[AISWorld] EC-TEL 2014 Deadline Extension

[Christoph Rensing]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

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Final Call for Contributions:

EC-TEL 2014: Ninth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities

16-19 September 2014, Graz, Austria

http://ec-tel.eu/

NEWS
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-> The deadline for full submissions was extended to 13th of April! 
NOTE: submission of an abstract of your contribution is still required 
by 28 March! There will be no more extensions to these deadlines.

-> There will be a Doctoral Consortium at EC-TEL. Information is now 
available at http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php?id=678

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The European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) is a 
unique opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to 
address current challenges and advances in the field. Through EC-TEL, 
established and emerging researchers as well as practitioners, 
entrepreneurs, and technology developers explore new collaborations, 
strengthen networks, and complement their core expertise.

Educational arrangements in our modern society are increasingly 
characterized by openness in terms of participation, of 
institutionalisation as well as of tools, devices and resources used. We 
see shifts between formal, non-formal and informal learning. Learners 
come together in different social settings and communities (such as in 
groups in schools, teams in a company, or in informal communities of 
learners). They share and co-create educational resources and interact 
with an ever increasing number of open educational resources. Learning 
communities differ in dimension from local ones, through distributed 
groups up to global communities (as witnessed by the emerging MOOCs 
paradigm). The learners use multiple computational tools and devices, 
often at the same time (e.g. tablets and smartphones for individual 
learning, interactive tables and electronic whiteboards for 
collaboration, or mobile technologies for taking learning outside the 
classroom). Access to the open educational arrangements takes place in a 
mobile ubiquitous fashion.

There is a pressing need to understand how learning in such open 
educational communities happens and how learning and teaching technology 
can support in this context. To address these challenges the theme of 
EC-TEL 2014 is "Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities".

EC-TEL 2014 is collocated with the 14th International Conference on 
Knowledge Management and Knowledge Computing (I-KNOW 2014). The focus of 
I-KNOW is on knowledge management and knowledge computing. I-KNOW will 
consider technologies and methods which are of high relevance to support 
smart learning.

Graz – the second largest city in Austria with 260.000 inhabitants – 
offers ideal conditions for academic conferences in beautiful 
countryside. Guests are always enthusiastic about the picturesque Old 
Town, the attractive cultural program, the quality and diversity of the 
cuisine and the excellent infrastructure of the conference venues. 
EC-TEL 2014 will take place at stadthalle|graz which is Austria's 
largest and most modern convention center. It was designed by the 
internationally renown architect Klaus Kada.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper, short paper, poster, demonstration, & workshop proposals: 
Submission of Abstracts: March 28, 2014 (extended)

Paper, short paper, poster, demonstration, & workshop proposals: 
Submission of Full Papers: April 13, 2014 (extended)

Doctoral Consortium application submission: May 23, 2014

Paper, short paper, poster, & demonstration: Notification of Acceptance: 
June 04, 2014

Workshop notification: April 30, 2014

Camera-ready versions: June 29, 2014

Room reservation for project meetings deadline: June 20, 2014

Project meetings: September 16-17, 2014

Workshops: September 16-17, 2014

Doctoral Consortium: September 16, 2014

Main Conference: September 17-19, 2014


CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
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General Chair:
Tobias Ley, Tallinn University, Estonia
Programme Chairs:
Sara de Freitas, Curtin University, Australia
Christoph Rensing, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Workshop Chair:
Viktoria Pammer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Poster and Demonstration Chair:
Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Katherine Maillet, Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom Ecole de Management, 
France
Vanessa Camilleri, University of Malta, Malta
Dissemination Chair:
Hendrik Drachsler, Welten Institute, Open University of the Netherlands
Industry Chair:
Nils Faltin, imc information multimedia communication AG
Local Organization Chair:
Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know Center Graz, Austria

CONFERENCE TOPICS
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* From both research and innovative practice perspectives the following 
* topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
* Technological underpinning
* Pedagogical underpinning
* Individual, social & organizational learning processes
* Learning communities and contexts
* Open Learning Arrangements
* TEL in developing countries and for users with special needs

For detailed list of topics see http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php?id=666

SUBMISSION FORMATS
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Submissions will be handled through EasyChair 
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ectel2014). All papers will 
be reviewed through a non-blind review process. Accepted papers will be 
published in the conference proceedings. As every year, we will publish 
proceedings within Springer “Lecture Notes in Computer Science” (LNCS) 
Series which is ranked in the ISI Web of Knowledge (confirmation 
pending). The use of supplied template is mandatory: 
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
Full Papers: max. 14 pages, published in proceedings
Short Papers: max. 6 pages, published in proceeding
Demonstration Papers: max. 4 pages, published in proceedings
Poster Papers: max. 4 pages, 2 page summary published in proceedings
Workshop proposals: max. 4 pages, not published in proceedings.

DEMONSTRATIONS
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The EC-TEL Demonstration session is your chance to fully engage EC-TEL 
attendees at a personal level by letting them see, touch, squeeze, or 
hear your visions for the future of TEL, or demonstrate highly 
interactive ‘TEL in Action’ (e.g. through videos, implemented tools, or 
real-time learning experiences). We expect that your Demonstration will 
be a reliably running prototype of your vision that is ready to be tried 
out, questioned and interacted with.

You need to submit a concise description of your prototype, clearly 
showing how your technological innovation realises a clear learning 
innovation. This needs to be in a paper that is a maximum 4 pages long 
that will be published in the EC-TEL 2014 proceedings if accepted.

At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be invited to 
participate in the EC-TEL 2014 Demo-Shoutout session. The participants 
of the EC-TEL Demo-Shoutout session will vote for the best EC-TEL 
prototype in this session and the winner will be awarded.

In particular, we encourage Demonstration submissions that complement an 
EC-TEL Paper submission, so that attendees can get a direct experience 
of your work in addition to the scientific presentation.

POSTERS
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Posters report on significant work in progress. We are planning a poster 
session in which you can present your work and elicit feedback from 
EC-TEL participants. Please submit a paper up to a maximum of 4 pages 
long describing your work and the results that you plan to achieve until 
September 2014. A 2-page summary of this will then be published within 
the EC-TEL proceedings.

WORKSHOPS
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EC-TEL 2014 offers the opportunity to host several workshops. Parties 
interested to organize a workshop are asked to submit a proposal of 
maximum 4 pages long outlining the theme of the workshop, workshop 
format, expected participants and domains addressed, dissemination 
activities, workshop organizing committee, plans for publishing workshop 
papers, and organizational requirements. Please also include as 
information whether your workshop should be a full-day or half-day 
workshop. Please outline the workshop timeline (submission and 
notification dates) in your proposal. We plan to add this timeline as 
information about the workshops on the EC-TEL Website, together with 
links to the workshops. Note that we expect workshop websites to be 
online by May 15. Proposals should be submitted via the EasyChair system 
of EC-TEL.

Workshop organizers are encouraged to propose innovative and interactive 
formats, which will be given priority in the selection process. As this 
year’s EC-TEL is co-located with the i-Know, we particularly welcome 
workshops that act as bridge between these communities.

The workshop selection will be handled competitively: proposals will be 
ranked according to their fit with EC-TEL’s topics, innovativeness, 
extent of interaction, overall quality, and comprehensiveness of planning.

Identification of workshop participants, solicitation of workshop 
contributions and publication of workshop outcomes will be handled by 
the workshop organizers themselves. In publishing the workshop 
contributions, workshop organizers are encouraged to target high-quality 
publication outlets (international impact-rated journals, including 
special issues in these).

At the conference, each accepted workshop is expected to produce a 
document (for example, a flipchart/poster or a PowerPoint slidepack) 
synthesising the key outcomes of the workshop and summarising agreed 
follow-on activities. Workshop organizers will be expected to deliver a 
short (2 min) presentation of these key outcomes at the EC-TEL 2014 main 
conference days. By this we intend to carry the focussed discussions 
that have been going on within the workshops into the wider community of 
the EC-TEL.

PROJECT MEETINGS
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In addition to the regular sessions and workshops, EC-TEL offers a 
unique opportunity for European Projects in TEL to hold face-to-face 
meetings. Please contact the local organization chair at your earliest 
convenience to book meeting rooms.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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The EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium 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. Prominent professors and researchers in the 
field of Technology Enhanced Learning will provide feedback to the 
selected papers and participate actively and contribute to the 
discussions. The Doctoral Consortium will take place immediately before 
the EC-TEL 2014 conference.
The intention of this doctoral consortium is to support and inspire 
Ph.D. students during their ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is 
necessary that authors will have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor 
officially submitted their thesis before the doctoral consortium 
(September 2014). To enforce this rule we require authors to disclose 
their expected graduation date and their advisor's name when submitting.
For detailed information about Doctoral Consortium see 
http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php?id=678