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Please note the following call for paper submission for a Special Issue of the ALT Journal (ALT-J).  Details are as follows:

Mobile and Contextual Learning
A special issue of ALT Journal, Research in Learning Technology

Mobile learning is rapidly growing from a set of research projects into worldwide deployment of services for classrooms, field trips, workplace training, tourism and informal education. Major projects have developed generic platforms for mobile learning and explored the opportunities for supporting the continuity of technology-mediated learning across locations and life transitions. Smaller projects have often tried out new pedagogical approaches and investigated how learning on portable devices interweaves with learners’ everyday lives, personal interests and individual learning needs.

The aim of this special issue of ALT-J is to develop and publish a timely collection of papers representing current research, developments and ideas in mobile and contextual learning. Of particular interest are papers that go beyond descriptions of objects and activities to build links between practice and pedagogy, and offer conceptual, methodological and analytical rigour.

Full details of how to submit can be found at:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/altj_mobile_and_contextual_learning.pdf

For queries and guidance relating to the call please contact:
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme  A.M.Kukulska-Hulme@open.ac.uk
 or:
Mike Sharples  Mike.Sharples@nottingham.ac.uk

Important dates:
The submission of abstracts for informal feedback is encouraged. They can be sent directly to guest editors until 1 December 2008.

Papers should be submitted via the Manuscript Central online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/calt  before 15 January 2009.