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The Conference will provide a presentation and discussion platform for new educational environments and their application. It is expected to give an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promote discussion about the pedagogical potential of new learning and educational technologies in the academic and corporate world. The focus of the conference will be on technological and pedagogical aspects, innovation, networking, and virtual communities building. Contributions to the following topics will be given higher priority: General Issues · E-learning and m-learning in the information society · Virtual campus · Quality assessment in open and distance education · Organizational, legal and financial issues · Social impact · Education and globalization · Gender issues in ICT Education · Networked learning and developing countries · The role of traditional institutions in global virtual learning Pedagogical & Didactical Issues · Coaching & tutoring · Active & interactive learning · Knowledge and skills in virtual environments · Blended Learning · Systems for special needed people · Teaching/learning strategies · Adaptive and intelligent applications · Application of instructional design theories · Evaluation of learning technology systems · ICT in Continuing/Adult Education · Technology-assisted teaching-learning in Science, Technology and Medicine Technological Issues · Web-based courseware · Online vs. Offline · Educational multimedia · 3D Environments · On the teachers' side: authoring tools · Intelligent tutoring systems · Virtual Laboratories · Advanced uses of multimedia and hypermedia · Integrated learning environments · Artificial Intelligence in learning technology · Machine Learning · Cognitive Sciences, Learning Sciences, Human-Computer Interaction · Metadata applications · Agents technology · Virtual reality · Internet suited multimedia technologies: Audio and video streaming, etc . · Mobile learning: Wireless technologies, UMTS, GPRS, WAP. · Integration of collaborative tools: Discussion groups, chat rooms, whiteboards, shared workspaces, e-mail, and videoconferencing. · Architectures and platforms for distributed teaching and learning Knowledge Management Typically, technical contributions deal with open questions in specific fields related to knowledge management. Topics may include but are not limited to: · Content-based multimedia indexing and retrieval · Frameworks for knowledge portals · Personalization · Business Intelligence · Management of distributed knowledge · Semantic web infrastructures and ontologies · Best practices contributions in knowledge management projects. · Communities of Practice · Knowledge management in decision making · Knowledge management in business process management · Organizational learning · Virtual knowledge environments
There will be special sessions about: · Special Education Software · Multimedia and ICTs in Science Education · Collaborative Learning/ Groupware · e-Learning Standards: Learning Objects and Repositories · Digital Games · National, Regional and Local Experiences
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