<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">(Apologies for cross-posting)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">========================================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; ">Final Call for Contributions</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">EC-TEL 2013: Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">"Scaling Up Learning for Sustained Impact"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">17-21 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "><a href="http://ec-tel.eu/">http://ec-tel.eu/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">========================================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">NEWS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">- We are pleased to announce a keynote talk by Sir John Daniel and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Ms Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic on "Making Sense of MOOCs:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">The Evolution of Online Learning in Higher Education".</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">More keynotes to follow.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">- The deadline for full submissions was extended to 9th of April to give</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">authors some space for family time over Easter.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">!NOTE: submission of an abstract of your contribution is still required</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">by 25 March! There will be no more extensions to these deadlines.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">- Updated guidelines for Demo and Poster submissions</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">========================================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">The European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) is a</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">unique opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">to address current challenges and advances in the field. Through EC-TEL,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">established and emerging researchers as well as practitioners,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">entrepreneurs, and technology developers explore new collaborations,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">strengthen networks, and complement their core experience.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">While Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) has created enormous changes in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">schools, universities and at the workplaces, innovations have tended to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">be unsustainable. Too often, initiatives need a high degree of effort to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">be sustained, and are consequently endangered when funding stops. Many</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">initiatives now focus on scaling up bottom-up initiatives to create</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">higher and more sustainable impact. These initiatives require an</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">interdisciplinary perspective in TEL research and development, drawing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">on core disciplines of Computer Science, Education, Psychology,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Cognitive Science, and Social Science. This blend of research traditions</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">has always been a strength of EC-TEL and its vibrant community.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">We invite contributions for long and short reserach papers,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">demonstrations, and posters. See the website for more details:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "><a href="http://ec-tel.eu/index.php/call-for-papers">http://ec-tel.eu/index.php/call-for-papers</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Note: the European Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (eCSCW)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">conference will be hosted from 21-25 September at the same location</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">as EC-TEL 2013. So there is a good opportunity to visit both</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">conferences at the same time. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">(All deadlines are hard deadlines)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Papers, posters, demos abstracts: 25 March 2013 23:59 CET</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Papers, posters, demos submissions: 9 April 2013 23:59 CET</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Papers, posters, demos acceptance notifications: 4 June 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Camera ready versions: 28 June 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Workshop proposals: 9 April 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Workshop acceptance notification: 30 April 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Workshops: 17, 18, 21 September 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Main conference: 18-20 September 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">SUBMISSION FORMATS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Submissions will be handled through EasyChair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">(<a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ectel2013">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ectel2013</a>). All papers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">will be reviewed through a non-blind review process. Accepted papers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">will be published in the conference proceedings. Proceedings will be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">published by Springer within their Lecture Notes in Computer Science</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">(LNCS) series which is ranked in the ISI Web of Knowledge. The use of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">the LNCS template is mandatory:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Full Papers: max. 14 pages, published in proceedings</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Short Papers: max. 6 pages, published in proceeding</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Demonstration Papers: max. 4 pages, published in proceedings</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Poster Papers: max. 4 pages, 2 page summary published in proceedings</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Workshop Proposals: max. 4 pages, not published in proceedings </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">DEMONSTRATIONS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Please submit a concise, max. 4 pages description of a (running!)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">prototype, clearly showing how your technological innovation realises</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">a learning innovation. All accepted demonstrations will be invited to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">participate in the EC-TEL 2013 Demo Sprint session. The audience will</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">vote for the best EC-TEL prototype in this session and the winner will</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">be awarded. We encourage demonstration submissions that complement an</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">EC-TEL research paper submission. Please find the expected structure</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">of demo submissions at the EC-TEL website:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "><a href="http://ec-tel.eu/index.php/call-for-papers">http://ec-tel.eu/index.php/call-for-papers</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">POSTERS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Posters report on significant work in progress. We are planning an</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">interactive poster and demonstration session in which you can present</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">your work and elicit feedback from EC-TEL participants. Please submit</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">a paper up to a maximum of 4 pages long describing your work and the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">results that you plan to achieve until September 2013. A 2-page summary</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">of this will then be published within the EC-TEL proceedings. Please</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">find the expected structure of poster submissions at the EC-TEL</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">website: <a href="http://ec-tel.eu/index.php/call-for-papers">http://ec-tel.eu/index.php/call-for-papers</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">WORKSHOPS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">EC-TEL 2013 offers the opportunity to host several workshops. Parties</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">interested to organize a workshop are asked to submit a proposal of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">maximum 4 pages long outlining the theme of the workshop, workshop format,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">expected participants and domains addressed, dissemination activities,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">workshop organizing committee, and organizational requirements. Proposals</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">should be submitted via the EasyChair system of EC-TEL. We are exploring</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">possibilities for arranging publication of all workshop papers in a</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">post-conference proceedings volume to be published by Springer. Workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">organizers should indicate in their proposals whether they would like to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">contribute to such a post-conference proceedings volume, or whether they</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">are targeting other high-quality publication outlets such as international</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">peer-reviewed journals.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">OTHER INFORMATION</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">- EC-TEL 2013 also offers to host project meetings</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">- There will be a doctoral consortium for PhD students</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">- You can become a sponsor of the conference</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Find all details at <a href="http://ec-tel.eu/">http://ec-tel.eu/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">CONFERENCE ORGANISATION</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">General Chair: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "> Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Program Chairs:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "> Davinia Hernandez-Leo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "> Tobias Ley, Tallinn University, Estonia</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Industry Chair: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "> Lucia Pannese, Imaginary, Italy</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Workshop Chair:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "> Anoush Margaryan, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Poster and Demonstration Chair:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "> Andreas Harrer, Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Doctoral Consortium Chairs:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "> Katherine Maillet, Telecom SudParis, France</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "> Tomaz Klobucar, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Dissemination Chair:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "> Michael Derntl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Local Organization Chair:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; "> George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">==</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Find all details at <a href="http://ec-tel.eu/">http://ec-tel.eu/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Monaco; ">Follow us on twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ectel2013">https://twitter.com/ectel2013</a></div></body></html>