eLearning Symposium 2019 Event

NEW PERSPECTIVES: ELEARNING SYMPOSIUM REBOOTED. LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY IN NEW EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPES.

This one-day event will enable participants to discuss innovative teaching and learning practices in the ever-transforming educational landscape, where technology constantly challenges and opens new horizons both to teaching practitioners and learners.

Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton will hold the 12 ^th in a series of e-learning symposia on 25 ^th January 2019 . This popular event was formerly organised the LLAS, the Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. The aim of the symposium is to seek to bridge the gap between the ‘techie’ and the teacher, giving educators ideas to help them integrate e-learning into their practice but also to inspire them to see where the online future could lead. The symposium is always well-attended by practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and institutions. The one-day symposium comprises practical presentations to inspire the mind with exciting ideas about the possibilities that teaching and learning with technology offer. Attendees will experience a range of content from areas of more specific interest to our core language teaching and learning, to topics of wider interest to educators involved in e-learning. We highlight best practice in using e-learning and feature an exciting mixture of research and reflection from practice to inspire our community.

CALL FOR PAPERS - NOW CLOSED

Abstracts for proposed presentations or workshops should be no more than 400 words. Topics may include but are not limited to, the use in language teaching or research of:

– social networking sites
– Personal Learning Environment
– Communities of Practice
– mobile technology
– MOOCs and open learning
– blogs or wikis
– open educational resources
– Virtual reality and augmented reality
– Gamification
– virtual learning environments
– online tools or courses
– innovative online learning designs or environments
– autonomous learning
– blended learning
– social media, e.g. micro-blogging (e.g. Twitter)
– student-generated digital content

Short papers from the event will be published as an open access ebook.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Presentations (20 mins + 5 mins questions) should describe and evaluate an innovative use of technology with students in higher education and other sectors. Our focus is language teaching; however, we also welcome proposals related to other disciplines, if the ideas can be generally applied cross-discipline.

This might include examples of student engagement for academic purposes with virtual worlds, social networking websites, open educational resources or other Web.2.0 tools; use of innovative learning designs or creative e-learning environments and methods.

POSTERS

Posters should present work on a particular project or topic. They should summarise the key points and give enough appropriate information for the topic/project to be understood in 5-15 minutes. They should be visually interesting and designed to provoke informal discussion of the topic/project amongst colleagues.

Successful applicants will be notified by 31st October 2018 and will be assigned a session on receipt of conference registration and fee. If you have any questions about this call for contributions please email us at: [email protected] before 5th October 2018 .

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