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Subject: m-ICTE2003 International Conference invitation
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 20:03:57 +0200
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2nd International Conference on Multimedia and ICTs in Education
(m-ICTE2003)
Badajoz (Spain), December 3-6th 2003
http://www.formatex.org/micte2003/micte2003.htm
Abstracts deadline: June 1st / Early registration: July 31th 

Dear colleague

This is to inform you that the Call for Abstracts for the forthcoming
2nd International Conference on Multimedia and ICTs in Education
(m-ICTE2003), to be held during December 3-6th 2003 in Badajoz (Spain),
is open. All the information regarding this interdisciplinary conference
can be found at the Conference website 

http://www.formatex.org/micte2003/micte2003.htm

Some of the topics to be covered (essencially the same than in ICTE2002,
with some new ones on Organizational Learning, Knowledge Management and
related areas) will be:

General Issues
· E-learning in the information society
· Virtual campus
· Quality assessment in open and distance education
· Organizational, legal and financial issues
· Social impact
· Education and globalisation
· Gender issues in ICT Education
· Networked learning and developing countries
· The role of traditional institutions in global virtual learning

Pedagogical & Didactical Issues
· Multilingual learning environments
· Collaborative learning
· Coaching & tutoring
· Active & interactive learning
· Knowledge and skills in virtual environments
· Systems for special needed persons
· Teaching/learning strategies
· Collaborative learning/groupware
· Adaptive and intelligent applications
· Application of instructional design theories
· Evaluation of learning technology systems
· ICT in Continuing/Adult 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
· Metadata aaplications
· 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, chatrooms,
  whiteboards, shared workspaces, e-mail, videoconferencing.
· Arquitectures and platforms for distributed teaching and learning.

APHYS-2003 will also serve as a platform for searching for partners for
transnational collaboration projects, specially for the EU Sixth
Framework Program (NETworks of Excellence and Integrated Projects).
"Projects Presentations" and "Call for Partners" presentations proposals
are therefore encouraged and welcomed. If you are interested in taking
part of this Conference feature, please send us the corresponding form
availableat the website.

In addition to the "traditional" oral contributed and posters
presentation, a Virtual Participation modality has been established for
those researchers unable to attend it in person. A limited number of
works can be presented in this way. Please refer to the Conference
website for details.

If you are interested in taking part of m-ICTE2003, please send us your
PRE-REGISTRATION FORM (at the main website of the conference) as soon as
possible. The pre-registration form is also available through the direct
URL http://www.formatex.org/micte2003/preregistration.htm  

Deadline for abstracts submission is June 1st 2003 (at least for oral
presentations proposals; for posters, some additional time will be
provided, to be announced in due time) although we highly recommend you
to submit your abstract as soon as possible to avoid saturation during
the days before the deadline.

PROCEEDINGS
As in ICTE2002, papers presented at m-ICTE 2003 will be published in a
Proceedings Volume by the Organizing Comitee (Eds.: A.Méndez-Vilas and
J.A.Mesa González), and will be distributed amongst all the attendees at
the Conference. The book will be entitled "Advances in Technology-based
Education: Towards a Knowledge-based Society" and will be published in a
citeable form (ISBN). The printed Proceedings Volume is intended to be
ready for distribution at the beginnig of the conference. For this
reason all the potential contributors are strongly encouraged to
strictly follow the deadlines. The conference organization is also
negotiating with several international publishers and journals in order
to offer the possitility to publish accepted papers in reputed journals,
which would maximize the international impact of papers presented at
mICTE2003.

We accept papers reporting original research (and/or case
study/development), surveys and essays. All papers must be original,
that is, never published before. You will be asked to sign a standard
publication release. All papers will undergo blind peer review. A
maximum of two papers will be accepted per registered author (only one
for virtual participants).

For any question or suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact us at
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http://www.formatex.org/micte2003/micte2003.htm
(Bookmark the page!!) We would also appreciate if could disseminate this
Call for Papers through your Department or Institution.

We hope to meet you at this large, exciting and interdisciplinar
international meeting!

Jose Antonio Mesa Gonzalez
Ines Solo de Zaldivar Maldonado
m-ICTE2003 Secretariat
C / Encarnacion, 3 1ºE
(Semillero Empresas)
06001 Badajoz
SPAIN
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