Monday, November 19, 2018

Conference on Learning Information Literacy across the Globe

There is a call for papers on the new International Conference on Learning Information Literacy across the Globe, taking place on 10 May 2019 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Conference is a final stage of the Erasmus+ project Information Literacy Online. The deadline for abstracts is 15 December 2018.
They have been developing an Information Literacy MOOC "covering six language and cultural areas" "designed to improve students' abilities to cope with the claims of present-day information society." which will be launched in May 2019.
"The Conference will be a forum for the exchange of research and experience associated with Information Literacy (IL) Learning. Besides three keynotes and a panel, several tracks of paper sessions are planned. Submissions to the following topics of interest are invited: IL as a learning process, including assessment; Digital learning resources for IL (e.g. MOOCs, Learning-scenarios, OERs); Comparative studies of courses and curricula with an IL lens; Cultural diversity of IL; IL in connection with other literacy concepts". There are 3 options: Long-papers, Short-papers, and Posters. "The Long-paper track provides the opportunity to present state of the art research. The Short-paper and Poster tracks call for original ideas, application areas and schemes. The inclusion of results is encouraged but not required. Submitted abstracts should not exceed 400 (Long-papers) or 200 (Short-papers and posters) words.". The conference proceedings will be published online. If you submit an abstract you are expected to produce a full text paper: 10 pages for long papers, 2 pages for short papers; due 29 January 2019.
Go to https://informationliteracy.eu/conference/2018/10/17/CfP1.html for more information and a link to the online submission portal.
Photo by Sheila Webber: autumn branches, November 2018

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