The PLE Conference is dedicated to Personal Learning Environments (PLE) including the design and development of learning environments and the sociological and educational issues that they arise.
Call for Papers:
The deadline of submissions of abstracts is March 4th, 2013.
Please submit your abstract direcly via EasyChair
<https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ple13 system.
Areas of the conference
The following are among the areas of the conference:
+ Concepts, scenarios and technologies for fostering diversity with PLEs
+ Concepts, scenarios, technologies for learning in smart urban spaces
+ General theories and frameworks for PLE
+ Technologies and software for developing PLE
+ Pedagogical and didactic approaches to Personal Learning Environments
+ Personal Learning Environments and Personal Learning Networks (PLN)
+ PLE and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
+ Personal Learning Environments, Open Badges and Gamification
+ PLEs in practice: case studies, good practice and approaches to PLEs
+ PLEs in education: new approaches and managing change in education
+ PLEs in organisations: new approaches and change in enterprises
+ PLEs at work: PLEs work-based learning and vocational training
+ PLEs in context: PLEs for contextual learning such as mobile learning
+ PLE vision: emerging technologies and innovative approaches to PLEs
Publication
Best Papers from the PLE Conference will be published in the Special Issue of eLearning Papers (http://elearningpapers.eu/en/elearning_papers) and Journal of Literacy and Technology (JLT http://literacyandtechnology.org/index2.htm).
We welcome abstracts for the following formats:
+ Full papers (extended abstract max. 1,200 words; final max. 8,000 words)
+ Short papers (extended abstract max. 700 words; final max. 3,000 words)
+ Pre-conference workshop (max. 400 words)
+ Pecha kucha session (max. 400 words)
+ Poster session (max. 400 words)
+ Demonstrations (max. 400 words)
+ Installations (max. 400 words)
+ Debates (max. 400 words)
+ World cafe sessions (max. 400 words)
+ Idea generation session (max. 400 words)
+ Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)(max. 400 words)
+ Hackathons (max. 400 words)
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Detailed information about the conference and the Call for Papers is available at:
http://pleconf.org/