Conferences

York, United Kingdom

The Conference focuses on Challenging isolation through lifelong learning policies and practices.  Such policies and practices could be those of: national, regional or local government; specific lifelong learning or widening participation initiatives – such as Aimhigher or Lifelong Learning Networks in the UK; particular institutions, or parts of institutions such as academic/subject departments, student support services; different types of organisations including not only state-funded educational providers but also those in the voluntary sector, social enterprises and private training providers; and many other perspectives, most importantly those of the individuals and communities for whom lifelong learning has been, or could be, a route out of isolation and marginalisation.

For more information on the conference please go to: http://www2.yorksj.ac.uk/default.asp?Page_ID=4695&Parent_ID=2135

Shropshire, England

mLearn, the world's flagship mobile learning conference, will take place in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ironbridge in Shropshire, England in October 2008, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. 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 the world's leading mobile learning researchers, developers and activists in an environment that will stimulate significantly increased deployment of mobile learning and catalyse dramatically enhanced innovation.

San Sebastian, Spain

The aim of this year Summer School is to introduce participants to the vast research that is taking place in the area of Social Norms. From philosophy and psychology to evolutionary game theory and experimental economics, recent work on social norms is shedding light on why and under what circumstances people engage in pro-social behavior, and how norms may emerge, stabilize or decay. Please note that the deadline for submitting an abstract is January 31st, 2008.