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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/) __________________________________________________

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 conference will provide unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and include project meetings and discussions for several 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 limit is 15 pages for full papers, 6 pages for posters. Selected papers will be considered for special issues of relevant journals.

Important Dates:

Deadline for Paper Submissions: March 30, 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 J^rg 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

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