BIT’s 4th Annual World Congress of Emerging InfoTech- 2015, Shenzhen Convention 7 Exhibition Centre 18th – 20th April China.

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This conference was focused around education and emerging technology. The key note sessions focused on some of the opportunities that technology had provided for both education and technology developers. There was then a range of themes covered in the parallel sessions but of interest was the theme around smart education. There were sessions focused on gaming and how these has increasingly used in education as well as health and how developments in this area were enabling educators and developers to explore behaviour through learning analytics. There were sessions that looked at constructionist learning and how the use of technology has also been used to help students work with others to learn. There was a lot of discussion about how using technology had changed how students access information and how they use it. One session focused on the use of Suri to support language teaching and then others focused on online courses. There was a range of international speakers sharing their different experiences.

 

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