EC-TEL extended deadline

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Due to numerous requests, we have extended
the paper submission deadline util

April 14 2006
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Call for Papers

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First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
- Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing -

Crete, Greece - October 1-4, 2006

URL: http://www.ectel06.org
Organized by the PRO-LC Cluster
(http://www.professional-learning-cluster.org/)


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With the shift towards the knowledge society, changing
working conditions and the continuous evolution of
information and communication technologies, peoples'
knowledge and skills need continuous development. Technology-enhanced learning is one of the strategic objectives of the EU/IST Work Programme, with the goal of "improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning, for individuals and organizations, independent of time, place and pace." Innovative infrastructuctures, methods and approaches are needed to reach this goal, and will facilitate transfer and sharing of knowledge between individuals and in organisations. For e-learning, as in e-commerce and e-business, systemic changes wrought by emerging technologies are also changing the relationships between consumption and production - in this case of knowledge - as what many call 'Web 2.0' becomes more interactive and user-generated content becomes more widespread.

The First European Conference on Technology Enhanced
Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to technology-enhanced learning, as well as its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments. It will provide a competitive yet broad enough forum for technology enhanced learning research in Europe and world-wide through specialized workshops and the main conference. The EC-TEL 2006 will provide unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and include project meetings and discussions for EU/IST projects funded within the 6th framework program under the action line of "Technology- Enhanced Learning and Access to Cultural Heritage".

We welcome submissions describing innovative research on all relevant issues, focusing on aspects from computer science, business and/or education, as well as experience reports and case studies describing innovative applications of new learning environments and approaches.





EC-TEL 2006 invites submissions in the following categories:

- Papers and posters
- Doctoral consortium papers
- Industrial reports
- Workshops

Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not
limited to:

- Collaborative Learning: Learning Communities, Distributed Teams, Instructional Methods for Collaborative Learning, Problem Solving Support, Collaborative Knowledge Building and Sharing, Collaborative Games, Online Experiments

- Personalized Learning: Reasoning Techniques, Adaptation Patterns and Techniques, Data Mining, Learner Modeling, Learner Assessment and Testing, Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Instructions, Competencies in Workplace Learning

- Multimedia Content: Autoring of Multimedia/ Virtual
Reality Content, Multimedia/ Virtual Reality Streaming, Web Video Lectures

- Semantic Web, Metadata and Learning: Learning Objects, Learning Activities, Learning Design, Narrative and Navigation Models, Semantic Clustering, Metadata for Search and Information Retrieval

- Workplace Learning: Knowledge Management and Learning, Business Processes and Learning, Cost and Economy Models, Leveraging Expertise, Informal Learning, Social Software, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Sharing.

- Learning Repositories and Infrastructures for Learning: Peer-to-Peer Infrastructures, Runtime Engines for Learning Design and Learning Objects, Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning, Deployment Strategies, Re-Use of Learning Objects, Re- Authoring and Re-Purposing

- Experience Reports, Assesment, and Case Studies



All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers.
Format: Publication of the proceedings is planned in
Springer LNCS (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).
For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For
Authors" instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page imit is 15 pages for full papers, 6 pages for posters. Selected papers will be considered for special issues of relevant journals.



Important Dates:

!!!!! Extended Deadline for Paper Submissions!!!!
April 14, 2006

Notification to Authors:
June 1, 2006

Camery-Ready Papers:
June 30, 2006

Conference:
October 3 - 5, 2006

Deadline for Workshop Proposal Submissions:
March 30, 2006

Notification of Workshop Acceptance:
May 1, 2006

Deadline for Proceedings of Workshops:
September 1, 2006

Workshops:
October 1 - 2, 2006

Co-located Events and PRO-LC Meetings:
September 29 - 30, October 5 - 6, 2006



Program Committee Chairs:
Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany
Klaus Tochtermann, Austria

Publicity Chair:
Erik Duval, Belgium

Workshop Chair:
Peter Scott, UK

Industry Chair:
Volker Zimmermann, Germany

Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Katherine Maillet, France
Ralf Klamma, Germany

Program Committee Members:
Heidrun Allert, Austria
Kalina Bontcheva, UK
Paul de Bra, The Netherlands
Paul Brna, UK
Peter Brusilovsky, USA
Fabrizio Cardinali, Italy
Stefano Ceri, Italy
Pierre Dillenbourg, Switzerland
Peter Dolog, Germany
Erik Duval, Belgium
Dieter Euler, Switzerland
Monique Grandbastien, France
Jˆrg M. Haake, Germany
Kai Hakkarainen, Finland
Friedrich Hesse, Germany
Nicola Henze, Germany
Wayne Hodgins, USA
Geert-Jan Houben, Belgium
Matthias Jarke, Germany
Ralf Klamma, Germany
Rob Koper, The Netherlands
Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria
Peter Loos, Germany
Erica Melis, Germany
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan
Enrico Motta, UK
Gustaf Neumann, Austria
Roy Pea, USA
Juan Quemada, Spain
Jeremy Roschelle, USA
Vittorio Scarano, Italy
Peter Scott, UK
Marcus Specht, The Netherlands
Ralf Steinmetz, Germany
Julita Vassileva, Canada
Vincent Wade, Ireland
Gerhard Weber, Germany

Organizing Chair:
Constantin Makropolous, Greece

Organizing Committee:
Peter Dolog, Germany
Sofia Kalokerinou, Greece
Vana Kamtsiou, Greece
Martin Wolpers, Belgium
Helen Zabaka, Greece