m-ICTE 2066 - IV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA AND INFORMATION

IV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA AND INFORMATION
AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION

The Conference will provide a presentation and discussion platform for new educational environments and their application. It 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. The focus of the conference will be on technological and pedagogical aspects, innovation, networking, and virtual communities building. Contributions to the following topics will be given higher priority:

General Issues

· E-learning and m-learning in the information society
· Virtual campus
· Quality assessment in open and distance education
· Organizational, legal and financial issues
· Social impact
· Education and globalization
· Gender issues in ICT Education
· Networked learning and developing countries
· The role of traditional institutions in global virtual learning

Pedagogical & Didactical Issues

· Multilingual Learning Environments (Special Session)
· Collaborative Learning/ Groupware (Special Session)
· Coaching & tutoring
· Active & interactive learning
· Knowledge and skills in virtual environments
· Blended Learning
· Systems for special needed people
· Teaching/learning strategies
· Adaptive and intelligent applications
· Application of instructional design theories
· Evaluation of learning technology systems
· ICT in Continuing/Adult Education
· Technology-assisted teaching-learning in Science, Technology and Medicine

Technological Issues

· e-Learning Standards: Learning Objects and Repositories (Special Session)
· Design of Interactive Visual Interfaces (Special Session)
· Digital Games (Special Session)
· Web-based courseware
· Online vs. Offline
· Educational multimedia
· 3D Environments
· On the teachers' side: authoring tools
· Intelligent tutoring systems
· Virtual Laboratories
· Advanced uses of multimedia and hypermedia
· Integrated learning environments
· Artificial Intelligence in learning technology
· Machine Learning
· Cognitive Sciences, Learning Sciences, Human-Computer Interaction
· Metadata applications
· Agents technology
· Virtual reality
· Internet suited multimedia technologies: Audio and video streaming, etc .
· Mobile learning: Wireless technologies, UMTS, GPRS, WAP.
· Integration of collaborative tools: Discussion groups, chat rooms, whiteboards, shared workspaces, e-mail, and videoconferencing.
· Architectures and platforms for distributed teaching and learning

Knowledge Management

Typically, technical contributions deal with open questions in specific fields related to knowledge management. Topics may include but are not limited to:

· Special Education Software
· Multimedia and ICTs in Science Education
· Collaborative Learning/ Groupware Digital Games
· e-Learning Standards: Learning Objects and Repositories
· Digital Games
· National, Regional and Local Experiences