About our Silk Route initiative
"FONSR" is the short name for: Foundations Of New Silk Route for learning and communication. The foundation is an international, non-governmental, non-commercial, academic organization dedicated to the exchange program, research and network between West and East.
We as citizens of member countries of the EU are interested in establishing continuous contacts between educational systems in EU countries and Asia with the purpose of exchanging ideas and concepts and so finding common solutions to the coming problems which challenge development in our economies, industry and environment. The focus can be set on the environmental hazards in connection with the development of infrastructure and industry during the coming decades.
Foundation of New Silk Route (FONSR):
New Silk Route organization and structure
New Silk Route is an international, non-governmental, non-commercial, academic organization dedicated to the exchange program, research and network between West and East.
The missions of the Association are:
1. To promote the worldwide cultural exchange and research in learning,
2. To address the problems of culture variation in education,
3. To adapt multicultural products to learning
4. To establish network of experts from West and East.
5 To increase the awareness of environment and energy issue
Silk Route Goals:
- To start the exchange program in different culture group and to promote cooperation between West and East.
- To provide opportunities for the experts to exchange experiences and the spread of new products.
- To organize various international conferences on culture, technology and learning.
- To publish new findings of cooperative research in international journals.
- To disseminate our results worldwide.
- to set up a network/platform for all experts all over the world, who are interested in Education, culture, society, energy, food etc. From this network/platform as a bridge all experts/businessmen could exchange new products, research result, issues.
- to organize the workshops, forum, conference etc for discussion all related issues
- to support China/Asia coutries to connect with West and improve their system.
- to recuit more members and draw their attention and participation in this network and activities
- to build up world-wide spider-net to bridge the govenment and people
- to apply for project budget from all-overthe world and initiate the joint ventures
Call for Papers - mLearn 2011
10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning
Beijing, China 18 –21 October 2011
http://www.mlearn.org/mlearn2011
http://mlearn.bnu.edu.cn
Important dates:
• Full paper submissions – 5 May 2011
• Notification of acceptance – 10 June 2011
• Last date for early-bird registration – 26 July 2011
• Full paper and/or slide show for Technology Showcases – 1 September 2011
• Submission of full papers to special issues of JCAL and IJMBL – 30 November 2011
mLearn was the first conference on Mobile Learning and is widely recognised as the premiere international conference on learning with mobile technologies and learning across contexts. Each year, it attracts a great number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and acts as a forum for knowledge sharing and transfer across cultures.
The past mLearn conferences were held in the UK, Italy, Australia, South Africa, Canada, the USA, and Malta ( http://www.iamlearn.org/resources/). It is the first time that mLearn comes to East Asia. This tenth annual conference will be hosted by Beijing Normal University (http://www.bnu.edu.cn/eng/) in collaboration with IAMLearn – the International Association for Mobile Learning (http://www.iamlearn.org/).
CONFERENCE THEME: Mobile and Contextual Learning: Culture and Change
The conference aims to stimulate critical debate on and research into theories, approaches, and applications of mobile and contextual learning; to bring together researchers and practitioners from all over the world to share their knowledge, experience and research in the field of mobile learning; and to create dialogue and networking for knowledge sharing and transfer across the globe.
The conference is now open for submission, and we welcome contributions from academic researchers, developers, professionals, practitioners, and educators from school education, higher education, industry, government, international organisations, etc.
Topics of interest are:
• mobile learning across formal and informal settings
• ubiquitous and ambient learning and technology
• models for learning in a mobile context
• open and distance education with mobile devices
• interoperability and standards for mobile learning
• socio-cultural context of mobile learning
• assessment for learning with mobile devices.
• challenges for mobile learning in developing countries
• strategies of mobile learning in schools, higher institutions, industry, and organisations
• ethics of researching and implementing mobile learning
• adaptive, virtual or collaborative environments for mobile learning
• mobile learning: theory, design and pedagogy
• innovative approaches to learning by means of current and emerging mobile technologies
• mobile learning across cultures and sub-cultures
• research methods in mobile and contextual learning
• mobile and contextual aspects of social media and user-generated content
• mobile learning: yesterday, today and tomorrow
Submissions are invited for:
• Long papers (8 pages)
• Short papers (3 pages)
• Workshops (2 pages)
• Posters (300 words)
• Panels (500 words)
• Industry showcase &presentation (1-2 page)
• Doctoral Consortium (4 pages)
All submitted papers will be blind reviewed by at least three members of an international panel of research leaders in the area of mobile and contextual learning. Accepted papers of at least one registered author will be published in the printed and the CD versions of the proceedings. The proceedings will also be published via the web for Full Open Access. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to have their submissions considered for special issues of the SSCI-indexed Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) and the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL).
All accepted papers will be considered by the Programme Committee for Outstanding Paper Awards. Certificates will be issued to 10 outstanding papers of at least one registered author. There is an opportunity to be invited to deliver the keynote speech at mLearn 2011.
More details about the reviewing process, the acceptance policy, organising invited workshops, and submission deadlines can be found at our websites - http://www.mlearn.org/mlearn2011 or http://mlearn.bnu.edu.cn/
Enquiries:
If you have any further questions, please visit the conference websites http://www.mlearn.org/mlearn2011 or http://mlearn.bnu.edu.cn/ or huaiheling@hotmail.com
Coordination staff:
Chair: Dr. Heling Huai
Co chair: Associate Prof. Dr. Piet Kommers
Coordinator: Dr. Tomaz Amon
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Wang Lu, Prof. Dr. Jiping Zhang
Coordinator: Mr. Hermann Herdick
Contacts, addresses...
Partners:
Contact Person: Dr. Tomaz Amon
Institute: Bioanim, Center for Scientific Visualization, Ljubljana
Address: Gorazdova 3, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel: +386-41896715
Fax: +386-15057508
Email: tomaz.amon@bioanim.com
Contact Person: Prof. Wang Lu
Institute: Capital Normal University, Department of Educational Technology,China
Address: Xisanhuan North Street, 100037, Beijing
Tel: +86-10-68901922
Fax: +86-10-68902832
Email: wlcnu@263.net
Contact Person: Mr. Chen Qinggui
Institute: Division of Research, National Center of Educational Technology, Ministry of Education, China
Address: P.O. BOX 016 No 160, Fuxingmennei Street, 100031 Beijing, China
Tel: +86-10-66419782
Fax: +86-10-66490946
Email: chenqinggui@sina.com.cn
Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Han Xibin
Institute: Educational Technology Institute, Tsinghua University,China
Address: 3rd Floor, North Building of Architecture, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China
Tel: +86-10-62789900
Fax: +86-10-62780367
Email: hanxb@tsinghua.edu.cn
Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Piet Kommers
Institute: Fontys University of Applied Science, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Address: P.O. Box 347, 5600 AH Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-877-877877
Fax: +31-877-876233
Email: kommers@edte.utwente.nl
Contact Person: Dr. Heling Huai
Institute: Fontys University, The Netherlands
Address: Eikstr 34, 7556 TW Hengelo, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-74-2596958/+31-0638159559
Fax: +31-74-259698
Email: helinghuai@yahoo.nl
Contact Person: Dr. Jia Jiyou
Institute: Graduate School of Education, Peking University,China
Address: Graduate School of Education, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
Tel: 0086-10-62759992
Fax: 0086-10-62751409
Email: jjy@pku.edu.cn
Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Klaus Mainzer
Institute: Institute of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Augsburg
Address: Universitaets str. 10, 86154 Augsburg, Germany
Tel: +49 821 598 5568
Fax: +49 821 598 5584
Email: klaus.mainzer@phil.uni-augsburg.de
Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Teun Velders
Institute: Saxion University
Address: Binnenweg 4, 7384 BL Enschede, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-571261454
Fax: +31-571261415
Email: t.j.velsers@saxion.nl
Contact Person: Prof. Madhumita Bhattacharya
Institute: School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, College of Education,Massey University, New Zealand
Address: Pvt. Bag 11-222, School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, College of Education, Massey University, Palmerston North,New Zealand
Tel: +64-6-356-9099ext 8875
Fax: +64-6-351-3472
Email: M.Bhattacharya@massey.ac.nz
Contact Person: Mr. Cecil de Rozario
Institute: Sta Birgittas Folkhogskola
Address: Bjorngardsgatan 21, 11852 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46-8-7021606
Fax: +46-8-7021606
Email: Cecil.de.rozario@folkbildning.net
Contact Person: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Hunger
Institute: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Engineering, Germany
Address: Oststraße 99, 47097 Duisburg, Germany
Tel: +49 203 379 4211
Fax: +49 203 379 4221
Email: hunger@uni-duisburg.de
Professor Alfred Bork
Institute: University of California , Irvine
Address: Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, University of California , Irvine , CA 92697-3425 , US
Tel: US 949 786 9255
Fax: US 949 824 4056
Email: Bork@uci.edu
Prof. Eduard Babulak Dip.-Ing., M.Sc., Ph.D.,P.Eng.,
SMIEEE
Visiting Professor in Telematics Engineering
Department of Telematic Engineering Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid
30 Avda de la Universidad,
E-28911 Leganes (Madrid), Spain
New added partners
Amnim d.o.o., center for scientific visualization Ljubljana, Slovenia Technical university of Vienna, Austria
Behacker & Partner OEG, Vienna, Austria
St Birgitta's Adult Education Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
R&R.COM, Agentur für Kommunikation und Dialog München Deutschland
Fontys University of Applied Science, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Institute of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Augsburg,Augsburg, Germany
Saxion University,Enschede, Netherlands
University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Engineering, Duisburg, Germany
Department of Telematic Engineering Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,Leganes (Madrid), Spain
USA
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, University of California , Irvine , USA
New Zealand
School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, College of Education, Massey University,
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Society of Craft Studies Bangladesh (joined Jan 2008)
7rk Mission roud Dhaka-1203 Bangladesh
Tel: +880-2 95500010-10
Fax: +880-2-9550000, 9558888
Email: info@scsdb.org
www.scsbd.org
Terence Egan
Associate Professor
Business School
Central University of Finance and Economics
Beijing, China
Prof. Dr. Jiping ZHANG
East China Normal University
<jpz@ecnu.edu.cn>
Prof. Jiayi Wang
Visa president of norther West Normal University
wangjy@nwnu.edu.cn
Prof. Min FU
Norther west normal university
fumindom@163.com
Zhao Mingren, Ph.D(cuhk), associate professor Director of Center for Teacher Educational Research Faculty of Education, Northwest Normal University email:zhaomingren@hotmail.com
tel:86+931 797 0516(home), 151 1711 2936(cell)
It is open also to new partners
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Institute: Bioanim, Center for Scientific Visualization, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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Institute: Capital Normal University, Department of Educational Technology, China |
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Institute: Division of Research, National Center of Educational Technology, Ministry of Education, China |
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Institute: Educational Technology Institute, Tsinghua University, China |
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Institute: Fontys University of Applied Science, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
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Institute: Fontys University, The Netherlands |
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Institute: Graduate School of Education, Peking University, China |
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Institute: Institute of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Augsburg, Germany |
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Institute: Saxion University, The Netherlands |
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Institute: School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, College of Education, Massey University, New Zealand |
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Institute: Sta Birgittas Folkhogskola, Sweden |
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Institute: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Engineering, Germany |
Added partners |
August 2006 Prof. Eduard Babulak Dip.-Ing., M.Sc., Ph.D.,P.Eng., |
August 2006 Contact Person: Professor Alfred Bork |
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/urf/welcome.do
to register organization
http://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html
to apply for project/budget
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/budapest_2009/index_en.htm
We are of course open also to new partners
