FabLearnNL18: FabLearn Netherlands 2018 Klokgebouw, Strijp-S Eindhoven, Netherlands, September 28, 2018

Conference website	https://makereducation.nl/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fablearnnl18
Submission deadline	July 8, 2018
Late submission possible until	July 20, 2018
Notification of acceptance	July 31, 2018
Notification for late submissions	August 31, 2018
Submission of final version	September 9, 2018

DEADLINE EXTENDED

The call remains open for late submissions until 20 July 2018. Reviewers will respond to late submission before end of August 2018.

 

FabLearn Netherlands invites submissions to the first FabLearn conference in the Netherlands to be held September 28, 2018, preceding Maker Faire Eindhoven, September 29 and 30.

FabLearn Netherlands brings together national and international researchers, educators, designers, and makers to discuss and explore designing and making in educational contexts, digital fabrication in education, and hands-on learning for the 21st Century.

Some of the main guiding principles of the FabLearn community are the democratization of maker education, its implementation in public education systems, and a focus on constructionist learning.

Submissions from a design and technology education perspective and from an arts education perspective are equally welcome.

FabLearn Netherlands is organised jointly by the MakerEducation.nl consortium, Waag, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and Maker Faire Eindhoven. It is a sister conference to the global FabLearn conference that has been held over the past five years at Stanford University, USA.

Submission Guidelines

We seek submissions of papers that focus on topics related to learning and technology within the area of making and digital fabrication. We welcome submissions from people from multiple sectors including teachers, practitioners, technologists, designers and academics.

The paper must identify and cite published work relevant to the paper topic. It should explain how the work builds on previous contributions and should indicate where and why novel approaches have been adopted. Papers should stress the importance of the submission to the digital fabrication/makers/hands-on learning communities. 

Page limit: 8 pages

Template: To submit your paper please use the ACM_SigChi template which can be found within the 2017 ACM Master Article Templates at www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template (templates for LaTeX, Word for Windows and Mac)

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

List of Topics

The four key areas of interest are:

• Maker mindset
  What does a "maker mindset" encompass for teachers and students, and how do they develop that maker mindset?
  Guiding concepts: critical thinking and making; translating effort to learning progress; design thinking; self-efficacy; self-directed learning; open and share.
• Maker skills
  What are the skills conveyed by maker education, and how are those skills acquired?
  Guiding concepts: comunication and collaboration, digital literacy, creative skills; STEAM; arts and crafts; craftsmanship; tinkering.
• Maker tools and technologies
  What are the essential tools and technologies of maker education and how do they facilitate and extend learning by making?
  Guiding concepts: FabLabs and digital fabrication; robotics; electronics; material research; materiality.
• Facilitating learning by making
  What are the pedagogical and didactical underpinnings of maker education and how are they put into practice?
  Guiding concepts: project-based education; problem-based education; constructionism; contextual learning environments; living labs.

Committees

Program Committee

• Peter Troxler (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) chair
• Remke Klapwijk (Delft University of Technology), co-chair
• Wouter van Joolingen (Utrecht University, Freudenthal Institute)
• Monique Pijls (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)
• Per-Ivar Kloen (De Populier, FabKlas; FabLearn fellow)
• Tilde Bekker (TU Eindhoven)
• Pierre Gorissen (HAN University of Applied Sciences)
• more members t.b.a.

Organizing committee

• Karien Vermeulen, Waag
• Rene Pare, Eindhoven Maker Faire
• Alicja Żenczykowska on behalf of FabLearn

Publication

FabLearnNL18 proceedings will be published in late 2018 by makereducation.nl, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and Waag.

Venue

The conference will be held September 28th in Klokgebouw, at Strijp-S in Eindhoven in close connection with the Eindhoven Maker Faire (29/30 September).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to fablearnnl18 <at> easychair <dot> org