Keynote speakers:

• David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop per Child, and Head of the Future of Learning Research Group at MIT Media Lab;
• Dr Itiel Dror, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Southampton;
• Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Director of the Gapminder Foundation.

Proposals should address up to three of the conference dimensions:

• global or local;
  
• institutional or individual;
  
• pedagogy or technology;
  
• access or exclusion; open or proprietary; private or public; for the learner or by the learner.

For more detail on these, see: http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/papers.html

The online submission system for ALT-C 2008 is now open at: https://alt.conference-services.net/ .

Prior to submitting please read the Guidelines for Research Papers and for Abstracts - http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html - and download the Research Paper Template if you intend to to submit a research paper.

*Important note*
Some projects or teams will have more to report in September 2008 than they can summarise in an abstract written in February 2008. To take account of this, the Co-Chairs of the Conference Committee emphasise that: "in judging proposals, ALT Reviewers will take an understanding
attitude regarding proposals referring to or reporting on work taking place between now and the date of the conference".

Key dates:

Submissions open 14 December 2007
Submissions close 29 February 2008
Presenters' registration deadline: 6 June 2008
Early bird registration deadline: 30 June 2008
Registrations close: 15 August 2008

For sponsorship and exhibition opportunities got to:http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/sponsor_information.html or
contact Hayley Willis, Events Administrator: hayley.willis@alt.ac.uk

ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide
9-11 September 2008, Leeds, England
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/