Hans Rosling, Itiel Dror, and David Cavallo will be keynote speakers at the 2008 ALT Conference: "Rethinking the Digital Divide"

I work part time for the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). ALT's 2008 conference will be in Leeds, between 9 and 11 September. The title of the conference will be "Rethinking the Digital Divide". We have just published preliminary details of the conference [0.8 MB PDF], and I am certain that plenty of readers of Fortnightly Mailing will be excited by the list of keynote speakers so far announced:

• David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop per Child, and Head of the Future of Learning Research Group at MIT Media Lab;
• Itiel Dror, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Southampton;
• Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Director of the Gapminder Foundation.

ALT hopes to  start taking bookings for the 2008 later this year. The best way to keep in touch with this is by joining the low volume email list from the ALT-C 2008 home page.

Meanwhile ALT has just issued a follow up call for expressions of interest in membership of the 2008 Programme Committee [smallish PDF] for which the closing date is 14/9/2007.

Finally, to keep in touch with the 2007 ALT conference, you may wish to subscribe temporarily to this RSS feed, which aggregates the feeds from a number of delegates who intend to update their own blogs whilst at the conference.

Previous relevant Fortnightly Mailing posts:

• Useful terse articles by Itiel Dror about the science of learning;
• The seemingly impossible is possible - TED and other talks by Hans Rosling.