Call for Papers
Third European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 17-19 2008
In this age of pedagogical and technological convergence, the two European Networks of Excellence are also converging. After the two successful EC-TEL conferences organized in 2006 and 2007 by the ProLearn network, we invite all researchers across the different fields of TEL (education, psychology, computer science,…) to contribute to the scientific landscape of technology enhanced learning. Contributions may address the design of innovative environments, computational models and architectures, results of empirical studies on socio-cognitive processes, field studies regarding the use of technologies in context, etc,
Technologies have spread across a variety of learning contexts. They are used in formal (primary, secondary and higher) education, corporate training and lifelong learning. Large corporations are creating campuses, which reveals their convergence with universities. Technologies are used in general curricula as well as in vocational training. The spread of mobile devices, social learning techniques and personalization technologies is closing the gap between formal and informal learning. Recent developments promote the integration of individual learning, small group collaboration as well as class-wide or community activities within a coherent pedagogical scenario. These scenarios combine activities that intensively rely on computers with activities that marginally use technologies. Such activities occur in the classrooms and in the training centres but also across multiple other spaces: offices, homes, cars, field trips, ski lifts, … Most modern learning environments do not fit anymore within one pedagogical stream: they integrate heterogeneous software components such as a simulation tool, an hypertext, an argumentation tool and a tutorial. Old barriers between different visions of learning technologies are fading out. A similar convergence is happening between research on knowledge management and technology enhanced learning.
In this age of pedagogical and technological convergence, the two European Networks of Excellence are also converging. After the two successful EC-TEL conferences organized in 2006 and 2007 by the ProLearn network, we invite all researchers across the different fields of TEL (education, psychology, computer science,…) to contribute to the scientific landscape of technology enhanced learning. Contributions may address the design of innovative environments, computational models and architectures, results of empirical studies on socio-cognitive processes, field studies regarding the use of technologies in context, etc,
All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers. Proceedings will be published.
The full call for papers can be downloaded here, but obviously it is closed now.