Eleventh International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies
St John’s University, Manhattan Campus, New York, USA
2–3 March 2018
http://ubi-learn.com/NewYork2018

Proposal deadline: 2 December 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Eleventh International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies will be held at St John’s University, Manhattan Campus, New York, USA , 2–3 March 2018. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, virtual lightning talks, virtual posters, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes:

Theme 1: Pedagogies
Theme 2: Institutions
Theme 3: Technologies
Theme 4: Social Transformations
2018 Special Focus: Digital Pedagogies for Social Justice

SCOPE & CONCERNS

First we called it ‘computers in education’. Then it was the World Wide Web. Then it was the reincarnation the Internet in the form Web 2.0 and social media. For a long time, we educators have lived with enthusiastic talk about the implications of technology in learning. Sometimes the talk has been plausible. At other times the results of using technology in learning have been disappointing.

For all the hyperbole, education is in many sites and many ways still relatively unchanged—the relations of teachers to students, students to each other and students to knowledge—and this is the case even when technology is used. For instance, if the print textbook becomes an e-book, do the social relations of knowledge and learning actually change? If the pen-and-paper test is mechanized, does this change our assessment systems?

Technology, in other words, can and often does reproduce and reinforce traditional, didactic relationships of learning. However, today’s information and communications technologies also offer affordances which in many ways we have barely yet explored. These possibilities we call a ‘new learning’, and ‘transformative pedagogy’.

How then, can we create and use technologies that push the boundaries of the learning experience, engage students more deeply and produce learning outcomes that live up to the high expectations of citizens, governments and workplaces in the twenty-first century? For this reason, in this research network, we want to focus not just on e-learning, but the pedagogical innovations that we hope e-learning environments might support. In this agenda, the ideas and practices of ‘ubiquitous learning’ suggest a wide range of possibilities.

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CONFERENCE SUBMISSION DEADLINES

The next proposal deadline is 2 December 2017. We welcome the submission of presentation proposals at any time of the year up until 30 days before the start of the conference. All proposals will be reviewed within two to four weeks of submission.

JOURNAL

Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal encourages the widest range of submissions and aims to foster the highest standards of intellectual excellence. Articles may be submitted by in-person and virtual participants as well as Research Network Members.

The Journal is indexed by:

• EBSCO Engineering Collection: India
• Educational Curriculum & Methods Directory (Cabell’s)
• Education Source (EBSCO)
• Scopus
• Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE OPTIONS

Proposals for presentation can be submitted in English or Spanish.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information and to submit a proposal visit:
http://ubi-learn.com/NewYork2018

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