IEEE International Workshop on Web 2.0 and Multimedia-enabled Education (W2ME 2007)

                              Call for Papers

IEEE International Workshop on Web 2.0 and Multimedia-enabled Education (W2ME 2007)

                    December 10-12, 2007, Taichung, Taiwan

                           http://W2ME2007.ncu.edu.tw

In conjunction with The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2007), http://ISM2007.ncu.edu.tw

SPONSORED BY THE

  * National Science Council, Taiwan

  * National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning, Taiwan

  * IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology

IMPORTANT DATES:

  * June 18, 2007              Submission of abstract due

  * June 25, 2007              Submission of papers due

  * August 20, 2007   Notification of acceptance of papers due

  * Sept. 21, 2007     Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due

HONORARY CHAIRS:

  * Gwo-Dong Chen, National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning, Taiwan

  * Kuo-En Chang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

  * Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada

  * Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

PROGRAM CHAIRS:

  * Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan

  * Gwo-Jen Hwang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

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DESCRIPTION:

Web 2.0 has become a major technology that supports multimedia content publishing and sharing over the Internet. Web 2.0 refers to an expected second generation of Web technology that allows people to create, publish, exchange, share, and cooperate on information (knowledge) in a new way of communication and collaboration. The Web 2.0 technology makes the Web not only for browsing, but also for creating and sharing. The success of Web 2.0 heavily relies on multimedia-enabled communication and collaboration among participants over the Internet -- where are the participants; what participants possess; whether participants are willing to communicate; how a group of participants can be formed as communities of practice; and how participants can work together trough new generation of multimedia-enabled social software such as Wikis, Blogs, RSS feeds, video podcast, tagging, Ajax-based browsers, peer-to-peer, instant messenger, and other social networking software. Some successful examples of Web 2.0 applications are Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, and Flickr. The Web 2.0 is shifting economical value of the Web to new business models for the next generation of Web technologies and applications.

One of the essential goals of applying Web 2.0 and multimedia-enabled technologies in education is to enhance interactive communication and collaboration among participants on the Web-based learning. By multimedia, we refer to the default format of Web information. By participants, we refer to the learners who either possess related learning information, or can help to discover and obtain the information, or are willing to exchange and share information with others. In Web 2.0 and multimedia-enabled education, learners are co-learners as well as co-authors. They can read and write to the Web, in which learners become the consumers and producers of multimedia content and services. As a result, the critical challenges of Web 2.0 and multimedia-enabled education is how to identify the right co-learners, find the right content, provide the right services, and through the right user interfaces to facilitate the multimedia-enabled communication and collaboration in educational domains.

TOPICS FOR SUBMISSION INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

  * Blogs, Wikis

  * Collaborative learning

  * Communities of practice, learning communities

  * Content management, content adaptation

  * Folksonomy, taxonomy, tagging, annotation

  * Internet telephony, instant messenger, P2P

  * Knowledge management, semantic Web

  * Learning styles, pedagogical models

  * Mashup languages (Ajax)

  * Mobile and ubiquitous learning

  * Situated learning, context-aware learning

  * Social networks, FOAF, XFN, RDF

  * Syndication (RSS, Atom), podcast

  * Others

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

  * Authors should submit full papers via electronic submission. (http://W2ME2007.ncu.edu.tw/myreview/ ).

  * The written and spoken language of W2ME2007 is English.

  * All submissions must be prepared in IEEE format (author guidelines are available at: http://W2ME2007.ncu.edu.tw/IEEE/author/ ).

  * Papers should be in Letter format and must not exceed 6 pages with two columns, single-spaced printed at 10-point type. All papers should be in WORD or RTF format.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE (Alphabetic Order By Last Name)

  * Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan

  * Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

  * Francis C.M. Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  * Stefano Levialdi, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

  * Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  * Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

  * Toshio Okamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

  * Demetrios G. Sampson, Center for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece

  * Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA

  * Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

  * Shian-Shyong Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

  * Laurence T. Yang, St. Frances Xavier University, Canada

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Alphabetic Order By Last Name)

  * Mohamed Ally, Athabasca University, Canada

  * Johnny Bistrom, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

  * Jan Brase, University of Hannover, Germany

  * Chih-Kai Chang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

  * Fei-Ching Chen, National Central University, Taiwan

  * Andrea Detti, University of Tor Vergata, Italy

  * Claus Eikemeier, University of Bremen, Germany

  * Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan

  * Jun H. Jo, Griffith University, Australia

  * Vicki Jones, Griffith University, Australia

  * Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

  * Wu-Yuin Hwang, National Central University, Taiwan     

  * Raymond M. Kekwaletswe, University of Cape Town, South Africa   

  * InSu Kim, Chonnam National University, Korea

  * Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki, Finland

  * Chen-Chung Liu, National Central University, Taiwan    

  * Tzu-Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan

  * Pierpaolo Loreti, University of Tor Vergata, Italy

  * Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan

  * Kiyoshi Nakabayashi, NTT Resonant Inc., Japan

  * Haruo Nishinosono, Bukkyo University, Japan      

  * Caoimhin O'Nuallain, National University of Galway, Ireland

  * Boris Shishkov, University of Twente, Netherlands

  * Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, UK

  * Marten J. van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands

  * Yao-Ting Sung, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

  * David Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan