ePIC 2014, the twelfth international ePortfolio and Identity Conference, being held at the London’s World Heritage Site at Greenwich University, 09 - 11 July, is inviting authors to submit research papers, case studies, work in progress, position papers, workshops, and posters in relation to evidence-based learning.

Evidence-based learning covers two different and complementary perspectives:

1. Evidence-based learning in the sense of evidence-based practice as pioneered in the field of medicine and psychology
2. Evidence-based learning to explore the wealth of new types of evidence at our disposal to lead and transform the learning experience

The emergence of Open Badges, xAPI, learning analytics, MOOCs, and open data challenges our current understanding of the potential of digital technologies to support and enhance learning, in particular ePortfolios as tools to collect, organise, interpret, and make sense of evidence collected during the learning process.

To take into account the transformation of the technology landscape on which current ePortfolio initiatives are being built, authors are invited to address the following issues:

• Evidence: How wide is the range of evidence we can collect to plan, support, assess and improve learning processes, as individual learners, professional educators, education leaders, employers, and policy makers?
• Collection: What are the methods and technologies at our disposal to collect this possible wider range of evidence?
• Trust: How can we ensure and verify the validity of evidence collected?
• Visualisation: How can we represent collections of evidence to make informed decisions?
• Interpretation: How good are we at making sense of this range of evidence? How can we improve it?
• Practice: How should the answers to the preceding questions impact professional practice?
• Technologies: How should the answers to the preceding questions impact ePortfolio and ePortfolio-related technologies?

Open ePortfolios, Open Badges, open credentials, open identities, open data, and learning analytics will be amongst the key discussions at ePIC 2014.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by three members of the programme committee. After acceptance of abstracts, authors will be invited to register as a presenter and submit a short/long paper that will be reviewed for publication in the ePIC 2014 proceedings under ISBN 978-2-9540144-4-9.

Important dates for the call for contributions are

• 03 March 2014: deadline for submission of abstracts
• 31 March 2014: notification of authors’ acceptance
• 09 June 2014: deadline for the submission of long/short papers
•  09-11 July 2014:  Conference
• 30 August 2014: deadline for the submission of the final version of papers
•  October 2014: publication of the proceedings