CSEDU 2009 - International Conference on Computer Supported Education

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	Scope \| Conference Areas \| Area 1: Information Technologies Supporting Learning \| Area 2: Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Area 3: Social Context and Learning Environments \| Area 4: Legal Aspects and Management \| Area 5: Domain Applications and Case Studies Area 6: Quality, Evaluation and Accreditation Policies \| Keynote Speakers \| Paper Submission \| Publications Important Deadlines \| Secretariat \| Venue \| Conference Co-chairs \| Program Co-chairs \| Program Committee

	CSEDU is organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication) SCOPE CSEDU 2009 (the International Conference on Computer Supported Education) aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing new educational environments, best practices and case studies on innovative technology-based learning strategies, institutional policies on computer supported education including open and distance education, using computers. In particular, the Web is currently a preferred medium for distance learning and the learning practice in this context is usually referred to as e-learning. CSEDU-2009 is expected to give an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promote discussion about the pedagogical potential of new learning and educational technologies in the academic and corporate world. CSEDU seeks papers reporting research work, academic or business case-studies, on topics indicated below, in section “Main Topic Areas”. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Both technological and social-oriented papers are accepted. All papers must describe original work, not previously published or submitted to another conference. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of CSEDU under an ISBN, and will be indexed by major indexes. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports (regular papers) and work-in-progress reports (position papers) are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website (http://www.csedu.org). CONFERENCE AREAS Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: Information Technologies Supporting Learning Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Social Context and Learning Environments Legal and Cultural Management Issues Domain Applications and Case Studies Quality, Evaluation and Accreditation Policies AREA 1: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTING LEARNING - Web-based learning, Wikis and Blogs - Virtual learning environments - e-learning platforms, portals - Authoring tools and content development - Groupware Tools - Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning - Security Aspects - AV-communication and multimedia - Mobile learning - Ontologies and meta-data standards - Intelligent Tutoring Systems - e-learning hardware and software - Digital Libraries for e-learning AREA 2: LEARNING/TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENT - Supervising and managing student projects - Simulated communities and online mentoring - Pedagogy enhancement with e-learning - Educating the educators - Immersive Learning - Blended learning - Mobile learning (M-learning) - Computer-aided assessment - Metrics and performance measurement - Assessment software tools - Assessment methods in blended learning environments - e- testing and new test theories AREA 3: SOCIAL CONTEXT AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS - Learning Organizations - Collaborative Learning - Community Building - Lifelong Learning: Continuing Professional Training & Development - Theoretical bases of e-learning environments - International Partnerships in Teaching - Distance and e-learning in a global context - Cooperation with Industry in teaching - Context dependent learning - Higher Education vs. Vocational Training AREA 4: LEGAL AND CULTURAL MANAGEMENT ISSUES - Marketing of study programs - Cross-cultural education - Cultural, social and gender issues - Education and ethics - Corporate training and change management - Legislation for the success of e-learning - Breaking Barriers / Removing Constraints & Disadvantages - Employability - Flexible study modes (e.g. for professionals) - Management styles for distance and e-learning - Economic models for distance and e-learning activities AREA 5: DOMAIN APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES - e-learning success cases - Errors in e-learning - Critical Success Factors in Distance Learning - e-learning in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Information Engineering - Medical Applications - Interdisciplinary programs for distance education - Impact and achievements of International initiatives - Joint-degrees - Virtual Labs: Examples, Architecture and Organization - Virtual Universities and Classrooms AREA 6: QUALITY, EVALUATION AND ACCREDITATION - Benchmark metrics for broad domain learning - Standards and interoperability - Course design and e-learning curriculae - Emerging and best practices - Managing quality in e-learning - e-learning tactics and strategies - Course/program evaluation - Teacher Evaluation - Accessibility to disabled users - Quality Assurance: Recognition; Accreditation; Certification - Assessment and accreditation of courses and institutions KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Manuel Castro Gil, National University for Distance Education, Spain Mats Daniels, Uppsala University, Sweden Edmundo Tovar, Madrid Polytechnic University, Spain Thao Le, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania, Australia Wim Veen,Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Itiel Dror, University of Southampton, United Kingdom PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. Please check the paper formats so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web site must be strictly used for all submitted papers. The submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Remarks about the on-line submission procedure: 1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity. LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted. 2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author. Paper submission types: Regular Paper Submission A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster". Position Paper Submission A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper". Camera-ready: After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. The proceedings will be indexed by INSPEC and DBLP. IMPORTANT DATES Conference Dates: 23 -26 March, 2009 Regular Paper Submission: December 11, 2008 (Deadline Expired) Regular Paper Authors Notification: January 28, 2009 Final Paper Submission and Registration (Regular Paper): February 10, 2009 Position Paper Submission: January 15, 2009 Position Paper Authors Notification: February 4, 2009 Final Paper Submission and Registration (Position Paper): February 16, 2009 SECRETARIAT CSEDU Secretariat Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8596 Email: csedu.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://www.csedu.org VENUE Lisbon is the capital of Portugal and lies on the north bank of the Tagus Estuary, on the European Atlantic coast. It is the westernmost city in continental Europe. Greater Lisbon has an area of approximately 1,000 km2. The city lies more or less in the centre of the country, approximately 300 km from the Algarve in the south and 400 km from the northern border with Spain. Lisbon offers a wide variety of options to the visitor, including beaches, countryside, mountains and areas of historical interest only a few kilometres away from the city centre.Approximately 600,000 people live in Lisbon. However, if one includes the various satellite towns, the population of Greater Lisbon rises to approximately 1.9 million people. Due to the influence of the Atlantic Ocean, Lisbon has a pleasant climate throughout the year. The agreeable temperatures in the summer months are an open invitation for a walk by the river, or to spend an afternoon in one of the many street cafés to be found all over the city. Although the temperatures may fall somewhat in the autumn and winter months, sunshine is almost always a constant feature. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS José Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal Boris Shishkov, University of Twente / IICREST, The Netherlands PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland PROGRAM COMMITTEE Leonard A. Plugge, Stichting SURF, Netherlands Grigore Albeanu, Spiru Haret University, Romania Heejung An, William Paterson Univ., United States Roger Austin, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Anders Avdic, Örebro University, Sweden Roger Azevedo, University of Memphis, United States Jay Bahlis, BNH Expert Software Inc., Canada Azita Bahrami, Armstrong Atlantic State University, United States Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada Vanessa Chang, Curtin University of Technology, Australia John Cook, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno, Italy Beno Csapó, University of Szeged, Hungary Jeanne Dexter, Florida State University, United States Heinz Dreher, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Itiel Dror, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Margaret Farren, DCU, Ireland Philip Frame, Middlesex University Business School, United Kingdom Song Gilsun, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Michael Graham Moore, Knight-Moore Telematics for Education and Development/University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Austria Nuno Guimarães, Lasige/faculty Of Sciences, University Of Lisbon, Portugal David Guralnick, Kaleidoscope Learning/Columbia University, United States Stylianos Hatzipanagos, King's College London, United Kingdom Eva Heinrich, Massey University, New Zealand Kin-chuen Hui, University of Hong Kong, China António José Mendes, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Atis Kapenieks, Riga Technical University Distance Education Study Centre, Latvia Göran Karlsson, KTH Stockholm, Sweden ChanMin Kim, University of Georgia, United States Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands Uwe Krebs, University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany Timo Lainema, University of Turku, Finland Shahram Latifi, University of Nevada, United States Rynson Lau, University of Durham, United Kingdom Thao Le, University of Tasmania, Australia Frederick Li, University of Durham, United Kingdom Andrew Lian, Western Illinois University, United States Peter Liddell, University of Victoria, Canada Hwee Lim, The Petroleum Institute, United Arab Emirates Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, United Kingdom Jacques Lonchamp, Loria, University Of Nancy, France Caroline M. Crawford, Univ. of Houston-Clear Lake, United States Ann M. Shortridge, University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, United States Victor Manuel García-Barrios, Graz University of Technology, Austria Paolo Maresca, Università Federico Ii, Italy Bruce Maxim, University of Michigan-Dearborn, United States José Carlos Metrôlho, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal S. Mirri, University of Bologna, Italy Chrystalla Mouza, University of Delaware, United States Dieter Müller, University of Bremen, Germany Hannele Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Cathleen Norris, University of North Texas, United States Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Clayton R. Wright, International Education Consultant, Canada Felipa Reis, Portuguese Open University, Portugal Frank Rennie, Lews Castle College, United Kingdom Ann Riedling, Mansfield Univ., United States Cristobal Romero Morales, University of Cordoba, Spain Pasi Sahlberg, European Training Foundation, Italy Demetrios Sampson, University Of Piraeus, Greece Thomas Schmidt, HAW Hamburg, Germany Jane Seale, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Michael Sonntag, Johannes Keppler University, Austria Mafalda Stasi, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France Karl Steffens, University of Cologne, Germany Becky Sue Parton, Southeastern Louisiana Univ., United States Lily Sun, The University of Reading, United Kingdom Ramayah T., Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia John T. Thompson, Buffalo State, State University of New York, United States Kathy Takayama, Brown University, United States Avgoustos Tsinakos, TEI OF KAVALA, Greece Carsten Ullrich, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Wim Veen, University of Technology, Netherlands, Netherlands Charalambos Vrasidas, Cardet, Cyprus Les Watson, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom Martin Wolpers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Germany

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