m-learning Forum - Newsletter
Issue 7 (16
October 2002)
There
are just three updates of other m-learning events in this newsletter for
month. Next month we plan to report on some of these events.
1. MOBIlearn Special Interest Group Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark
The MOBIlearn project is pleased to invite you to the first Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting that will be held on 5 November 2002 in Copenhagen, Denmark, in parallel with the IST exhibition. An update of the Project will be presented along with its latest results. The event will take place between 14-19:00 hours and will have the following agenda:
a) Welcome
b) Update on MOBIlearn developments
c) Scenario workshop
d) Technology workshop
e) Research roadmap: presentation of FP6 project concept.
The event will take place at the:
Ibis Copenhagen Star Hotel
Colbjørnsensgade 13
DK-1652 Copenhagen V
Ph.: +45 3322 1100
Fax: +45 3321 2186
The Ibis Copenhagen Star Hotel is situated downtown close to Tivoli Gardens and Copenhagen's Central Railway Station with trains for the airport every 20 minutes. The famous pedestrian street Strøget, theatres and cinemas are within easy access.
If you would like to attend this SIG meeting, please pre-register as the number of participants is limited (free) by emailing Alessia Ortenzi email a.ortenzi@giuntilabs.com
Demonstrations of existing baseline technologies will be available at the EC IST exhibition in Copenhagen from 4-6 November (entrance is understood to be free of charge to the exhibition only). Click here for details.
The EC IST Conference in Copenhagen will also have a workshop on the "The future of Learning: new technological paradigms for Ambient Learning" in the morning of 5 November between 9:30-11:00 hrs. The IST conference runs from the 4-6 November (There is a charge for attending the conference) Click here for details of the IST Conference
2. mLearning: the Cutting Edge
This
one-day conference will be held at Ericsson International
Training Centre,
Adelphi Centre, Upper Georges St., Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Friday 22
November 2002. Full details and online registration can be found at http://learning.ericsson.net/leonardo/index.html
Admission
is free!
This
event is being organised by Ericsson in conjunction with other partners in a
EU funded Leonardo project entitled “From e-learning to m-learning”. On
the evening before - 21 November 2002 at 20:00 hrs – delegates are invited
to a networking session in the The Herbert Park Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
If any m-learning Forum members wish to meet at dinner before hand please let
me know and I will arrange a common venue. Email Peter Bates at pjb@pjb.co.uk
Although attendance at the conference is free, delegates are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs.
3. The Social Science of Mobile Learning"
A reminder that this event is taken placing in Budapest, on 29 November 2002. Conference topics include m-learning and educational theory, the cognitive psychology of m-learning, the construction of meaning in mobile discourse, ubiquitous computing and integrated learning environments, and pilot m-learning projects.
The event is organised by the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and WESTEL Mobile Telecommunications (Hungary). The registration fee for this conference is $ 50. More information can be found at http://21st.century.phil-inst.hu/m-learning_conference/ or by emailing Prof Kristóf Nyíri nyiri@phil-inst.hu