Submit a Contribution to ePIC 2012
Authors are invited to submit research papers, case studies, work in progress, position papers, workshops and posters. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by three members of the programme committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality. Accepted papers will be published in the ePIC 2012 proceedings under ISBN 978-2-9540144-1-8.
Themes
Authors are invited to address issues in relation to:
- development of lifelong learner / professional / citizen identity;
- healthcare education of professionals and citizens (professional- health- folio);
- integrative learning and holistic development;
- individual / community /organisational ePortfolios and identities development;
- continuing professional development and sustainable employability;
- assessment, recognition and accreditation of learning (formal, informal, lifelong and life-wide).
Key conference questions may include, (but are not limited to):
- Should everybody (individuals, communities and organisations) have an ePortfolio?
- How do individual and organisational ePortfolios (and identity) relate?
- How do ePortfolios contribute to the identity construction process?
- How do ePortfolios support the acquisition of 21st century skills?
- How do ePortfolios support lifelong learning, orientation and employability?
- How to develop the recognition and accreditation of prior Experience and learning (APEL) ?
- How to create an ePortfolio ecosystem?
- How do ePortfolios, Personal Learning Environments and Personal Working Environments relate?
- How can we make effective an ‘business case’ to those funding eportfolio provision when resources are restricted?
Conference Tracks
- Initial Education —ePortfolio from kindergarten to further and higher education
- Employability, Organisational and Lifelong Learning —ePortfolio from employees to self-employed and entrepreneurs
- Healthcare Education and Practice —ePortfolio from patients to healthcare professionals (special track)
- Assessment, Accreditation and Recognition —knowledge, skills and attitudes
- ePortfolio and Identity Policies —ePortfolio implementation from a single institution to a whole country
- Technologies —ePortfolio platforms, system architectures and standards
- Identity — ePortfolio, social networks, web 2.0 and identity construction
Healthcare Track
For the third time, the international ePortfolio & Identity conference will have ePortfolios in healthcare as a major theme and papers are invited on all aspects of ePortfolios in healthcare.
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."
Thomas A. Edison 1902
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he objective of the special Healthcare Track is to study and lead the huge changes taking place in healthcare education and delivery. Drivers for change include controlling expenditure, workforce development and improving patient care and patient safety. The traditional approach to improving healthcare has been to spend more on treatment. This is unsustainable and prevention of ill health should benefit from the power of electronic personal health records (ownership of health data by patients) and ePortfolios (continuing professional development, authentic assessment and competency development, etc.).
NB: 20 abstracts and the 5 best papers will be published in the International Journal of Clinical Skills (IJOCS).
Calendar
Important dates for the Call for Contributions
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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 *
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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
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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.
Presentation Formats
A variety of presentation formats is invited: research papers, case studies, work in progress, position papers, workshops and posters. Each submission must explicitly address at least one of the conference tracks / themes. During the sessions, presenters will have the opportunity to state their individual contribution to these issues as input for further debate and recommendations.
Submissions can have the following format:
- Long paper, scientific paper: 8-10 pages
- Short paper, work in progress, position paper: 4-5 pages
- Workshop: description of a practical session involving participants' hands-on activities
- Poster: presented in the exhibition/lunch/coffee area: A1 format
Abstract suggested headings:
- Background / context
- Objectives / what was the problem ?
- Summary of results / how was it addressed
- Conclusions / recommendations / what was learnt ?
- Abstracts must be submitted using our conference management service.
- Abstracts should not contain charts, graphics, references, or credits.
- Abstracts will not be edited by the conference organiser. Before submitting your abstract, check carefully to make sure it contains no spelling or typographical errors.
- An untidy abstract will not be included in the programme.
- Authors must state which format they wish their presentation to be considered as.
Submission & Review
The submission and review process is divided into 2 steps: abstracts are reviewed to select presentations for the conference, and papers are reviewed to select the contents of the proceedings.
- Contributions: all contributions start with the submission of a structured long abstract, i.e. between 500 to 700 words.
- Abstracts review: all abstracts are reviewed to assess the quality and interest of a presentation. When accepted, authors are invited to submit a short/long paper and register as presenter / co-presenter.
- Papers review: short and long papers are reviewed for publication in the conference proceedings.
- Proceedings: in order to exploit the feedback gained during the conference, authors have the opportunity to upload the final version of their short/long paper after the conference.
NB 1: All abstracts are to be submitted using the conference management service. To submit an abstract, please create an account and use the 'abstract' field to paste the abstract. Please, do not upload abstracts in separate files; only upload long/short papers, presentation files, posters and workshop handouts.
NB 2: All accepted abstracts and papers will be published in the proceedings. Presentation slots will be distributed equally among speakers and organisations represented.
For more detailed instructions please read the instructions.
Tracks
When submitting, authors are invited to select one or more of the following tracks:
Initial Education —ePortfolio from kindergarten to further and higher education
Multiple literacies, multiple intelligences, digital literacy, creativity, reflective learning, self-directed learning, personal development planning (PDP), learning communities, informal learning,learning management, storytelling, learning journal, individualised learning pathways, involvement of parents, friends, peers, mentors, etc., rear learning, integrative learning, intergenerational learning, curriculum design, personal learning environment (PLE), ePortfolios as repositories of Open Education Resources (OER).
Employability, Organisational and Lifelong Learning —ePortfolio from employees to self-employed and entrepreneurs
Personal competencies, key competencies, 21st century skills, employability skills, lifelong learning, professional identity, reflective practice, professional portfolio and identity, artist portfolio, communities of practice, work integrated learning, work-based learning, workplace learning, community learning, collaborative learning, organisational learning, knowledge management, SME ePortfolios, recruitment, career portfolio, social reputation, mobility, migrant portfolios, retirement portfolios, personal working environment (PWE), vendor relationship management (VRM).
Healthcare Education and Practice —ePortfolio from patients to healthcare professionals (special track)
Initial education of healthcare professionals, professional accreditation, continuing professional development (CPD), professional-patient relationships, quality of service, learning communities of patients, self-help groups, patients as learners, personal health records as 'healthcare ePortfolios', reflective writing and therapy, communities of practice, early warning systems and outbreak detection.
Assessment, Accreditation and Recognition —knowledge, skills and attitudes
Authentic assessment, assessment as learning, assessment quality control, audit, audit trail, transparency of qualifications, recognition of learning, accreditation of prior experience and learning, qualification frameworks, competency framework, competency ePortfolio, informal learning recognition, performance assessment, mindset vs. skill set, peer recognition, badges.
ePortfolio and Identity Policies —ePortfolio implementation from a single institution to a whole country
Pilot projects, large scale projects, scalability, organisational policies, territorial policies, innovation, change management, maintenance, learning cities, learning regions, costs and return on investments, cooperation across institutions, regions and countries, legal frameworks, ePortfolios as Open Education Resources Repositories (OER2).
Technologies —ePortfolio platforms, system architectures and standards
Next generation ePortfolios, thin ePortfolio, distributed ePortfolios, ePortfolio authoring, ePortfolio management, Open Badges, wisdom technologies, Identity Centric Internet, virtual worlds, avatars, personal learning spaces, personal relationship management, unified personal data stores, personal proxies, personal lockers, authentication & authorisation, interoperability, federation of identities and services, trust, privacy, access control, ontologies, system architecture, digital rights management, trust management, trust infrastructuresre.
Identity Construction — ePortfolio, social networks, web 2.0
Identity construction, self-identity, self-representation, self-concept, multiple identities, cultural identity, identity through others, collective identity, Web 2.0, web 3.0, social computing, social reputation.
