SIG Conferences

JURE CONFERENCE

The theme for JURE 2008 is Innovative and Creative Perspectives: New Directions in Educational Research. JURE 2008 will be held in the beautiful and vibrant city of Leuven in Belgium from the 8th to 11th of July. The conference presents a great opportunity for junior research to discuss and receive feedback on their research and get involved with other researchers in the same area.
Please consult the conference website for more information: http://www.earli-jure2008.org

SIG MEETINGS 

Sig 1
The next biennial SIG 1 meeting will take place at the Seminaris Seehotel in Potsdam (www.seminaris.de/potsdam). It is the Fourth Biennial EARLI/Northumbria Assessment Conference hosted by IQB, Humboldt University, Berlin. 
27-29 August 2008
The theme will be "Challenging Assessment" and we invite you to submit an abstract. The system will open 1st October 2007, closes 15th February 2008 http://www.iqb.hu-berlin.de/veranst/enac2008.
There will be opportunities to publish papers following the Conference in a number of journals related to the Conference themes.

Sig 2
The next bi-annual sig 2 text and graphics conference will be organised
by/at Tilburg University, the Netherlands
27-29 August 2008
The theme will be: Exploiting the opportunities: Learning with textual, graphical and multimodal representations
http://www.earlisig2-2008.org/

Sig 3
The 6th International Conference will be held from 23rd to 25th of August, 2008 in the city of Turku, Finland.
We welcome submissions from the following topics:
- Instructional Interventions and Learning Environments Promoting Conceptual Change
- Adult Learners and Conceptual Change in- and outside Institutional Education
- Emotion, Motivation, and Processes of Conceptual Change
- Methodological Approaches in Conceptual Change Research
CC will include symposia, individual paper sessions as well as thematic poster sessions. Invited keynote speakers will be confirmed later.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is April 15, 2008.
For more details, please visit the website at www.otuk.utu.fi/konferenssit/cc2008/
or contact CC coordinator at the e-mail address cc2008@lists.utu.fi

Sig 4
We are organising a meeting for the discussion of SIG members' work in progress in association with the 7th International Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference. The conference will take place in London on the 15th and 16th of May 2008. The SIG sessions within the conference will have a similar format to the previous SIG meeting, where several papers were discussed in round table sessions. Details of the conference are available at: http://www.city.ac.uk/ceap/sotlconference/index.html
If you wish to participate in the SIG meeting, please register for the main conference but APPEND ‘EARLI' TO YOUR SURNAME so that the conference organisers know that you are coming to the SIG event.
Please submit abstracts for papers to be considered for the SIG round table discussion to Keith Trigwell by the 6th of March (k.trigwell@usyd.edu.au). During the conference SIG presenters will have 15 minutes to outline their work in progress to provide a basis for round table discussion.
If you also want to submit a paper to the main conference, abstracts should be submitted through the conference website and the deadline for submissions is the 13th of March

Sig 6 and Sig 7
September 3-5, 2008
Salzburg, Austria
EARLI SIG 7 Learning and Instruction with Computers in cooperation with SIG 6 Instructional Design
announces the conference
Beyond knowledge: the legacy of competence
Meaningful computer-based learning environments
Learning and instruction with computers is intrinsically tied to current educational practice in schools, universities, the corporate world and informal learning settings. Nevertheless, integration of technology in education is a sensitive task that has to be planned well in order to meet the needs of learners, teachers and educational objectives. Current changes in European education stress the role of competences and educational standards and their fostering within educational practice. Here, meaningful computer-based learning environments can contribute to achieve competence acquisition and to meet super ordinate educational standards. Contributions dedicated to empirical research (foundational as well as applied empirical research) within this area are encouraged. But also other contributions covering the area of learning and instruction with computers within schools, universities, the corporate world or informal learning settings are welcome.
http://www2.sbg.ac.at/earli2008/

Sig 8
BIENNIAL SIG MOTIVATION MEETING
21-23 August 2008, Turku, Finland
Motivation in action
www.otuk.utu.fi/conferences/icm2008

Sig 9
SIG WORKSHOP PHENOMENOGRAPHY AND VARIATION THEORY
22-24 May 2008, Kristianstad, Sweden
Implications of Phenomenography and Variation Theory in Practice
http://www.distans.hkr.se/sig9/home/EARLI.htm
deadline submission 29 February 2008

Sig 10
JOINT SIG CONFERENCE:
SIG SOCIAL INTERACTION IN LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
SIG SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
SIG LEARNING AND TEACHING IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE SETTINGS
19-20 May 2008, Goteborg, Sweden
Social interaction, learning and diversity

Sig 11
EARLI SIG 11 Teaching and Teacher Education Conference Fribourg, Switzerland
17 - 20 August 2008
For more details

Sig 12
The 11th International Conference of the EARLI Special Interest Group on Writing will be held at the Centre for Languages and Literature,
Sweden, from the 11th to the 13th of June 2008.
http://sigwriting2008.sol.lu.se

Sig 13
SYMPOSIUM OF THE EARLI SIG 13 MORAL AND DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION
to be held at Florina in Greece, 24-27 August 2008.
Call for papers - deadline for submission of proposals: 15th March, 2008
For further details

Sig 14
The 4th EARLI SIG 14 Learning and Development Conference
August, 27- 29, 2008
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
website: http://ktl.jyu.fi/ktl/earli/
contact: etelapel@edu.jyu.fi
First call for Papers15 March 2008:

Sig 15
JOINT SIG CONFERENCE:
SIG SOCIAL INTERACTION IN LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
SIG SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
SIG LEARNING AND TEACHING IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE SETTINGS
19-20 May 2008, Goteborg, Sweden
Social interaction, learning and diversity

Sig 16
The third meeting of the EARLI SIG on Metacognition will be hosted by the Laboratory of Educational Psychology, Counselling and Research, Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina (Greece), May 8 - 10, 2008.
Full information can be obtained from http://sig16.uoi.gr/

Sig 17
The next biennial meeting of the SIG 17 ‚Qualitative and quantitative Approaches to Learning and Instruction' will take place at the University of Education in Freiburg (Germany; www.ph-freiburg.de). 
14-15 November 2008
INTEGRATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
The programme will contain paper and poster sessions, two key-note presentations, as well as symposia.
More details of the conference programme are available here

Sig 18
The German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) will host
the next EARLI SIG 18 Educational Effectiveness Conference on
"Educational Effectiveness: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for Research".
The conference will take place from August 28th thru 30th 2008 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Keynote speakers will be Prof. Brian Rowan (Michigan, USA) and Prof Jan van Damme (Leuven, Belgium).
See the conference homepage for further details and to submit proposals:
http://www.dipf.de/earli_sig18.htm

Sig 19
Conference 28th - 30th August at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
World Views in Religious and Spiritual Education

Sig 20
The computer supported inquiry learning SIG organises a workshop at the 2008 International Conference for the Learning Sciences in Utrecht
entitled: Real-time methods for monitoring, evaluating and scaffolding students' reflective inquiry in computer-supported collaborative learning environments.
The workshop is scheduled: Monday 23rd of June.
Further details available here.

Sig 21
JOINT SIG CONFERENCE:
Social interaction, learning and diversity
SIG SOCIAL INTERACTION IN LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
SIG SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
SIG LEARNING AND TEACHING IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE SETTINGS
19-20 May 2008, Goteborg, Sweden