http://ectel08.org

Technologies have spread across a variety of learning contexts. They are used in formal (primary, secondary and higher) education, corporate training and lifelong learning. Large corporations are creating campuses, which reveals their convergence with universities.  Technologies are used in general curricula as well as in vocational training. The spread of mobile devices, social learning techniques and personalization technologies is closing the gap between formal and informal learning. Recent developments promote the integration of individual learning, small group collaboration as well as class-wide or community activities within a coherent pedagogical scenario. These scenarios combine activities that intensively rely on computers with activities that marginally use technologies. Such activities occur in the classrooms and in the training centres but also across multiple other spaces: offices, homes, cars, field trips, ski lifts, … Most modern learning environments do not fit anymore within one pedagogical stream: they integrate heterogeneous software components such as a simulation tool, an hypertext, an argumentation tool and a tutorial. Old barriers between different visions of learning technologies are fading out. A similar convergence is happening between research on knowledge management and technology enhanced learning.

In this age of pedagogical and technological convergence, the two European Networks of Excellence are also converging. After the two successful EC-TEL conferences organized in 2006 and 2007 by the ProLearn network, we invite all researchers across the different fields of TEL (education, psychology, computer science,…) to contribute to the scientific landscape of technology enhanced learning. Contributions may address the design of innovative environments, computational models and architectures, results of empirical studies on sociocognitive processes, field studies regarding the use of technologies in context, etc,

All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers. Proceedings will be published.

Important dates: April 16th, 2008 Submission (Papers, Posters & workshops) June 1st, 2008 Author Notification June 24th, 2008 Camera-ready copy due September 16, 2008 Project meetings September 17, 2008 Workshops September 18-19, 2008 EC-TEL Conference

Times of Convergence: Technologies across learning contexts

General Chair: Erik Duval, KUL, Belgium

Programme chairs
Marcus Specht, OUNL, The Netherlands
Pierre Dillenbourg, EPFL, Switzerland

Local Organization chair Mieke Haemers, The Netherlands
Publicity chair Fred de Vries, The Netherlands
Workshop chair: Martin Wolpers, Germany
Industrial session chair Volker Zimmerman, IMC AG, Germany

Programme committee

Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Ireland Mireille Betrancourt, Switzerland Raphaël Bonvin, Switzerland Peter Brusilovsky, USA Paul de Bra, Netherlands Lorenzo Cantoni, Switzerland Tak.Wai Chan, Taiwan Stefano Ceri, Italy Cristina Conati, Canada Alexandra Cristea, UK Carlos Delgado Kloos, Spain Christian Depover, Belgium Angelique Dimitracopoulou, Greece Yannis Dimitriadis, Spain Peter Dolog, Denmark Dieter Euler, Switzerland Christine Ferraris, France Frank Fischer, Germany Denis Gillet, Switzerland Monique Grandbastien, France Jim Greer, Canada Jean-Luc Gurtner, Switzerland Paivi Hakkinen, Finland Antreas Harrer, Germany France Henri, Canada Ulrich Hoppe, Germany Sanna Jarvela, Finland Patrick Jermann, Switzerland

Barbara Kieslinger, Austria Kinshuk , Canada Ralf Klamma, Germany Rob Koper, The Netherlands Tomaz Klobucar, Slovenia Ard Lazonder, The Netherlands Teemu Leinonen, Finland Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria Maria Joâo Loureiro, Portugal Katherine Maillet, France Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Wolfgang Neijdl, Germany Jan Pawlowski, Finland Jeremy Roschelle, USA Nikol Rummel, Germany Tammy Schellens, Belgium Daniel Schneider, Switzerland Mark Schlager, USA Judith Schoonenboom, Netherlands Peter Scott, UK Mike Sharples, UK Peter Sloep, NL Pierre Tchounikine, France Christine Vanoirbeek, Switzerland Barbara Wasson, Norway Fridolin Wild, Austria Martin Wolpers, Belgium

Doctoral Consortium chairs
Denis Gillet, Switzerland
Ralf Klamma, Germany
Tomaz Klobucar, Slovenia
Katherine Maillet, France

Conference themes

Computational models for TEL
• Metadata, learning objects and repositories
• Network infrastructures (peer to peer, ad-hoc networks, …)
• Semantic web and web 2.0
• Web services architectures
• Sensors and sensors networks
• Mobile technologies
• Roomware and ubiquitous computing

Pedagogical models for TEL
• Learning communities & social software
• Problem- and project-based learning
• Instructional design
• Collaborative learning and scripting
• Inquiry based learning
• Teachers' authoring and orchestration
• Individualisation and personalisation

Individual, social & organisational learning processes
• Cognitive mechanisms in knowledge construction
• Social interactions and learning
• Knowledge management and organisational learning
• Deployment strategies and change management in
• Sustainability & TEL business models
 
Learning contexts
• Small, medium and large companies
• University campus, corporate campus and distance universities
• Initial vocational training
• Informal learning, associations, families,…
• From kindergarten to elderly people
• TEL in developing countries
• TEL for disabled persons
 
Convergences
• Bridging formal and informal learning
• Comparing university and corporate training
• Integrating multiple TEL approaches with an environment or scenario

Project meetings
Perpetuating its tradition, the conference provides the opportunity to set up project meetings. These meetings can be scheduled on Sept, 16th and 17th. They may overlap with workshops. We will do our best to offer meetings rooms at the lowest rates.

Submission format:
For camera ready instructions, see the conference web site.
•  Full Papers (between 10 and 15 pages)
•  Posters (between 4 and 6 pages)
•  Workshop (4 pages)
•  Meetings: contact the local organisation chair