Plenary Speakers
The Ubiquitous Learning: An International Conference will feature plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field, as well as numerous parallel presentations by researchers and practitioners.
Garden Conversations
Plenary Speakers will make formal 30-minute presentations. They will also participate in 60-minute Garden Conversations - unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet the speakers and talk with them informally about the issues arising from their presentation.
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The Speakers
- Caroline Haythornthwaite
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Caroline Haythornthwaite (PhD, Toronto, 1996) is newly appointed Director, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia. She joins UBC in August, 2010 after 14 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. In 2009-10, she was Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London presenting and writing on ‘Learning Networks’, and in summer 2009 she was a visiting researcher at the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has an international reputation in research on information and knowledge sharing through social networks, and the impact of computer media and the Internet on work, learning and social interaction. Her studies have examined social networks of work and media use, the development and nature of community online, distributed knowledge processes, the nature and constraints of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the transformative effects of the Internet and web 2.0 technologies on learning and collaborative practices. Recent work has concentrated on addressing e-learning as a socio-technical implementation for education, and also as a general, emerging practice of online, informal learning. Major publications include ‘The Internet in Everyday Life’ (2002, with Barry Wellman); ‘Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education’ (2004, with Michelle M. Kazmer), ‘The Handbook of E-learning Research’ (2007, with Richard Andrews), and ‘E-learning Research and Practice’ (2011, with Richard Andrews).
