Program

VII INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR: MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
6-7 OCTOBER 2010, BARCELONA

Wednesday, October 6th                

09:00      Registration at Casa Asia

09:30      Opening session

                 Imma Tubella, President of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

                 Emma Kiselyova, Executive Director of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning

10:00      Keynote: Jill Attewell, LSN Research Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning, UK

                 Mobilising technology for learning – lessons from MoLeNET

11:00      Coffee break

11:20      Keynote: Steve Vosloo, Shuttleworth Foundation, Cape Town

                 mLearning in Africa: Lessons from the m4Lit project

12:20      Demo: Dolors Reig, Consultant & editor-in-chief at the ICT - educational weblog El Caparazón, Spain

                 Open Social Mobile Learning

13:00      Lunch

14:30      Keynote: Miguel Nussbaum, Universidad Católica de Chile

                 Integrating technology and pedagogy in the classroom

15:30      Demo: Fernando Moreira, Associated Professor at the Universidade Portucalense, Portugal

                 A Blended Mobile Learning Model-Context Oriented (BML-CO)

16:10      Coffee break

16:40      Demo: Thomas Putz, Project manager at Evolaris Next Level, Austria

                 The Project "Mobile Game Based Learning"

17:40      End of the session

20:00      Seminar dinner - Brasserie Flo     

22:00      Social activity - Night Route, Bohemian pubs and artists     

Thursday, October 7

09:30      Keynote: Matthew Kam, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

                 Mobile Phones and Language Literacy in Rural Developing Regions

10:30      Demo John B. Stav & Gabrielle Hansen-Nygård, Sør-Trøndelag University College, Norway

                 Promoting Interaction and Engagement in Education and Training by use of iPod/iPhone     

11:10      Coffee break

11:30      Keynote: Carolina Jeux, Fundación Telefónica, Spain

                 Analysis of the m-learning practices in Telefónica regarding its different stakeholders:                  Employees and Families, Customers and Society

12:30      Demo: Claudia Aparicio, Fundación Telefónica, Colombia

                 Requirements and opportunities for the development of a mobile learning strategy in emergent                  countries

13:10      Lunch

15:00      Keynote: Magí Almirall, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain

                 Learning technologies in mobile scenarios

16:00      Keynote: John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton, UK

                 Mobiles for Learning in Africa.... Too Good to be True?

16:30      Coffee break

16:45      Plenary Debate: Social and Ethical Issues in Education Technologies

                     Moderated by:    Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Internet                  Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3, UOC)

18:15      Closing

                 Julià Minguillón, Academic Director of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning


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