The PLE Conference is dedicated to Personal Learning Environments (PLE) including the design and development of learning environments and the sociological and educational issues that they arise.
Call for Papers:
The deadline of submissions of abstracts is March 4th, 2013.
Areas of the conference
The following are among the areas of the conference:
+ Concepts, scenarios and technologies for fostering diversity with PLEs
+ Concepts, scenarios, technologies for learning in smart urban spaces
+ General theories and frameworks for PLE
+ Technologies and software for developing PLE
+ Pedagogical and didactic approaches to Personal Learning Environments
+ Personal Learning Environments and Personal Learning Networks (PLN)
+ PLE and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
+ Personal Learning Environments, Open Badges and Gamification
+ PLEs in practice: case studies, good practice and approaches to PLEs
+ PLEs in education: new approaches and managing change in education
+ PLEs in organisations: new approaches and change in enterprises
+ PLEs at work: PLEs work-based learning and vocational training
+ PLEs in context: PLEs for contextual learning such as mobile learning
+ PLE vision: emerging technologies and innovative approaches to PLEs
Publication
Best Papers from the PLE Conference will be published in the Special Issue of eLearning Papers
We welcome abstracts for the following formats:
+ Full papers (extended abstract max. 1,200 words; final max. 8,000 words)
+ Short papers (extended abstract max. 700 words; final max. 3,000 words)
+ Pre-conference workshop (max. 400 words)
+ Pecha kucha session (max. 400 words)
+ Poster session (max. 400 words)
+ Demonstrations (max. 400 words)
+ Installations (max. 400 words)
+ Debates (max. 400 words)
+ World cafe sessions (max. 400 words)
+ Idea generation session (max. 400 words)
+ Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)(max. 400 words)
+ Hackathons (max. 400 words)