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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="DE">Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL)</span></i></b><b><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="DE"></span></i></b></p>

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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:6pt 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US">Jürgen Moormann, Ph.D.</span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="DE"></span></p>

<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US">Professor</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="DE"></span></p>

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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US">Frankfurt</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US"> School</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US"> of Finance & Management </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="DE"></span></p>

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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:6pt 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US">Wasana Bandara, Ph.D.</span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="DE"> </span></p>

<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US">Senior Lecturer </span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US">Faculty of Science and Technology </span></p>

<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US">Queensland</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US"> University</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US"> of Technology (QUT) </span></p>

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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US">Email: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US"><a title="blocked::mailto:w.bandara@qut.edu.au" href="mailto:w.bandara@qut.edu.au"><font color="#0000ff">w.bandara@qut.edu.au</font></a></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b style><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:8pt" lang="EN-US"> </span></i></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="DE"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-AU"><font size="3">In recent years, Business Process Management (BPM), a set of structured methods and technologies for managing business processes, has emerged as a powerful concept used by organisations across all industries. Designing, measuring, improving, simulating, and controlling business processes has become the central challenge to improve organisations´ performance and to ensure success in a highly competitive world. As a result, the need for BPM expertise is increasing with many BPM-related roles emerging, which often requires new sets of skills. Thus, BPM education has been raised as a perennial topic. </font></span></p>

<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-AU"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>

<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-AU">The topic of BPM education has many different facets. For example, the challenges of converting the ‘function-oriented’ organisations and its employees to process-oriented thinkers; effectively training employees to select and use the specific methods and tools for managing business processes within the different areas of designing, measuring, improving, simulating, and controlling, and the overall challenges of teaching a complex multi­disciplinary domain like BPM.<span style>  </span>Furthermore, it is recognised that BPM education is not only required for those in BPM specific roles in an organisation, but an essential requirement for </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-US">employees on all levels including top executives, supervisory board members, workers associations, and other stakeholders – to ensure acceptance and support for improvement initiatives. The required skill sets for BPM capabilities are very diverse and include business skills, technical skills, and a range of soft-generic-skills such as facilitation, negotiation, relationship, and change management, and to date there is a lack and a need for a clear body of BPM knowledge. A further challenge is how to spread BPM-related knowledge to all levels of an organization to ensure BPM thinking is embedded in all daily actions. Subse­quently, there are many issues awaiting to be examined, studied, and addressed.</span></font></p>

<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>

<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">This special issue of the KM&EL international journal is dedicated to learning, instructing, and disseminating knowledge in the field of BPM. In this call, we invite manuscripts that report empirical studies (both quantitative and qualitative) of investigating issues and challenges related to BPM education as well as the use or design of tools supporting teaching efforts. In addition, this special issue welcomes manuscripts discussing conceptual frameworks or theoretical constructs related to learning, teaching, and disseminating BPM knowledge. </font></span></p>

<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Recommended topics of interest include, but not limited to:</font></span></p>

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<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US">Strategies of learning and educating about BPM</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"></span></font></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US">What should be taught under the ‘BPM’ banner?</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"></span></font></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US">Curriculum design for BPM training in companies, government, and universities</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"></span></font></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Learners’ perceptions and their impact on their participation in BPM initiatives</font></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"> </span></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US">Learners’ motivation in BPM initiatives</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"></span></font></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US">Strategies and tools to facilitate learning in the BPM context</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"></span></font></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Role of instructors, coaches, or facilitators in BPM</font></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"> </span></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Role plays and other tools for teaching purposes in BPM projects</font></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"></span></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-AU"><font size="3">New approaches to delivering BPM education, including the use of collaborative tools, Web-based conferencing, and social networking </font></span></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-AU"><font size="3">Best practices for incorporating advanced information technology into BPM education</font></span></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-AU"><font size="3">Use of advanced technologies such as process simulation for (distance) education <br>
in BPM</font></span></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Constructs and factors influencing the success of learning and educating BPM knowledge</font></span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Strategies and tools to facilitate peer interactions, collaboration, and other learning activities</font></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"></span></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US">Setting up a BPM center of excellence to disseminate BPM know-how </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"></span></font></li>

<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;COLOR:black" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Building, managing, and sustaining knowledge on BPM</font></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 16.2pt;BACKGROUND:white" class="ecxmsonormal"><b><u><span style="FONT-VARIANT:small-caps;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US">Important Dates</span></u></b><u><span style="FONT-VARIANT:small-caps;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US"> <b> </b></span></u><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:8pt" lang="EN-US"></span></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-US">Submission due: 20th July, 2012</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="DE"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-US">Notification of decision: 20th October, 201</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-US">2</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-US">Finalization: 20th November 2012</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:6.5pt" lang="DE"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="DE"><font size="3">Publication schedule: Dec 2012 (No. 4, 2012)</font></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Manuscripts should be sent by email to one of the Guest Editors (</font><a href="mailto:j.moormann@fs.de"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">j.moormann@fs.de</font></a><font size="3"> or </font><a href="mailto:w.bandara@qut.edu.au"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">w.bandara@qut.edu.au</font></a><font size="3">).</font></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';COLOR:black" lang="DE"></span></p>

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