1st Call for Participation EC-TEL 2006

1st Call for Participation

First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
- Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing -

Crete, Greece - October 1-4, 2006

URL: http://www.ectel06.org
Organized by the PRO-LC Cluster
(http://www.professional-learning-cluster.org/)

Featuring:
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Keynotes:

Chia Shen: From Clicks to Touches: Enabling Face-to-Face Shared Interface MERL Research Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

Fabrizio Cardinali: Innovating eLearning and Mobile Learning Technologies for Europe's Future Educational Challenges, Theory and Case studies Giunti Interactive Labs, Sestri Levante, Italy
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Industry session with leaders from eLearning industry in Europe
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Special EU/IST session about future of technology enhanced learning and funding opportunities in FP7
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Poster session with EU/IST FP6 projects
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16 sessions with technical papers reporting about state of the art in TEL
Topics: Interoperability, Learning Objects, Workplace Learning, Student Modelling, Social Software, New Media and Games, Context Awareness, Collaborative Learning, New Infrastructures and many more
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with acceptance rate close to 20% __________________________________________________


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. Technologyenhanced 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".


Check the ectel web site http://www.ectel06.org for further details.
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Program Committee Chairs:
Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany
Klaus Tochtermann, Austria