TOPICS

Special Session: e-Portfolios  

Special Session: Medical e-Learning  

Session 1: General Aspects and Assessment of ICT use in Education

• Education and Globalization
• Ethical and Societal Aspects
• IPR and Copyright Issues
• Organizational, Legal and Financial Issues
• Gender and Diversity Issues in ICT Education
• Assessment of ICT use in Education
• Cultural Attitudes and Technology Acceptance
• Breaking the Digital Divide and Social Integration
• Technology Literacy and Assessment
• Lifelong Learning
• Quality Assessment
• Future prospects in ICT Education

Session 2: Pedagogical Strategies in ICT Education

• Application and Assessment of Teaching/Learning Strategies
• Tutoring and Coaching
• Transferable Skills
• Pedagogy and Instructional Design
• Differentiated Instruction
• Effective Teaching Practices
• Innovative Teaching Practices Using Technology
• Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
• Instructional Strategies and Classroom Management
• Curricula

Session 3: Methods and Environments for Education and Training

• Collaborative Learning
• Community Building
• Blended Learning
• Distance Education
• E-learning
• Mobile Learning
• Home Schooling
• Virtual Schools and Universities
• Emerging Learning Environments

Session 4: Educational Software/Webs Experiences

• Best Practices and Case Studies with Educational Software/Webs
• Language Learning Innovations
• Digital Storytelling
• Serious Games
• Education for Students with Special Requirements
• User-generated Contents
• Educational Experiences Using Open Source Software

Session 5: Technologies in the Service of Education

• Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)
• Managed Learning Environments (MLEs)
• Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Tools
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)
• Courseware Development
• Authoring Tools
• Virtual Laboratories
• Learning Objects
• Ontology-based Learning Resource Repositories
• XML Schemas and the Semantic Web
• Web Development and Applications
• Multimedia/Hypermedia
• Emerging/Innovative Technologies
• Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Technologies
• Architecture of Educational Information Systems Infrastructure
• Emerging Standards, Microformats
• Computer Networking, Systems and Related Issues
• Security and Data Protection
• Support and Maintenance
• New User Interfaces and Adaptive Technologies
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Artificial Intelligence
• Educational Robotics
• Virtual Reality
• Mobile/Wireless Technologies
• Digital Libraries

AIMS

m-ICTE2009 wants to be an international forum which serves as a showcase of innovative pedagogical practices using technology as well as a forum for discussion among teachers, researchers and people who are interested in the ways emerging technologies are transforming education by addressing challenges in learning, affordability, accessibility, and faculty and student satisfaction.

Relationships between education/ training and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are increasing accelerating, sometimes in unexpected ways, with original ideas and innovative tools, methodologies and synergies. Accordingly, the main purpose of m-ICTE2009 conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both areas, in order to support the bridging process between education/ training and ICT communities.

m-ICTE2009 intends to consolidate a series of conferences, which started in 2002 and whose last edition was held in Seville (Spain) in 2006 and was attended by about 450 participants from nearly 60 countries. m-ICTE2009 Conference hopes to continue contributing to create new insights and to expand expertise that should contribute to develop this quite modern discipline that is among technology, education and sociology. This genuine interdisciplinary nature of the field makes this an non-easy task, but it also makes it more attractive from an intellectual viewpoint, as attractive are also all potential benefits of reaching excellence in the use of technologies in education for the whole mankind.

You are encouraged to submit your abstracts to m-ICTE2009 in order to share your achievements in the field of education, which reflect accurately the state of the art in learning technologies and policies, and their applications.