When:
March 22, 2020 – March 26, 2020 all-day Europe/Brussels Timezone
2020-03-22T00:00:00+01:00
2020-03-27T00:00:00+01:00
Where:
Valencia
Spain

The Twelfth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning

The eLmL 2020 conference continutes bringing together federated views on mobileLearning, hybridLearning, and on-lineLearning. eLmL 2020 is dedicated to educators, eLearning experts, and students to exchange their ideas, experiences and lessons learnt in different facets of modern learning.

eLearning refers to on-line learning delivered over the World Wide Web via the public Internet or the private, corporate intranet. The conference is intended to provide an overview of technologies, approaches, and trends that are happening right now. The constraints of e-learning are diminishing and options are increasing as the Web becomes increasingly easy to use and the technology becomes better and less expensive.


Special track

QualiChain: Decentralised Qualifications on the Blockchain

Chair and Coordinator: Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis, The Open University, UK

The emergence of the Blockchain promises to revolutionise not only the financial world, but also education in various ways. Blockchain technology offers a decentralised peer-to-peer infrastructure, where privacy, secure archiving, consensual ownership, transparency, accountability, identity management and trust are built-in, both at the software and infrastructure levels. This technology offers opportunities to thoroughly rethink how we find educational content and tutoring services online, how we register and pay for them, as well as how we get accredited for what we have learned and how this accreditation affects our career trajectory.

The QualiChain research and innovation project focuses on the assessment of the technical, political, socioeconomic, legal and cultural impact of decentralised solutions on education. QualiChain is targeting four key areas for exploring the impact of decentralised solutions on education: (i) lifelong learning; (ii) smart curriculum design; (iii) staffing the public sector; (iv) providing HR consultancy and competency management services.

This special track will investigate the creation, piloting and evaluation of decentralised solutions for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications and will focus on the assessment of the potential of blockchain technology, algorithmic techniques and computational intelligence for disrupting the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with private education, the labour market, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments.