Tuesday

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• Alan Kay - President, Viewpoints Research Inst., USA
• "New" vs. "News" in Education and Technology
• This talk suggests a number of powerful directions that use the technology in its deepest forms of human amplification. Read More »

Wednesday

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• Agnes Kukulska-Hulme - The Open University, UK
• Mobile learning revolution: implications for pedagogy
• The talk will make special reference to language learning, a personal and often lifelong endeavour which stands to benefit from novel combinations of personal technology use with formal and informal learning. Read More »

Thursday

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• Michael Wesch - Kansas State University, USA
• The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever
• New media and technology present us with an overwhelming bounty of tools for connection, creativity, collaboration, and knowledge creation - a true "Age of Whatever" where anything seems possible. Read More »

Thursday - Emerging Scholar Keynote

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• Annette Markham, USA
• Remix culture, remix methods: Thinking differently about qualitative research in an era of social media.
• In this talk, Dr. Markham argues that we need not reinvent the wheel, but that our methods may resonate with contemporary culture more clearly if we reconceptualize and redefine how we understand and conduct qualitative research. Read More »

Friday - Keynote Panel: What future does instructional design have in today's world of social media and emerging technologies?

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• Brent Wilson (moderator) - University of Colorado, Denver, USA
• Bio coming soon...

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• Tel Amiel - University of Campinas, Brazil
• Tel Amiel is Researcher at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil). Read More »

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• Joni Dunlap - University of Colorado, Denver, USA
• Joni Dunlap is an associate professor of instructional design and technology and the Assistant Director for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Colorado Denver. Read More »

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• Linda Harasim - Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Bio coming soon...

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• Thomas Reeves - University of Georgia, USA
• Professor Emeritus of Learning, Design, and Technology, Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology, College of Education, The University of Georgia. Read More »

Tuesday

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• Ken Wilson - The Christensen Fund, USA
• Indigenous Innovation in the Digital Space: tales of surprise and illumination from the margins of a globalizing world
• Drawing on examples from work across the continents undertaken in a wide variety of contexts, Dr. Wilson will enthuse and surprise you with the different ways in which indigenous communities are confidently playing with digital technology to sustain their knowledge systems and values. Read More »

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• Cristina Costa - University of Salford, UK
• Educators Online - the new public intellectuals?
• This talk is an autobiographical account of my experiences online and the lessons I have collected by encouraging and mentoring educators to exploit the Social Web in a socio-professional capacity. Read More »

Wednesday

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• Nicola Johnson - Monash University, Australia
• Internet addiction - the hype and the evidence and
  Publishing from your PhD (doctoral stream)
• Nicola Johnson is presenting two different presentaitons. For abstracts of both and her biography, follow this link »

Thursday

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• Rob Phillips - Murdoch University, Australia
• The underpinnings of e-learning evaluation and research
• This session reports on recent work that attempts a fundamental analysis of the nature of research into e-learning. Read More »