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UNESCO-UNIR ICT & Education Latam Congress 2016
“Integration of formal and informal contexts, for a better teaching and a better learning”
June 22-24, 2016
Bogota, Colombia
Important dates
March, 31: submission deadline for papers, workshops and project meetings
April, 30: communication of acceptance
May, 31: camera-ready papers. Special Issues process starts
June, 22: LINQ Conference 2016. Pre-conference meetings
June, 23, 24: UNESCO-UNIR ICT& Education Latam Congress 2016
Scope
One of the main challenges in modern education is to blend formal, official learning, with a huge variety of content provision, group discussion, self-entrepreneurship, user’s own portfolio, and long list of possibilities off-the-classroom. Informal learning happens anytime, anywhere. We strongly believe that formal learning, too. The cornerstone is to find the right balance between both contexts.
The effective integration of Open Educational Resources with formal lessons, or between traditional lectures with live multi-user conferences, or even more between spontaneous forum contributions outside the Learning Management System, and the official activities towards certification, this effective integration will make the difference, the actual change of educational paradigm. And it would work for every single shareholder of the educational community, from teachers to tutors, from support staff to managers, from content providers to learning designers and, of course, from students to graduates.
Tracks
This conference will explore, analyze, discuss and, above all, suggest specific actions to take, in order to achieve a full integration of resources, learning styles, educational methodologies, administrative goals, institutional visions, and every single concern of every member of the Higher Education community. Main tracks and topics are:
Technology & Learning
-Learning analytics & Data Science
-Visual analytics
-Game-based learning & Gamification
-Cybersecurity, eLearning privacy
-Learning Management Systems & ubiquity
-eLearnings standars, specifications, interoperability and systems integration
-eLearning Dashboard, multi-device mobile learning
-Social networks, Learning networks, 24/7 learning
-Connected learning, wearable technology for learning, ubiquity IP
Educational Methodology
-Educational innovation
-Integration of informal & formal learning
-Accreditation & recognition processes
-Open Educational Resources and MOOCs
-Business management of MOOCs
-STEM in Higher Education
-Learning strategies and self-guidance
-Adaptive and personalised learning, for individuals and groups
-Teaching methodologies and lesson plans
-Pattern recognition and social learning
-Assessement, self-assessment, and semi-automatic assessment
Policy Making & Digital Society
-Digital learning and ethics
-Digital anthropology and the learners’ behaviour
-Education in Administration and policies
-Content, self-created content, collaborative content
-IPR, patents, and overall rights to content, media and research
Paper & workshop submission
1. Papers are accepted through EasyChair.com, folllowing this template
2. Worshops will follow one or several of the main tracks of the Congress, and they will be submitted via EasyChair.com, following this template
Project meetings
Project meetings are welcome. The Congress will host, and provide logistics and technical facilities to research, development and innovation projects, from European Commission, Colciencias, research foundations, or any other working group across the World. Send this template to u2016@unir.net
Paper publication
All U2016 Latam presented scientific papers will be published in the conference proceedings by UNIR Editorial (with ISBN) and submitted for indexing. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in the following journals, in the format of special issues:
[if !supportLists]· [endif]The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (SSCI, Scopus, etc)
[if !supportLists]· [endif]The International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (ESCI, Inspec, EBSCO, Latindex, etc)
[if !supportLists]· [endif]IEEE Latam Transactions (SCI, IEEE)
[if !supportLists]· [endif]Revista de Ingeniería Solidaria de la Universidad Cooperativa
[if !supportLists]· [endif]Revista de Redes de Ingeniería de la Universidad Distrital
Selected papers will get additional attention from the Scientific Dissemination Unit of UNIR (UCC+i), which will disseminate the research outcomes, along with interviews with their researchers, in general and thematic media
Conference contact
http://bit.ly/u2016-latam, u2016@unir.net, @UNIRReseach-En, #u2016
Organized by
The Institute of ICT for Education fo Unesco (IITE, http://iite.unesco.org, Russia), Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR Research, http://research.unir.net, Spain), and the UNESCO Chair on eLearning at UNIR (http://research.unir.net/unesco) are the organizers of this event to be held in Bogota, Colombia, from June, 22th to June, 24th, 2016. Universidad Distrital “Francisco José de Caldas” and Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, are the local hosts.
Committees & International Advisory Board
Honorary committee
Alexander Khoroshilov. UNESCO IITE (President)
José María Vazquez García-Peñuela. Rector Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) (Co-president)
Gard Titlestad. ICDE Secretary General
Hernán Pulido. Rector UNIR Colombia
Julieta Palma. CEO UNIR México
Conference committee
Congress & Scientific chair: Daniel Burgos, UNIR, UNIR Research, UNESCO & ICDE Chair
Programme chair: Rubén González, School of Engineering & Technology, UNIR
Workshops and posters chair: Christian Stracke, Welten Institute, Open Universiteit Nederland, The Netherlands
Local chair: Carlos Montenegro, Univ Distrital, Univ Cooperativa, UNIR
Local dissemination chair: Adriana Maritza Montejo, Univ Cooperativa
Latam relations chair: Mara Zamora, UNIR
Worldwide relations chair: Fabio Nascimbeni, UNIR
Dissemination chair: Carlos Fernández Alameda, Scientific Dissemination Unit, UNIR, UNIR Research
International Advisory Board
Soledad Ramírez, Tecnológico de Monterrey, UNESCO & ICDE Chair, México (President)
Alan Mille, Université de Lyon & TELEARC, France
Antonio Teixeira, Universidade Aberta de Portugal & EDEN, Portugal & Hungary
Celso Garrido, Universidad Autónoma de México, México
Darwin Muñoz, Universidad Iberoamericana, Dominican Republic
Edison Spina, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Guilherme Canela, UNESCO, Uruguay
Hyo-Jeong So, Ewha Womans University, Korea
Katherine Maillet, Télécom Ecole de Management & EATEL, France & Germany
Kirk Perris, Beijing Normal University, China
Larry Johnson, NMC (Horizon Report), USA
Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University & TELEARC, Denmark
Marcelo Scalisi, Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED), Italy
Marta Mena, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional & ICDE, Argentina & Norway
Martin Weller, The Open University & ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources, United Kingdom & Norway
Martin Wolpers, Franhoufer FIT & EATEL, Germany
Maxim-Jean Louis, Contact North | Contact Nord & ICDE, Canada & Norway
Reyad Y. Hamzah, Kingdom of Bahrain, Bahrain
Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, UNESCO/ICDE/COL Chair in Open Educational Resources, Canada
Samantha Becker, NMC (Horizon Report), USA
Tapio Varis, University of Tampere, Finland & IITE Unesco, Finland & Russia
Tolly S. A. Mbwette, Open University of Tanzania & African Council of Distance Education, Tanzania
Wayne Mackintosh, OER Foundation, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand