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The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAMLearn)

At the MLEARN 2007 conference in Melbourne in October 2007, the International Association for Mobile Learning (IAMLearn) was inaugurated with the aim of providing a professional association for researchers and practitioners, to promote excellence in research, development and application of mobile learning.

The Association is registered as a not for profit company in South  Africa and the founding committee comprises the Chairs of previous  MLEARN conferences, which have been held in Birmingham, London, Rome, Cape Town, Banff and Melbourne, and the 2008 conference which will take place in Ironbridge in the UK (see www.mlearn2008.org/).

Jill Attewell, Manager of LSN’s Technology Enhanced Learning Research Centre has been elected as the founding Vice President of IAMLearn.  The founding President is Professor Mike Sharples, Director, Learning Sciences Research Institute University of Nottingham.  Committee positions will be open for re-election at MLEARN 2008.  A draft constitution was presented at the founding meeting and this will be revised during the coming weeks.

Although the Association was born at the MLEARN conference, the intention is for it to be an inclusive organisation. One task for the coming year is to engage mobile learning researchers in a discussion on how to manage the rapid growth in the field and to bring some coordination to the growing number of conferences and journals in the area of mobile, handheld and pervasive learning.

Information about IAMLearn can be found at www.iamlearn.org, where visitors can register their interest in joining the association. Benefits of membership include reduction in registration fees at the MLEARN and Online Educa conferences and deals will be negotiated with other conference organisers.

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