Ireland International Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2012),
April 16-18, 2012, Dublin, Ireland (www.iicedu.org)
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The IICE is an international refereed conference dedicated
to the advancement of the theory and practices in education.
The IICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians
and professionals from Education.
The aim of IICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians
and professionals from various educational fields with
cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote
research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The IICE 2012 invites
research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design
implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers
will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected
papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.


The topics in IICE-2012 include but are not confined to the
following areas:

*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Competitive Skills
*Continuing Education
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*E-Manufacturing
*ESL/TESL
*E-Society
*Geographical Education
*Geographic information systems
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Home Education
*Human Computer Interaction
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Internet technologies
*Imaginative Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Mobile Applications
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Reading Education
*Writing Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*Ubiquitous Computing
*Virtual Reality
*Wireless applications
*Other Areas of Education  


Important Dates:

*Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: January 15, 2012  
*Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: January 20, 2012
*Proposal for Workshops: December 15, 2011  
*Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection: December 20, 2011  
*Poster Proposal Submission Date: January 10, 2012
*Notification of Poster Acceptance/Rejection: January 15, 2012
*Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Acceptance/Rejection: January 25, 2012
*Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance /Rejection: January 30, 2012
*Camera Ready Paper Due: February 10, 2012
*Early Bird Registration Deadline (Authors and Participants): February 15, 2012
*Late Bird Registration Deadline (Authors and Participants): March 10, 2012
*Conference Dates: April 16-18, 2012

 
For further information please visit IICE-2012 at www.iicedu.org

The JISC Online Conference

Innovating e-Learning 2011 – Can you afford to miss it?

The JISC Online Conference, Innovating e-Learning 2011, has opened with a pre-conference Activity Week preparing the way for next week’s main conference programme 22-25 November.

Are you interested in?
· Technology-mediated learning and teaching
· Institutional efficiency and curriculum transformation
· Open educational practice
· Introducing change in assessment practice
· Digital literacies
· Students as agents of change in curriculum enhancement

Do you want to know more about?
· Using Facebook in learning and teaching
· Using Web 2.0 technologies to create online communities for non-traditional learners
· Using mobile devices in the classroom
· A range of freely available online tools and resources to enhance your practice

You can still register for this big conference experience with a low carbon footprint. But don’t delay. The main conference programme commences Tuesday 22 November.

Follow the conference on Twitter @ jiscel2011
Contribute your views on Twitter using #jiscel11
Programme and booking at www.jisc.ac.uk/elpconference11

TechWatch report on 'Augmented Reality for Smartphones'

A new state-of-the-art TechWatch report looking at Augmented Reality for Smartphones is now available for comment: See Augmented Reality for Smartphones (PDF).

The report was commissioned by UKOLN for the JISC Observatory and written by Ben Butchart from EDINA, based at the University of Edinburgh.

Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment?

The University of Oxford and OCLC Research are collaborating on a short-term, JISC-funded study to investigate the theory of digital residents and visitors with students in the transitional educational stage, the time between late-stage secondary (high school) and the first year of college or university.

This work is intended to increase understanding of how learners engage with the Web and how educational services and systems can attract and sustain a possible new group of lifelong learners. The trans-Atlantic partnership will support comparison of students' digital learning strategies in different cultural contexts.

For more information, see the project website: http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/vandr/default.htm

Games, simulations and virtual worlds: what evidence do we have that they change practice?

While there’s a lot of interest in games, simulations and virtual worlds, and much talk of their potential, there is arguably less evidence about what their benefits are. Where there is evidence, this is often for the feasibility of new pedagogic approaches or of student enjoyment – not necessarily about learning.

The Games, Virtual Worlds and Higher Education Special Interest Group are holding an event on 15th April at the London Knowledge Lab to look at these issues - as part of the event they intend to bring together a body of evidence that develops this situation and starts to make sense of it. The day will combine short presentations with workshop-like sessions, so that evidence about changes to practice can be shared and analysed. For more information on the event and details on how to submit a proposal see this post.

For more information about the Game SIG, see http://www.game-sig.info/?page_id=80

Virtual trenches immerse students in First World War poetry

With Armistice Day fast approaching a JISC project team has taken an unusual approach to ensuring that people continue to learn about the First World War.

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University have collaborated on an exciting new venture in the 3D virtual world Second Life to simulate areas of the Western Front 1914-18. The team believes this is the first time anything of its kind has been done on Second Life.

Visitors to the virtual trenches can explore digitised archival materials like poetry manuscripts, letters and diaries from the major poets of the First World War as they walk around a training camp, a trench network and No Man’s Land dressed as a soldier or a nurse. The terrain is waterlogged and difficult to navigate, rife with rats and littered with poppies; moving nearer to the front line the clamour of shell blasts and artillery fire becomes louder and louder.

The resources include works by Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and Vera Brittain, along with contextual primary source materials. These materials have been supplemented with new interpretative content and a spectrum of interactive tools and tutorials, streaming video and audio effects.

The artefacts have been drawn from the highly successful First World War Poetry Digital Archive, launched in 2009 to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the war. By placing them in an online virtual model the collection is made even more useful and engaging to a range of different user groups across UK education sectors, research communities and the heritage industry.

Ben Showers, digitisation programme officer at JISC, said:

“The First World War Digital Poetry Archive is constantly pushing the boundaries of what it means to be an academic archive, and now users are able to interact with the collections and materials. JISC funding for this additional virtual environment means students, researchers and everyone interested in this material can collaborate and become immersed in the world of the Western Front to experience the immediate context of these manuscripts and poems like never before.”

As guests explore the simulation, they can listen to the voices of veterans recounting their experiences of the war, watch original film footage from the time, and learn about life on the Western Front. Within this context they can encounter some of the most powerful poetry in English literature by handling the original manuscripts, turning the pages of the poet’s war diaries and letters, and listening to readings.

For more information see: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/secondlife

Getting Started with Second Life

This JISC guide offers a basic overview of how to get started in Second Life, along with some tips on how to facilitate learning in this space.

The guide is written by representatives from several projects from within JISC’s recent Users and Innovation programme, which gave project teams the opportunity to work in emergent technology spaces that at the time were the domain of very few in higher education. These included multi user virtual environments such as Second Life.

During the life of the Second Life projects, one area stood out as needing support more than any other - getting started in Second Life. And here it is: aimed at staff who are looking to connect through a virtual world to learning and research activities, this guide should be the first step in any proposed use of Second Life for learning and teaching, providing a step by step approach and a range of guidance in the key areas and issues.

To download and view the report, go to http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/gettingstartedsecondlife.aspx