Full Circle Associates

Last year I had the good fortune to support and run an online workshop for eMerge2004. It was a great convergence of smart people, some wonderful home-grown open source online interaction software and fascinating conversations.

Well the great folks from the University of Cape Town are at it again, planning for emerge 2006. If you work in the domain of blended learning in Southern Africa, this Call for Papers is for you!

e/merge 2006 - Learning Landscapes in Southern Africa is the second virtual conference on educational technology in the SADC region and builds on the e/merge 2004 conference. e/merge 2006 will take place online from 10 - 21 July 2006 may include associated face to face events in a number of cities.

This conference focuses on online collaborative learning in our regional context of unequal access to technology and to education. This could involve both online and face to face interaction. We will prioritise high quality papers and presentations which demonstrate responsiveness to the context of learning in Southern African tertiary education including issues of digital divide, differential access to education, and diversity. We would envisage papers in the following areas:

* Research Methodologies
* Access to Learning Technologies
* Theories and models of computer supported collaborative learning
* Learning Communities
* Staff Development
* Learning Environments

We are also interested in receiving proposals for technology demonstrations and online workshops focused on the regional context.

All abstracts will be peer reviewed to ensure that an appropriate range of high quality presentations will be selected. There will be a maximum of 32 presentations in the formal programme. Presentations will be accepted in forms such as full "

Categories: eMerge2006, Southern_Africa, blended_learning