Papers

Whether you've been involved in ALT for years, are new to the learning technology domain, or are an experienced researcher or presenter from other fields with innovation to report, please take the time to review the call and guidelines documents below. With your help we can make the 2010 ALT Conference a truly outstanding, influential, and enjoyable event.

Categories of submissions for ALT-C 2010

We welcome submissions of two broad types.

1. Full 5000 word Proceedings Paper, for publication in the peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings of ALT-C 2010, with a 350 word abstract (taken from the paper), and a 200 word presentation overview which will appear in the Conference Introduction and Abstracts and online.
   
   
2. 350 word abstract describing either a Demonstration (30 minutes), Poster, Short Paper (20 minutes), Symposium (60 minutes or occasionally 80 minutes), or a Workshop (60 minutes). All abstracts will appear in the Conference Introducation and Abstracts, and online.

Submissions - The submisson system is now open.

Calls and Guidelines

Provided below are comprehensive documents for you to download and refer to prior to writing or submitting a proposal. Please read these carefully. Minor enhancements were made to the poster guidelines and tag list on 14 December 2009, these are highlighted in the document.

• Call and Guidelines for Proceedings Papers [9 page 97 kB PDF file]
• Proceedings Paper Template [4 page 56 kB DOC file]
• Call and Guidelines for Short Papers, Posters, Symposia, Workshops and Demonstrations [10 page 104 kB PDF file]

Key dates

• Calls and Guidelines issued 25 November 2009
• Proposals accepted from mid December 2009
• Submissions close on 15 February 2010
• Presenters will be informed of their proposal status by mid May 2010
• Presenters' registration deadline is 28 June 2010
• Earlybird registration deadline is 5 July 2010
• Registrations close on 13 August 2010

Awards

Outstanding and Best Proceedings Paper Awards

All presented proceedings papers will be considered by ALT for an Outstanding Proceedings Paper Award. To receive this award, the judges must all agree with the statement "This paper presents work that strongly advances the field of learning technology". If there is no agreement on the words "strongly advances" then the judges may make a Best Proceedings Paper Award.

The best papers at ALT-C 2010 will be forwarded to the Editors of the Association for Learning Technology Journal (ALT-J), one of whom is a member of the Programme Committee, to be considered for possible publication there. This does not preclude authors of other accepted papers from submitting revised papers to ALT-J. Further information about ALT-J.

Best Poster Award

All accepted posters will be eligible for the Best Poster Award, voted for by the conference delegates.