EC-TEL 08: 3rd European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning Converging from different backgrounds

EC-TEL 08 is proud to announce that 10 full day and 3 half day workshops and Tutorials will take place, plus a Doctoral Consortium.

Doctoral Consortium

• The EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium on 17 September brings together Ph.D. students working on topics related to Technology Enhanced Learning. The doctoral consortium will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international atmosphere. The Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning. These accompanying professors will participate actively and contribute to the discussions. The Doctoral Consortium language is English.

Tutorial

• Tutorial on the MOODLE-Cyberschool in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Sequences (16 September)
  A communicative, hands-on multi-media tutorial for language teachers of all fields who are interested in "spicing up" their regular lessons with a free innovative Learning Platform and easy-to-handle Web 2.0 tools. Your students will love it ...

Half day workshops

• WS1: 1st International Workshop on Visual Design Languages and Applications for Technology-Enhanced Learning (VIDLATEL 2008) (16 September Morning)
  Planning to improve your e-learning projects? This Workshop will provide state-of-the-art presentations on applying visual design languages to push the quality of your instructional development processes. The workshop will feature top-researchers and practitioners who demonstrate, explain, and discuss with you innovative ideas, research directions, projects, and challenges of employing visual design languages and applications for the creation of technology-enhanced learning environments.
• WS2: Workshop on The European eLearning Management Certificate (EeLMC 2008) – Test Procedure and Business Model (16 September Afternoon)
  In this workshop, the transnational certification of eLearning project managers (Certified European eLearning Manager) will be presented and discussed on the basis of the Leonardo innovation transfer project "smectrans". This includes the following issues: models & formats of online testing of vocational competencies, principles of central & communal knowledge & quality management for transnational web-based training, testing & accreditation procedures as well as business & marketing strategies.
• WS3: Workshop on the Creation of technology-enhanced learning solutions for 24/7 professionals (16 September Afternoon)

  The objective of this workshop is to provide an interdisciplinary forum in which scientists and practitioners can exchange creative and innovative ideas on the integration of four principles when facing the educational challenges for 24/7 professionals: on-the-job learning, continuous learning, incorporation of the real-life context in the training and rapid development.
  This workshop will stimulate the discussion on the integration of findings from research on learning and those on learning technology. A more complete integration of the two would lead to technology-enhanced learning environments that suit (adult) 24/7 learners better.

Full day workshops

• WS4: First International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'08) (16 September)
   - The power of narration and imagination in technology enhanced learning
• WS5: Second International Workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M’08) (Formerly Learning Object Discovery & Exchange - LODE) (17 September)
• WS6: Workshop on Consolidating Understanding: How to Transform Higher Education through Technology Enhanced Learning (16 September )
   
• WS7: Workshop on Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE'08) (17 September)
• WS8: Workshop on Social Information Retrieval in Technology-Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL’08) (17 September)
• WS9: Workshop on Inclusive e-learning - special needs and special solutions (IEL 08) (16 September)
  Collaborative learning, shared knowledge construction, social software and WEB 2.0 are part of modern everyday life. Thus, e-Inclusion is necessary prerequisite to let people with different kinds of handicaps stay as equal members of our society. In this workshop we would like to go further into the question how researcher and developer for special solutions for elderly people and people with learning disabilities can benefit from each others' experiences.
• WS10: Workshop on the Intelligent Support for Exploratory Environments (ISEE 08) (17 September)
  This workshop will tackle the challenging problems posed by the application of intelligent support to exploratory learning environments. The innovative format of this inter-disciplinary workshop will ensure productive discussions about both technical and pedagogical issues.
• WS11: Workshop on Learning in Enterprise 2.0 and Beyond (LEB 08) (17 September)
  
• WS12: Workshop on the Individual and Group Adaptation in Collaborative Learning Environments (IGACLE08) (17 September)
  IGACLE targets an emerging topic in adaptive educational hypermedia: Adaptive Collaboration Support. IGACLE is especially aiming at establishing similarities, differences and ways of inter-weaving individualized and group adaptation. IGACLE also looks into how top-down Semantic Web Technology, and bottom-up, trendy Web 2.0 methods apply to this topic.