Unitec Institute of Technology

eLearning conference

Unitec will play host to eLearning experts from around the world later this year when delegates arrive for the International Conference on eLearning Futures 2011.

The conference will be held from 30 November to 2 December, with a focus on eLearning strategy, research, policy, pedagogy, technology and practice. It promises to be technologically innovative with opportunities to network with key stakeholders who are leading worldwide thinking on eLearning.

Keynote speakers include Steve Wheeler, author of The Digital Classroom and co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Interactive Learning Environments. Steve is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Plymouth and serves on the editorial boards of ten international journals. He has research interests that include eLearning, distance education, creativity and Web 2.0 social software.

Fellow keynote speaker is Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Professor of Learning Technology and Communication in the Institute of Educational Technology at the UK’s Open University, and president of the International Association for Mobile Learning. Agnes has been researching mobile learning since 2001 and is a co-editor of two books on the subject. Her original discipline background is foreign language teaching and learning, and from this perspective she has a long-standing research interest in effective communication with technology and human concerns in technology-mediated interactions.

Judy Kay, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sydney, will also deliver a keynote address. Judy is a principal on the Computer Human Adaptive Interaction (CHAI) lab, which conducts fundamental and applied research in personalisation and pervasive computing. She has published extensively in the areas of personalisation and teaching and learning, is on numerous editorial boards and is currently president of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society.

For more information on the programme and registration, go to: www.icelf.org