AMICAL Branding
Program Theme
The 2014 Conference program carries the theme of Student engagement and learning spaces, and we'll be exploring this from the perspectives of AMICAL's main participants: librarians, technologists, and faculty.
Specific topics for the program will be defined over the coming months, but some of the sub-themes we are hoping in particular to engage with include:
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learning spaces – in particular, how student engagement can be cultivated through better use/design of the following in educational contexts:
- physical spaces
- online/virtual spaces
- bridging of physical and online spaces – as well as new ways, enabled by technology, to think about physical space
- cognitive spaces – spaces allowing different kinds of intellectual and emotional engagement (gaming, problem-based learning, authentic assessment, etc.)
- value of gaming, in particular, for engagement and effective learning
- digital & new media literacies and their relation to student engagement