conference

Themes:

This year conference general theme is ‘New pedagogies and new technologies’. We expect a special focus on the following areas:



• Virtual environments (serious games, 3D virtual worlds);

• Social networks and collaborative learning;
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Self-training, informal learning (Lifelong learning) and mobility.

Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Learning environments (Personal Learning Environment, Web 2.0, Learning and social networks, collaborative Learning environments, interactive simulations, serious games, mobile and pervasive Learning environments, intelligent tutoring systems, etc.)
• Tel models and theories (Learning theories and models, cognition theories, cognition architectures, affects, learner models, knowledge models, interaction models, pedagogical models, ontology engineering, etc.)
• Software engineering and TELs (design process, methodologies, standards, component-based approaches, agent-based approaches, service-oriented approaches and cloud computing)
• Innovative interactions (Learning objects, Metadata and Learning resource indexing, Virtual agents, Educational data mining, etc.)
• TEL usages and evaluations (empirical studies, evaluations, TEL usability testing, etc.) 

Important deadlines:

• Registration opens: April 10th, 2012
• Deadline for early registration: October 21st, 2012
• Online registration closes: December 2nd, 2012
• Deadline of abstract submission: September 10th, 2012
• Acceptance notification: October 8th, 2012
• Receipt of final papers: October 21st, 2012

For submission details and formats, go to the submission web page.

The main language for this conference is French but authors can submit paper written in English.

From the Far East, to the Americas and to Europe, cities and their surroundings are evolving towards a new dimension in which the info infrastructure becomes an indispensable asset of our life, contributes to the development of info-ecosystems. Such integrated efforts of info-urbanism are expected to produce social innovation and will make people wonder about new forms of smart education.

The virtual infrastructure - web and mobile - will be integrated more closely with the physical landscape incorporating the latter into a complex ecosystem which will bring forward opportunities to learn from everyday life.
Technologies, increasingly embedded into everyday spaces and artefacts, will make the places not only more sensitive but also responsive and, potentially, coevolutionary (TEP - Technology Enhanced Places).

The human, considered in all her/his complexity, will be placed at the centre of increasingly ubiquitous and complex educational contexts and scenarios. The perimeter of the physical space in which the educational experiences develop will become increasingly undefined and characterized by a high density of social interactions.

(shortened and adapted from http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/scilearn2012/index.php?s=152)

Topics of Interest & Call for Papers

Papers are solicited on the following 'open' list of topics:

• Technological Ecosystems supporting learning within and from the 'smart cities' (toward 'web-mobile-internet of thing' integrated environments)
• Future 'smart cities' learning scenarios (contexts and methods)
• Ecological monitoring and visualization of flows, behaviours, experience's styles and  'smart cities' learning
• The impact of contextualization, glocalities, identities
• Educational Ecosystems: from ''intelligence' to autopoietic education (edupoiesis)

Important dates

• April 26, 2012 -> Sending out CFP and launching the workshop website
• June 10, 2012 -> Deadline for submission of contributions
• July 1, 2012 -> Notification of evaluation results
• July 15, 2012 -> Deadline for authors' registration and upload of final camera-ready contributions

More information about the Call for Papers and the submission process are iavailable on the workshop home page.

The conference is focusing on the following questions: How can we turn our traditional educational institutions into (r)evolutionary leading organisations? How can innovation be stimulated? It will observe and analyse how open innovation can be used to transform today’s educational institutions. Educational institutions have mostly taken an evolutionary approach to respond to the challenges of the modern world. But the incremental innovation of our educational institutions is not sufficient to cope with the ongoing fundamental transformation of societies. Change in most education institutions has started too late and is executed too slowly to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Only open, disruptive innovation offers higher education institutions strategic choices to overcome long-standing and deeply-rooted orthodoxies and to make them fit for the future. A key issue in this situation is to develop a balanced view on the topic from all perspectives: strategic, pedagogical, managerial as well as technological. We aim to bring in contributions from different domains and disciplines towards open innovation and quality.

Read the announcement here.