tools and research designs.'
Peter Lang (Oxford).

see website
download flyer

1st LearnHigher CETL M-posium

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:20:48 +0200

Mobile Learning in Higher Education - the 1st LearnHigher CETL 'M-posium'

Description:

This one-day event aims to gather researchers, and other creative practitioners whose work focuses on mobile learning.   The aim of the m-posium is for practitioners and guests to share good practice and to learn from the key themes that emerge from individual experiences.

The symposium will be structured around all contributors leading a discussion outlining their experiences and sharing their successes.  We will also be exploring the difficulties encountered along with issues around the further embedding of good m-learning practice. The event is being supported by the Information and Computer Sciences Subject Centre who will be talking to us on the day about the national picture.

Contributions from the day will be documented and collated into a printed brochure to be distributed across the sector informing others about developments in m-learning and issues for consideration in the embedding of m-learning practice.  As well as this valuable resource of collective experiences, we will also produce Podcasts and videos from the event to be disseminated via the LearnHigher website.

Confirmed speakers:

Andy Black, Technology Research Manager, Learning and Skills Support Manager
Mobile Learning - Learner Mobility The Story Thus Far And Some Ideas Of Future Challenges

Dr David Whyley, Head teacher and e-learning consultant for the City of Wolverhampton
Making The Theory Work!  - Managing And Supporting A Large Scale Mobile Learning Initiative

Jon Trinder, Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Glasgow
Past, Present And Future

John Traxler, Reader in Mobile Technology for e-Learning; Director, Learning Lab, University of Wolverhampton
Learner Devices - Mobile Learning Out Of Control

Prof. John Cook, Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning at the Learning Technology Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Urban Planning Education In Context With Mobile Phones

Dr. Stephen Hagan, HEA Subject Centre in Information and Computer Sciences (ICS)
A Snapshot On The Adoption And Deployment Of Mobile Technologies In The Support Of Teaching And Learning Within The ICS Community

Dr. Mark Stubbs, Head of Learning and Research Technologies, Manchester Metropolitan University

Details:

Date:  Wednesday 22nd April 2009

Venue:  Manchester Metropolitan University, The LearnHigher Suite, Room 201 (second Floor), Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamund St West, Manchester M15 6LL

Contact: Sylvie Steward via email for further details or to request a place stewars@hope.ac.uk

For further details go to http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/mposium/index.html

LMLG's AERA 2009 slides online

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:15:35 +0200

The slides from the LMLG's AERA Symposium "Outside in and inside out: interdisciplinarity and mobile learning research" are available for download.

Norbert Pachler: A socio-cultural ecology of mobile learning: an overview (Symposium overview)

Ben Bachmair: Pedagogical issues and mobile learning I

John Cook: Appropriation of mobile phones for learning

Elisabetta Adami and Gunther Kress: A social semiotic account of (mobile) learning

Norbert Pachler: Pedagogical issues and mobile learning II

Paper "Researching mobile learning - a socio-cultural ecology as framework for qualitative research standards" accepted for ECER 2009

Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:19:19 +0200

Judith Seipold's & Norbert Pachler's paper entitled "Researching mobile learning - a socio-cultural ecology as framework for qualitative research standards" has been accepted for ECER 2009.
The conference will take place in Vienna from 28 September to 30 September, 2009.
Information is available at: http://www.eera-ecer.eu/ecer/ecer-2009-vienna/

Book of abstracts: 3rd WLE m-learning Symposium

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:34:18 +0200

The final version of the book of abstracts can be downloaded by using the following links:

http://www.londonmobilelearning.net/symposium/downloads/3rd_wle_mlearning_symposium_-_book_of_abstracts_single_page_display.pdf
and
http://www.londonmobilelearning.net/symposium/downloads/3rd_wle_mlearning_symposium_-_book_of_abstracts_spreads.pdf

Pachler, N., Seipold, J. (Eds.) 'Mobile learning cultures across education, work and leisure. Book of abstracts.' Proceedings of the 3rd WLE Mobile Learning Symposium, London, 27th March 2009. Published by the WLE Centre, March 2009. ISSN 1753-3385

Recently launched: Mo-LeaP - The Mobile Learning Projects Database

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:06:49 +0200

Are you interested in mobile learning practice and curious about the latest ideas on the implementation of learning with mobile devices in educational contexts? Then have a look at our database! Just browse or search - or even submit your own project.

http://www.londonmobilelearning.net/moleap/

Research on mobile learning is essentially related to the implementation of mobile learning projects in different contexts such as education or everyday life. Projects are characterized by different approaches to teaching and learning, locations, and a broad variety of technologies; also, they are dealing with mobile technologies as topic or they support their use as learning and teaching tools. As the rapidly emerging field of mobile learning originates a tremendous amount of mobile learning projects, Mo-LeaP – the mobile learning projects database is conceptualized as a resource and tool for people who are interested in mobile learning, especially in sharing their experiences and projects with others, or in learning from already existing projects; it aims to provide straightforward functionality on the basis of design principles derived from principled conceptual work in an attempt to facilitate the sharing of pedagogical practice. The database – which is based on the idea of non-proprietary and collaborative knowledge building – aims

* to provide opportunities for the systematic gathering of practice,
* to distribute knowledge which was gained within such projects in order to make practice less ephemeral,
* to enable synergies,
* to contribute to sustainability in teaching, learning and research, as well as
* to enhance replicability of mobile learning projects.

The option to submit data in two languages, English and German, is provided in order to support knowledge transfer and scientific exchange between these two language communities. We hope that the potential for educational exchange and knowledge sharing, the innovative use of mobile technologies in educational contexts as well as support for learners and their technology-related cultural practices will be an incentive for teachers – and educational professionals in general – to either contribute to the database or to learn from projects. As the fast growing content of already existing websites with resources attests, such resources are willingly accepted, frequented and contributed by teachers in order to find new ideas to inform their teaching practice.

Mo-LeaP is part of the project “And don't forget to bring your mobile“–Informing educational target groups about mobile learning opportunities (project holder: Judith Seipold), which is funded by the Centre for Excellence in Work-Based Learning for Education Professionals (WLE Centre) at the Institute of Education (IoE), University of London.

Call for manuscripts: Work-based mobile learning

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:49:20 +0200

Work-based mobile learning: concepts and cases. A handbook for academics and practitioners.

Edited by
Norbert Pachler (Institute of Education, London),
Christoph Pimmer (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Basel),
Judith Seipold (University of Kassel, Kassel).

Published by Peter Lang, Oxford

The call is available at http://www.londonmobilelearning.net/downloads/call_for_manuscripts_5.pdf

Mobile learning is a rapidly expanding field. Its growing importance is reflected for example in the rising number of conferences and journals. Mobile phones were identified in the Horizon Report (2009) as the technologies with the highest likelihood of entry into the mainstream of learning-focused institutions within the next year. Issues surrounding mobile learning in workbased contexts have only been marginally covered to date despite the potentially huge impact of mobile technologies on supporting work-based learning activities.

Against the background of an increasingly mobile workforce, technological innovations and a changing corporate learning landscape, the central question of this book will be how mobile devices can be used to support work-based learning.

The editors welcome chapters on theoretical frameworks, concepts as well as latest empirical results in the field of work-based mobile learning. The aim is to provide innovative approaches of how mobile devices can encourage work-based learning activities. Contributions can relate to placements as part of education courses, to (semi-formal) on-the job training provided within organisations or to the manifold forms of informal and incidental learning experiences at the work place. Also, contributions, which consider life-long learning as a sustainable basis for work-based learning and critical reviews of cultural implications of work-based learning, are welcome.

Topics of interest in the field of mobile work-based
learning include, but are by no means limited to:
••collaboration,
••mentoring, coaching & facilitating
••creation, reflection and sharing of learning materials,
••assessment methods,
••contextualisation and personalisation of content,
••location awareness,
••performance support,
••just-in-time learning.

Key dates

April 27, 2009:
First deadline for expressions of interest in the form of a 250-500 word abstract to the editors c/o christoph.pimmer@fhnw.ch

May 18th, 2009:
Notifications of invitations to submit a chapter / notification of rejection.
Two further calls will be issued (June, November 2009).

January 4, 2010:
Author deadline for submission of completed manuscripts of around 5,000 words.

February 1, 2010:
Editor deadline for reviewing chapters and returning comments to authors; each contribution will be sent to two referees for double blind peer review.

February 26, 2010:
Author deadline for making revisions and submitting final chapters.

September 2010:
Expected publication date.

Event announcement: Symposium on 'Multimodal Approaches to Communication'

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:46:38 +0200

Elisabetta Adami is co-organiser of the Symposium on 'Multimodal Approaches to Communication' which will take place on 27 May 2009 at the University of Verona, Italy.

Keynote speakers:
Gunther Kress (Centre for Multimodal Research, Institute of Education, University of London) and
Carey Jewitt (Centre for Multimodal Research, London Knowledge Lab).

Mobile Learning Summer School for PhD students - Call for participation

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:02:12 +0200

Call for participation

Mobile Learning Summer School - Technology Enhanced Learning Summer School on Mobile Learning

4th-9th July 2009, Brest – France

Deadline for inscription : 6th June

*Objectives*
The main goal of the summer school is to bring together PhD students with experienced researchers from the technology enhanced learning community about mobile Learning. This topic will be addressed from a cognitive viewpoint (pedagogy, didactic, education, etc.) and a technological viewpoint (computer-based models, architectures, etc.)

*Topics*
Educational Practices with Mobile Devices, Pervasive Learning Environments, Adaptive Components and Mobile Architecture, Mobile Interaction, Augmented Reality Semantic Web, Context, Context-Aware Adaptation

*Support*
The Technology Enhanced Learning Summer School on Mobile Learning will benefit from a pro-active support from CNRS, Telecom Institute, and local institutions (Brest Métropole Océane and General Council)

*Venue and accommodation description*
Brest is located in Brittany, on extreme west of France. Brest is one of France's historic ports, a sea city surrounded by eight communes where thousands of wonders are waiting for you. We will be hosted on Telecom Bretagne Campus. All delegates are offered the possibility of Campus accommodation in the Student residences

*Cost of Summer School*
Public institutions 600 € Private institutions 1000 € PhD candidates 400 € (including accommodation - 5 nights in single room, meals, and social event).

Registration form avaialable here : http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/mlearning09/registration/

Inscription will be closed on 6th June

The LMLG events blog is online

Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:51:14 +0100

The LMLG events blog was installed in order to allow people to take part in discussions during/after presentations which LMLG members give at different events. Also, we provide space here for papers of externals who present on LMLG events such as the WLE m-learning Symposium.

Just register under http://blog.londonmobilelearning.net and participate in discussions.

3rd WLE Mobile Learning Symposium: programme is published

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:11:35 +0100

A first version of the Symposium programme is available at http://symposium.londonmobilelearning.net/?page=Programme.

John Cook at Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) 2009

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:13:26 +0100

John Cook has been invited to give a lecture and run a workshop on mobile learning at Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) 2009. The lecture is on 'Phases of mobile learning'.*
* Carl Smith will provide supporting expertise derived through the CONTSENS and MATURE projects for the workshop, which is called 'Context sensitive, location aware mobile learning'.

This week long event is run by EC Framework (FP7) projects and networks: "Our ambition is to foster cross-domain training and collaboration opportunities among researchers in Europe and beyond, working in the disparate fields of expertise which promote the advancement of TEL at the workplace. The programme includes lectures and working sessions from leading professors in the field, tutoring, mentoring, and joint research opportunities. Additionally the school will offer practical sessions in research methodology for Technology Enhanced Learning."

To be held Terchova, Slovakia, May 30 - June 6, 2009. More details: http://www.jTELSummerSchool.eu

Dates and place of the CAL 2009 Symposium "Outside in, inside out? Digital media as cultural resources for learning"

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:11:19 +0100

The Symposium "Outside in, inside out? Digital media as cultural resources for learning" which is accepted for CAL 2009 will take place on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 from 13.15 - 14.35 hours in the Hilton Metropole Brighton.

Dates and place of the AERA 2009 Symposium "Outside in and inside out: interdisciplinarity and mobile learning research"

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:36:04 +0100

The Symposium "Outside in and inside out: interdisciplinarity and mobile learning research" which is accepted for AERA 2009 will take place on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 from 16.05 - 17.35 hours in the San Diego Marriott Hotel.

John Cook, Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning gave his inaugural lecture on the 3rd February 2009, called "The digitally literate learner and the appropriation of new technologies and media for education"

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:37:33 +0100

John Cook, Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning gave his inaugural lecture on the 3rd February 2009, called "The digitally literate learner and the appropriation of new technologies and media for education"

The slides and text are all available from here:
http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook (Note it is 31MB, the Note Page view gives the text of the lecture)

It has already been blogged:
http://fm.schmoller.net/2009/02/the-digitally-literate-learner-and-the-appropriation-of-new-technologies-and-media-for-education.html

Norbert Pachler and Rachel Jones talking about Projects in Mobile Learning at BETT 2009

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:07:54 +0100

Norbert Pachler (WLE Centre, IoE) and Rachel Jones (Steljes) will give a talk entitled "Projects in Mobile Learning" at BETT 2009 on Friday, January 16th, 2009, 11.15-12.45.

3rd WLE m-learning Symposium: Reminder - Deadline for the submission of proposals: 16 January 2009

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:43:09 +0100

16 January 2009:
Deadline for the submission of 1000 word extended abstracts for the 3rd WLE mobile learning Symposium, which will take place at the WLE, Institute of Education, London on March 27th, 2009.

Please submit your papers to submission-symp09@londonmobilelearning.net

Detailed information is available at http://www.londonmobilelearning.net/symposium

Book available now: Medienwissen fuer Paedagogen. Medienbildung in riskanten Erlebniswelten.

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:45:16 +0100

Bachmair, Ben (2009): 'Medienwissen fuer Paedagogen. Medienbildung in riskanten Erlebniswelten.' VS Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften.

Reflection Paper entitled "Towards a Methodology of Researching Mobile Learning" accepted for IADIS Mobile Learning 2009

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:44:47 +0100

Seipold, J., Pachler, N. and Cook, J.: 'Towards a Methodology of Researching Mobile Learning'. Reflection Paper accepted for the IADIS Mobile Learning 2009 Conference. Barcelona, February 26-28, 2009.

Poster/Demonstration entitled "Mo-LeaP - The mobile learning projects database" accepted for IADIS Mobile Learning 2009

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:44:42 +0100

Seipold, J.: 'Mo-LeaP - The mobile learning projects database'. Poster/Demonstration accepted for the IADIS Mobile Learning 2009 Conference. Barcelona, February 26-28, 2009.

Short Paper entitled "Context Sensitive Mobile Learning: Designing a 'Technoscape' for Urban Planners" accepted for IADIS Mobile Learning 2009

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:43:03 +0100

Smith, C., Cook, J., Pratt-Adams, S.: 'Context Sensitive Mobile Learning: Designing a 'Technoscape' for Urban Planners'. Short Paper accepted for the IADIS Mobile Learning 2009 Conference. Barcelona, February 26-28, 2009.

Symposium proposal entitled "Outside in and inside out: interdisciplinarity and mobile learning research" accepted for AERA 2009

Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:48:58 +0100

Symposium proposal entitled "Outside in and inside out: interdisciplinarity and mobile learning research" accepted for AERA 2009.

Sessions:
- 'Pedagogical Issues and Mobile Learning', by Ben Bachmair, University of Kassel, Germany
- 'Appropriation: the Adoption of Mobile Devices for New Cultural Practices', by John Cook, LTRI
- 'A Social Semiotic Account of (Mobile) Learning', by Elisabetta Adami, University of Verona
- 'Towards a Cultural Ecology of Mobile Learning', by Norbert Pachler, Institute of Education, London

Symposium proposal entitled "Outside in, inside out? Digital media as cultural resources for learning" accepted for CAL 09 (Convenor: John Cook)

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 09:32:48 +0100

Symposium proposal entitled "Outside in, inside out? Digital media as cultural resources for learning" accepted for CAL 09 (Convenor: John Cook)

Individual papers accepted as part of the symposium:
- 'Appropriation of mobile phones for learning', by John Cook, LTRI
- 'Smartphones: a social semiotic view and implications for their use in formal education', by Norbert Pachler, Institute of Education, London; Elisabetta Adami, University of Verona.
- 'Curricular assimilation of conflicting mobile expertises into the school, a cases study on students’ lifestyle habitus and mobile use in media convergence', by Ben Bachmair, University of Kassel, Germany.

WLE Centre Dissemination Event: Changing Learning Inside + Outside School: the role of multimedia & mobile technologies

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:34:59 +0100

Changing Learning Inside + Outside School: the role of multimedia & mobile technologies

A free WLE Centre Dissemination Event

Tuesday 25th November 2008, 10am to 12:30pm

For more information or to register, please email contact@wlecentre.ac.uk

WLE/LMLG M-Learning Symposium - Announcement of the second call for expressions of interest and extended abstracts

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:09:43 +0100

3 November 2008: Announcement of the second call for expressions of interest and extended abstracts.

3rd WLE Mobile Learning Symposium: Toshiba best paper prize

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:13:15 +0200

3rd WLE Mobile Learning Symposium: Mobile Learning Cultures across Education, Work and Leisure
27 March 2009, WLE Centre, IOE London, UK

The Centre for Work-based Learning and Education (WLE), at the Institute of Education, London, and the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG) are pleased to be able to announce the 'best paper prize' sponsored by Toshiba. The winner will receive the new Toshiba Netbook NB100.

For further information visit www.londonmobilelearning.net, section "Best paper prize".

Book announcement: Medienwissen für Pädagogen. Medienbildung in riskanten Erlebniswelten.

Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:35:30 +0200

Bachmair, B.:
'Medienwissen für Pädagogen. Medienbildung in riskanten Erlebniswelten.'

The book will be published by VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften in late 2008.

Book announcement: Researching Mobile Learning. Frameworks, methods and research designs.

Sat, 4 Oct 2008 12:36:31 +0200

G. Vavoula, N. Pachler, A. Kukulska-Hulme (Eds.):
Researching Mobile Learning. Frameworks, methods and research designs.

The book will be published by Peter Lang (Oxford) in early 2009.

WLE/LMLG M-Learning Symposium - First call for expressions of interest and extended abstracts.

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0200

1 October 2008: First call for expressions of interest and extended abstracts.

WLE/LMLG M-Learning Symposium - Call for papers

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Background
Research on mobile learning is currently making a shift from practice-orientated research to theory building, often focusing on theorising communicative and discursive practices. In this context, an emerging tendency in theory building is to consider experiences related to the learners’ life worlds, agencies and cultural practices, in out-of-school, informal contexts.
To understand personalised, learner-centred learning from a cultural perspective, practitioners need to explore these life world contexts in terms of the learner’s personal lifestyle, socio-economic status, experiences and interests. The challenge for practitioners is to learn from the learners’ agencies, to critically reflect upon the changing cultural practices that emerge from the use of new technologies, and to integrate the assets that young people acquire in leisure contexts into successful learning experiences in formal contexts such as school, higher education and work.
One of the pedagogic aims of such a cultural ecology of mobile learning is to build new links, or to strengthen existing ones, between the different contexts in a learner’s life with the aim to provide continuity for learning, to minimise the risk of failure, and to nurture lifelong learning.
As learning with mobile media is increasingly less bound by specific locations, occasions, contents and individuals, and as research on mobile learning can increasingly accommodate a growing diversity of experiences and findings, this symposium aims to address different audiences, with a focus on education professionals and practitioners from school, work and leisure. All are invited to participate in an exchange of experiences and ideas.
The symposium will focus on mobile learning theory and practice in education, work and leisure and will address the following themes:
- Learning across contexts - Cultural approaches to mobile learning - Status quo, visions and conjectures
Interdisciplinary approaches and thematic crossovers, both in theory and practice, are particularly welcome. Work in progress and international contributions are encouraged.

Keynote presentations
The symposium will feature a small number of invited keynote presentations by leading experts in the field. Confirmed speakers and titles will be announced in due course.

Symposium Organisers
Dr Norbert Pachler, WLE Centre, IOE London, UK.
Judith Seipold M.A., University of Kassel, Germany / Associate at the WLE Centre, IOE London, UK
Dr Giasemi Vavoula, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK
Professor Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK

Important Dates
1 October 2008: First call for expressions of interest and extended abstracts.
3 November 2008: Second call for expressions of interest and extended abstracts.
5 December 2008: Expression of interest – proposed title of submission with a brief description (up to 300 words).
16 January 2009: Submission of 1000 word extended abstracts.
30 January 2009: Notification of acceptance.
30 January 2009: Registration opens – symposium programme announcement.
20 February 2009: Submission of camera-ready extended abstracts.
27 February 2009: Registration closes.
27 March 2009: Symposium at WLE, Institute of Education, London.
30 April 2009: Submission of full papers for post-symposium publication.

Registration
Registration for the symposium is free but numbers are limited. Priority will be given to authors of accepted abstracts.

Presentations
Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to give a 20 minute presentation.

Proceedings
All accepted abstracts will be available in print on the day. Presenters will be invited to submit full papers for publication in a dedicated volume. Full details will be announced in due course.

Venue
The symposium will take place at the Centre for Work-based Learning and Education (WLE), at the Institute of Education, London, UK. The WLE Centre is located on Level 4 of the main building of the Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1 0AL. The nearest Underground Station is Russell Square (Piccadilly Line).

Website
http://symposium.londonmobilelearning.net
www.wlecentre.ac.uk
www.londonmobilelearning.net

Contact details
Expression of interest: submission-symp09@londonmobilelearning.net
Submission of abstracts: papers-symp09@londonmobilelearning.net
Registration: registration-symp09@londonmobilelearning.net