Monthly Archive for January, 2011

2011 Ubiquitous Learning Conference

Published on January 31, 2011 in Conference and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Location and Date:

The 2011 Ubiquitous Learning Conference will take place at the Clark Kerr Conference Center at the University of California in Berkeley, California from 11-12 November, 2011. For more information please visit www.ULConference.com

Call for Papers

If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options please see click here.   To submit a proposal, please see this page.  If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference.

Registration

Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal.  Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, or to register for the 2011 Ubiquitous Learning Conference, see our registration page.

Themes

For more about these themes, please click here.

Scope and Concerns

Information about the Ubiquitous Learning community scope and concerns can be seen here.

Accommodations

Accommodation information will be available online here. Please visit our website for updates.

Please feel free to contact us at any time with questions or concerns at support@ubi-learn.com

Toward a Semantic Web

Published on January 20, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Forthcoming title from Chandos Publishing…

This book addresses the question of how knowledge is currently documented, and may soon be documented in the context of what it calls ‘semantic publishing’. This takes two forms: a more narrowly and technically defined ‘semantic web’; as well as a broader notion of semantic publishing. This book will examine the ways in which knowledge is currently represented in journal articles and books. By contrast, it goes on to explore the potential impacts of semantic publishing on academic research and authorship. It sets this in the context of changing knowledge ecologies: the way research is done; the way knowledge is represented and; the modes of knowledge access used by researchers, students and the general public. More…

Authors: Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois, USA and Liam Magee, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Australia

  • provides an introduction to the ‘semantic web’ and semantic publishing for readers outside the field of computer science
  • discusses the relevance of the ‘semantic web’ and semantic publishing more broadly, and its application to academic research
  • examines the changing ecologies of knowledge production
  • adds a social-scientific and philosophical perspective to questions of ontology and knowledge representation, central to computerised information recording
  • suggests a practical, next-generation approach to knowledge representation and academic publishing

For more information…

Series: Ubi-Learn

Published on January 19, 2011 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

We are accepting book proposals for our imprint Ubi-Learn.

Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication.

Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work.

If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.

Prototyping Our Way to Reforming Education

Published on January 16, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

By Heather Chaplin, in Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning

As anyone in the field of education knows, change comes slowly. It isn’t easy to move the needle in an institution like compulsory education that has existed since the turn of the last century.  Yet, some educators are beginning to test that assumption.

Kurt Squire, associate education professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, wanted to approach change differently—as a videogame designer would—by employing rapid prototyping of an idea and tons of user testing.

“I’m adverse to the model in education where there’s a group of people who develop this thing that is going to solve all your problems, that’s going to be your silver bullet,” Squire said. “I want to make education more participatory.”

To read more…