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First International Workshop on Virtual Environments and Web Applications for e-Learning VEWAeL 2008 June 8-13, 2008 - Athens, Greece |
This workshop is part of ICIW 2008.
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| Publishing Information: |
| Publisher: IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services Posted: IEEE Digital Library Indexing process |
| Submit a Paper: |
First, fill out the submission form with information about your paper. Please, fill it out only once for each paper, and do not resubmit it. Contact the address below if you run into any difficulties.
As the designated correspondence author, you will then receive a first e-mail message containing the paper ID. The information in the email will allow you to submit your paper.
If you have some problems send your paper via this e-mail (please report your paper ID in the text of your mail AND the name of the conference).
The conference staff will contact you only if the paper does not print properly or has other problems.
You can change information about your paper, submit brief corrections, view your reviews and create rebuttal, and even edit your personal information by following the link in the initial confirmation email.
| Touristic Information: |
Touristic information is available from the hosting conference, ICIW 2008.
| Hotels and Travel: |
Hotels and travel information is available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2008.
| Call for Papers: |
The importance of the Internet in learning, as well as the use of web tools and applications for teaching, is becoming one of the main topics in education research. During the last years, different web applications based on the use of Internet environments have been introduced to help teachers and students in the learning-teaching process. These web applications, mainly supported by Internet systems and services, are changing the traditional educational process not only in Higher Education (HE) qualifications, but also in open learning for any type of course.
Nowadays, there exist different public and commercial Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) aimed at helping teachers to manage courses and contents, as well as to support the students’ learning process. In this sense, VLE are an important factor contributing towards the change from traditional educational methodologies to new paradigms including active teaching.
This implies not only a shift in the way of tackling learning and teaching, but also new challenges for software engineers and developers. Virtual Learning Environments have to be built bearing in mind their mandatory use through the Internet, thus requiring important characteristics and capabilities such as security, good latency, several tools for interoperability, storage management, etc.
Our VEWAeL workshop complements the main ICIW conference and the remaining collocated workshops by focusing on learning-teaching web platforms and applications, which have to be used through the Internet. This topic will not only be considered from the development perspective but also from the human point of view, taking into account the interaction of the user with Internet and web applications, especially in the educational scope.
Topics
We encourage and invite authors from multiple disciplines to submit their papers related to Virtual Environments and Web Applications specially related to the educational role, as well as welcoming those who merely want to present and provide their experience using the named tools. Workshop topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- E-Learning
- Web Technologies and Tools for Educational Purposes
- Services for E-Learning Platforms
- Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)
- Course Management Systems
- Web applications for Teaching
- Social Implications of E-Learning
- Lifelong E-learning
- Teaching-Learning Experiences using the Internet for Educational Purposes
- E-learning in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and other HE contexts
- Web protocols for VLE
- Security for VLE
- QoS for VLE
- Storage management in VLE
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library
Important deadlines:
| Submission deadline | |
| Notification | |
| Registration and camera ready |
Regular papers
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system.
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page.
Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to VEWAeL@gmail.com.
Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half day. Please send your proposals to mailto:VEWAeL@gmail.com and petre@iaria.org.
Panel proposals
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. Please send your proposals to VEWAeL@gmail.com.
| Committees: |
Techical Program Committee (to be confirmed)
Grigore Albeanu, Bucharest University, Romania
Ademar Aguiar , University of Porto, Portugal
Angelos Amditis, I-SENSE Group, Athens, Greece
Alessandro Bogliolo, Università di Urbino, Italy
Luis Borges , University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
José Vicente Benlloch, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Ioan Dzitac, Agora University, Romania
Jean-Pierre Gerval, ISEN, France
Feliz Gouveia, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Kent Logfren, Umeå University, Sweden
Francisco Montero, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Erika Pigliapoco, Università di Urbino, Italy
Dorin-Mircea Popovici, ENIB, France
Richard K. Seaton, The Open University, UK
Andrés Terrasa, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Jim Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Eduardo Vendrell, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Mihai Jalobeanu, Vasile Goldis Western University, Romania
Christophe Gravier, University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne, France
Jacques Fayolle, University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne, France
Organizing Comittee (VEWAeL@gmail.com)
Gregorio Díaz, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Guadalupe Ortiz, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Andrés Terrasa, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Eduardo Vendrell, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
| Tutorials: |
Tutorials are available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2008.
| Preliminary Program: |
Preliminary program is available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2008.
| Manuscript Preparation: |
Manuscript preparation is available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2008.
| Registration Form: |
Registration form is available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2008.
| Statistics: |
Statistics are available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2008.
| Photos: |
Photos are available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2008.
| Awards: |
Awards are available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2008.
