CSEDU 2011, 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 2011 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 the section “Conference 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.

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:

1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTING LEARNING
2. LEARNING/TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENT
3. SOCIAL CONTEXT AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
4. DOMAIN APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES
5. 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: 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 5: QUALITY, EVALUATION AND ACCREDITATION POLICIES

• › 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

Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, U.S.A.
Rachelle Heller, The George Washington University, U.S.A.
Lauri Malmi, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland
Friedrich Hesse, Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred 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. Please read INSTICC’s ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

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 (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI.

› Conference date: 6-8 May, 2011

› Regular Paper Submission: October 25, 2010 (expired)
› Authors Notification (regular papers): January 6, 2011 (expired)
› Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: January 31, 2011 (expired)

› Position Paper Submission: January 4, 2011 (expired)
› Authors Notification (position papers): January 26, 2011 (expired)
› Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: February 8, 2011 (expired)

CSEDU Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal – Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +44 203 014 8596
e-mail: Web: http://www.csedu.org/

The conference will be held at the NH Hotel Leeuwenhorst, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
The NH Hotel Leeuwenhorst is located in Noordwijkerhout, in the middle of the bulb area and near Noordwijk aan Zee and Katwijk. The North Sea coast is easy to reach and cities as Amsterdam, Leiden and Den Haag (The Hague) can be reached in about 30 minutes by car.

José Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal
Boris Shishkov, IICREST, Bulgaria

Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland

Ruth Gannon Cook, DePaul University, United States
Grigore Albeanu, Spiru Haret University, Romania
Peter Albion, Univ. of Southern Queensland, Australia
Antonia Lucinelma Pessoa Albuquerque, Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil
Colin Allison, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Stamatina Anastopoulou, University of Athens, Greece
Miguel Rodríguez Artacho, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
Anders Avdic, Örebro University, Sweden
Roger Azevedo, McGill University, Canada
Jorge Barbosa, UNISINOS, Brazil
David Baume, University of London, United Kingdom
Adriana Berlanga, Open University of The Netherlands (OUNL), Netherlands
Markus Bick, ESCP Europe Wirtschaftshochschule Berlin, Germany
Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema, Open Universiteit, Netherlands
Emmanuel G. Blanchard, Polytechnic of Namibia, Namibia
Lars Bollen, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
Andreas Bollin, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Federico Botella, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain
Graça Bressan, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Paul Brna, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Mark Brown, Massey University, New Zealand
Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Manuel Ortega Cantero, Castilla – La Mancha University, Spain
Carlos Vaz de Carvalho, ISEP, Portugal
Kan Kan Chan, Univ. of Macau, Macau
Vanessa Chang, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway
Sam Chung, University of Washington Tacoma, United States
Gennaro Costagliola , Università di Salerno , Italy
Manuel Perez Cota, Universidade De Vigo, Spain
Caroline M. Crawford, Univ. of Houston-Clear Lake, United States
Stuart Cunningham, Glyndwr University, United Kingdom
Valentina Dagiene, Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania
Lorenzo Dalvit, Rhodes University, South Africa
Thanasis Daradoumis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, Reno, United States
Alessandro D’atri, LUISS Guido Calrli University, Italy
Danco Davcev, University Ss Cyril & Methodius, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Hugh Davis, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Stavros N. Demetriadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
John Dempsey, University of South Alabama, United States
Vanessa Dennen, Florida State University, United States
Michael Derntl, University of Vienna, Austria
Giuliana Dettori, Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD)-CNR, Italy
Darina Dicheva, Winston-salem State University, United States
Yannis Dimitriadis, School of Telecommunications Engineering. University of Valladolid, Spain
Danail Dochev, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies-Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark
Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Martin Ebner, Technische Universität Graz, Austria
Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada
Margaret Farren, DCU, Ireland
Mingyu Feng, SRI International, United States
Angela Fogarolli, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University, United States
Victor Manuel Garcia-Barrios, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Serge Garlatti, TELECOM Bretagne, France
Piotr Gawrysiak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Xun Ge, University of Oklahoma, United States
David Gibson, Global Challenge & Univ. of Vermont, United States
Henrique Gil, Escola Superior de Educação de Castelo Branco & CAAP da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Denis Gillet, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Song Gilsun, Zhejiang University, China
Jivesh Govil, University of Michigan, United States
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Maria Grigoriadou, University of Athens, Greece
Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Nuno Guimarães, Lasige/Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
David Guralnick, Kaleidoscope Learning, United States
David Guralnick, Kaleidoscope Learning / Columbia University, United States
Laurence Habib, Oslo University College, Norway
John Hamer, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Yasunari Harada, Waseda University, Japan
Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Stylianos Hatzipanagos, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Orit Hazzan, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Davinia Hernández-Leo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Mark van ‘t Hooft, Kent State University, United States
Chun Hu, University of Sydney, Australia
Janet Hughes, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Kin-chuen Hui, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Kamini Jaipal, Brock Univ. Faculty of Education, Canada
Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Katerina Kabassi, Tei of the Ionian Islands, Greece
Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Bill Kapralos, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Göran Karlsson, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary, Canada
ChanMin Kim, University of Georgia, United States
Maria Kordaki, Computer Institute of Technology, Greece
Georgios Kouroupetroglou, University of Athens, Greece
Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Birgit Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science of Technology, Norway
Timo Lainema, Turku School of Economics, Finland
Reneta Lansiquot, New York City College of Technology, United States
Quynh Le, University of Tasmania, Australia
Newton Lee, Newton Lee Laboratories LLC, United States
Howard Leung, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Frederick Li, University of Durham, United Kingdom
Andrew Lian, Western Illinois University, United States
Hwee Ling Lim, The Petroleum Institute, United Arab Emirates
Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center – Austria’s Competence Center for Knowledge Management, Austria
Andreas Lingnau, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Eric Zhi-Feng Liu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, China
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Martin Llamas-Nistal, University of Vigo, Spain
Jacques Lonchamp, Loria, University of Nancy, France
Heide Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Prabhat K. Mahanti, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Herwig Mannaert, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Paolo Maresca, Università Federico II, Italy
Lindsay Marshall, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Alke Martens, Universität Rostock, Germany
Kathleen Matheos, University of Manitoba, Canada
Manolis Mavrikis, London Knowledge Lab, United Kingdom
Hamid Mcheick, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada
Bruce McLaren, Carnegie Mellon University, CeLTech – Saarland University, United States
José Carlos Metrôlho, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Sugata Mitra, Newcastle University/Chief Scientist Emeritus, NIIT Ltd., United Kingdom
Felix Mödritscher, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Susan Moisey, Athabasca University, Canada
Cristobal Romero Morales, University of Cordoba, Spain
Roberto Moriyón, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Chrystalla Mouza, University of Delaware, United States
Jari Multisilta, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Jogesh K. Muppala, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Ryohei Nakatsu, Interactive & Digital Media Institute, Singapore
Minoru Nakayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Kia Ng, ICSRiM – University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Andreas Ninck, Berne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Roger Nkambou, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Brian Nolan, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Ireland
Cathleen Norris, University of North Texas, United States
Betul Ozkan, Univ. of Arizona South, United States
José Palma, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal
Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center, Austria
Kyparisia A. Papanikolaou, School of Pedagogical & Technological Education, Greece
Iraklis Paraskakis, South East European Research Centre, Greece
Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Jan Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Paul Peachey, University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom
Chang-shyh Peng, California Lutheran University, United States
Niels Pinkwart, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Leonard A. Plugge, Stichting SURF, Netherlands
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Philippos Pouyioutas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Roy Rada, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States
Ponnusamy Ramalingam, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, India
Leena Razzaq, University of Massachusetts, United States
Peter Reimann, University of Sydney, Australia
Griff Richards, Athabasca University, Canada
Dina Rosen, Kean Univ., United States
Danguole Rutkauskiene, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Pasi Sahlberg, CIMO, Finland
Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh, Unitec, New Zealand
Giuseppe Scanniello, Università Degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy
Helmut Schauer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
José Luis Sierra, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Michael Sonntag, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Safeeullah Soomro, Yanbu University College, Saudi Arabia
Martin Sperka, Pan European University, Slovak Republic
Carlo Strapparava, FBK-IRST, Italy
Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada
Steven Tanimoto, University of Washington, United States
John Thompson, Buffalo State College, State University of New York, United States
Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Edmundo Tovar, Madrid Polytechnic University, Spain
Shu-Mei Tseng, I-SHOU University, Taiwan, China
George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Carsten Ullrich, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Martin Valcke, Ghent University, Belgium
Andreas Veglis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Steven Verjans, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Charalambos Vrasidas, CARDET, Cyprus
Minjuan Wang, San Diego State University, United States
Eva Lindh Waterworth, Umeå University, Sweden
Les Watson, leswatsondotnet, United Kingdom
Denise Whitelock, Open University, United Kingdom
Jana M. Willis, Univ. of Houston – Clear Lake, United States
Tina Wilson, The Open University, United Kingdom
Clayton R. Wright, International Education Consultant, Canada
Sean Tung-Xiung Wu, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan, China
Jie Chi Yang, National Central University, Taiwan, China
Takami Yasuda, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan
Kun Yuan, RAND Corporation, United States
Diego Zapata-Rivera, Educational Testing Service, United States
Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College, United States
Amal Zouaq, Simon Fraser University / Athabasca University, Canada

 

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