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ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide
9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UK
Third Call for papers and abstracts
*Please note our deadline has been extended to midnight, 9th March 2008*

Keynote speakers:
* David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop per Child, and Head of the Future of Learning Research Group at MIT Media Lab;
* Dr Itiel Dror, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Southampton;
* Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Director of the Gapminder Foundation.

*Important note*
Some projects or teams will have more to report in September 2008 than they can summarise in an abstract written in February 2008. To take account of this, the Co-Chairs of the Conference Committee emphasise
that: “in judging proposals, ALT Reviewers will take an understanding attitude regarding proposals referring to or reporting on work taking place between now and the date of the conference”.

Proposals should address up to three of the conference dimensions:
global or local; institutional or individual; pedagogy or technology; access or exclusion; open or proprietary; private or public; for the learner or by the learner.

For more detail on these, see:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/papers.html

The online submission system for ALT-C 2008 is now open at:
https://alt.conference-services.net/.

Prior to submitting please read the Guidelines for Research Papers and for Abstracts – http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html – and download the Research Paper Template if you intend to to submit a research paper.

Key dates:
Submissions open 14 December 2007
*Submissions close 9th March 2008*
Presenters’ registration deadline: 6 June 2008
Early bird registration deadline: 30 June 2008
Registrations close: 15 August 2008

For sponsorship and exhibition opportunities got to:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/sponsor_information.html or contact Hayley Willis, Events Administrator: hayley.willis@alt.ac.uk

http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/