How to participate

Participation formats

Conference contributions may be: papers, symposiums or posters in Spanish, Catalan or English. They must be submitted before September 30^th, 2011, using this application:

Conforming to statutory Spanish law 15/1999, of the 13 of December, referring to the protection of data of a personal nature, we declare that the data given will be registered in an automated file and will only be used for the indicated purposes. Registered participants can exert the rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition in writing to our office.

Papers and posters submition

Symposium proposals
If you are interested in sending a symposium proposal, please fill up this form and send it by e-mail to the Technical Secretariat.

Contributions must be original and they should not have been presented previously in any other scientific event or publication.

The papers will be grouped according to themes. The authors will have 15 minutes for their presentation. Once all speakers have finished, the moderator of each session will lead a discussion with the participants about the main issues that emerged from the presentations.

Posters will be shown throughout the conference. Participants will have a scheduled space and time where they will available to answer questions and discuss their poster with other attendees.

Symposiums allow for a deeper exploration of a group of related papers, perhaps highlighting a variety of perspectives or the different facets of a research project. Each symposium should have 4 &ndash 5 participants. There will be a coordinator who will introduce the session and an invited discussant who will offer a critique of the symposium.

Presentation guidelines

Papers

Paper proposals should have between 500 and 900 words, along with a bibliography of up to 300 words. They should contain the following information:

• Title.
• Authors, including institutional affiliation and e-mail address. Please specify who will be giving the presentation.
• Conference theme addressed in the proposal.
• 3 – 5 keywords.
• General description, main aims and theoretical framework of the study, innovation or proposal (max. 500 words).
• Methodology (max. 200 words).
• Obtained or expected results (max.200 words).
• Bibliography (max. 300 words).

e-Posters

e-Poster proposals must be sent in digital format (JPG, PNG, PDF...) and include the following information:

• Title.
• Authors, including institutional affiliation and e-mail address. Please specify who will be giving the presentation.
• Conference theme addressed in the proposal.
• 3 – 5 keywords.
• General description of the experience presented and its objectives (max. 300 words).
• Format type description (image, presentation, web page, blog...).

Symposia

• Title.
• Names of all authors, including institutional affiliation and email address of each. Specify who will be the coordinator and who will be the invited discussant.
• A global vision of the symposium (max. 600 words), along with a bibliography (max. 300 words).
• Title of each paper included in the symposium, with the names of the participants. Specify who will be responsible for presenting each paper.
• For each paper, include an abstract of up to 300 words that includes study's theoretical perspective and key points, along with a bibliography of up to 200 words.
• Conference themed addressed in the proposal.
• 3 – 5 keywords.

Selection criteria

When evaluation the submissions, the following will be taken into consideration:

• The relation of the work to one or more of the conference themes.
• Whether the work implies a systematic, empirical or analytical inquiry.
• The explicitness of the critical perspective, and its implications, as stated in a clear and accessible manner.
• Whether the submission contributes to a dialogue about the development of a new narrative regarding educating in a digital society.