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Welcome to the Ubiquitous Learning Community
This knowledge community is brought together around a common concern for new technologies in learning and an interest to explore new anywhere, anytime, anyhow possibilities for learning. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round virtual relationships in a weblog, peer reviewed journal and book imprint - exploring the new digital media. Members of this knowledge community include academics, teachers, technology practitioners and research students.
Conference
Members of the Ubiquitous Learning Community meet at the Ubiquitous Learning: An International Conference, held annually in different locations around the world. This Conference has evolved from the e-Learning Symposia held in Melbourne, Australia in 2006, 2007 and 2008 connected with the International Conference on Learning. It is also connected to the Ubiquitous Learning Institute in the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA in 2009 Conference was held at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. The 2010 Conference will be held at University of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada.
The Ubiquitous Learning Conference investigates the uses of technologies in learning, including devices with sophisticated computing and networking capacities which are now pervasively part of our everyday lives’from laptops to mobile phones, games, digital music players, personal digital assistants and cameras. The Conference explores the possibilities of new forms of learning using these devices not only in the classroom, but in a wider range of places and times than was conventionally the case for education.
Our community members and first time attendees come from all corners of the globe. Intellectually, our interests span the breath of the field of education. The Conference is a site of critical reflection, both by leaders in the field and emerging academics and teachers. Those unable to attend the Conference may opt for virtual participation in which community members may either submit a video and/or slide presentation with voice-over, or simply submit a paper for peer review and possible publication in the Journal.
Publishing
The Ubiquitous Learning Community enables members to publish through three media. First, by participating in the Ubiquitous Learning Conference, community members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums - a result of the responsive, non-hierarchical and constructive nature of the peer review process. Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard.
The second publication medium is through a book imprint Ubi-Learn, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposals and manuscript submissions are welcome.
The third major publishing medium is our news blog, constantly publishing short news updates from the Ubiquitous Learning Community, as well as major developments in the emerging field of ubiquitous learning.