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Thursday, 8 August 2013

Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2013) - Call for Participation

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

(EC-TEL 2013)

17-21 September, 2013

Paphos, Cyprus

http://www.ec-tel.eu/

NEWS

- Early bird registration with reduced fee *extended* until August 19, 2013: http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/registration

- Liina Munari, European Commission senior project officer (DG CONNECT), confirmed as keynote speaker

- Conference program draft available

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

KEYNOTES - http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/program/keynotes

- Sir John Daniel and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic: "Making Sense of MOOCs: The Evolution of Online Learning in Higher Education"

- Liina Munari: "Beyond Horizon: learning and technology in EC policies and programming"

PROGRAM - http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/program

The scientific program features 31 rigorously peer-reviewed full papers plus 18 short papers which have been carefully grouped together in the following sessions:

- Learning Together

- Massive Open Online Learning (MOOCs)

- Learning at the Workplace

- Towards New Classrooms

- Learning Design

- Games - Serious & Fun

- Personalization and Adaptation

- Mobile Learning

- Large Scale Adoption and the TEL Community

- Metacognition and Reflection

The scientific sessions will be rounded off with a poster session featuring 34 posters and a plenary Demo Sprint competition where the 22 accepted demonstrations will compete for a prize, and the audience will be the jury.

All accepted papers, demos and posters can be found by scrolling down the page at http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/program

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/call-for-doctoral-consortium

EC-TEL 2013 will also feature a doctoral consortium to offer PhD students a forum for fruitful discussion with experts and peers.

INDUSTRY TRACK - http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/industry-track

A panel of experienced European learning technology specialists will be moderated by David Wortley, former Founding Director of the Serious Games Institute at Coventry University.

CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS - http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/workshops

- International Workshop on EuroPLOT Persuasive Technology for Learning, Education and Teaching (IWEPLET 2013)

- Computational tools fostering Creativity in Learning processes (CCL)

- 3rd International Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL 2013)

- EC-TEL tutorial on Seamless assessment in Serious games (SEASG)

- Culturally-aware technology-enhanced learning (CulTEL)

- Workshop on Collaborative Technologies for Working and Learning (EC-TEL meets ECSCW)

- Workshop on solutions that enhance informal learning recognition (WEILER)

- 3rd International Workshop on Teaching Analytics (IWTA-2013b)

- 4th International Workshop on Motivational and Affective Aspects (MATEL)

- Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment 2013 (TEFA 2013)

- 21st century Learning in the HEALTH and EMERGENCY sectors

REGISTRATION - http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/registration

Reduced-fee early bird registration was extended!

VENUE & ACCOMMODATION - http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/places

EC-TEL 2013 will be hosted at the 5-star Coral Beach Hotel in beautiful Paphos, Cyprus. Besides staying at the conference hotel, attendees can choose to stay in nearby hotels, offering all price categories. Cyprus is easy to reach from all major airports Europe.

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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

EC-TEL 2013 Workshop on Computational Tools fostering Creativity in Learning Processes

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Call for Papers

for the Workshop on

Computational Tools fostering Creativity in Learning Processes

http://ccl2013.iit.demokritos.gr/

taking place on September 17, 2013 in Paphos (Cyprus) in conjunction with

the Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2013)

Paphos (Cyprus), 17 - 21 September 2013.

About the workshop

The main objective of the 1st Workshop on Computational tools fostering Creativity in Learning processes is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experiences in
the study, development and deployment of creativity in learning concepts, applications, tools and systems. It will provide an international forum for the presentation of both theoretical and practical results aiming at the
identification of items for a research agenda. To this end, we are seeking contributions that mainly address one or more of the following topics:

- Theories and Methodologies for Computational Creativity in Learning
- Modelling of Social Behaviour for Creativity in Learning
- Architectures and Design of Computational Systems for Creativity in Learning
- Leveraging the Social Web (e.g., Social Networks, Social Media) to Support Creativity in Learning
- Discovery, Collection, and Extraction of Creativity Triggers from Learning Resources
- Privacy and Security Trade-offs in Computational Tools for Creativity in Learning
- Visualization, Diversity, Personalization, Novelty and other Characteristics of Creativity-support Tools
- Social Recommender Systems for Creativity in Learning
- Machine Learning Methods for Computational Tools for Creativity in Learning
- Human Computation and Social Computational Tools for Creativity in Learning
- Wisdom of Crowds Applications (e.g., prediction markets) and Crowdsourcing for Creativity in Learning

Paper Submission

Papers must be based on unpublished, original work and must be submitted only to CCL 2013. Selection of papers will be based on the clarity of the submitted materials, the stage of maturity of the presented research and the degree of innovation of the presented ideas. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. The submitted papers should conform to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The use
of the supplied templates (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) is strongly
encouraged. The papers should be submitted (as PDF files) via EasyChair. Please note that you must setup an EasyChair account (if you do not already have one) in order to submit your work.

Workshop papers: up to 4 pages

Important Dates

Paper Submission: 12 July 2013
Notification of Acceptance: 26 July 2013
Camera-ready version: 9 August 2013

Workshop Website
http://ccl2013.iit.demokritos.gr/

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Thursday, 13 June 2013

EC-TEL Workshop - Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA 2013)

Posted on 00:29 by Unknown

Call for Papers

Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA) 2013

in conjunction with the

Eight European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) 2013

Paphos, Cyprus

http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/tefa2013.html

Overview

Today, learning often occurs collaboratively in learner networks; formal
learning is combined with informal learning; and learners use, for example,
personalised and personal learning environments adapted to their needs and
preferences. While in a general sense any assessment can be used for
formative
or summative purposes, more genuinely formative assessment needs to
provide:
(a) rich, detailed information about learning (feedback),
(b) information that offers guidance on how to improve learning, and
(c) opportunities to actively construct an understanding about how to
regulate
learning, and negotiate a successful outcome amongst the key stakeholders.

Workshop Goals

The goal of the workshop is to develop the notion of technology-enhanced
formative assessment (TEFA) as a component for extending existing or new
TEL approaches, further combining expertise from pedagogy, educational
measurement, cognitive science, and information technology. A trend from
dedicated to integrated and from sporadic to continuous formative
assessment
is envisioned. Challenging research questions will be addressed such as:
* How are established forms of formative assessment changing with
the
inclusion of technology and what new forms of formative assessment
become possible?
* How is this reflected in new pedagogical approaches?
* How can today VLE support the provision of elaborated feedback?

Workshop Topics

The following topics are proposed, but the submissions need not be limited
to
these:
* formative assessment in adaptive systems
* formative assessment for users with special needs
* formative assessment for 21st Century skills
* mobile assessment
* feedback technologies
* integrated e-assessment, embedded assessment
* location-based/context aware educational feedback
* (automated) item design and generation
* automated analysis of open answers
* alignment of formative and summative feedback
* peer-assessment
* learning analytics for assessment purposes
* standard-conform e-assessment, flexible e-assessment,
interoperable e-assessment
* e-assessment in complex learning - i.e. collaborative learning,
serious games, 3D worlds and digital stories, discussion forums
* learning analytics and assessment
* assessment rubrics

Workshop Format

Position statement submissions are solicited (6 pages max. in Springer
Format)
that deal with approaches and innovative assessment technologies that
support
the transition from current assessment scenarios towards the development of
e-assessment forms through which high level of meta-cognitive skills are
evaluated, on-going feedback is provided, and students are more engaged in
the learning process.

Submissions

Position statement submissions are solicited (6 pages max. in Springer
Format)
that deal with approaches and innovative assessment technologies that
support
the transition from current assessment scenarios towards the development of
e-assessment forms through which high level of meta-cognitive skills are
evaluated, on-going feedback is provided, and students are more engaged in
the learning process.

email submissions to eric.ras@tudor.lu

Important Dates in 2013

* Submissions deadline: June 27
* Author notifications: July 19
* Final versions due: August 9
* Workshop date: September 17-18

After the workshop a few papers will be invited to submit an extended
version
to the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, IJTEL by
Inderscience (http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2251).

Organisers

Dr. Eric Ras (first contact), Public Research Centre Henri Tudor,
Luxembourg-Kirchberg, LUXEMBOURG, eric.ras@tudor.lu, +352 425991 - 2685

Dr. Mohammad AL-Smadi, Centre for Educational Technology Institute of
Informatics Tallinn University, Tallinn, ESTONIA, msmadi@tlu.ee +372 6409
355

Dott. Ivana Marenzi, Leibniz Universiät Hannover, L3S Research Center,
Hannover, GERMANY, marenzi@l3s.de, +49 511 762 - 17710

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EC-TEL Workshop - 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL13)

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3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL13)

to be held in conjunction with EC-TEL 2013, Paphos (Cyprus). September 17, 2013.

Submission deadline: 30.06.2013

Workshop webpage: http://teleurope.eu/artel13

Twitter hashtag: #artel13

----- Introduction -----

Awareness and Reflection are important aspects of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) and have to be adequately supported to enable learners to tap the potential of learning tools. The concepts awareness and reflection are viewed differently across the disciplines informing TEL (CSCW, CSCL, psychology, educational sciences, computer science, ...). ARTEL13 aims to push forward the discussion and research on these concepts in TEL. This year's theme for ARTEL 2013 is:

"How can awareness and reflection support learning in different settings (work, education, continuing professional development, lifelong learning, etc.). What are the roles that technology can play to support awareness and reflection in these contexts?"

This workshop is a direct follow-up of last year's EC-TEL workshop ARTEL12, and the previous workshops ARNETS11 (Awareness and Reflection in Learning Networks) and ALECR11 (Augmenting the Learning Experience with Collaborative Reflection).

----- Objectives -----

The objectives of this workshop are

1. to provide a forum for presenting and discussing research on awareness and reflection in TEL

2. to create an interactive experience that connects participants' research, current tools or latest prototypes and models with real end users' learning experiences and requirements regarding reflection technology

3. to create an agenda for future ARTEL research and development.

----- Topics of interest -----

We invite contributions that address the following aspects:

- Theoretical discussion of awareness and reflection in TEL and related concepts (e.g. collaborative learning, creativity techniques, experiential learning)

- Methodologies to identify, study and analyse awareness and reflection in the context of (technology-enhanced) learning

- Empirical studies about technology support for awareness and reflection

- Technology (design, application, evaluation) supporting awareness and reflection

- Designing awareness and reflection in TEL applications and processes

- Using awareness and reflection support to enhance the learning experience

- Awareness of social context, knowledge, artefacts and processes

- Awareness and reflection in specific contexts, such as higher education, work-integrated learning, learning networks, etc.

----- Submission -----

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work. The organisers particularly encourage the submission of work-in-progress, cutting-edge prototypes. The following types of contributions are welcome:

- Full papers (max. 15 pages) that describe problems, needs, novel approaches and frameworks within the scope of the workshop. Empirical evaluation papers and industrial experience reports are welcome for submission.

- Short papers (max. 7 pages) that state the position of the authors within the scope of the workshop and describe solution concepts and work in progress.

- Demo papers (max. 2 pages) describing the motivation of the concept, the system and technology, and scenarios of application. During the workshop will be a dedicated slot were you can present and discuss your system. Additionally, you can submit a video of your system. Videos will be featured on TELeurope.eu.

Please submit your proposal via the ginkgo event management system at http://ginkgo.cs.upb.de/events/artel13. All submitted contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee for originality, significance and quality.

The papers will be published in the CEUR-WS.org (http://ceur-ws.org) workshops proceedings. Submissions should use the Springer LNCS template (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

----- Important dates -----

30.06.2013 Submission Deadline

10.08.2013 Notification of Acceptance

30.08.2013 Camera-Ready Papers due

17.09.2013 Workshop

----- Organizers -----

Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Birgit Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Adam Moore, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Viktoria Pammer, Knowledge Technologies Institute, TU Graz, Austria

Lucia Pannese, imaginary, Italy

Michael Prilla, University of Bochum, Germany

Wolfgang Reinhardt, WALLMEDIEN AG / European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning, Germany

Thomas Ullmann, The Open University, United Kingdom

----- Format of the workshop -----

The workshop will have a mixture of paper presentations, a demo session and interactive group work. We aim to link theory and existing prototypes (both from the involved projects and from the presented papers and demos) to practical needs in educational and professional settings. This link will be of value to both practitioners (in that research insights become more tangible) and researchers (in that insights and research prototypes become grounded in practice).

We will use various media to encourage comments, questions and identification of hot topics during the workshop. Highlights from the presented papers and tools will be brought together in light of the workshop agenda in a final summary session, and the result will be presented during ECTEL 2013 both in the workshop summary and in the prototype sessions.

The tentative programme is as follows:

- Morning session 1: Paper presentations

- Morning session 2: Interactive demo session

- Afternoon session 1: Paper presentations

- Afternoon session 2: Interactive, small group work and plenum

----- Supporting projects -----

ARTEL13 pulls together research on awareness and reflection in technology-enhanced learning across disciplines (psychology, educational science, computer science) and across European TEL projects:

- MIRROR (Reflective Learning at Work): http://www.mirror-project.eu/

- ImREAL (Immersive Reflective Experience-based Adaptive Learning): http://www.imreal-project.eu/

- Learning Layers (Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Cluster): http://learning-layers.eu/

----- Networking and updates -----

To stay updated about the event and with the activity of the goup, consider to join the Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning group (http://teleurope.eu/artel).

----- Background of the workshop -----

The 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL13) is the third workshop in a successful series of EC-TEL workshops.

- 2nd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL12). Workshop homepage: http://www.teleurope.eu/artel12 Proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-931/

- 1st European Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Learning Networks (ARNets11). Workshop homepage: http://teleurope.eu/arnets11 Proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-790/

- Augmenting the Learning Experience with Collaboratice Reflection (ALECR11). Workshop homepage: http://www.i-maginary.it/ectel2011/index.html

- 1st Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Personal Learning Environemnts (ARPLE11). Workshop homepage: http://teleurope.eu/arple11 Proceedings: http://journal.webscience.org/view/events/

----- Background of the EC-TEL conference -----

The EC-TEL 2013: Eight European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, will take place in Paphos, Cyprus, 17-21 September 2013. The motto for this year is "Scaling up learning for sustained impact". 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. For more information visit http://www.ec-tel.eu/

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EC-TEL Workshop - Teaching Analytics (IWTA 2013)

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Call for Papers

3^rd International Workshop on Teaching Analytics (IWTA)

http://www.next-tell.eu/teachinganalytics/iwta-2013b/

EC-TEL 2013 (http://www.ec-tel.eu/)

Wednesday, 18-September-2012

Paphos, Cyprus

Purpose

The core problem that this workshop series on “Teaching Analytics” addresses is that in comparison with most other professionals that work in dynamically changing environments, teachers do not get the information they need for decision making in a timely fashion and in a meaningful and actionable format. Teaching Analytics is conceived as a subfield of learning analytics that focuses on the design, development, evaluation, and education of visual analytics methods and tools for teachers in primary, secondary, and tertiary educational settings. Furthermore, diagnostic data can be collected and needs to be displayed in real-time during a classroom activity or of smaller groups. Teachers’ professional practices with visual analytics methods and tools are a central concern of teaching analytics. Teaching analytics methods and tools aim to develop innovative solutions to assist and augment teachers’ dynamic diagnostic decision-making in the classrooms of the 21st century. An example usage scenario (but not limited to) is the use of teaching analytics methods and tools in high-performance classrooms that are characterized by 1:1 computing, high cognitive density, and big data.

Building on the NEXT-TELL project, the first international workshop on teaching analytics (TAPTA-2012) held at EC-TEL 2012 (http://www.next-tell.eu/tapta/) and the second workshop held at LAK-2013 (http://www.next-tell.eu/iwta-2013/), this workshop explores pedagogical and research approaches to studying teachers’ use of visual analytical techniques and tools. This workshop’s ambitious objective is to jumpstart a new learning analytics research stream on teaching analytics by bringing together learning scientists in different sub-fields such as CSCL, ITS, EDM, researchers in Visual Analytics, and data scientists working with “Big Data” in public institutions and private enterprises. In addition to researchers, we are also targeting teachers at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education to be involved as co-designers and discussants.

Topics

For the third workshop, we specifically seek position papers on pedagogical and research approaches to educating and investigating teachers’ needs and use of visual analytical techniques and tools. Other topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

· Historical and contemporary practices in notations, representations, and visualizations of classroom activities and student learning

· Theories and methods for designing and evaluating new notations, representations, and visualizations for teaching analytics

· Cognitive dimensions of notations for learning and teaching purposes

· Visual analytics for activity tracking

· Visual analytics for knowledge tracking

· Visual analytics for formative vs. summative evaluations

· Visual analytics for technology enhanced formative assessment

· Engendering teachers’ professional vision in high-performance classrooms

· Synthesis of visual analytics oriented theory and practice in the Learning Sciences, e-Learning, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Educational Data Mining, and Learning Analytics.

· Technical architectures and technological infrastructure for teaching analytics

· Instrumentation of classrooms and ecosystems for learning and teaching

· Critical perspectives on teaching analytics

Please note workshop submissions should be concerned with teachers’ use of visual analytics methods and tools in some shape or form. No requirements are placed on contexts such as high-performance classrooms or big data volumes or real-time decision-making

Author Guidelines:

Length & Format: A position paper of maximum six pages formatted using the Springer LNCS template without the Springer Copyright text. http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
Relevance and Substance: Ideally, the position paper should address methods for educating and/or researching teachers’ use of visual analytics tools or a topic relevant to the workshop theme on teaching analytics.

Submission Guidelines:

· Please submit your position paper no later than 15-July-2013 by email to iwta@next-tell.eu

Important Dates

Submission of Position Papers: 15-July-2013
Author Notifications: 01-August-2013
Final Versions for Accepted Papers: 31-August-2013
Workshop Date: Wednesday, 18-September-2012

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be made available to all via this site and published online as a volume of the CEUR series of workshop proceedings.

· 1^st International Workshop on Teaching Analytics

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-894/

· 2^nd International Workshop on Teaching Analytics

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-985/

Workshop Co-Chairs

Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Peter Reimann, University of Sydney, Australia
Susan Bull, University of Birmingham, UK
Andreas Breiter, University of Bremen, Germany

Program Committee

· Charoula Angeli, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

· Geneviève Gauthier, University of Alberta, Canada

· Sean P. Goggins, Drexel Univerity, USA

· Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

· Jelte de Jongh, University of London, UK

· Anouschka van Leeuwen, Univeristy of Leuven, Belgium

· Paul Libbrecht, Martin Luther University of Halle, Germany

· Anna Mavroudi, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

· Carlos Monroy, Rice University, USA

· Kostas Pantazos, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

· Philip Uys, Charles Sturt University, Australia

· Barbara Wasson, University of Bergen, Norway

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Monday, 10 June 2013

Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2013) - 2nd Call for Demonstrations and Posters for Exhibition

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2nd Call for Demonstrations and Posters for Exhibition

EC-TEL 2013: Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

"Scaling Up Learning for Sustained Impact"

17-21 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus

http://www.ec-tel.eu/

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.

There is no doubt that Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) has created
enormous changes in schools, universities and at the workplaces. However,
these innovations have tended to be unsustainable. Too often, initiatives
need a high degree of effort to be sustained, and are consequently
endangered when funding stops. At the same time, mobile and social
information and communication technologies are fundamentally changing our
lives. Nowadays we use them naturally to keep in contact with our friends,
to seek information, to buy things and to work. In many domains, these
emerging technologies demonstrate that scaling is possible. But few
educational institutions or companies have taken these technologies up in a
systematic way to include them into their learning strategy.

To address these challenges the theme of EC-TEL 2013 is "Scaling up learning
for sustained impact".

In this spirit, we want to offer you a chance to present existing prototypes
and work in progress to ECTEL community to create sustained impact,
dissemination and create potentials for scaling up the use to a wider
audience.
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
2013 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/, and in this second
call especially we encourage highly visual and engaging demos, such as
Serious Games, Virtual Worlds, Immersive Multimedia, and Collaborative
Learning Systems.

Posters report on significant work in progress. We will have an interactive
poster session in which you can present your work and elicit feedback from
EC-TEL participants.

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.
Please also indicate any special technical requirements needed for the
demonstration at the conference location.

At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be invited to
participate in the "EC-TEL 2013 Demo sprint contest". The audience of the
"EC-TEL 2013 Demo sprint contest" will vote for the best EC-TEL
demonstration in this session and the winner will be awarded with a prize
from Online Educa Berlin Conference (see below).

FIRST PRIZE

The first prize for the demo sprint contest is sponsored by ONLINE EDUCA
BERLIN 2013 and consists of:

- A free conference pass to attend ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2013

- The opportunity to present the demo as a speaker in the Talking
Heads Sessions at OEB 2013

- A newsletter-story on the winner

IMPORTANT DATES

Round 2 poster & demonstration submission: July 5th 2013
Round 2 poster & demonstration notification: July 12th 2013
Optional 2-minute video of demonstration: Mid August 2013
[exact date will be published soon]

SUBMISSION FORMATS

Submissions of 1 page descriptions of demos and posters will be
handled through EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=demosectel2013).
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 and be present at the ECTEL website. Demonstrations
accepted in this call will also participate in the "EC-TEL 2013 Demo sprint
contest" and are eligible to win the first prize.

CONTACTS

Andreas Harrer (andreas.harrer at ku.de),
Poster and Demonstration Chair

Davinia Hernández-Leo (davinia.hernandez at upf.edu),
Programme Chair

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Thursday, 23 May 2013

EC-TEL 2013 Workshop - International workshop on Culturally-aware Technology Enhanced Learning (CulTEL 2013)

Posted on 05:54 by Unknown

CALL FOR PAPERS:

"International workshop on Culturally-aware Technology Enhanced Learning" CulTEL 2013

at ECTEL 2013, 17-21 September, Paphos, Cyprus.

For details, see: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/CulTEL/.

The workshop aims to provide a forum that explores culturally inclusive and boundary breaking TEL models, and their implications on traditional infrastructures (i.e. the underpinning technical and pedagogical frameworks). The workshop will enable this emerging research community to:
- share techniques and experiences;
- identify potential domains and application areas;
- design and reflect on evaluation studies; and
- identify future research directions.

By bringing together academics, educational practitioners and TEL industries, the workshop will address several challenges along three main themes:
1. Technological underpinning:
Which components in a TEL environment need to be modifiable for cultural factors and how? What are the innovative technology enablers for adding culture in TEL settings (e.g. semantic models, data mining, intelligent exploration, and virtual agents and interaction with them)? What are the affordances and limitations of these technologies? How can TEL adapt to the cultural experiences and diversity of the learners?

2. Adding value to learning:
What is the added value of including cultural aspects in TEL for learners and tutors? How to develop awareness in cultural diversity at different stages of a learner’s progression? How to measure pedagogical effectiveness and skills valorisation? How to make the experience in a virtual learning environment relate to real-life experiences?

3. Domains and applications:
What are the learning settings (e.g. formal, non-formal and informal) and learning approaches (self-regulated, experiential learning) which require more culturally-aware TEL? What potential domains require the development of cross-cultural competencies (e.g. business communications, mentoring, advising, professional consultation, and collaboration)? What user-generated content can be exploited to capture cultural diversity (e.g. stories, blogs, comments, micro posts, and videos)? What are the lessons learnt from experimental studies?

Submissions
The workshop welcomes demonstrations (2-4 pages), position papers (4-6 pages) and research papers (8-10 pages). All submissions will be peer-reviewed. All papers should be submitted via EasyChair in PDF format at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cultel2013. Submissions should use the Springer LNCS template (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Important dates
- Submissions due: 15 July 2013
- Notification of Acceptance: 14 August 2013
- Camera-ready version of accepted papers: 28 August 2013
- Workshop date: 17 September, 2013

Workshop chairs
- Emmanuel G. Blanchard, Aalborg University at Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nick Degens, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
- Sonia Hetzner, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Lydia Lau, University of Leeds, UK
- Sandy Louchart, Heriot-Watt University, UK
- Samuel Mascarenhas, INESC-ID, Portugal
- Asad Nazir, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Dissemination
The proceedings of the workshop will be available as open access via CEUR. Depending on the quality of the contributions, a special issue in a relevant journal will be explored (e.g. IJAIED or IEEE TLT).

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Tuesday, 21 May 2013

EC-TEL 2013 Workshop - 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL'13)

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Call for papers and demos

3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL13)

to be held in conjunction with EC-TEL 2013, Paphos (Cyprus). September 17, 2013.

Submission deadline: 30.06.2013

Workshop webpage: http://teleurope.eu/artel13

Twitter hashtag: #artel13