Manchester Metropolitan University

This is quite an interesting tool developed by a team from Bradford university with JISC funding, although the learning and teaching implications may still be a bit obscure. It searches Wikipedia for related terms and then creates a concept map showing how they are linked. It isn’t a recommendation for students to use wikipedia, before everyone shouts at once, it just shows ways in which students could be given some starting points for thinking about topics. The example given is for students to search from ‘bread’ to ‘cheese’ but you can quickly think of more useful examples such as “politics” to “indonesia” or “quantum theory” to “nuclear energy”.

Haven’t tested it as you have to install MS Silverlight on your computer – surely an accessibility issue – but would be interested to see what people think.

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference *Teaching and Learning 2010*
Advances in Teaching and Learning Research
(www.iask-web.org)
29 November – 01 December, 2010 | Seville, Spain

DEADLINES
May 30th, 2010. Papers submission

CONFERENCE GOALS

The scope of the TL2010 conference is wide and covers all areas around Education from teaching to learning perspectives.

Papers, up a maximum of 7000 words, are invited on any of the topics below or related fields and should be submitted, via e-mail, to tl2010-submission@iask-web.org. Final camera-ready papers must conform to the author guidelines and must not exceed ten pages in length.

PUBLICATIONS OF PAPERS

All submissions, except invited talks, are subject to a blind refereeing process. Selection will be done according to the score order obtained in the evaluation process.

All accepted papers will be published in the TL2010 Proceedings (book and CD) with ISBN.

Authors of the best papers will be invited to publish extended versions of their work in the following journal:
- International Journal of Innovation and Learning (ISSN 1471-8197)

ORGANIZATION

IASK – International Association for Scientific Knowledge
www.iask-web.org

TOPICS

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

- Active Learning
- Adult Education
- Asynchronous Learning
- Blended Instruction
- Classroom Assessment
- Content Development
- Content Management Systems
- Digital Libraries
- Distance Learning
- E-Instruction
- E-Learning in Face-to-Face Environment
- E-Learning Strategies
- Innovative Teaching Strategies
- Instructional Design
- Knowledge Management
- Learning Disabilities
- Learning Management Systems
- Learning Objects
- Online Assessment
- Online Collaboration in Forum
- Online Forum Discussion
- Performance Assessment
- Quality Assurance
- Smart-Board Teaching
- Staff Training
- Student Diversity
- Student Motivation
- Table of Specifications
- Teaching Technologies
- Virtual Universities and Classroom

IMPORTANT DATES

May 30th – Submission deadline
Until July 31st – Notification to authors
Until September 30th – Final camera-ready submission and early registration
After September 30th – Late registration (without paper publication)
November 29th to December 1st – Conference

CONTACTS

For further inquiries please contact: tl2010-secretariat@iask-web.org

Conference Website: www.iask-web.org