The British Educational Research Association (BERA) Educational Technology Special Interest Group (SIG) in collaboration with Educational Technology Inquiry Lab (ETILAB), the University of Cape Town (UCT), the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET), the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the University of Greenwich Centre for Leadership and Enterprise (CLE) invite academic papers to be presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town from 1st to 2nd Sept 2015. Selected papers will be published in a Special Issue of the British Journal of Educational Technology in early 2016 (TBC).
Conference Theme:
This conference focuses on Emerging Technologies in Authentic Learning Contexts within Higher Vocational Education. The conference draws together complex debates that connect the cognitive, social and cultural dimensions of authentic learning in real-world contexts with pedagogic explorations in the development of emerging technologies within higher vocational education.
Venue: Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
Dates: 1st and 2nd September, 2015
Organisers: Professor Dick Ng’ambi, Professor Vivienne Bozalek and Professor Jill Jameson
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Important dates:
Call for papers disseminated: Monday, 2nd February, 2015
Return of abstracts by: Monday, 6th April, 2015
Acceptance of Abstracts Notified to Proposers by: Monday, 4th May, 2015
Return of full papers by: Monday, 1st June, 2015
Registration by: Monday, 27th July, 2015
Conference takes place: Tuesday, 1st Sept and Wednesday, 2nd Sept., 2015
For further information, contact:
Ms Isabel Tarling
ETILAB, School of Education
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch, 7701
Cape Town, South Africa
Email: isabel.tarling@etilab.org
Web: www.etilab.org
Cell: +27 (0) 826024543
Tel.: + 27 (021) 650-1906
Fax: +27 (021) 650-3489