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WLS Calls 2018
Breakout session themes and academic papers presentations
About publication and presentation
Publication process and paper/presentations selection
WLS 2018 is a "leap-year" event and will not offer double-blind per review as a pre-condition to presentation at the conference. There is no separating of full papers and short papers in 2018. On the contrary, we ask for the submission of abstracts and put together the panels on the basis of that. After the summit, presenters have one month to complete their papers, upon which each one is sent to double blind peer review. With revision, these papers make up the main body of the WLS 2018 Official Proceedings, published in print and online as an open access document with full documentation and referencing. Authors who follow through on the publication will get a choice of refund for their summit fee in 2018 or a free ticket and "priority lane" for WLS 2019. A best paper prize is set up, with a diploma and a book certificate worth € 1000. The selection will be anonymous, based on points given during the double blind review.
The the summit proceedings are the second issue of its series and will be submitted for indexing by Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Web of Science, Directory of Open Access Journals, EdTech Journals, Google Scholar, DBLP and Norwegian register of scientific journals, series and publishers.
USE this template for the Abstract and the full paper
WLS-2018-Full-Paper-Template
Deadlines
Abstract: September 5th.
Full paper: October 20th
Review received by November 10th
Final deadline for printable paper: December 10th
About the tracks
Track A: Thematic sessions
Breakout sessions divide into two categories: Best practice and innovative ideas is Track A. It caters to entrepreneurs, planners, teachers, education managers and others with an interest in the practicalities of learning transformations. The Track A breakout sessions will follow the themes of the keynotes and plenary discussions. All sessions will have a host and a prepared agenda, but also remain open in order to define its course of discussion. The over-arching theme is: Virtual.Visual.Viral.
We will be exploring Blockchain and related learning/policy issues, Nordic EdTech collaboration, work-life learning, and more.
Track relevance: Teachers, EdTech entrepreneurs, Business leaders, Public sector officials, School managers.
Track B: Research and publication sessions
Research oriented attendees are invited to join sessions focused on project development, papers in progress and publication. These sessions are organised around received abstracts, with a set number of papers/presentations on a theme. Presentations will all have an assigned discussant. There is no requirement to present a paper or project in order to attend these sessions but we ask you to send us an email below to let us know your interests. All B Track sessions will have prepared discussions as to possible project collaboration. We will also explore the framework of a virtual media playbook for learning interactions in the areas of relevance to our venue host: The Archives Foundation.
Track relevance: Researchers, research interested media and other publics. Publishers. Student counsellors.
Sessions September 19th
A1: The challenge of life long learning: New policy?
Session host: Donna Kidwell
"The future of learning is the future of work". This was a theme at the Oslo Roundtable held in June at Litteraturhuset. But what does it mean and how does the future of life long learning challenge politics and policy? What issues, questions and concerns ought to be more clearly emphasised in policy and it is possible to talk of general as well as common concerns in a future learning political agenda?
A2: Blockchain and the transformation of learning
Session host: Phil Komarny
Bitcoin and the Blockchain technology behind it is currently a hot topic in discussions of digital transformation. What does this technology or these technologies imply for learning, educational institutions in the ways in which they relate to the workplace?
B1: Rethinking learning spaces
Session host: Oddgeir Tveiten
The over-all theme of the conference is NEXT GENERATION LEARNING SPACES. We begin by asking what is behind that title. The session will build on submitted projects and papers abstracts. Typically, the concept invites cross-disciplinary and explorative projects and papers, but any topic of relevance will be considered. If possible, we will collect and connect all discussions related to new learning theory in this sessions.
B2: Design thinking -- research ideas and prospects
Session host: Michael Shanks
What is design thinking and how does the idea of "design" connect with pedagogy, course construction, our approaches to organising classrooms, teacher-student relations, and more? How can social science and the humanities incorporate design thinking?
Sessions September 20th
A3: Nordic EdTech for Higher Ed
Session host: Eilif Trondsen
Across the Nordic countries there have been movements the past decade to spur networks in Education Technology and Entrepreneurship. What is the Nordic status? How does Nordic collaboration move forward? The session presents a number of projects, networks, issues and challenges. The legacy here is past conferences and summits at our Future Learning Lab since 2012, when we first began these deliberations.
B3: Transforming education: High and low
Session host: Oddgeir Tveiten
Institutions of learning at all levels are in the midst of a transformative adaptation to new technologies but very little attention is given to the common challenges of new media as they disrupt not only education but our entire knowledge eco systems and understandings of what knowledge is. In this session we will invite papers and projects that move at the forefront of institutional transformation, international networking, radical rethinking assessments as learning mode, and more.
Sessions September 21st
A4: Entrepreneuring life-long learning
Session host: Donna Kidwell
Life-long learning is key to the future workplace, in a world of accelerating time and global networking. Yet, it is hard for education institutions, industrial clusters, small and big companies, and the public sector to find better means of collaborating on a new eco system. How do we go about it? Returning to the challenge of policy, how does one create an Open, Collaborative and Creative life-long learning Commons?
B4: Globalisation, education and development
Session host: Oddgeir Tveiten
North-South co-operation, conflict mediation in the Global South and new challenges of managing a multi-cultural local society in the Global North are all parts of the emergent global eco system of learning. In this session we invite papers and projects/ideas that have Development and Learning as a point of origin, offering empirical insights, theoretical insights, comparative and critical research perspectives.