Call for contributions

This year's conference challenge is "breaking boundaries for human capital development and social innovation."

Conference themes

This year's conference main theme is "Innovation, Creativity and Accountability”: why is accountability so often perceived as antonymic to innovation and is there a way to account for innovation and creativity? Does accountability necessarily lead to standardised tests, rigid procedures and impoverished practice? Can technology provide a seamless environment between creative and innovative practice and accountability—for example ‘creative’ individual ePortfolios and ‘accountability’ organisational ePortfolios designed for quality assurance?

ePortfolios: innovation, creativity and accountability

The following list is indicative of issues and topics authors might wish to address in the different conference tracks. The ePortfolio research theme is transversal to all the tracks.

Key Competencies—Skills for Life 2009

The following list is indicative of issues and topics authors might want to address in the different conference tracks.

Learning Networks & Communities 2009

This conference is the revival and transformation of Learning Regions and Cities (Lisbon 2003, La Rochelle 2004 and Oxford 2005) where we explored the role technologies could play to support the development of learning territories. In its 2009 edition, we wish to explore more specifically the role of social computing technologies accross all the actors contributing to the development of learning territories. The following list of issues and topics is a suggestion of what authors might want to address in the different conference tracks.

Instructions for Submitting Authors

ePortfolio & Digital Identity 2008 uses ConfTool for handling paper submissions, the review process, and participant registration. You have to create a user account in order to use any facilities of the system. Here are just some general hints on how to use the ConfTool system.

Presentation Format

A variety of presentation modes is invited: full papers, short papers, case studies, work in progress, workshops posters.

Deadline, notification and registration

In order to be included in the programme, authors must be registered and have paid their conference fees (see fees on registration page) by 15 March 2009. Late submission (after 15 February) are accepted at the discretion of the Programme Committee.

The London 2009 event comprises three conferences: