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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS</span></b></div><div>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.elearning2.org" target="_blank">www.elearning2.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:'Times New Roman'">eLearning 2.0</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Chris Evans & Ray Hackney, Brunel
University, UK<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">OBJECTIVES<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">- explore the potential impact of Web
2.0 on technology-enhanced learning<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">- spread good practice in the use of
Web 2.0 in technology-enhanced learning<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">- consider evolving pedagogical
approaches using Web 2.0<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">- raise the profile of research on Web
2.0 and technology-enhanced learning<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">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-ComputerInteraction, and Business.<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:'Times New Roman'">eLearning 2.0</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> will comprise invited keynote speakers
and individual presentations. The presentations will be recorded and published
online as a series of screencasts. Presenters will be invited to have full
papers fast-tracked for publication in the 'Social Media in Business and
Education' Special Issue of the Journal of Enterprise</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ffffff" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:14px"> </span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Information
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times"><u></u><u></u></span></p>

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Education, University of Leeds. <u></u><u></u></span></p>

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University, UK.<u></u><u></u></span></p><div class="im" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px">

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a <b>500 word ABSTRACT</b> and <b>TITLE</b> for BLIND REVIEW<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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with "<b><span style="color:#0070c0">eLearning2.0</span></b>"
in the subject line.<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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presentation DEADLINE: <b>MAY 8, 2012</b><u></u><u></u></span></p>

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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. It is a 25-minute drive from London's Heathrow
airport.<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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