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<b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">eLEARNING 2.0</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Brunel University, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify">
<b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">June 7th and 8th, 2012</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify">
<b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="http://www.elearning2.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">www.elearning2.org</a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify">
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<b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">eLearning 2.0</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> is an international conference exploring Technology-Enhanced Learning and Web 2.0 technologies including Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Wikis and YouTube. The next eLearning generation will involve social networking, document sharing, collaboration and interoperability. The conference will consider evolving pedagogical approaches and raise the profile of research in technology-enhanced learning; spread good practice in the use of Web 2.0 technologies for learning; and facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">CONFERENCE CHAIRS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Chris Evans & Ray Hackney, Brunel University, UK</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">OBJECTIVES</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">- explore the potential impact of Web 2.0 on technology-enhanced learning</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">- spread good practice in the use of Web 2.0 in technology-enhanced learning</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">- consider evolving pedagogical approaches using Web 2.0</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">- raise the profile of research on Web 2.0 and technology-enhanced learning</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to: evolving pedagogies for Web 2.0, security, privacy, social networking, podcasting, wikis, blogging, video sharing, screencasting, folksonomies, eLearning 2.0 and people with disabilities, the potential impact of eLearning 2.0 on the Third World, creativity and Web 2.0, Human-Computer Interaction, and Business.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">FORMAT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">eLearning 2.0</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> will comprise invited keynote speakers and individual presentations. The presentations will be recorded and published online as a series of screencasts.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">KEYNOTE SPEAKER </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">(more to be confirmed)<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Maggie McPherson, School of Education, University of Leeds, UK</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">PARTICIPANTS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">All welcome but presenters must submit a <b>500 word ABSTRACT and TITLE</b> for BLIND REVIEW</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">SUBMISSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="mailto:chris.evans@brunel.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">chris.evans@brunel.ac.uk</a></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> with "<b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">eLearning2.0</span></b>" in the subject line.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Submission of title and abstract (open now) for presentation DEADLINE: <b>APRIL 13, 2012 </b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">CONFERENCE LOCATION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Brunel Business School (new building), Brunel University, West London, UK. Brunel University is in Uxbridge on the western edge of London. Uxbridge is in a prime location for reaching the transport network that embraces London and South-east England. It is a short drive from the M4, M40 and M25 and has the added benefit of being on the edge of the London Underground network and 25-minute drive from London's Heathrow airport.</span></p>
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