ePIC 2012. ePortfolio & Identity Conference. London

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Hoy traemos a este espacio la ePIC 2012 ePortfolio & Identity Conference. London

Calendar


Important dates for the Call for Contributions

  • 5 March 2012 –  Deadline for the submission of abstracts (start of abstracts' review)

    • 26 March – Notification of abstracts acceptance for presentation
    • 23 April – Authors registration deadline *

  • 7 May 2012 – Deadline for the submission of long/short papers (start of full submissions' review)

    • 9-10-11 July – Conference
    • 30 July – Publication of a draft of the proceedings

  • 30 August 2012 – Deadline for the submission of long/ short papers final version

    • 15 September 2012 – Publication of the proceedings

* Once accepted as presenters, authors need to register as presenter in order to be included in the programme.

 Call for a European Consortium:

We are looking for partners to submit a proposal to
the European Commission. Posible funding is 150.000€ per year, with a
maximum of 3 years. Deadline for the submission of proposals is 1 March
2012. 
Despite
success recorded in the development of ePortfolio initiatives in Europe
and beyond, the growth of ePortfolio is still extremely patchy across
institutions, regions and sectors. This is the consequence of a lack of
leadership resulting in the fragmentation of initiatives, information,
technologies and actors.
  • Leadership: despite
    the efforts made by a number of actors, including those who have
    succeeded in making Europe a worldwide ePortfolio actor, this initial
    leadership has not yet been translated into a shared European ePortfolio
    vision, practice and infrastructure.
  • Fragmentation of initiatives:
    most initiatives occur at individual, local and organisational levels,
    few at regional, national and international levels (e.g. European
    Language Portfolio). This fragmentation, which sometimes mirrors that of
    political structures (municipality/district/region/nation),
    institutions and sectors, is detrimental to the emergence of a an
    ePortfolio ecosystem working across space, time and institutions.
  • Fragmentation of technologies:
    despite efforts on interoperability (e.g. IMS and LEAP 2A standards)
    ePortfolios are not interoperable across ePortfolio platforms and main
    stream information systems in education, human resource development and
    employment.
  • Fragmentation of actors:
    distance, language and cultural barriers affect the ability to share
    information and build shared knowledge within and across sectors and
    frontiers. The results of interesting experiences, both successful, as
    well as failed, are not easily accessible to those planning or making
    decisions in relation to ePortfolio policy/technology implementation.
  • Fragmentation of information:
    despite the efforts of a number of actors, there is no single
    centralised point from which it is possible to find all relevant
    information on ePortfolios initiatives, technologies, practice and
    actors.
In order to address those issues, we are
working on building a consortium to submit a proposal to the European
Commission. Posible funding (link) is 150.000€ per year, with a maximum of 3 years. Deadline for the submission of proposals is 1 March 2012.
An initial summary of the proposal is accessible at http://tinyurl.com/7ddhs73. If
you are interested to join as a partner or associated partner, you are
invited to provide details using an online form accessible at: http://tinyurl.com/7hrxghs. Responses will be used to update the Summary and to invite partners to join as Partner or Associate Partner.

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