E-Learning Baltics -- eLBa 2008

AIMS AND SCOPE

The international conference »E-Learning Baltics« addresses all aspects of teaching and learning with digital media. It was initiated by both representatives from science and business. »E-Learning Baltics« offers with a scientific conference (eLBa-Science), an application forum (eLBa-Business) and an accompanying fair an ideal opportunity for presenting innovative products as well as actual and ongoing research results. The event provides a platform for exchange of results, solutions, experiences and for starting new collaborations. The International Scientific E-Learning Conference »eLBa-Science« presents the scientific part of »E-Learning Baltics« and affords presentation and publication of peer reviewed scientific contributions covering the fields of computer sciences, pedagogy, psychology, and design. The 2008 conference focuses on the topic »e-learning in working processes«. The demand for permanent education and training -- life long learning -- is by now inherent part of daily job routine. Methods and tools of e-learning can play an important role to meet these demands. The understanding of working processes shall not be narrowed to job routine only. Also pupils, vocational school students, and university students more and more face learning situations that force the use of computers for learning, i.e. »e-learning in learning processes«. Not least e-learning contributes beyond the active professional life also to the constitution of everyday life, summarized in »e-learning for seniors«. Following this, »e-learning in working processes« addresses very divers topics and perspectives, technologies and theories, implementations and evaluations in the fields of computer sciences, pedagogy, psychology, and design. Accordant we invite contributions from all these fields.

TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to:

• E-learning in working processes; e-learning in learning processes; e-learning for seniors
• Communication, cooperation, and collaboration in learning processes; computer supported cooperative learning (CSCL)
• Game based learning; game based training
• Didactic for e-learning; game didactics
• Modes of learning and teaching; scenarios for learning and teaching
• Learning technologies; learning platforms; learning programs
• Best practice; examples from professional use

SUBMISSIONS

We invite contributions to the above-named topics. Extended abstracts of 1-3 pages written in English or German should be submitted until April 7, 2008 via email at »submit@e-learning-baltics.de«. All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference (30 minutes for talk and discussion) and published in the conference proceedings. Conference languages are English and German.

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings book edited by Fraunhofer IGD Rostock as part of a scientific book series. For this the authors have to submit a camera-ready version of 10 pages maximum of their paper until June 2, 2008. Detailed information on preparation of manuscripts will be send with notification of acceptance and will be available at the conference web site (www.e-learning-baltics.de).

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission of extended abstracts (1-3 pages): April 7, 2008

• Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2008
• End of early bird registration: May 19, 2008
• Submission of camera-ready papers (10 pages max): June 2, 2008
• Conference: June 18-19, 2008

VENUE

»E-Learning Baltics« takes place in the Hanseatic and University Town Rostock. The scientific conference as well as the business oriented forum, the fair and a conference on telemedicine will take place in the Civic Center Rostock. Participants can freely jump between these events. A summer night party at the beach of Warnemünde on July 18 will complete the total event.

SOCIAL EVENT

June 18, 2008: Summer Night Party at the Beach of Warnemünde with Campfire and Barbecue

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Raffaele de Amicis, University Trento / GraphiTech, Italy

• Jürgen Cleve, HS Wismar, Germany
• Ralf Dörner, FH Wiesbaden, Germany
• Lutz Goertz, MMB, Essen, Germany
• Volker Gries, ANOVA, Rostock, Germany
• Martin Hagemann, LiNK, Rostock, Germany
• Sybille Hambach, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
• Frank Hanisch, Universität Tübingen, Germany
• Andreas Harrer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Udo Hinze, SAZ, Schwerin, Germany
• Erwin Ihm, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
• Joaquim Jorge, Univiersity Lisbon, Portugal
• Friedel Kemter, Hansenet, Germany
• Lars Kjelldahl, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands
• Detlef Krömker, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
• Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz, Austria
• Ulrike Lucke, Universität Rostock, Germany
• Knut Manske, SAP, Darmstadt, Germany
• Aderito Marcos, University of Minho, Portugal
• Alke Martens, Universität Rostock, Germany
• Gerit Mauch, ACCOR, Germany
• Stefan Müller, Universität Koblenz, Germany
• Wolfgang Müller-Wittig, CAMTech/Nanyang Technological University Singapore
• Jan Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• Jorge Posada, VicomTech, San Sebastian, Spain
• Hanna Risku, Donau-Universität Krems, Austria
• Peter Sloep, Open University of the Netherlands
• Ulrike Spierling, FH Erfurt, Germany
• Christian Swertz, Universität Wien, Austria
• Djamshid Tavangarian, Universität Rostock, Germany
• Klaus Tochtermann, TU Graz, Austria
• Bodo Urban, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
• Martin Wessner, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Prof. Dr. Bodo Urban, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock

• Dr. Sybille Hambach, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock
• Prof. Dr. Alke Martens, Universität Rostock
• Dipl.-Inf. Martin Hagemann, LiNK MV Rostock

The Conference eLBa-Science is supported by the »Gesellschaft für Informatik« (GI), the German forum for science and research in computer science.