The call for contributions to the WWW'12 Workshop on "Emerging Web Technologies, Facing the Future of Education" is open.

CHI 2012 - It's the Experience!May 5-10, 2012 - Austin, Texashttp://chi2012.acm.org/The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on human-computer interaction. The experience of CHI 2012 is centered in vibrant Austin, Texas, the Live Music Capital of the World.STUDENT GAME COMPETITIONDeadline: 9 January 2012http://chi2012.acm.org/cfp-studentgame.shtmlThe student game competition is new within CHI. The competition is aimed at meeting the... Read full post

I think this is a terribly cool Open University eBook showing some nice embedded controls. And Yes, those are my hands!

Context and Technology Enhanced Learning (ConTEL):
Theory, methodology and design
 
Second Call for Workshop Papers for EC-TEL 2011, 20-23 September, Palermo, Italy
 
Organisers and Co-Chairs:
 
Prof. Andrew Ravenscroft
CASS School of Education, University of East London, UK.
Prof. Mike Sharples
Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham, UK.
 
Abstract. This workshop will adopt a critical, comprehensive and yet pragmatic approach to... Read full post

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AUM 2011: International Workshop on Augmenting User Models with Real World Experiences to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation. In conjunction with UMAP 2011 (Girona, Spain 11 - 15 July 2011) http://wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/aum2011/ IMPORTANT DATES

15 April 2011:  Submission deadline (23:59 pm Hawaiian time)
13 May 2011:    Notification of acceptance
17 June 2011:   Camera-ready paper
6 May 2011:    Demo & position paper submission... Read full post

We are happy to announce the third update of the Web History Repository. The new version contains the anonymized usage logs of 356 contributors, with a total of 2.392.116 page visits. Thanks again to all who contributed.
http://webhistoryproject.blogspot.com/

During his visit to Germany, Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) announced that Google will launch a research center in Berlin that will focus on the impact of the Internet on our society (e.g. Street View, privacy issues). Further details (amount of funding, partners involved, timeline) are not clear yet.
More details (in German, der Spiegel): http://bit.ly/dS44wL

EC-TEL 2011
Sixth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
Towards Ubiquitous Learning
 
http://www.ec-tel.eu
 
20-23 September 2011, Palermo, Italy
 
EC-TEL is a unique setting for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in Technology Enhanced Learning from Europe and other continents to meet together and exchange on the current challenges and advances in the field. At EC-TEL, experts and young researchers in Computer Science, Education, Psychology,... Read full post

1.Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
 
Up to 70 available across all disciplines (Mathematics won two last
year). Fellowship provides 3 years of salary plus a small support fund
of £6 k pa
 
Scheme is suitable for those early career researchers who have not yet
held a permanent academic position. Up to 5 years post doc experience
measured from the date of viva to the deadline (March 10^th 2011). All
applicants should have either a degree from, or hold a fixed... Read full post