PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 16-11-2009

Dear reader,

this is a release of the weekly PROLEARN Academy Newsletter. With this approach we wish to inform you respecting the news in PROLEARN Academy about which are the new added elements, which are the events organized for the next week and some information about the projects registered in PROLEARN Academy.

*** Upcoming events

BILD Event - Strategies for Learning in Business Place: Cardiff, Date: Nov 18, 2009
BILD Connect Event, the Principality Building Society, Cardiff, November 18th Theme: Strategies for learning in business

Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2009) November 20 - 22, 2009 - Rome, Italy Place: Rome, Date: Nov 20, 2009 - Nov 22, 2009
The CELDA 2009 Conference is held in Rome, Italy from November 20 - 22 2009. The program is now available: http://www.celda-conf.org/program_outline.asp Deadline for submissions (extension): 7 September 2009 (for all contributions) * Keynote Speakers (confirmed): Professor David Jonassen, University of Missouri Columbia, USA Professor Fred Paas, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands The IADIS CELDA 2009 conference aims to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age.

The 2nd International Conference on E-Learning (iCEL2009) Place: Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia, Date: Dec 01, 2009 - Dec 02, 2009
The conference, to be held in December 2009, invites qualitative, experience-based and quantitative papers, case studies and report works in progress on both theory and practice of all aspects of quality assurance in content development.

Online Information Conference 2009 Place: London, Date: Dec 01, 2009 - Dec 03, 2009
Online Information and IMS together create the largest event dedicated to the information industry.

OII Forum on Relationships and the Internet Place: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS., Date: Dec 04, 2009


There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events

*** New Call For Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS - Journal of Computing, Volume 1, Issue 1 - December 2009
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: Dec 01, 2009
Submission Deadline: 01st December 2009 Online Publication: 15th December 2009

IJCICG SPECIAL ISSUE on Visualization Aesthetics, Criticism, and Design
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: Jul 01, 2010
International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics announces a CFP for a SPECIAL ISSUE on Visualization Aesthetics, Criticism, and Design.

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/cfps

*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure
Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1594 projects, of which 238 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 533 web sites, 74 mailinglists and 654 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 179851 for the feeds, of which 2649 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 4049 entries, of which 18 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 113547 entries, of which 516 last week and for the blogs there are 257416 entries, of which 457 last week.
The feed project with the highest activity level last week was Handelsblatt.com, with 1444 entries, 20 less than the top-project of the week before - Handelsblatt.com. The top mailinglist project last week was LM_NET: Library media specialist information exchange, with 286 entries, 14 less than the top-project of the week before - LM_NET: Library media specialist information exchange. The top blog project last week was Read/WriteWeb, with 66 entries, 12 less than the top-project of the week before - Read/WriteWeb.
There is additional information about the projects in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase
We are continuously enlarging our project database.