CALL FOR PAPERS
Immersive Technologies for Learning: A multi-disciplinary approach
First Annual Conference of the International Virtual Worlds
Research Group (iVERG)
28-29 June 2010, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK
Keynote speakers will be confirmed shortly.
Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted electronically to s.m.martin@tees.ac.uk. Abstract submission deadline: Friday 26 February 2010.
The Organising Committee encourages submission of individual abstracts in the following general areas:
Collaboration in immersive learning environments;
Communicating in immersive learning environments;
Designing learning environments and experiences;
Implementing tasks in immersive learning environments;
Innovations in immersive learning environments;
Learning in Digital Worlds – identification, metrics and effects;
Multidisciplinary approaches in virtual worlds;
Place and space: physical, virtual and social;
Planning educational experiences in virtual worlds;
Problem-based learning in immersive learning environments;
Rethinking learning in virtual worlds;
Rethinking pedagogy in virtual worlds.
Schedule dates:
Abstract judgments due to authors 26 March 2010 Full conference papers due 3 May 2010 (5,000-7,000 words)
*All accepted conference papers will be published online in the iVERG Conference Proceedings. Selected papers will be included in a special edition of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.
Please visit http://www.tees.ac.uk/schools/sssl/sssl_events_details.cfm?event_id=2851
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We would also like you announce an International Virtual Environments Research Group.
Please see http://www.tees.ac.uk/schools/sssl/iverg.cfm