MICROLEARNING 2006 :: Micromedia & eLearning 2.0: Getting the Big Picture
- International Conference -
June 08 - 09, 2006 :: Innsbruck (Austria)

We'd like to invite all practitioners and researchers interested in innovative learning technologies and didactics, especially m-learning, and/or in new concepts of "microcontent" and an ubiquituous "metaweb" to our conference in June!
More information at www.microlearning.org/ml2006

Looking forward to seeing you in Innsbruck, in the heart of the Alps!

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For applying please upload an ABSTRACT (2 pages. max.) for papers or poster presentations to

www.microlearning.org/papers
(or send to: conference@microleaning.org)

Length of final papers: 6 - 10 pages (2500 - 4200 words)

Selected papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

Feb. 28, 2006 Abstracts
March 31, 2006 Notification of authors and presenters
April 30, 2006 Final papers / posters (camera ready)

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MICROLEARNING2006 is a special kind of conference:

- Blending the different perspectives of new media and Humanities, knowledge and markets, learning and technologies.
- Bringing together academics, corporate practitioners, web-visionaries, software developers and ICT-people.
- Discussing learning and knowledge acquisition in the context of new, microcontent-based media technologies, environments and practices.

MICROLEARNING emerges when new media keep breaking our world into pieces. A general and fundamental change of lifestyles and workstyles has become obvious in mediated societies: more and more fragmentation, multitasking, here&now-mentality …

Microcontent-based media technologies and practices have boomed in the last five years: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting, RSS, Skype … The Internet is rapidly turning into a dynamic and distributed "Web 2.0", quickly converging with the Mobile Web.

All these developments deeply affect the way information and knowledge will be acquired in the near future: New technologies enable new content, practices, experiences, user types and media cultures … and learning strategies.

MICROLEARNING2006 is putting the focus on the field of intersection of Technologies and Humanities.

Papers are invited which present topical issues, new projects, best practice results, and innovative aspects.
See also http://www.microlearning.org/microlearning2006_call.pdf for a pdf-version.

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We invite papers to present new visions and analysis, innovative concepts,projects, and best practice results, relating to the fields of MICROLEARNING / MICROKNOWLEDGE and MICROMEDIA /MICROCONTENT:

PART A: MICROLEARNING / MICROKNOWLEDGE

- Microlearning and e-Learning 2.0: A technological or a cultural revolution… or old wine in new wineskins? Taking stock of technologies, practices, and their interrelations …
- Microdidactics: How to design microlearning objects, patterns, and learning arrangements.
- Microlearning Spaces: Creating new learning spaces, games and playful approaches
- Microlearning and Microknowledge ecosystems: Which concepts and architectures of microinfomation and micro-knowledge are useful in the context of educational design?
- Micro-, Meso-, Macrolearning: Interrelations of media and learning ecologies - integrating learning concepts and practices on different levels.
- Evaluating Microlearning: Concepts and cases.

PART B: MICROMEDIA / MICROCONTENT
- What is new about "microcontent"? How can it be de-signed, structured,produced, organized, aggregated, distributed, remixed and re-used?
- MicroWeb (mobile and Web 2.0): Which new kinds of com-munication, user roles & experiences are emerging? Is a new kind of Digital Divide developing?
- The impact on workstyles and lifestyles: Which kinds of "digital lifestyle aggregators", workflow environments, learning ecosystems are being or should be developed?
- Mobile gets ubiquitous: What is the meaning of being "mobile" and "being there" in an environment enriched and 'augmented' with information and knowledge?


MICROLEARNING 2006 Conference Chairs:
Peter A. Bruck, ARC Research Studios Austria; Theo Hug, RSA / University of Innsbruck

MICROLEARNING 2006 Program Chair:
Martin Lindner, RSA / Innsbruck

MICROLEARNING 2006 Program Advisory Board:
Kristof Nyiri (Budapest), Michael Kerres (Duisburg), Peter Parnes (Luleå), Richard Straub (IBM); Claudio Dondi (SCIENTER/Bologna); Erik Duval (Leuven)