http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2008/

It is unquestionable that technology is a useful tool to enhance the learning process and during the last ICALT conferences significant advances have been presented in this sense. Besides the usual topics of the conference, this edition of the conference aims to explore the role of learning technologies to step forward in the transformation from the information society to a knowledge society where everybody (independently of race, sex, abilities, capabilities, ...) can be benefit from technologies to enhance her learning process. This open a world of opportunities for analysing the use of technology in inclusive learning environments that take into account the characteristics and expectations of different kinds of users and different kinds of learning experiences, whether formal or informal, individual or cooperative, life-long or short term...

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Technical Program with 102 Full papers, 113 short papers and 54 posters
- Five Keynote talks. The following speakers have confirmed their participation, more info soon:

- Prof. John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Andy Heath (Open University, UK)
- Prof. Klaus Tochterman (Graz University of Technology & Know-Center Graz, Austria)
- Prof. Huang (Beijing Normal University)
- Mr.Marsella (European Commission)

- Four back-to-back plenary Panel Sessions to discuss
- Five workshops on the following topics with an additional 30  technical papers:

- Advanced Learning Technologies for Disabled and Non-Disabled People (WALTD)
- Crafting didactic materials based on IMS LD: From Requirements to Evaluation
- Learning technology standards development; planning for an improved process and product
- Machine-Mediated Multimodal Communication (M3C)
- Technology-enhanced Science Education

- Four tutorials:

- Pervasive Virtual Instructors in Mixed Reality
- Visual approaches for the creation and deployment of learning designs
- Design Principles of Educational Mobile Website
- Problem based learning online

During the dinner there will be a rafle of a SMART Board interactive whiteboard - http://smarttech.com/

IMPORTANT DATES
* Conference: July 1st- July 5th, 2008

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
269 research presentations are planned, encompassing the broad range of issues in timetabling.
The preliminary conference programme is published at  http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2008/program.php

REGISTRATION FEES:
Registration fees include attandence at all keynotes, workshops, papers and panels, poster/demos, receptions and dinner event, coffee breaks, IEEE proceedings and three luncheons.

IEEE member: 385 €
IEEE non-member: 470 €
IEEE member student: 195 €
IEEE non-member student: 240 €

Please register through the conference web site http://congrega.fund.uc3m.es/icalt08/registration.asp

ORGANIZATION, SPONSORED BY AND PROCEEDINGS
Organizated by
Laboratorio DEI, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
School of Industrial and Telecomunication Engineering, Universidad de Cantabria

Sponsored by
IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology, IEEE Computer Society,,ADIE, ATOS Origin, IEEE Spanish Chapter on Education, Master in Management and Production of e-learning (UC3M), Santander City Council, Smart Technologies
Proceedings Published by IEEE Computer Society Press

COMMITTEES
General Chairs
* Ignacio Aedo. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
* Eduardo Mora. Universidad de Cantabria.

Program Chairs
* Paloma Díaz. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
* Kinshuk. Athabasca University.

Advisory Committee
* Darina Dicheva. Winston-Salem State University.
* Roger Hartley. University of Leeds.
* Rob Koper. Open University of the Netherlands.
* Toshio Okamoto. University of Electro-Communications.
* Demetrios Sampson.Center of Research and Technology Hellas and University of Pireus.
* Nian-Shing Chen. National Sun Yat-sen University.
* J. Michael Spector. Florida State University.

Tutorial chairs
* Demetrios Sampson. Center of Research and Technology Hellas and University of Pireus, Greece.
* Miguel Rodriguez-Artacho. Universidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain.

Workshop chairs
* Baltasar Fernández-Majón. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain.
* Steve J. H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan.

Panels chairs
* Monica Landoni. Université de Lausanne. Switzerland
* Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia.

Publicity chairs
* Telmo Zarraonandia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* J.Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA.

Local Committee
* Laura Bravo. Universidad de Cantabria. (Local Co-Chair)
* David Díez. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
* Juan Manuel Dodero. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
* Tomás Fernández. Universidad de Cantabria.
* Camino Fernández. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
* Carmen Padrón. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
* Telmo Zarraonandia. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. (Local Co-Chair)

Program Committee
Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Eshaa M. Alkhalifa, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
Colin Allison, University of St-Andrews, United Kingdom
Mohamed Ally, Athabasca University, Canada
Rachid Anane, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Albert Angehrn, INSEAD CALT Fontainebleau, France
Charoula Angeli, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Luis E. Anido-Rifon, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Reuven Aviv, The Open University of Israel, Israel
Nikolaos Avouris, University of Patras, Greece
Werner Beuschel, University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany
Madhumita Bhattacharya, Massey University, New Zealand
Josep Blat, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Rosa Maria Bottino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genova, Italy
Christos Bouras, University Patras and CTI, Greece
Francis Brouns, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Mark Brown, Massey University, New Zealand
Manuel Castro, UNED, Spain
Zeynel Cebeci, The Cukurova University, Turkey
Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan
Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada
Ni Chang, Indiana University, USA
Yam-San Chee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Gwo-Dong Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
Irene Ya-Ling Chen, Ching Yun University, Taiwan
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway
Christophe Choquet, Universiti du Maine, France
Steve Corich, Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK
Isabel Fernández De Castro, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Stavros N. Demetriadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Vanessa Dennen, Florida State University, USA
Michael Derntl, University of Vienna, Austria
Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA
Angelique Dimitracopoulou, University of the Aegean, Greece
Yannis A. Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Juan Manuel Dodero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Ian Douglas, Florida State University, USA
Jon Elorriaga, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Lisa Fan, University of Regina, Canada
Baltasar Fernandez Manjon, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Paola Forcheri, IMA-CNR, Italy
Domingo J. Gallego, UNED, Spain
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Demetrius Georgiou, Demokritus University of Thrace, Greece
Carlo Giovannella, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Sabine Graf, National Central University, Taiwan
Monique Grandbastien, Universite Henri Poincare, France
Dai Griffiths, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Maria Grigoriadou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Eva Heinrich, Massey University, New Zealand
Friedrich Hesse, Knowledge Media Research Centre, Germany
Tsukasa Hirashima, Hiroshima University, Japan
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Debra Hoven, Athabasca University, Canadaf
Ray Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Hans Hummel, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Gwo-Jen Hwang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
Wu Yuin Hwang, National Central University, Taiwan
Kohji Itoh, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Jos� Janssen, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Lynn Jeffery, Massey University, New Zealand
Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Tristan Johnson, Florida State University, USA
Mike Joy, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Charalambos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Keiso Katsura, Senri Kinran University, Japan
ChanMin Kim, Florida State University, USA
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Rody Klein, Paris 8 University, France
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Vassilis Komis, University of Patras, Greece
Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Maria Kordaki, Computer Institute of Technology, Greece
K. Robert Lai, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Stefano Levialdi, Universita di Roma, Italy
Chen-Chung Liu, National Central University, Taiwan
Tzu-Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan
Martín Llamas, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Chee-Kit Looi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Veijo Meisalo, University of Helsinki, Finland
Anastasios Mikropoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece
Marcelo Milrad, Vaxjo University, Sweden
Roberto Moriyon, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Constantinos Mourlas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Jari Multisilta, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan
Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Manuel Ortega Cantero, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain
Kyparisia Papanikolaou, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece
Iraklis Paraskakis, South East European Research Centre, Greece
Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyv�skyl�, Finland
Panagiotis Pintelas, University of Patras, Greece
Sarantos Psycharis, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece
Marco Ronchetti, Universit� di Trento, Italy
Frans Ronteltap, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece
Maya Satratzemi, University of Macedonia, Greece
Judith Schoonenboom, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Dave Sewry, Rhodes University, South Africa
Ali Fawaz Shareef, Center for Open Learning, Maldives
Katherine Sinitsa, Intl Res. and Trng Ctr of Info. Tech. and Systems, Kiev, Ukraine
Peter Sloep, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Amy Soller, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA
Christina Solomonidou, University of Thessaly, Greece
Sofoklis Sotiriou, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece
Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA
Krassen Stefanov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski",Sofia, Bulgaria
Jarkko Suhonen, University of Joensuu, Finland
Pei-Chen Sun, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
Pierre Tchounikine, Université du Maine, France
Chin-Chung Tsai, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Setsuo Tsuruta, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Maomi Ueno, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Jan van Bruggen, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Jeroen van Merrienboer, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Wouter van Joolingen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Michael Verhaart, Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Su White, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Jie Chi Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Hsiu-Ping Yueh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Larisa Zaitseva, Riga Technical university, Latvia
Georgios Dafoulas, Middlese University, United Kingdom