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At last, we have a bank account!

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Starting anything during the COVID lockdowns was going to be tricky but getting a bank account to manage the hnl21 event finances and such was humanly impossible. And it was not for want of trying. Several abortive trips around South Wales led to the unsatisfactory holding position of sharing one of our private accounts. Thankfully, we are all sorted now with an official ‘treasurer’s account’ with Lloyds so thanks to them for making the process relatively straightfoward, even if their error (about which they were profusely apologetic) led to a 2 month delay. In the scheme of things, that was not a big deal! We had used a gofundme page to take donations towards the hnl21 event but that’s shut due to inactivity. If you would like to send us money, please get in touch by email to info@hanfod.NL and we’ll share the relevant details.

We aim to provide full financial transparency to our ‘parent’ organisation, the Networked Learning Conference Consortium (NLCC) by providing a financial statement at our spring annual general meetings and our Chair, Nina, is also a core member of the business group of the NLCC.

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Call for Papers for the 14th International Conference on Networked Learning in Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Professional Development, Malta

Dr Felicity Healey-Benson Leave a comment

To our friends of hanfod.NL, following our exciting engagement at the 13th conference in Sweden in May 2022 we are thrilled to share the Call for Papers for the 14th International Conference on Networked Learning in Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Professional Development.

The overarching theme of the conference is “Networked Learning as a pedagogy of hope” and some of the key themes are:

  • Digital futures and environmental renaissance
  • Artificial intelligence, learning analytics and emergent digital technologies
  • Ethical and responsible innovation and research

The conference is hosted by the University of Malta, at the Valletta Campus in Malta, on May 15-17, 2024.

Keynote Speakers:

  • Jen Ross – University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Alexei Dingli – University of Malta, Malta
  • Felicitas Macgilchrist – University of Goettingen, Germany

Key Dates:

  • Full/short papers or symposia proposals must be submitted by 6th October, 2023
  • Workshops/Round tables must be submitted by 17th November, 2023
  • Notification of acceptance by 15th December, 2023

All submissions are peer reviewed, and accepted submissions are published in the conference proceedings. Selected papers are invited for publication in an edited book as part of the Springer book series “Research in Networked Learning”. 

Full conference details can be found at:  https://www.networkedlearning.aau.dk/nlc-2024 

To receive updates from the Networked Learning Consortium – sign up for the newsletter: https://www.networkedlearning.aau.dk/news

We will be there and encourage you to join this vibrant community of scholars, educators, and innovators.

Mark your calendars for May 15-17, 2024 for this exciting event at the picturesque Valletta Campus. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and inspire at a conference that embraces the pedagogy of hope.

Felicity and Mike.

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Planning for the symposium in NLC2022

Mike Johnson Leave a comment

We feel like our 10/11 June workshop was so long ago…. although it is a happy memory. Another small example of overcoming in the face of the pandemic… However, if you had a summer like us, writing was not easy to fit in. A busy life can really desiccate attempts to enter into a phenomenological attitude…

We hope you have managed to relax a little over the ‘holiday’ period – you may be still trying to do so.  However, we can’t rest on our laurels for long – we have started to properly look forward to next year’s in-person conference – a very exciting and hopeful prospect, given global events.

If you have time, take a look at this site which takes an informal look at the host city: http://www.sundsvalltown.se/ Mike really tried to find a land route to Kolding in 2020, and is wondering whether not flying is going to be a realistic option this time without having to immitate Phileas Fogg!

Nacksta Sankt Olof, Sundsvall, by Hans Lindqvist, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

One of hanfod.NL’s aims is to organise a phenomenology and networked learning symposium – the deadline for symposium proposals and full papers is the same –  October 8th. We need a clear idea about the viability of a symposium well in advance and so we’re inviting you to join us. Please email info@hanfod.nl with your abstract by 2nd September in order for us to meet online for feedback and review on the 3rd at 2pm (GMT) – you are welcome to join us. We will email the zoom link you if you send us your abstract.  

We look forward to hearing from you (soon 🙂

#hNL21 Phenomenology of Practice Workshop success

Dr Felicity Healey-Benson 2 Comments

It’s a wrap: you know it was good when people don’t want to leave 🙂 just a small capture of a very full conference but a tardy group pic in the final seconds..

Less than 24 hours ago, we closed down our screens on the successful finale of the hanfod.NL inaugural 2x half day conference. Mike and I would therefore like to take the opportunity to officially thank Professor Cathy Adams for the generous investment of time and energy in the planning and delivery of her outstanding ‘Phenomenology of Practice’ workshop, which is in addition to the contributions as hanfod.NL’s ‘Ffenomenolegydd Preswyl’/’Phenomenologist in Residence‘. The bar has been set high for future events. Thanks also go to Professor Nina Bonderup Dohn, for the lead on our research plans and the wealth of advice on the day-to-day running of hanfod.NL. We must also credit our expert workshop facilitation support, Dr Joni Turville, Dr Begoña Errasti, Dr Iris Yin, and doctoral students, Janine Chesworth and Gillian Lemermeyer.

A big thank you to the Networked Learning Conference Consortium, its co-chairs, Professor Thomas Ryberg and Professor Maarten de Laat, who sponsored and supported our event. The very valuable inputs of NLC’s Stine Randrup Nielsen and Morten Kattenhøj must also be recognised.

We were so grateful to have such a wonderful delegate community drawn from many countries, and look forward to continuing to nourish the new relationships forged. 

A quote from one of the participants:

It was a pleasure and a privilege to attend the workshop. I enjoyed the clear explanations making such a complex field as phenomenology and the equally complex theoretical constructs it sets forth “easy” to follow. Awesome phenomenological dive. So thought-provoking and evoking! 

Thank you, Diolch.

Felicity and Mike

Co-chair of the Network Learning Conference Consortium embraces summer of ’21 node events

Dr Felicity Healey-Benson 1 Comment

Only 5 weeks to hNL21 online (10-11 June) and this week Mike and I met with Professor Thomas Ryberg, of Aalborg University, Denmark.

Thomas shares his journey in ‘Networked Learning’, and the origins and special energy of the Networked Learning Conference community, of which he is co-Chair. With him, we discuss aspirations for the interim node events and the joy of embracing the opportunity to ‘geek out’ with the #hNL21 on phenomenology this summer. As Thomas wisely summarises, in the context of the NLC encouraging new research endeavours, “let your children run wild and free, because as the old saying goes, let your children run wild and free.”

Thanks to the generous support of the Networked Learning Conference Consortium and the online nature of the event, the event is free, but pre-registration is mandatory.  See  our Event Registration page for details.

Letter from NLC co-Chairs

Mike Johnson Leave a comment

We were so happy today to receive a letter from the co-chairs of the Network Learning Conference Consortium. You can read the letter here. What was especially pleasing for us is that both our node events, ourselves and Malta, were very formative ideas this time last year and no doubt there was some nervousness about NLC investing in node events like this. This may be just my perception but I think that both events and the NLC have gained strength and momentum through our initiatives and it appears that the co-chairs are encouraged enough to issue a wider call for others to take up the opportunity, whether that’s through a one-off event or something more enduring.

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