The aim of this meeting is to share and exchange ideas about your latest research on learning with text and/or with graphical representations like pictures, diagrams, or animations. The central theme of the meeting is “Building bridges: Improving our understanding of learning from text and graphics by making the connection”. This meeting will take place August 25-27, 2014 at Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands). The deadline for submitting proposals is March 10, 2014.

More details on the submission process will be provided through the conference website

Typical research questions that may be addressed include the following, although submissions are not limited to these topics:
• How do we construct meaning from text or graphics?
• How do conceptual and perceptual factors interact in learning with verbal or visual representations?
• How does learning differ with presented or constructed representations?
• What are the costs and benefits of learning with interactive or dynamic representations?
• How can individual differences be taken into account when learning with different representations?
• Is learning enhanced by combining different representations?
• How do learners use and represent multimodal and multi-source information?
• What are the affective and motivational impacts of alternative forms of representation?
• What is the learning potential of figurative/rhetoric (as opposed to literal) visual and verbal representations?
• How do tasks and context influence learning with representations?
• How are novel technologies changing the educational purposes of traditional forms of representation?
• How is the process of collaboration influenced by what learners look at?
• What do tracing methods (like eye tracking) tell us about learning with representations?
• How can we meaningfully classify information objects in multimodal representations for learning?

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Huib Tabbers, Erasmus University Rotterdam (chair)
Erica de Vries, University of Grenoble II (co-chair)
Shaaron Ainsworth, University of Nottingham
Franck Amadieu, University of Toulouse
Mireille Bétrancourt, University of Geneva
Jean-Michel Boucheix, University of Dijon
Ivar Bråten, University of Oslo
Raquel Cerdán, University of Valencia
Jennifer Cromley, Temple University
Billie Eilam, University of Haifa
Bjorn de Koning, VU University Amsterdam & LEARN! Institute
Detlev Leutner, University of Duisburg-Essen
Alfons Maes, Tilburg University
Lucia Mason, University of Padova
Jean-François Rouet, LACO-CNRS, Poitiers
Ladislao Salmeron, University of Valencia
Katharina Scheiter, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen
Wolfgang Schnotz, University of Koblenz-Landau
Neil Schwartz, California State University at Chico
Tina Seufert, University of Ulm
Marije van Amelsvoort, Tilburg University
Jan van der Meij, University of Twente
Peggy van Meter, Penn State University