08.31.07
Hermann Maurer at EC-TEL 2007
The EC-TEL 2007 organisers are proud to announce Hermann Maurer as the second keynote presenter at the conference.
Hermann Maurer is professor of computer science at the Technical University Graz in Austria, with an impressive list of achievements in the form of numerous papers, books, companies and patents. Hermann is one of the pioneers of Technology Enhanced Learning in Europe and a widely acclaimed and sought after speaker.
He is also … a science fiction writer:
Learning Discovery Workshop at EC-TEL 2007
First International Workshop on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE’07)
The LODE’07 workshop will be held on September 18, 2007 in conjunction with the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07), Crete, Greece.
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES
Although the use of learning (content) management systems is becoming common in most educational organizations and the number of educational resources available online, for free or by subscription, is huge, most of these resources are hidden in repositories and cannot be easily found, which hampers their potential use and reuse.The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working at unlocking the educational content hidden in repositories and facilitating the retrieval and exchange of this content. The workshop aims at providing an international forum to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and innovative approaches in the field.
PROGRAM
Session 1: Federations of Learning Resources
- Unifying Learning Object Repositories in MACE
- Creation of Lithuanian Digital Library of Educational Resources and Services: the Hypothesis, Contemporary Practice, and Future Objectives
- The Everlasting Dawn of Educational Brokers: A Search for Key Design Principles
Session 2: Repository Infrastructures
- Learning Resource Referencing, Search and Aggregation At the eLearning System Level
- Binding the Simple Query Interface
- Network analysis of repositories
Session 3: Search and Retrieval of Learning Resources
- Improving Retrieval of Reusable Learning Resources by Estimating Adaptation Effort
- Profiled Search Methods for e-Learning Systems
Session 4: Rich description of resources
- Categorizing Learning Objects Based On Wikipedia as Substitute Corpus
- An Information Architecture for Validating Courseware
- Linking Content to Curricula by using Competencies
- Writing to be read: readability indices for Open Educational Resources
ORGANISERS
David Massart and Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Kerry Blinco, DEST, Australia
- Erik Duval, KUL, Belgium
- Mike Halm, PennState University, USA
- Marek Hatala, SFU, Canada
- Manuel Kolp, UCL, Belgium
- Robert Kristofl, BMBWK, Austria
- Fran ois Magnan, Teluq, Canada
- Jon Mason, InterCog, Australia
- Martin Morrey, Intrallect, UK
- Gilbert Paquette, Teluq, Canada
- Fredrik Paulsson, Umea University, Sweden
- Tomasz Orzechowski, AGH, Poland
- Alain Pirotte, UCL, Belgium
- Daniel Rehak, University of Memphis, USA
- Griff Richards, SFU, Canada
- Bernd Simon, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria
- James Simon, Sun Microsystems, USA
- Stefaan Ternier, KUL, Belgium
- Tsuneo Yamada, NIME, Japan
08.30.07
The conversation starts…
Now that we are less than 20 days from the start of ECTEL07, we want to start a conversation among the participants. As a simple start, please leave a reference to your blog in the comment below, and we will add it to the blogroll here.
We would also appreciate your questions - to the organisers, to the other participants, to the keynoters, to … Again, please use the comments below or send us an email!
This is the start of a conversation that will begin before and end well beyond ECTEL07: let’s roll!
08.25.07
EC-TEL 2007 Call for Participation Reminder
In three weeks we will meet at the the Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning EC-TEL’07 in Crete, Greece. The deadline for Early Bird Registration is next Monday, August 27!
These exciting events are but a selection of what will happen at EC-TEL:
- 15 sessions in three parallel tracks
- Two keynotes from experts (Hermann Maurer & Bruce Sterling) who are also science fiction authors
- The Globe panel discussing global learning experiences
- The EU commission discussing news from FP6 and FP7 research programmes on Technology Enhanced Learning
- The industrial session with European Technology Enhanced Learning companies
- The poster and demonstration session with displays from almost all European projects on Technology Enhanced Learning
- A conference wrap up session with Matthias Jarke
- Eight workshops with topics from different areas in Technology Enhanced Learning
- The Second Doctoral Consortium on Technology Enhanced Learning
- EU project meetings from TEL projects like PROLIX, PROLEARN and COOPER
To make this event even more exciting, we will use the next three weeks to prepare the conference using Web 2.0 technologies. We offer the following goodies to you:
- We have successfully negotiated with Springer to make the proceedings available for two weeks before and two weeks after the conference for registered participants (Many thanks to the people at Springer).
- The registration at the main web site http://www.ectel07.org is still open. Stay tuned for latest announcements
- We have just launched the EC-TEL blog at http://ectel07.wordpress.com for you. Come and join us to discuss and prepare the conference and get most value out of it.
- We will create a science fiction competition. Winners will get special discounts for the conference!
- Authors of posters and papers can present and discuss their work in the weeks leading up to the conference. We will contact you!
- We invite everybody to become a author in our blog or just inform us to get on our blogroll
- You will be able to submit your questions for the keynoters beforehand
- Perhaps you have even better ideas? Just write and comment
The conference will be Serious Fun!
Wolfgang Nejdl
General Chair
Erik Duval, Ralf Klamma
Programme Chairs
Konstantin Makropoulos
Local Organisation Chair
Martin Wolpers
Organizing Chair
Barbara Kieslinger
Publicity Chair
Frans van Assche
Workshop Chair
Volker Zimmermann
Industrial Session Chair
Katherine Maillet, Denis Gilet, Tomaz Klobucar, Ralf Klamma
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
08.08.07
EC-TEL’07 Early Bird Registration
August 21, 2007: Early Bird Registration ends
EC-TEL’07 - Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning Creating new learning experiences on a global scale
17-20 September 2007, Crete, Greece
http://www.ectel07.org
This is a kind reminder that EC-TEL 2007 Early Bird Registration ends on August 21, 2007: http://www.ectel07.org/conference-registration
Some highlights of EC-TEL 2007 include our two keynote speakers:
- Bruce Sterling
Professor at the European Graduate School and “visionary in residence” at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California is one of the early visionaries of the “Internet of Things”. His famous speeches introduced new memes (like spime) that continue to be an inspiration for many researchers. Bruce is also … a science fiction writer (http://blog.wired.com/sterling)!
- Hermann Maurer
Professor of computer science at the Technical University Graz in Austria, with an impressive list of achievements in the form of numerous papers, books, companies and patents. Hermann is one of the pioneers of Technology Enhanced Learning in Europe and a widely acclaimed and sought after speaker. He is also … a science fiction writer (http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/maurer)!
Make sure to check out the program, available at http://www.ectel07.org.
It holds many more highly attractive events related to TEL, e.g. 3 research and one industry tracks with more than 40 papers, a session related to science fiction and TEL, etc.
