The red-conference brings together experts and researchers investigating the field of technology in education.

The primary goals of the red-conference are:

• The provision of an interdisciplinary discussion venue where both veteran and young researchers in the area of digital technologies in education can share experiences;
• The provision of a networking environment for researchers, with special reference to funding agencies;
• The dissemination of research results of young scholars, contributing to their establishment within the local and international research community.

Contributions under the umbrella "rethinking education in the knowledge society" may come from a range of disciplinary fields and should address, directly or indirectly, one of the following "hot topics" in the field of digital technologies and learning:

Sustainability

Innovative learning designs, (partly) incorporating learning technologies, are often introduced with high expectations and unrealistic promises to improve teaching and learning practices. Which kinds of learning cultures are needed to make innovations sustainable? Which factors support their diffusion from the pioneering stage to a broader acceptance and implementation?

Orchestration

How do technologies support teachers in managing multiple individual, collaborative, or class-wide activities? Does the physical layout of digital artefacts have an influence on learning activities? Do multi-touch interfaces enable new learning approaches? Will paper documents be eradicated or be integrated into new educational practices around augmented paper?

Informal Learning

The spread of web 2.0 technologies has paved the road for new forms of informal learning. What do people actually learn by using these technologies? Do these technologies also impact on formal education? Do they change the way learning is understood both locally and globally? Do they erase the frontier between learning technologies and media in general?

Important Dates:

Closing date for submission: 03 October 2010

Notification of acceptance: 14 November 2010

Submission of revised paper: 05 December 2010