[NetBehaviour] ALT-C 2008 - Rethinking the digital divide: first Call for Papers and Abstracts

[Ruth Catlow]

Hi all,

ALT is the Association of Learning Technologists.
I'm on the (very large) programming committee for the ALT-C  
conference this year.

It would be excellent to see some papers that take a more critical  
approach to the way in which the cultures of technology and education  
intersect. It would be especially good to see some papers that  
anticipate some of the potential controversies likely to be raised by  
the Keynote speakers!

cheers
Ruth

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ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide
9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UK
First call for papers and abstracts - deadline, 29 February 2008

Proposals should address up to three of the conference dimensions:
global or local; institutional or individual; pedagogy or technology;
access or exclusion; open or proprietary; private or public; for the
learner or by the learner.

For more detail on these, see:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/papers.htmlThe online submission system
for ALT-C 2008 is now open. Please read the submission guidelines for
Research Papers and for Abstracts -
http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html - and download the Research
Paper Template if you intend to to submit a research paper.

Submit your proposal on the new submission system at:
https://alt.conference-services.net/

Key dates:
Submissions open 14 December 2007
Submissions close 29 February 2008
Presenters' registration deadline: 6 June 2008
Early bird registration deadline: 30 June 2008
Registrations close: 15 August 2008

Keynote speakers:
David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop per Child, and
Head of the Future of Learning Research Group at MIT Media Lab;
Dr Itiel Dror, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience at the
University of Southampton;
Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute,
Sweden, and Director of the Gapminder Foundation.

For sponsorship and exhibition opportunities got to:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/sponsor_information.html
or contact Hayley Willis, Events Administrator:
hayley.willis at alt.ac.uk

ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide
9-11 September 2008, Leeds, England
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/


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