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CALL FOR PAPERS
1st Special Track on
Virtual Worlds for
academic, organizational, and life-long learning (ViWo 2009)
Jordan, Amman, April 23, 2009
http://www.iicm.edu/ViWo2009
In conjunction with
4th International Conference on
Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning (IMCL2009)
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ViWo 2009 - 23. April 2009 - Amman, Jordan
First Special Track on
Virtual Worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning (ViWo 2009)
Online Information: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/viwo2009
This CfP is also available as PDF:
http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo2009/ViWo2009-CfP.pdf
This special track will take place during IMCL 2009 in Amman, Jordan (22-24
April 2009) as a special programme item.
The Special Track ViWo 2009 provides an interdisciplinary forum for
international scientists and practitioners to discuss various aspects of
learning and training in virtual worlds.
The 4th International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided
Learning, IMCL2009, which will be hosted by Princess Sumaya University for
Technology, Amman, Jordan. The conference is part of an international
initiative to promote technology-enhanced learning and online engineering
world-wide organized under the umbrella of the International Association of
Online Engineering.
Background
Our society of the 21st century makes great demands on its members caused by
rapid developing and ever-changing political, social, economical and
technological situations. Consequently, it is expected that members of the
society keep pace with these mutable situations, adapt their skills and
expertise. As a result, modern instructional design, learning goals and
processes as well as appropriate learning environments must support the
development of the aforementioned skills and expertises. Consequently,
educational approaches have changed dramatically over time from less formal
schooling in the agrarian society to remedial repetitive learning in the
industrialization age to learning with an understanding in today’s knowledge
society. Based on that, different modern educational strategies have been
developed which includes aspects such as self-directed learning,
collaborative learning, experiential-based learning and actively
participating. Educational approaches have also been influenced by
technology but have also increasingly applied technology over the last
decades, such as motion pictures, radio, television, computers and other
emerging information and communication technologies (ICT).
Last year’s hype surrounding the virtual world “Second Life” has also
generated significant interest in the education community. Although virtual
worlds have been an active research topic for a long time, technology was
not ready for complex application scenarios since recent years. New
interesting and powerful platforms and tools, such as Second Life, Active
Worlds, Multiverse, Open Croquet, OpenSim and Sun’s 3D Wonderland, have been
emerged applicable to complement or even replace other knowledge transfer
and learning settings. Modern virtual worlds are seen from an optimistic
viewpoint as a disruptive and transformative technology. However, it still
remains unclear to some extent where the real benefits and limitations of
using virtual worlds as knowledge transfer and learning environments are
when compared to more traditional methods. In order to avoid the same
pitfalls of past e-learning solutions by just applying traditional learning
approaches to a new technology, this special track is indented to offer a
multidisciplinary platform which brings together international researchers
from different organizations in order to share their experience with this
technology.
The special track will bring together international researchers as well as
practitioners from different organisations who will have plenty of time for
networking and real-world knowledge sharing.
We invite submissions of papers in the categories research, development,
evaluation and best practices that deal with virtual worlds for academic,
organizational, and life-long learning issues including, but not limited to:
* Technological approaches, their limitations and how to overcome them
* Virtual worlds and mobile learning
* Virtual learning space design and architecture
* Modern learning settings
* Didactic and cognitive aspects
* New learning and teaching activities
* Interaction and behavior patterns
* Distance and blended learning
* Organizational learning, vocational training and certification
* Academic learning, assessment and feedback
* Collaborative and social learning
* Mixed Virtual world and classroom learning
* Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration
* Artificial Intelligence Approaches
* Usability and Human-Computer-Interaction
Important Dates
* 15 November 2008: Submission of the full papers (6 pages)
* 15 December 2008: Notification of acceptance
* 15 January 2009: Author Registration Deadline
* 15 February 2009: Camera ready version (6 pages)
* 22 - 24 April 2009: IMCL 2008 Conference
Submission Procedure
File Types: DOC, RTF or PDF-file
Language: English (British or US)
Style Guides & Template: http://209.61.205.141/form/IMCL2009%20Template.doc
Paper Submission System: Please use the Electronic Submission Page
http://www.conftool.net/imcl-conference/
In case of problems or questions concerning the submission of papers, please
contact the track chairs at [log in to unmask]
Notification of Acceptance and Publishing
Accepted papers will be published within the proceedings CD of the IMCL2009
conference. At least one author has to register until January 15th 2009
after the notification of acceptance to be included into the conference
program. Authors fee is applicable only once per paper!
Some authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for
publication in a special issue in J.UCS - Journal of Universal Computer
Science, http://www.jucs.org/ .
ViWo 2009 Chairs
Christian Gütl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Frank Kappe, Graz University of Technology, Austria
ViWo 2009 Organization team
Alexander Nussbaumer, University of Graz, Austria
Mohammad Smadi, Graz University of Technology, Austria
ViWo 2009 Program Committee (preliminary, to be extended)
* Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria
* Vanessa Chang, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
* Samir A. El-Seoud, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan
* Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
* Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium, USA
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
* Frederic Kleinermann, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
* Guido Lang, City University of New York, USA
* Stephanie Linek, Universität Graz, Austria
* Michelle Lucey-Roper, Federatoin of American Scientists, USA
* Maggie A. McPherson, University of Leeds, UK
* Stephe Quinton, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
* Peter Reimann, University of Sydney, Australia
* Lalita Rajasingham , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
* Torsten Reiners, University of Hamburg, Germany
* Diane Salter, University of Hong Kong, China
* Sandra Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria
* Bernd Schmitz, Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln, Germany
* Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institut, Germany
Further Information:
* Information about IMCL 2008: http://www.imcl-conference.org/
* Travel Information: http://209.61.205.141/travel_info.shtm
* Tourist Information: http://www.visitjordan.com/
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Mohammad Smadi
PhD Student
Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM)
Faculty of Computer Science
Graz University of Technology
Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010 Graz, Austria
Tel: +43 (316) 873 5662
Fax: +43 (316) 873 5699
E-mail:[log in to unmask]
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