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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• 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

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• Denise Kirkpatrick - The Open University, UK
• Bringing the Social into Learning
• What does being active and engaged/ing in an open world of learning really mean? Combining social media with open educational resources (OER) in our OpenLearn system, we have created opportunities for people to get together online in collaborative engagement around educational resources that support formal and informal learning. 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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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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• 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 »