Call for Papers

The EARLI Special Interest Groups 6 “Instructional Design" and 7 "Learning and Instruction with Computers" invite you to participate in the Special Interest Meeting in Ulm, Germany.

The focus topic and conference theme of the Special Interest Meeting 2010 will be:

"Instructional Design for motivated and competent learning in a digital world"

Recently several studies of educational research do not only address cognitive aspects of learning and instruction. They additionally analyse motivational aspects like interests, self-concepts, attributions etc. This holistic approach seems to be especially fruitful for analyzing computer based learning environments. The digital world often attracts learners first on a motivational level – its fun to use these tools - and only afterwards learners focus on knowledge acquisition. Hence, one main issue of our meeting is to learn more about the interdependencies of motivation and cognition in (computer-based) learning. Despite this special focus we also invite you to submit papers or posters with a broad view on instructional design or computer based learning.

We would also like to encourage you to submit work that is still in progress. We will reserve a special category for this type of work in our program.

Deadline for Submissions: April 22nd 2010