ISLS Annual Meeting

The ISLS Annual Meeting is a major international event, which hosts keynotes, symposia, workshops, panels, submitted paper sessions, and poster sessions. It covers timely and important issues and reports research findings across the entire field of the Learning Sciences. The ISLS Annual Meeting brings together those interested in learning experiences across schools, homes, workplaces, and communities who seek to understand how collaboration and learning are enabled by knowledge, tools, networks, and social structures.

The ISLS Annual Meeting is a continuation of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) and the International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). Each meeting has a Learning Sciences and a Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning program along with invited keynotes and sessions centered on a shared theme. Proposals for symposia, papers, and posters are submitted to one of the two programs, whereas workshops and tutorials are organized as joint activities. Proceedings are published in three sets: one for the Learning Sciences program, one for the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning program, and a third for joint activities.

The ISLS Annual Meeting organizes several pre-conference workshops with a recurring Doctoral Consortium (DC), Early Career Workshop (ECW), and Mid-Career Workshop (MCW). The DC is intended for graduate students who have advanced to candidacy but are not so far along in their dissertation that they are unlikely to profit from the event. The ECW is intended for researchers who earned their doctorate within 5 years of the conference date and aims to support the professional socialization of promising young scholars. The MCW is intended for advanced faculty members as they take on more central roles within ISLS. This workshop is mainly for scholars 5-7 years post-tenure or equivalent.

Look at the announcements for the ISLS Annual Meeting to find submission deadlines for the upcoming conference.

View previous ISLS Annual Meeting highlights here.

Upcoming Conference

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ISLS Annual Meeting 2025

Helsinki, Finland June 10–13, 2025 Envisioning and enacting sustainable solutions to global crises 2025.isls.org

Recent Conferences

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ISLS 2024

Buffalo, New York, USA June 10–14, 2024 Learning as a cornerstone of healing, resilience, and community 2024.isls.org

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ISLS 2023

Montréal, Canada June 10–15, 2023 Building knowledge and sustaining our community 2023.isls.org

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ISLS 2022

Hiroshima, Japan June 6–10, 2022 International Collaboration toward Educational Innovation for All: Overarching Research, Development, and Practices 2022.isls.org

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ISLS 2021

Bochum, Germany June 8–11, 2021 Workshops: June 1–7 Reflecting the Past and Embracing the Future 2021.isls.org