Seville (Spain), 29 November - 2 December 2006

http://www.formatex.org/micte2006

Abstracts deadline: 25th September / Early Registration: 10th October

Dear colleague,

On behalf the organisers, you are cordially invited to send abstracts of your best research for presentation at the forthcoming IV International Conference on Multimedia and ICTs in Education (m-ICTE2006), to be held in Seville (Spain) from 29 November to 2 December 2006. All the information regarding this interdisciplinary conference can be found at the conference website: http://www.formatex.org/micte2006/

A wide range of topics will be covered in this conference. Thus, it is expected to improve the knowledge transfer among the implicated subjects, as well as to build a bridge between the two large scientific communities that converge in this general subject, that is, the computing/technical community and the educational community. Besides, there are programmed two workshops with a more practical orientation. They will be given by two international experts in those subjects.

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

• ICTs in Health Education

Technological Issues

• Web-based courseware

• Online vs. Offline

• Educational multimedia

• 3D Environments

• On the teachers' side: authoring tools

• 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

• 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

WORKSHOPS

Initially, two workshops have been programmed for this edition:

1. Special Education Software

2. Educational Robotics

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: 25th September 2006

Full paper submission deadline: 6th November 2006

VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION

In addition to the "traditional" oral contributions and posters presentations, a Virtual Participation modality has been established for those researchers unable to attend the conference personally. A limited number of works can be presented in this way. Please consult the conference website for details.

PROCEEDINGS

As in previous editions (ICTE2002, m-ICTE2003 and m-ICTE2005), papers presented at m-ICTE2006 will be published in a Proceedings Volume edited by the Organizing Committee (Ed.: A. Mιndez-Vilas), and it will be distributed amongst all the attendees at the conference. The book will be entitled "Current Developments in Technology-Assisted Education (2006)" and will be published in a citeable form, with an ISBN code assigned, for it to have a broad international visibility. Besides, as it is usual in this series of conferences, all the papers will be available at the conference website some months after the conference. The printed Volume is intended to be ready for distribution at the beginning of the conference. For this reason, all the potential contributors are strongly encouraged to strictly follow the deadlines.

COLLABORATION PROJECTS: SEARCH FOR PARTNERS

m-ICTE2006 will also serve as a platform for partners search for trans-national collaboration projects, especially for the EU Sixth Framework Program (Networks of Excellence, Integrated Projects and Specific Targeted Research or Innovation Project). If you are interested in taking part, please send us the corresponding form available at the website.

RESEARCH GROUPS

Send details of your group activities (research topics, members, projects, publications...). The booklet with all participating groups will be distributed at the conference and/or posted at the conference website.

For any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us at m-icte2006@formatex.org We would also appreciate if could disseminate this Call for Papers through your Department or Institution.

We hope to meet you at this large interdisciplinary international meeting!