Themes
Themes are: Integrated learning for organisational development and innovation; Integrated learning for employability, social inclusion and active citizenship; Learning innovation and futures; Architectures and infrastructures for integrated learning; Integrating learning with quality management; Exploiting the full potential of digital identity. Submissions can be made in English or French.
Track #1: Integrated learning for organisational development and innovation
The objective of this track is to explore how technologies can contribute to organisational learning by means of a coherent strategy embracing formal and informal learning. What skills and competencies do learners, educators, instructional designers, human resource managers need to develop to harness the real power of learning technologies?
A central issue should be the link between individual and organisational learning.
- Talent management and competency development, recruitment and retention
- Electronic performance support systems
- Supporting and recognising informal learning
- Knowledge management and informal learning
- Communities of practice and professional communities
- Competencies of learning professionals, human resource managers
- Linking personal and organisational learning environments
- Enterprise 2.0 as learning organisation
Track #2: Integrated learning for employability, social inclusion and active citizenship
The objective of this track is to explore how technologies can contribute to creating a continuous learning environment for lifelong learning and employability. How can learning technologies contribute to employability, transparency of qualifications, mobility, accreditation of prior learning, validation of competencies and continuing professional development?A central issue should be the way technologies encourage individuals autonomy and responsibility.
- Creating infrastructures for lifelong learning
- Informal recognition and formal accreditation of competencies
- Lifelong learning, continuing professional development, personal development planning
- Developing key competencies, key skills, employability skills and skills for life
- Maintaining employability, managing one’s career path
- Recognition and validation of prior experience
- Breaking the digital divide and social integration
- Language learning
- Migration and mobility
- Cities 2.0 as learning cities
Track #3: Learning innovation and futures
The objective of this track is to explore how diverse technologies can contribute to innovation. A central issue should be the transformation of the learning process and the competencies of the actors.
- Redesigning the learning environment
- Deschooling vs reschooling society
- Transgenerational learning and the learner as the teacher
- User generated contents and the learner as knowledge producer
- Pedagogy 2.0 with Web 2.0
- Integrating serious games and virtual reality to empower learners
- Exploiting ePortfolios and personal learning spaces
- Designing personal learning spaces
- Using social networking and communities of practice for learning
- Assessment, authentic assessment and assessment as learning
- Managing learning for innovation
Track #4: Architectures and infrastructures for integrated learning
The objective of this track is to explore how diverse technologies can be aggregated to contribute to integrated innovative learning solutions. A central issue should be innovation and interoperability.
- New media, knowledge media, blogs, wikis, podcasts
- Semantic web, Web 2.0 and social networks
- ePortfolios, personal learning spaces
- Serious games, virtual reality, augmented reality
- New user interfaces and adaptive technologies
- User-generated contents
- Peer to peer systems
- Open and free software
- IPR and copyright issues
- Mobility and mobile learning
- System architectures, integration vs aggregation
- Emerging standards, microformats
- Interoperability and conformity against standards
Track #5: Integrating learning with quality management
The objective of this track is to explore how technology can support, not only the quality assurance process, but the continuous improvement of learning. A central issue should be the role of quality as a learning process.
The following topics are suggested:
- Implementation of platforms supporting quality management and improvement
- New approaches to quality as learning process
- Quality of assessment processes
- Quality of learning resources
- Embedding innovation in quality processes
- Accessibility and universal design
- Quality 2.0 as quality as learning process
Track #6: Exploiting the full potential of digital identity
The objective of this track is to explore the consequences of the emergence of digital identities. A central issue should be the exploitation, controlled by individuals, of their personal data.
The following topics are suggested:
- Developing a professional identity through social networks
- Building trust and managing one's social reputation
- Components of a digital identity: personal health records, professional records, ePortfolio, etc.
- Authentication of statements, certificates, etc.
- Federation of identities and services
- Protection of personal data
















