Introduction
The EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium is brings together Ph.D. students working on
topics related to Technology Enhanced Learning. The doctoral consortium will
offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive
feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international
atmosphere.
The Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors and
researchers in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning. These accompanying
professors will participate actively and contribute to the discussions.
The Doctoral Consortium is co-located with and will take place immediately
before the EC-TEL 2008 conference. The Doctoral Consortium language is
English.
For more information, see below and at
http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/dc-ectel08
Topics of Interest
As for the EC-TEL conference, all topics from the field of Technology
Enhanced Learning are of interest for the Doctoral Consortium. These topics
include (but are not limited to):
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 personalization
Individual, social & organisational learning processes
- Cognitive mechanisms in knowledge construction
- Social interactions and learning
- Knowledge management and organisational learning
- Deployment strategies and change management
- Sustainability & TEL business models
Submission
Papers describing doctoral work should be submitted in PDF or PostScript
format before July 14, 2008. Authors should use the Springer LNCS format.
For camera-ready format instructions, please see For Authors instructions at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The paper length should not
exceed 6 pages. In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should
address specifically doctoral work! Therefore, the following elements are
recommended:
- A clear formulation of the research question,
- An identification of the significant problems in the field of research,
- An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the
state of existing solutions,
- A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the
results achieved so far,
- A sketch of the applied research methodology,
- A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution,
- A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as
compared to existing approaches to the problem.
The intention of this doctoral consortium is to support and inspire Ph.D.
students during their ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is necessary
that authors will have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor officially
submitted their thesis before the doctoral consortium (September 2008). To
enforce this rule we require authors to disclose their expected graduation
date and their advisor's name when submitting.
Papers will be reviewed by at leas two members of the Doctoral Consortium
Committee who will be selected from the EC-TEL 2008
(http://www.ectel08.org/) Programme Committee. Accepted papers will be
published in the workshop proceedings. Papers will also be made available
electronically to the participants before the symposium to facilitate
preparation of discussions and questions. Presentations will be kept short
(10-15 minutes). A discussant, a member of the Doctoral Consortium
Committee, will be appointed to each paper. Discussant comments will be
followed by a plenary discussion of the paper. At the end of the consortium
there will be a general discussion, including a brainstorming session about
current and future research topics in the area.
Only electronic submissions are accepted. E-mail your paper as an attachment
in PDF dc-ectel08@dbis.rwth-aachen.de.
A supporting letter should be sent by the PhD supervisor by e-mail to
dc-ectel08@dbis.rwth-aachen.de. or by Fax: + 33 1 60 76 42 86 to Katherine Maillet.
The registration fees for the doctoral consortium participants will be 80 euros (30 for those attending the EC-TEL conference).
Consortium Chairs
* Katherine Maillet, Institut National des Télécommunications, France
* Tomaz Klobucar, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
* Denis Gilet, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Important Dates
Deadline for submission: July 14, 2008
Notification to authors: August 11, 2008
Camera ready version and registration: August 25, 2008
Ph.D. Workshop: September 16 or 17, 2008
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