Call for Demonstrations and Posters for Exhibition
EC-TEL 2012 Seventh European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
18-21 September 2012, Saarbrücken, Germany
The European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) is a unique opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. Through EC-TEL, established and emerging researchers as well as practitioners, entrepreneurs, and technology developers explore new collaborations, strengthen networks, and compliment their core experience.
Promoting and developing 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills that meet contemporary needs and challenges is a key priority within the European Union and constituent countries. Crucial questions need to be addressed, such as:
How can schools prepare young people for the technology-rich workplace of the future?
How can we use technology to promote informal and independent learning outside traditional educational settings?
How can we use next generation social and mobile technologies to promote informal and responsive learning in the workplace?
This focus on skills, practice and impact is reflected in EC-TEL itself. EC-TEL 2012 is, for the first time, specifically appealing to Technology Enhanced Learning innovators, creative practitioners and other representatives from e-learning more generally. Extended demonstrations of prototypes and ‘TEL in action’ will spark discussions between different but complimentary groups, and be animated and disseminated through live internet radio broadcasts, videos, etc. EC-TEL 2012 will examine and improve the transitions between research, practice and industry.
In this special call we invite contributions for demonstrations and posters that can be exhibited and discussed along the conference. Details of conference topics are available at http://ec-tel.eu/call-for-papers, and in this second call especially we encourage highly visual and engaging demos, such as Serious Games, Virtual Worlds and Immersive Multimedia.
Posters are expected to report on significant work in progress.
A demonstration is your chance to fully engage EC-TEL attendees at a personal level by letting them see, touch, squeeze, or hear your visions for the future of TEL, or demonstrate highly interactive ‘TEL in Action’ (e.g. through videos or real-time learning experiences). We expect that your Demonstration will be a reliably running prototype of your vision that is ready to be tried out, questioned and interacted with. You need to submit a concise description of your prototype, clearly showing how your technological innovation realises a clear learning innovation.
At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be invited to participate in the EC-TEL 2012 Prototype-SLAM session. The participants of the EC-TEL SLAM session will vote for the best EC-TEL prototype in this session and the winner will be awarded.
IMPORTANT DATES
Round 2 poster & demonstration submission: 15 June 2012
Round 2 poster & demonstration notification: 25 June 2012
2-minute video of demonstration: 02 July 2012
SUBMISSION FORMATS
Submissions will be handled through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=demos-ectel2012). Max. 1 page. The posters and demonstrations accepted in this second special call will not be published in the proceedings but will be exhibited during the whole conference. Demonstrations accepted in this call can also participate in the EC-TEL 2012 Prototype-SLAM session.
Contact: Davinia Hernández-Leo (davinia.hernandez at upf.edu), Poster and Demonstration Chair
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