Call zur DIVERSE 2013 an der Hochschule Osnabrück

Since the beginning of this conference series in Derby, England in 2001, DIVERSE has been intended for anyone interested in embedding video and video communication (conferencing) technologies within educational practice: teachers, technical support staff, researchers, staff and educational developers as well as project managers.

The DIVERSE community 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 visual resources in education through plenary and themed sessions.

You are invited to submit a presentation proposal and to attend this conference in order to share your projects and experiences in the fields of education and video in one of the following topics:

• Visual Learning Material – video & learning
  Original and innovative use of video in education
  Rich video as learning object
  Video in multimodal learning environments
  Video & learning analytics
  Pedagogical techniques to design video-based educational resources
  

• Working with video in education
  New technologies to produce, manage and distribute video
  Video and mobile
  Creative concepts for video
  Visual Literacy
  Interactive video: Annotating, tagging, and collaborative use of video
  

• Open Access, Open Source, Open Educational Resources – Open Video
  Licensing and intellectual property rights, Creative Common
  Video in open educational environments
  Visual media and people with special needs
  Closed captioning, audio description, subtitles – technologies and experience
  

•  Improving Access to Knowledge in Developing Countries
  The use of video for dissemination of scientific results: Best practice, field reports
  Addressing the technical restrictions
  

•  Projects & Use Cases
  Interesting projects or experiments that highlight other issues related to the use of visual media in education. This topic bundles all experiences or ideas you have and want to share with the DIVERSE community.
  

Presentation modes
According to review results, participants will be invited to present in one of the following forms: Regular talk (25 minutes & QA), Lightning Talks (10 minutes)

Submission Deadline: March 15th 2013

Details of submission and more information: www.diverse2013.uni-osnabrueck.de/call-for-papers