About the Conference

The Conference explores the use of technology to improve learning and teaching. The event aims to bring together teachers and researchers engaged in innovation in learning and teaching through the use of technology, and will showcase innovative pedagogical practices using technology.

The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) and the Hong Kong Web Symposium Consortium are pleased to invite you to participate in the 2012 Conference on ICT in Teaching and Learning. This will be the seventh annual major event in the field. As in the past, the conference will include keynote addresses, paper presentations and workshops.

Conference theme

Papers are welcome on topics relevant to the conference theme of ‘Engaging learners through emerging technologies’. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Application of technologies to learning and teaching
• Application of social media to learning
• Application of open education resources
• Management and quality assurance of open education resources
• Distributed learning
• Mobile learning
• Innovative teaching practices using ICT
• Emerging pedagogies supported by new technologies
• Virtual learning environments and communities
• Case studies of innovative practices using technologies to support engaged learning through ICT
• Learner engagement/disengagement and ICT
• Innovative educational approaches to student engagement

Conference language

The Conference will be conducted in English.

Papers submitted for presentation should be in English. Papers in Chinese will also be considered, and should be submitted together with paper titles and abstracts in English. Accepted papers in Chinese will be presented in Putonghua.

Conference publication