mLearn 2008
mLearn, the world's flagship mobile learning conference, will take place in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ironbridge in Shropshire, England in October 2008, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The conference started in Birmingham in 2002 and has since taken place in London, Rome, Cape Town, Banff and Melbourne.
JISC is pleased to be sponsoring mLearn 2008
Aim of the conference
To bring together the world's leading mobile learning researchers, developers and activists in an environment that will stimulate significantly increased deployment of mobile learning of mobile learning and catalyse dramatically enhanced innovation.
Themes
- mobile learning, mobile knowledge, mobile societies: covering discourse, identity, knowledge and learning with pervasive, ubiquitous, mobile technologies; social, individual and cultural aspects of mobile learning
- devices, systems, technology and standards: convergence, diversity, frontiers, trends
- mobile learning landscape: work-based, informal, subject-specific, context-aware, social
- mobile learning for all: inclusion, assistivity, scalability, embedding, participation, development, evaluation, evidence, assessment
Target audience
The publicity, format, organisation and academic standads of the conference will continue to target the mLearn core constituency, namely international policy-makers, developers, researchers, teachers and practitioners in mobile learning.
Technology
Included in the conference will be the opportunity for delegates to engage with a mobile, context-aware learning experience in a variety of situations, showcasing innovative and novel approaches in mobile and wireless learning. As part of the registration pack, delegates will be given an 'active' ID badge and asked to choose one or both of the broadcast technologies available in order to allow automatic detection of the delegates throughout the conference. A benefit of this will be to record the sessions that they have attended and to automatically generate a blog as well as transmit relevant information to delegate devices. The blog can then be accessed post conference to review the individual experiences of the delegate. This technology will be carried over to the evening sessions, with the full cooperation of all venues involved.
View conference website