The organisers of ePIC 2015 are inviting authors and practitioners to submit contributions to the 13th conference on ePortfolios, Open Badges and Identity. The theme we would like to explore this year is: disruptive technologies for transformative learning: under which conditions can disruptive technologies transform learning? Under which conditions can transformative learning impact our society, improve (self-)employability, social integration and civic participation? We of course welcome all contributions related to the core themes of ePIC, which is Open Badges, ePortfolios and Identity.

ePIC  2015 is organised in partnership with the annual EDEN conference, Barcelona 10-12 June 2015: http://www.eden-online.org/2015_barcelona.html

Submissions can include research papers, case studies, work in progress, position papers, workshops, presentations and posters.

Following an open collaboration and review process, the ePIC 2015 proceedings will be published under ISBN 978-2-9540144-5-6.

Important dates

• April 10th, 2015: Submission deadline of abstracts
• April 30th, 2015: Author notification
• May 5th, 2015: Author registration deadline*
• June 1st, 2015: Start of the open authoring and review process; Submission of draft papers
• June 8-10th, 2015: Conference
• September 28th, 2015: Close of the open authoring and review process
• October 12th 2015: Publication of the conference proceedings

The submission and review process is organised in two steps: 

• Conference presentations: the selection of the presentations is based on the review of the submission of a structured long abstract (between 500 to 700 words). All abstracts are reviewed to assess the quality and interest of a presentation. When accepted, authors are invited to submit a short/long paper and register as presenter / co-presenter.​
• Conference proceedings: the selection of the contributions for the proceedings is based on the outcome of an open collaboration and review process. The process starts before the conference and finishes approximatively 4 months after the end of the conference.

Organisation of the open collaboration/review/publishing process

The submission of abstracts and management of the conference (registration, programme, etc.) will be done using Conftool, while the open collaboration review and publication will be supported by Authorea.