Education has been going through significant changes in the past ten years, and the use of so-called new media is one of them. Ten years ago, the Internet was a hot topic, and the concept of eLearning was finding its way into educational institutions. Today, most of the tools of web 2.0 (social networks, wiki, various forms of co-operation and sharing) are used in education.

The situation has also changed through "Generation Y", often referred to as the web generation, a generation that has grown up with the Internet and is now studying at high schools and universities.

Among the questions this event will ask are

• In what ways are the ubiquitous technologies changing education?
• In what ways is education being changed by social networks, collaboratively creating shared content on the web, web aggregators, tagging, and "folksonomy"?
• What course will education and especially distance education take in the next few years?

Keynote speakers include

• Prof. Dele Braimoh, currently the UNESCO Chair of Open and Distance Learning based at the University of South Africa, who will speak on "Lifelong Learning and the Imperatives of New Technologies";
• Mar Camacho Martí Ph.D., from the Department of Pedagogy at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, who will share her thinking on "Exploring the Power of mobile emerging technologies to Transform Learning";
• Emilia Nercissians, Ph.D., who teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Iran's Teheran University, and who will deliver a talk on "Gender, Technology, and Redefinition of Power Relationships".

This is event is organised by the Centre for Higher Education Studies and New Media Studies at the Department of Information Science and Librarianship at Faculty of Arts of Charles University.