MLearn2008 conference

mLearn 2008, the world's flagship mobile learning conference, will take place in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ironbridge, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, in Shropshire, England, in October 2008. The conference started in Birmingham and has since taken place in London, Rome, Cape Town, Banff and Melbourne.

The aims of the conference are to bring together leaders in mobile learning research, developers and practitioners in a environment that will stimulate discussion, innovation and excitement.

The themes of the conference are:

• mobile learning, mobile knowledge, mobile societies: covering discourse, identity, knowledge and learning with pervasive, ubiquitous, mobile technologies; social, individual and cultural aspects of mobile learning
• devices, systems, technology and standards: convergence, diversity, frontiers, and trends
• mobile learning landscape: work-based, informal, subject-specific, context-aware, social
• mobile learning for all: inclusion, assistivity, scalability, embedding, participation, development, evaluation, evidence, and assessment

The conference dates are: Wednesday 8th to Friday 10th October 2008.

Further details and templates: www.mlearn2008.org & www.mlearn2008.mobi