Final Call for Papers: Theme: "Cognitive Skills Acquisition in Life-long Learning" Special issue of 'Interactive Learning Environments' journal (ISSN 1049-4820) * Important dates: Paper submission Friday 2 February 2001 Outcome notification Monday 19 March 2001 Revised version Friday 4 May 2001 Feedback on revised version Monday 11 June 2001 Final version Friday 13 July 2001 Publication November 2001 * Introduction: Cognitive skills are concerned with analysis, interpretation and decision making processes required for performing the procedural tasks. The development of cognitive skill demands a more sophisticated learning process as much of its process runs inside a human mind and may largely rely on self-explanations as a learner studies an example and attempts a given problem. It is easier for a learning system researcher, designer or implementer to consider the facilitation of physical skills due to their external visibility, but it seems important to have stronger focus on cognitive skills acquisition, particularly for life long learners who may not be learning in the traditional setting. We invite discussion on these and related issues with a view to better understand the emerging trends in research, design and implementation of systems for cognitive skills acquisition in life-long learning. * Guest editor: Kinshuk Information Systems Department Massey University, Private Bag 11-222 Palmerston North New Zealand Email: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] * Submission procedure: The papers should be around 5000 words and should address one or more aspects relating to the theme of the special issue. They should be sent as attachment by email to the guest editor at [log in to unmask] (alternatively [log in to unmask]) latest by Friday February 2, 2001. Preferred file formats are RTF, PDF and Word but we shall try our best for other formats too. Your submissions will be considered on first come first served basis allowing for more flexible planning of your further work. We encourage you for early submission at each stage. Please provide following details with each submission: - Author(s) full name(s) including title(s) - Job title(s) - Organisation(s) - Full contact details of ALL authors including email and postal address, tel/fax General details about the journal are available at: http://www.szp.swets.nl/szp/journals/il.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Kinshuk [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] General Chair, Intl.Conf.on Adv.Learn.Tech.(ICALT2001) http://lttf.ieee.org/icalt2001/ Editor, "Educational Technology & Society" http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/ Chair, IEEE Learning Technology Task Force http://lttf.ieee.org/ Chair, ACM SIGCHI New Zealand http://www.acm.org/chapters/sigchi_nz/ Information Systems Dept., Massey Univ., Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North, New Zealand Tel: +64 6 3505799 ext. 2090 Fax: +64 6 3505725 http://fims-www.massey.ac.nz/~kinshuk