<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">(EC-TEL 2013)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">17-21 September, 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">Paphos, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><a href="http://www.ec-tel.eu/">http://www.ec-tel.eu/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">NEWS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Early bird registration with reduced fee *extended* until August 19, 2013: <a href="http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/registration">http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/registration</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Liina Munari, European Commission senior project officer (DG CONNECT), confirmed as keynote speaker</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Conference program draft available</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">ABOUT THE CONFERENCE </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">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 Technology Enhanced Learning. Through EC-TEL, established and emerging researchers as well as practitioners, entrepreneurs, and technology developers explore new collaborations, strengthen networks, and compliment their core experience. The theme of EC-TEL 2013 is "Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact".</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">KEYNOTES - <a href="http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/program/keynotes">http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/program/keynotes</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Sir John Daniel and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic: "Making Sense of MOOCs: The Evolution of Online Learning in Higher Education"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Liina Munari: "Beyond Horizon: learning and technology in EC policies and programming"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">PROGRAM - <a href="http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/program">http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/program</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">The scientific program features 31 rigorously peer-reviewed full papers plus 18 short papers which have been carefully grouped together in the following sessions:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Learning Together</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Massive Open Online Learning (MOOCs)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Learning at the Workplace</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Towards New Classrooms</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Learning Design</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Games - Serious & Fun</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Personalization and Adaptation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Mobile Learning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Large Scale Adoption and the TEL Community</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Metacognition and Reflection</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">The scientific sessions will be rounded off with a poster session featuring 34 posters and a plenary Demo Sprint competition where the 22 accepted demonstrations will compete for a prize, and the audience will be the jury.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">All accepted papers, demos and posters can be found by scrolling down the page at <a href="http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/program">http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/program</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - <a href="http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/call-for-doctoral-consortium">http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/call-for-doctoral-consortium</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">EC-TEL 2013 will also feature a doctoral consortium to offer PhD students a forum for fruitful discussion with experts and peers.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">INDUSTRY TRACK - <a href="http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/industry-track">http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/industry-track</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">A panel of experienced European learning technology specialists will be moderated by David Wortley, former Founding Director of the Serious Games Institute at Coventry University.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS - <a href="http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/workshops">http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/workshops</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- International Workshop on EuroPLOT Persuasive Technology for Learning, Education and Teaching (IWEPLET 2013)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Computational tools fostering Creativity in Learning processes (CCL)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- 3rd International Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL 2013)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- EC-TEL tutorial on Seamless assessment in Serious games (SEASG)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Culturally-aware technology-enhanced learning (CulTEL)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Workshop on Collaborative Technologies for Working and Learning (EC-TEL meets ECSCW)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Workshop on solutions that enhance informal learning recognition (WEILER)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- 3rd International Workshop on Teaching Analytics (IWTA-2013b)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- 4th International Workshop on Motivational and Affective Aspects (MATEL)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment 2013 (TEFA 2013)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">- 21st century Learning in the HEALTH and EMERGENCY sectors</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">REGISTRATION - <a href="http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/registration">http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/registration</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">Reduced-fee early bird registration was extended!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">VENUE & ACCOMMODATION - <a href="http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/places">http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/places</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">EC-TEL 2013 will be hosted at the 5-star Coral Beach Hotel in beautiful Paphos, Cyprus. Besides staying at the conference hotel, attendees can choose to stay in nearby hotels, offering all price categories. Cyprus is easy to reach from all major airports Europe.</div><div><br></div></body></html>