The 2011 Plymouth e-learning conference is entitled ‘Digital Futures: Learning in a Connected World’. This year’s conference has 6 main threads:

• Primary education
• Secondary education
• Further education
• Higher education
• Workshops and demonstrations
• Vendor/Exhibitor track

Within each thread, we are seeking a range of papers which explore and address the 7 themes listed below:

• ICT in Teaching: ICT in Teaching: Use of ICT to enhance teaching and learning - use of new technologies in the classroom; wireless technologies, interactive whiteboards, multimedia, videoconferencing, handhelds, laptops, data logging, specialist software.

• Teacher Experiences: Teachers making a transition into e-learning - practitioners own attempts, benefits and implications, case studies
• Students Experiences: Motivational factors needed to underpin effective ICT use or e-learning - learner empowerment, online autonomy, discussion groups, synchronous/asynchronous experiences.
• e-Pedagogy: Teaching and learning using technology - developing new theories about e-learning, developing new practices, models of practice, e-tutoring and practitioner skills development.
• Managed Learning Environments: Use of WebCT, Blackboard and other specialist software packages, advantages, disadvantages, case Studies, how teaching and learning develops within MLEs.
• Societal Concerns: Issues underpinning the development and practice of e-teaching and learning - technophobia, technology dependency, digital divide, network security.
• Operational issues: Funding for research and development, institutional attempts to invest in ICT and e-learning strategies to make them effective and relevant, support issues, management and leadership of ICT.
• Web 2.0: Wikis, blogs, podcasting, and other online social networking systems for learning and teaching.

You are invited to submit a 200-300 word abstract which is relevant and meaningful to one or more of the themes listed above. All papers will be refereed by a panel of specialist practitioners and academics. The panel will also consider papers where presenters are geographically remote and where a suitable technology mediated method is used to deliver the paper.

Deadline for abstract submission is: January 14, 2011
Authors will be informed of the panel’s decision by: February 11, 2011

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings available to all delegates on the day of the conference. Accepted paper abstracts will also be published on the conference website.

Papers will not be included in the conference proceedings unless at least one author has registered for the conference by the author’s deadline of February 18, 2011