<div style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri"> Final call for CELDA 2013 in Fort Worth, 22-24 Oct - <strong>12 July 2013</strong></font></span></div>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style> </span>IADIS International Conference on </font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style> </span><strong>Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age</strong> (CELDA 2013)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style> </span>October 22 - 24, 2013 - Fort Worth, Texas, USA</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style> </span>(</font></font><a href="http://www.celda-conf.org/"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.celda-conf.org/</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">) </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Co-Organized by the University of North Texas, College of Information</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Endorsed by the Japanese Society of Information and Systems in Education</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Keynote Speaker:</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Professor Kinshuk, Associate Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology, NSERC/iCORE/Xerox/Markin Industrial Research Chair - School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Canada</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Featured Panel:</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Interactive Technologies for Teacher Training (Julia Merritt, Texas State University; David Gibson, simSchool; Gerald Knezek, University of North Texas)</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Expanded versions of selected papers will be published in an edited volume to be published by Springer; best papers will be invited to contribute to a special issue of <b style>Knowledge Management & e-Learning</b> (for details on the KM&EL journal, see </font><a href="http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">).</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Conference background and goals </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">The IADIS CELDA 2013 conference aims to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a fast pace and affecting academia and professional practice in many ways. Paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivism, student-centered learning and collaborative approaches have emerged and are being supported by technological advancements such as simulations, virtual reality and multi-agents systems. These developments have created both opportunities and areas of serious concerns. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as pedagogical issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified. However innovative contributions that do not easily fit into these areas will also be considered as long as they are directly related to the overall theme of the conference – cognition and exploratory learning in the digital age.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Format of the Conference </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">The conference will consist of invited talks and presentations for discussion-oriented papers. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM. Authors of the best published papers in the CELDA 2013 proceedings will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in a special issue of an international journal. An edited volume based on additional papers is planned.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Types of submissions </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Full papers, short papers and reflection papers. All submissions go through a double-blind refereeing process with at least two recognized experts. </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Acquisition of expertise</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Assessing progress of learning in complex domains </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Assessment of exploratory learning approaches </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Assessment of exploratory technologies </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Cognition in education </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Collaborative learning </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Educational psychology </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Exploratory technologies (such as simulations, VR, i-TV and so on) </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Just-in-time and Learning-on-Demand </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Learner Communities and Peer-Support </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Learning Communities & Web Service Technologies </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Pedagogical Issues Related with Learning Objects </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Learning Paradigms in Academia </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Learning Paradigms in Corporate Sector </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Life-long Learning </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Student-Centered Learning </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Technology and mental models </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Technology, learning and expertise </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Virtual University </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Important Dates: </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">- <b style>Submission Deadline (Last call): 12 July 2013</b></font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Notification to Authors (Last call): 9 August 2013</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (Last call): Until 9 Sept 2013</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Secretariat </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CELDA 2013</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 , 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">E-mail: </font><a href="mailto:secretariat@celda-conf.org"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">secretariat@celda-conf.org</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style> </span>/<span style> </span>Web site: </font></font><a href="http://www.celda-conf.org/"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.celda-conf.org/</font></a></span><span style lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Program Committee </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Conference Chair: Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta, Portugal</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus and CERTH, Greece</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">J. Michael Spector, University of North Texas, USA (local host)</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Dirk Ifenthaler, Open Universities Australia, Australia</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Committee Members: see </font><a href="http://www.celda-conf.org/committees"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.celda-conf.org/committees</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Co-located Conferences: </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Please also check the co-located events Applied Computing 2013 (</font><a href="http://www.computing-conf.org/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.computing-conf.org/</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">) - 23-25 October 2013 and WWW/Internet 2013 (</font><a href="http://www.internet-conf.org/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.internet-conf.org/</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">) - 22-25 October 2013.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Calibri">* Registered participants in the CELDA conference may attend the Applied Computing and WWW/Internet conferences’ sessions free of charge.</font></span></p>
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