CFP: First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

With the shift towards the knowledge society, changing working conditions and the continuous evolution of information and communication technologies, peoples' knowledge and skills need continuous development. Technology enhanced learning is one of the strategic objectives of the EU/IST Work Programme, with the goal of "improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning, for individuals and organizations, independent of time, place and pace." Innovative infrastructuctures, methods and approaches are needed to reach this goal, and will facilitate transfer and sharing of knowledge between individuals and in organisations. For e-learning, as in e-commerce and e-business, systemic changes wrought by emerging technologies are also changing the relationships between consumption and production - in this case of knowledge - as what many call Web 2.0 becomes more interactive and user-generated content becomes more widespread.

The First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to technology- enhanced learning, as well as its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments. It will provide a competitive yet broad enough forum for technology enhanced learning research in Europe and world-wide through specialized workshops and the main conference. The conference will provide unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and include project meetings and discussions for several EU/IST projects funded within the 6th framework program under the action line of "Technology- Enhanced Learning and Access to Cultural Heritage".

We welcome submissions describing innovative research on all relevant issues, focusing on aspects from computer science, business and/or education, as well as experience reports and case studies describing innovative applications of new learning environments and approaches.

EC-TEL 2006 invites submissions in the following categories:

• Papers and posters - Doctoral consortium papers - Industrial reports - Workshops

Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborative Learning: Learning Communities, Distributed Teams, Instructional Methods for Collaborative Learning, Problem Solving Support, Collaborative Knowledge Building and Sharing, Collaborative Games, Online Experiments
• Personalized Learning: Reasoning Techniques, Adaptation Patterns and Techniques, Data Mining, Learner Modeling, Learner Assessment and Testing, Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Instructions, Competencies in Workplace Learning
• Multimedia Content: Autoring of Multimedia/ Virtual Reality Content, Multimedia / Virtual Reality Streaming, Web Video Lectures
• Semantic Web, Metadata and Learning: Learning Objects, Learning Activities, Learning Design, Narrative and Navigation Models, Semantic Clustering, Metadata for Search and Information Retrieval
• Workplace Learning: Knowledge Management and Learning, Business Processes and Learning, Cost and Economy Models, Leveraging Expertise, Informal Learning, Social Software, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Sharing.
• Learning Repositories and Infrastructures for Learning: Peer-to-Peer Infrastructures, Runtime Engines for Learning Design and Learning Objects, Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning, Deployment Strategies, Re-Use of Learning Objects, Re-Authoring and Re-Purposing
• Experience Reports, Assesment, and Case Studies

All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers. Format: Publication of the proceedings is planned in Springer LNCS (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors" instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, 6 pages for posters. Selected papers will be considered for special issues of relevant journals.

Important Dates:

Deadline for Paper Submissions: March 30, 2006

Notification to Authors: June 1, 2006

Camery-Ready Papers: June 30, 2006

Conference: October 3 - 5, 2006

Deadline for Workshop Proposal Submissions: March 30, 2006

Notification of Workshop Acceptance: May 1, 2006

Deadline for Proceedings of Workshops: September 1, 2006

Workshops: October 1 - 2, 2006

Co-located Events and PRO-LC Meetings: September 29 - 30, October 5 - 6, 2006

• Program Committee Chairs:

Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany

Klaus Tochtermann, Austria

• Publicity Chair:

Erik Duval, Belgium

• Workshop Chair:

Peter Scott, UK

• Industry Chair:

Volker Zimmermann, Germany

• Doctoral Consortium Chairs:

Katherine Maillet, France

Ralf Klamma, Germany

• Program Committee Members:

Heidrun Allert, Austria

Kalina Bontcheva, UK

Paul de Bra, The Netherlands

Paul Brna, UK

Peter Brusilovsky, USA

Fabrizio Cardinali, Italy

Stefano Ceri, Italy

Pierre Dillenbourg, Switzerland

Peter Dolog, Germany

Erik Duval, Belgium

Dieter Euler, Switzerland

Monique Grandbastien, France

Jörg M. Haake, Germany

Kai Hakkarainen, Finland

Friedrich Hesse, Germany

Nicola Henze, Germany

Wayne Hodgins, USA

Geert-Jan Houben, Belgium

Matthias Jarke, Germany

Ralf Klamma, Germany

Rob Koper, The Netherlands

Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria

Peter Loos, Germany

Erica Melis, Germany

Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan

Enrico Motta, UK

Gustaf Neumann, Austria

Roy Pea, USA

Juan Quemada, Spain

Jeremy Roschelle, USA

Vittorio Scarano, Italy

Peter Scott, UK

Marcus Specht, The Netherlands

Ralf Steinmetz, Germany

Julita Vassileva, Canada

Vincent Wade, Ireland

Gerhard Weber, Germany

• Organizing Chair:

Constantin Makropolous, Greece

• Organizing Committee:

Peter Dolog, Germany

Sofia Kalokerinou, Greece

Vana Kamtsiou, Greece

Martin Wolpers, Belgium

Helen Zabaka, Greece