Conference: ACTC 2015, Japan, April 30-May 3, 2015

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 27 | November 10, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]


Message from the organizers:

Publish before a global audience. Present in a supportive environment. Network and create new relationships. Hear the latest research. Experience Japan. Join a global academic community.

This international and interdisciplinary conference will again bring together a range of academics and practitioners to discuss new directions of research and discovery in technology in the classroom. As with IAFOR’s other events, ACTC2015 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education and beyond.

The Fifth Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom will again be held alongside The Fifth Asian Conference on Language Learning.

ACTC2015 Conference Theme: “Integrated Practices: Creating Experiences to Enhance Learning”

Educators face continually shifting demands from all directions: students, administrators, and society. With some of these demands, teachers and learners may feel greater isolation and pressure. These trends may be seen in the disaggregation of the university or in frequent testing of discrete outcomes for analysis and accountability purposes. In the face of these developments, it is more important than ever to reflect on learning as experience, and to bring theory, research, and craft to bear on creating those experiences.

Dewey wrote that, “the central problem of education based on experience is to select the kind of present experiences that live fruitfully and creatively in future experiences”. So, how does research in second language acquisition and teacher expertise tell us which experiences live on in communication? How do learning theories direct us to view the connections between experiences? And, how can application of technology both become normalized and create vivid experiences?

Finally, we need personal and professional integration. Coming together to share best practices in these twinned conferences is a chance to share and develop ways to better integrate our institutions, teachers, and most of all the experiences of the learners in a coherent practice of education.

Conference Theme and Streams

Conference Theme: “Integrated Practices: Creating Experiences to Enhance Learning”

Educators face continually shifting demands from all directions: students, administrators, and society. With some of these demands, teachers and learners may feel greater isolation and pressure. These trends may be seen in the disaggregation of the university or in frequent testing of discrete outcomes for analysis and accountability purposes. In the face of these developments, it is more important than ever to reflect on learning as experience, and to bring theory, research, and craft to bear on creating those experiences.

Dewey wrote that, “the central problem of education based on experience is to select the kind of present experiences that live fruitfully and creatively in future experiences”. So, how does research in second language acquisition and teacher expertise tell us which experiences live on in communication? How do learning theories direct us to view the connections between experiences? And, how can application of technology both become normalized and create vivid experiences?

Finally, we need personal and professional integration. Coming together to share best practices in these twinned conferences is a chance to share and develop ways to better integrate our institutions, teachers, and most of all the experiences of the learners in a coherent practice of education.

Submissions will be organized into the following streams:

Streams

  • Beyond Web 2.0
  • Computer Adaptive Testing
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
  • Digital literacy
  • e-Assessment and new Assessment Theories and Methodologies
  • e-learning and collaborative learning
  • Education in a virtual world
  • Future Classrooms
  • Human computer interaction
  • Instructional Technology
  • Integrating e-learning in classroom based language teaching
  • Interactive Whiteboard technologies (Blackboard, WebCT, etc.)
  • Language Labs
  • Learning Systems Platforms
  • Mobile learning
  • Mobile technologies
  • Moodle and Classroom Teaching
  • Multimedia
  • New Technologies
  • Open and distance learning technologies
  • Social networking
  • Support Centers
  • Teaching online
  • Telecollaboration
  • Video Podcasting
  • Virtual and personal learning environments
  • Virtual Communities
  • Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom
  • Web-based Learning
  • Web-based Writing Education
  • Wikis, Blogs, and Online Journals.

For more information, please visit iafor.org/iafor/conferences/actc2015.

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