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:

• 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