Themes
We considered this year’s conference themes from the perspective of different audiences: those with an academic interest - working in schools, colleges and universities who are focused on formal education sectors, for those with a business interest focused on improving performance and building skills in private, public and not for profit organisations, those with an interest in informal learning - providing informal and incidental learning opportunities within social and practice communities and those working to ensure access to learning for the marginalised and potentially excluded.
1. Shifts in Learning Culture – The Research-Based Evidence
- What Does the Next Generation of Learners Need?
- New Learning Approaches and Pedagogy
- Intercultural Approach for Motivation for Learning
- New Assessment and Evaluation Approaches
- Virtual Mentoring and Coaching
- Human Capital vs Social Capital
- Educational Publishing Future
- Content to Conversations
- Establishing New Learning Cultures /Managing Change
2. Contents, Tools & Practices
- Intelligent Content & Semantics
- Content Authoring / Creation
- Video, a Star of E-Learning?
- OER and Open Climate/Openess
- Standards/Copyrights - IPR/Legal issues
- E-Portfolios
- Skills and Competency Development, Soft Skills
- Practical, Real World Tips (Webinars, Rapid E-Learning, Digital Pens, Flash etc..)
- Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, Social Networking, Twitter, RSS Feeds, Tag Clouds, Google Apps
- Content Curation
- Future Emerging Technologies
3. New Learning Environments
- Social Media/Web 2.0/Web 3.0/Social Networking
- Virtual Reality in a Real World
- The Future Classroom
- Augmented Reality
- Game Based Learning and Serious Games
- Mobile learning – Learning Everywhere
- Cloud Computing
- Personal Learning Environments
- Where Are We Heading To?
4. New Practices Driving New Policies and Processes
- Teacher Training, Training the Trainer
- Linking Innovators, Researchers, Policies & Practitioners
- Transforming Learning/Education Systems
- Learning Analytics
- Quality Assurance
5. Learning Transforming Society
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Education and Civic Responsibilty
- E-Ethics, E-Safety
- Plagiarism
- E-Inclusion (Youth at Risk, Disadvantaged & Marginalised People, Disabled, Migrants, E-Learning for Development, etc )
- Security & Identity Management (Digital Privacy, Online Safety and Digital Identities)
- Intercultural Understanding in Multi-Cultural Societies and Acculturation
- Business Models for Social Innovation
- Inter-Generational Learning
- Cultural Heritage
- Volunteering
- Remotely Controlled ( Damages of Social Media and Virtual Reality, Addiction, Isolation, Risks and Best Practices on How to Cope With It)
- Language Learning
