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Subject:	Mobile Learning 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal: submit until 29 October
Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2012 04:51:49 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Ana Sofia <ana.sofia@mlearning-conf.org>
To:	neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 29 October 2012 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2013

Lisbon, Portugal, 14 to 16 March 2013

(http://www.mlearning-conf.org/)

Free as Birds Learning in the Cloud

Mobile learning is concerned with a society on the move. In particular, with the study of “…how the mobility of learners augmented by personal and public technology can contribute to the process of gaining new knowledge, skills and experience” (Sharples et al. 2007).

 A growing understanding of the learning and instructional affordances of mobile technologies (alongside technological developments), have enabled the design and investigation of mobile learning experiences across contexts and dimensions of mobile learning. For instance, the literature in the field is rich in studies which investigate how learners move physical locations, utilising several devices/technologies, interacting with various social networks (perhaps across formal and informal learning settings), as they pursuit a learning path or event. 

There is much appreciation of learning principles, such as contextual, situated, augmented and collaborative among others, particularly suited to mobile learning. There is a well of studies reporting on how these principles can be best applied in the field. There are also always new technologies being implemented in the context of mobile learning for example, ‘smarter’ phones, e-readers, tablet and augmented reality applications. However, the evaluation of mobile learning is an area that has lagged behind.

The mobile nature of mobile learners and the application of traditional evaluation strategies and tools, have often limited the scope of investigation to what can be observed by researchers or captured by external recording devices (such as video or sound). Thus, a challenge remains to understand what happens while learners are on the move.

The advent of cloud computing and learning analytics offer potential for exploring innovative mobile learning experiences and alternative evaluation strategies which may in turn, shade light into what learning happens in the move.

The IADIS Mobile Learning 2013 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning research 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).

Authors of the best published papers in the Mobile Learning 2013 proceedings will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the "International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (ISSN: 1941-8647)"and also in other selected Journals.

The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services.

* 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:

•        Learning analytics and mobile learning

•        Cloud computing and mobile learning

•        Pedagogical approaches, models  and theories for mLearning

•        mLearning in and across formal and informal settings

•        Strategies and challenges for integrating mLearning in broader educational scenarios

•        User Studies in mLearning

•        Learner mobility and transitions afforded by mlearning 

·         Socio-cultural context and implications of mLearning

·         Mobile social media and user generated content

•        Enabling mLearning technologies, applications and uses

•        Evaluation and assessment of mLearning

•        Research methods, ethics and implementation of mLearning

•        Innovative mLearning approaches

•        Tools, technologies and platforms for mLearning

•        mlearning: where to next and how?

 

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 29 October 2012
- Notification to Authors: 28 November 2012
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 21 December 2012
- Late Registration: After 21 December 2012
- Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 14 to 16 March 2013

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

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2013
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 2013 Program Chair
Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Mobile Learning 2013 Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

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