Haarlem (NL), March 2008 - DIVERSE, Developing Innovative Visual Resources for Students Everywhere, is the leading conference regarding all aspects of video and videoconferencing in education, including the convergence of these technologies with online technologies. Other topics to be covered are the emergence of new possibilities such as presence production for learning, interactive television, virtual reality, computer games techniques, and handheld access to moving images.
The eighth DIVERSE Conference is hosted by INHOLLAND University based in Haarlem, the Netherlands and the international DIVERSE network. It takes place from 1-3 July 2008.
DIVERSE is intended for anyone interested in embedding video and video communication and conferencing technologies within educational practice: teachers, technical support staff, researchers, staff, educational developers, and project managers.
DIVERSE provides excellent opportunities for formal and informal networking with experts in the field from all over the globe. The conference will be both a showcase and a critical forum on all aspects of video in education through plenary and themed sessions.
The sessions will consist of academic papers, poster presentations, and best practice presentations accepted by the conference committee. Papers are welcome from practitioners and academics in all relevant disciplines. Furthermore, a limited number of 90-minute panel sessions will be included in the programme.
The organisers invite contributions that offer empirical studies of experience in one of the following four tracks:
Track 1: Pedagogy and assessment
Track 2 Tools and content oriented applications
Track 3 Projects and cases: implementation and sustainability
Track 4 People and technology: societal aspects
