Salzburg (AT), November 2008 - The Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft and the St. Virgil Education and Conference Centre invite participation and extend an open call for contributions for the inter- and multi-disciplinary conference EduMedia 2009, entitled "Creativity and Innovation Competencies in the Web".
Being held in Salzburg on May 4 and 5, the event is geared towards (media) educators, teachers, educational scientists, educational technologists, innovation managers, R&D managers, professional eLearning trainers, and everyone interested in eLearning.
EduMedia will examine, explore, and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the growing adoption of information technologies, especially web-based tools and social software, for developing creative and innovative processes and skills and for producing new ideas.
Emphasis is given to the question of how digital technologies have an impact on the creativity and idea-generation process, on the formation of creative teams and communities, on the acquisition of innovation and problem-solving competences, and on the production of digital products. Particular focus is placed upon interactive learning environments and social software with semantic-web features, e.g. wikis, weblogs, e-portfolios, social bookmarks, social networks and communities, tag clouds, and emotion clouds.
EduMedia 2009 is organised in collaboration with the Open University of the Netherlands, the University Vienna, and the E-Motion Competence center. Invited keynote speakers include Sir Ken Robinson, UK, author of "Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative" and Prof. Peter Gloor, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, USA.
The call for papers is now open, and innovative, exciting, and unexpected inputs and presentation formats are invited. Contributions are welcome from any discipline, methodology, and community, as well as from conjunctions of multiple disciplines, methodologies, and academic and non-academic communities of practice that have experience with the conference themes.
Among the organisations represented will be schools, universities, and adult education enterprises, and also organisational development, R&D management, and innovation-management training or design departments from business and the public sector.
Different types of contributions are possible, and in planning are scientific papers, poster/project presentations, and workshops. Creative or aesthetic presentations that are distinct from a traditional written 'paper' are highly encouraged. Presentation formats other than PowerPoint presentations are explicitly allowed!
Deadlines are: submission - December 15, 2008; notification of acceptance - February 15, 2009; camera-ready version of papers - April 15, 2009.
