altc2013 - Building new cultures of learning: call for proposals

ALT-C 2012 Exhibition Hall

The 20th international conference of the Association for Learning Technology 10-12 September 2013, Nottingham, UK.

Whether you’ve been involved in ALT for years, are new to the learning technology domain, or are an experienced practitioner, supplier, funder, policy maker, researcher, writer, or presenter from other fields, please take the time to review the call and guidelines below. With your help the 2013 ALT Conference can be a truly outstanding, influential, and enjoyable event internationally.

Conference co-chairs: Haydn Blackey and Malcolm Ryan                                                                    

Plenary presenters will include: Stephen Downes and Tara McPherson

The five main conference themes will be:

  • It’s all about the learner: the role of student pioneers, learners as change agents, partnerships with learners, learners in control, learner contracts, everybody is a learner, lifelong learning journeys;
  • Making technological innovation work: pedagogic strategies for using technology effectively, the importance of technological developments for strategy, institutional practice, the importance of senior management, learning from techies;
  • Big data: making sense of big data, student analytics, big research, can we predict the future?
  • In the Open: Open Educational Resources, Open Access research and publishing, MOOCs;
  • Global learning cultures: crowd-sourcing, collaboration, global competition, educational policy and politics, new educational powers in the global market.

Categories of submissions

We welcome submissions of two broad types:

1. An abstract of up to 500 words describing either a Standard Presentation (15 minutes), Extended Presentation (30 minutes), or a Long Presentation (60 minutes). All abstracts will appear in the online Conference Abstracts Handbook.

2. A full Research Paper of up to 5000 words, for publication in the peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings of altc2013, together with a 500 word 'long abstract' (which will appear in the online Conference Abstracts Handbook), and a 200 word standard abstract.

Call for research papers

Call for non-research abstracts

The submission system will open in January 2013.

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