This year, the 18th edition of the International Conference on Learning (ICL) will take place at the University of Mauritius (UoM), Réduit from July 5 to 8. This highly rated academic conference is a joint initiative of the UoM and the African Network for Policy Research and Advocacy for Sustainability and the Common Ground Publishing, [...]
This year, the 18th edition of the International Conference on Learning (ICL) will take place at the University of Mauritius (UoM), Réduit from July 5 to 8. This highly rated academic conference is a joint initiative of the UoM and the African Network for Policy Research and Advocacy for Sustainability and the Common Ground Publishing, USA.
Organised in different countries, the ICL is an annual event which provides an important channel for the exchange of information among researchers. It will address a range of themes related to e-learning and education, curriculum design, knowledge management.
Around 350 educators, educational practitioners and researchers from all parts of the world are expected to attend the high level conference.
“The conference will be a good opportunity to review the fundamentals of education. It will play an important role in responding to the social challenges and assessing literacy in a meaningful way. It will also help in considering new learning tools and changing the shape of educational institutions, sites of learning,” said a senior UoM lecturer.
The conference will comprise various sessions that will be classified into different disciplines. It will also have plenary presentations by the world’s leading thinkers, workshops and colloquium sessions. It will also include thematically defined talking circles to encourage participants to reflect on ideas that emerge from the discussions.
“The proceedings of the event will also be published in the International Journal of Learning. The conference and the journal will help to foster inquiry, invite dialogue and build a body of knowledge on the nature and future of learning,” added the lecturer.
During the official presentation of the conference, Dr Rajesh Jeetah, minister of Tertiary Education, Science, Research and Technology said, “The conference will further position Mauritius as a preferred destination for research and knowledge.” He added that it will present the island as a platform for meetings, conventions and exhibitions.
The conference has previously been held in Hong Kong Institute of Education, University of Barcelona, Spain, University of Illinois in Chicago and University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
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This is a good and rare opportunity for Mauritius. Research is an important as pect of eduaction and learning in professional/subject expertise. With this opportunity, Research and innovative teaching/learning should be inculcated at every level of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary education. Children should be taught research skills right from childhood through conduct of little intersting surveys, secondary school students too from their own level and ideas sought what good learning is all about. I would expect to see also input from learners view points about learning in the ICL. Let’s hope there’ll be some.Hope that the ICL extracts are publicised in the UoM data base, accessible by Mauritians to read. Perhaps tehre is also need for the availability of the learning journals in Mauritius.
Well done Mauritius and UoM.Congratulations for hosting this important event.
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I was there for the Conference and I must tell you that it was a really very fruitful and rich in experience. Hope that the Mauritian authorities,in particular, would have gained and learnt something from it, as the system has become so archaic! A handful of politicians and other boot-lickers cannot decide on the fate of a whole nation. Well done to the organisers.