EDUCATION - SUMMIT 2011 - Education 2011 to 2021- Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning

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Category EDUCATION - SUMMIT 2011

Deadline: September 25, 2010 | Date: February 15, 2011-February 18, 2011

Venue/Country: Sydney, Australia

Updated: 2010-08-27 09:04:39 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

15-18 February, 2011

Sydney, Australia

Paper submission deadline 27 August 2010

The Distance Education Hub (DE Hub) and the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) will host the Education 2011-2021 Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning Summit. The summit has a focus on the three themes that underpin the DEHub and ODLAA objectives.

Theme 1: Research and Development;

Theme 2: Community and Open Learning; and

Theme 3: Learning and Teaching.

Keynote speakers presenting at the summit include:

Diana Laurillard, Chair of Learning with Digital Technologies in the Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy with the London Knowledge Lab, UK.

Mohamed Ally, Director of the Centre for Distance Education and Professor in Distance Education, Athabasca University, Canada

Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK.

Gráinne Conole, Professor of E-Learning in the Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK.

David Wiley, Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology, Brigham Young University, USA

Michael Crock

Yoni Ryan

Colin Latchem

Bruce King

The summit is directed at colleagues involved in research, teaching, corporate and community oriented blended and distance education.