SIG 20 & 26 Conference 2024

We are delighted to invite you to the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for the Joint 2024 conference of the EARLI Special Interest Groups 20 (“Inquiry Learning'') and 26 (“Argumentation, Dialogue and Reasoning”) from 18-20th of September 2024. We are also excited to announce the three keynote speakers for the event: Sam Wineburg, Kalypso Iordanou and John Nesbit (more details below).

Berlin is the largest city and capital of Germany and home to many different universities and research institutions. Berlin’s history dates back to first settlements in the middle ages, though it is most known for its cultural role in the 20th and 21st century reflected in the monuments, museums, architecture, and sites that can be visited such as the Berlin Wall, the Bauhaus Archive, and the Jewish Museum, the largest of its kind in Europe. Berlin is a vibrant place that has witnessed the recursion of better and worse times, swift adoptions of new developments in culture and arts, and ongoing efforts to uphold democratic values amidst highly controversial debates in politics and society.

This makes Berlin a fitting place for scholarly exchanges around our conference theme: Digital, analogue, and hybrid learning spaces: Rethinking dialogue, inquiry, and argumentation?! In light of recent and future developments in digital technologies, our ongoing discussions about learning in and from digital, analogue, and hybrid learning spaces are more than timely. It is important to explore and re-examine our theories of learning and instruction of and through inquiry, reasoning, argumentation, and dialogue in different and continuously changing learning spaces. Likewise, we need to understand what knowledge and skills are needed to function and thrive in them. Research and theory on inquiry learning as well as on argumentation, dialogue, and reasoning play a major role in providing answers to these questions.

The Joint SIG 20 and SIG 26 conference at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin will offer the space and the opportunity for researchers and practitioners in the fields of Inquiry Learning, Argumentation, Dialogue, and Reasoning to present their research, exchange perspectives, and discuss future directions in a friendly and cooperative context. We also offer various activities and a guide to get to know and experience Berlin. The conference will be held from Wednesday the 18-20 September 2024 and we encourage you all to submit your proposals.

More information

For more information regarding the Joint SIG 20 and SIG 26 conference “Digital, analogue, hybrid learning spaces: Rethinking dialogue, inquiry, and argumentation?!” in Berlin, Germany, on 18-20th of September 2024, please visit the conference website https://earli.org/SIG20-SIG26-2024. For more information about Berlin, see https://www.visitberlin.de/en

We are very much looking forward to meeting you all in Berlin in September!

You will be able to submit a conference proposal by following the following steps:

1. Log in to your personal EARLI account (https://www.earli-eapril.org/login).

(People who don’t have an EARLI account yet can easily create one, free of charge, via the following link: https://www.earli-eapril.org/create-account)

2. Navigate to the ‘my submissions’ section.

3. Select the green ’+ new submission’ button.

4. Select the correct conference from the list.

After clicking on “new submission” (or “new symposium”) you will be able to fill in your submission. There you may choose the more specific submission type, keywords, etc. Please consider that you have to copy the text of your submission into a text field during the submission process. You won’t be able to submit your paper as word or pdf. Beyond that, you will be able to upload up to three additional figures or tables. Nevertheless, please make sure that all relevant information for the review process can be found in the text you will submit.

Please submit your research following the submission formats:

• Paper: Paper sessions consist of 3-4 paper presentations and last 90 minutes. Each presenter will be given 15 minutes presentation time, followed by 5 minutes for questions. At the end of all presentations, there is a ten-minute open discussion. It is important that empirical papers indicate clear data and results, or they will not be accepted. Theoretical papers, of course, are also welcomed. Research that is at an earlier stage is very suitable for poster sessions. Papers in each session will be thematically grouped.

• Poster: This format is a good fit for preliminary results, pilot studies or other research in progress. There will be different time-slots for the poster presentations to allow each poster enough time and space to be seen. The poster sessions offer presenters the opportunity for interaction and discussion with the audience. The presenters of the posters are expected to be at their poster for the whole poster session to get in contact with their interested audience.

• Demonstration: Demonstrations allow presenters to display, explain and familiarise users with a potentially useful teaching or research tool or method. The presentation may include references to completed research, but the point of the session is to demonstrate the tool, not present the research for criticism. The audience may offer their viewpoints and share their experiences with similar tools or different tools for the same purpose. Demonstrations are scheduled for 90 minutes.

• Symposia: Symposia provide an opportunity to present research on a selected topic or theme, often from multiple perspectives, compiling a coherent set of 3-4 papers for discussion. Symposia sessions are directed by a chair, involving four presenters and one discussant. A symposium is scheduled for 90 minutes, allowing 15 minutes presentation time per speaker, ten minutes for the discussant, and 20 minutes for open discussion.

• JURE paper or poster: The JURE paper and poster presentations won't be different in their format from the other paper and poster presentations. As such our JURE members can just follow the information provided above. Nevertheless, there will be senior members of the community dedicated to attend the JURE presentations and find some time to provide feedback to the JURE presenters.

All submissions should include:

• Name(s), affiliation, address, and email address of all the authors

• Title of the presentation

• Preference for submission format, including regular or JURE

• Abstract of max. 300 words

• Extended summary: Paper (1500 words), Poster (500-1500 words), ICT demo (500-1500 words), symposium (3-4 papers x 1500 words + 500 words general abstract/introduction)

• References are within the word count

The Local Organizing Committee:

Elisabeth Mayweg-Paus & Theresa Ruwe.

The SIG 20 Organizing Committee consists of:

● Tasos Hovardas (SIG Coordinator)

● Tomi Jaakkola (SIG Coordinator)

● Christiana Varda (JURE Coordinator)

The SIG 26 Organizing Committee consists of:

● Christa Asterhan (SIG Coordinator)

● Freydis Vogel (SIG Coordinator)

● Lydia Cao (JURE Coordinator)

The SIG 20 scientific committee consists of:

• Antti Lehtinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

• Ard Lazonder (Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

• Bram De Wever (Ghent University, Belgium)

• Christiana Varda (UCLan Cyprus)

• Cindy Hmelo-Silver (Indiana University, USA)

• Eleni Kyza (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)

• Hannie Gijlers (University of Twente, Netherlands)

• Ingo Kollar (University of Augsburg)

• Janice Gobert (Rutgers University)

• Koen Veermans (University of Turku, Finland)

• Margus Pedaste (University of Tartu, Estonia)

• Tasos Hovardas ( University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

• Tomi Jaakkola (Tampere University, Finland)

• Wouter van Joolingen (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

• Yiannis Georgiou (Cyprus University of Technology)

The SIG 26 scientific committee consists of:

• Adam Lefstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

• Alexander Gröschner (University of Jena, Germany)

• Alina Reznitskaya (Montclair University, USA)

• Antonia Larrain (Alberto Hurtado University, Chile)

• Armin Weinberger (University of Saarland, Germany)

• Baruch Schwarz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

• Benzi Slakmon (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

• Carla van Boxtel (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Chiel van der Veen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Christine Howe (Cambridge University, UK)

• Chrysi Rapanta (NOVA university Lisbon, Portugal)

• Claire Polo (Lyon 2 University, France)

• Clark Chinn (Rutgers University, USA)

• Edith Bouton (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

• Elisa Calcagni (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

• Gaowei Chen (University of Hong Kong)

• Ian Wilkinson (Ohio State University, USA)

• Klara Sedova (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

• Kristine Lund (Lyon 2 University, France)

• Maria Evagorou (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

• Maria Vrikki (University of Cyprus)

• Maureen Boyd (University of Buffalo, USA)

• Michael Baker (CNRS, France)

• Michael Nussbaum (University of Nevada, USA)

• Ricardo Böheim (Technical University of Munich)

• Riikka Hofmann (University of Cambridge, UK)

• Roman Švaříček (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

• Rupert Wegerif (University of Cambridge, UK)

• Sherice Clarke (University of California San Diego, USA)

• Sara Hennessy (University of Cambridge, UK)

• Ingvill Rasmussen (University of Oslo, Norway)
  

  
  

  
  

Leonardo Hotel Berlin Mitte (800m from Conference venue)
H Hotel Berlin Mitte (1.6 km from Conference venue)
Aquino Hotel (1.6 km from Conference venue)
Motel One Berlin Alexanderplatz (1.7 km from Conference venue)
Motel One Berlin Hackescher Markt (1.3 km from Conference venue)
Motel One Berlin Hauptbahnhof (2.4 km from Conference venue)
Park Inn Berlin Alexanderplatz (1.5 km from Conference venue)
Intercity Hotel Berlin Hauptbahnhof (2.1 km from Conference venue)
Steigenberger am Kanzleramt (2.1 km from Conference venue)

Booking accommodation via Airbnb is also an option. With public transport, you can easily reach the conference venue from other parts of the city. Google Maps can help estimate the distance from your accommodation to the venue and suggests various modes of transport.

Transportation

There are many ways to get around Berlin:

Public Transport (S-Bahn, Tram, U-Bahn, Bus): Book tickets via the BVG App (4 single rides: https://www.bvg.de/en/subscriptions-and-tickets/all-tickets/single-tickets/4-trip-ticket; 24h ticket: https://www.bvg.de/en/subscriptions-and-tickets/all-tickets/24h-tickets/24h-ticket) and use Google Maps or the BVG App (https://www.bvg.de/en/subscriptions-and-tickets/all-apps/fahrinfo-app) or Deutsche Bahn App (https://www.bahn.de/service/mobile/db-navigator) to plan your journey.

Taxis: You can also order an Uber, Bolt, or FreeNow to get you from A to B.

E-Scooters, Bikes etc.: There are several providers with which you can rent bikes, scooters, and more (see https://www.berlin.de/en/getting-around/).