Apologies for cross posting:
A reminder:
Call for Papers
Location: Madrid, Espana
Venue: Hotel Santo Domingo, Madrid
Start: April 10, 2008, 09:00 hrs
End: April 11, 2008, 17:00 hrs
Introduction
This workshop is organised by the EU 6th Framework
Integrated Project TENCompetence.
The objective of the workshop is to identify and
analyse current research and technologies in the fields that provide design
guidelines and evidence for powerful interfaces, interaction and navigation
support, and tailor-made competence development opportunities for individual
learners, teams and organisations. These actors and organisations (will) use
open source infrastructures that contain all the services to (further) develop
their competences, using all the distributed knowledge resources (including
actors), learning activities, units of learning and learning routes/ programmes
that are available online.
Theme
The main theme of this workshop is to provide an
overview on current research on support and empowerment of learners in relation
to their competence development. The theme includes, but is not limited to
support for learners in
* managing and creating competence profiles
and e-portfolios
* becoming aware of their competences and
establishing their position within a learning network, compared to peers and
resources
* finding adequate resources, both material
resources and peers
* knowledge management
* creating their own learning paths
* monitoring of their competence development
progress
* giving and receiving help from tutors and
peers
Research may be performed at all levels of
implementation and includes:
* conceptual models, both pedagogical and/or
organisational
* learning designs
* software, varying from software agents to
whole infrastructures, explicitly including open source systems
Also, all stages of the research cycle are welcomed,
including:
* validation and evaluation of existing
systems and models
* development of new systems and models
* reviews of literature, meta-analyses and
descriptions of state-of-the art
Topics
Topics relevant to the workshop include, but are not
limited to:
* Personal data, profiles, and portable
ePortfolios for competence registration
* Competence description frameworks for
professions
* Learner positioning
* Technologies for the discovery of suitable
learning resources
* Collaborative filtering technologies,
recommend or systems for learning
* Authoring, discovery, advise and/or
exchange of knowledge resources, learning activities or units of learning
* Knowledge Management issues related to
competence development, lifelong learning or HRM
* Research and technology development to
support users in creating adequate learning designs (e.g. software agents or
design aids)
* Navigational support to users in a learning
network
* Personalised and collaborative trails using
knowledge resources or learning activities
* Research and technology development of
pedagogical and organisational models and scenarios for competence development,
and their validation
* Competence assessment, including
self-assessment
* Monitoring (changes in) competences in
professions
* Social software usable for lifelong
competence development
* Dynamic discovery of, and collaboration
between, informal learning groups
* New social theories and practices which
have implications for Competence Development
* Methods and tools to support learners in
distributed environments, peer tutoring, teaching, mentoring, coaching
* Learning Design for formal and informal
Lifelong Learning and Competence Development
* Mobile support for lifelong competence
development
* Semantic Web and lifelong competence
development
* Use of language technologies to support
learning processes
* Models and tools supporting work-based
learning
* Open standards and specifications usable
for learning networks
* Gender issues related to competence development
and competence management
* Evaluations of existing systems and open
source infrastructures
* Studies defining the current
state-of-the-art in learning systems and open source infrastructures for
lifelong competence development
* Advanced instruments and technologies for
the evaluation of competence development management (gaming, collaborative
learning, competence development, ePortfolios)
Workshop Language : English
Publication of
Proceedings
All papers accepted for the workshop will be
published in the official ISBN workshop proceedings and will be distributed to
the participants after the workshop via Ten Competence’s dSpace. Selected
papers will be invited to submit a full paper (4000 words) for a special issue
of the
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in
Learning devoted to the outcomes of the workshop.
Workshop Chair
Rob Koper (Netherlands) - Chair
Henk Sligte (Netherlands) – Co-chair
Miguel Arjona (Spain) – Co-chair
Programme Committee
Judith Schoonenboom, Netherlands
Barry Harper, Australia
Joachim Hasebrook, Germany
Roger Hartley, UK
Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany
Roumen Nikolov, Bulgaria
Mike Spector, USA
Peter Goodyear, Australia
Terry Anderson, Canada
Albert Angehrn, France
John Erpenbeck, Germany
Kinshuk, New Zealand
Oleg Liber, UK
David Merrill, USA
Gilbert Pacquette, Canada
Griff Richards, Canada
Bernard Scott, UK
Demetrios Sampson, Greece
David Wiley, USA
Local organising
Committee contact details
ALTRAN SDB
Parque Empresarial las Mercedes
Av Aragón 330, Edificio 1
(entrance Calle Campezo 1)
28022 Madrid
Contact persons:
Laura Penelas [log in to unmask]
Miguel Arjona [log in to unmask]
Tel: +(34) 91.744.46.00
Fax: +(34) 91.415.24.57
Deadline for paper
submissions February 15, 2008
During the workshop it will be possible to present a
paper of 2000 words. These submissions may include Research, Technology
Development, Review and Application but are not limited to these only.
Furthermore, participants can submit a proposal for a demonstration session to
demonstrate relevant software.
Electronic submissions should be forwarded as a Portable
Document Format (.pdf) attachment to: [log in to unmask]
All submissions must be papers of 2000 words and
formatted according to the publication guidelines published at:
All authors will be informed of the results of the
review process and whether or not their papers were accepted for the
publication in the workshop proceedings by February 29, 2008 at the latest.
Full papers
Invitation to submit full papers by April 18, 2008 at
the latest (less than 50% of total number of submitted papers). Full papers
will be reviewed by members of the programme committee. Accepted full papers
are due in formatted form by May 9 at the latest.
Papers will be published in the June 2008 issue of
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET).
Registration
The registration form (see below) may be downloaded at: http://www.tencompetence.org/files/madrid/reg_madrid.doc
Please complete it and send it as an email attachment to: [log in to unmask]
Henk Sligte, SCO-Kohnstamm Instituut for Educational
Research,
Deadline for
registration: March 8, 2008
Fees
€ 80
The fee covers conference attendance, materials,
lunches, refreshments over the two days.
Conference dinner
April 10, 2008; separate subscription necessary.
Price €40
Location
The main conference venue will be at
Hotel
Plaza de Santo Domingo, 13
28013 Madrid (Spain)
Ph.: +34 91 547 98 00
Fax: +34 91 547 59 95
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Accommodation
A number of rooms have been pre-reserved at a rate of
€115 per night (tax not included: 7%). Do not hesitate to check the Web for
better deals, or for other places to stay.
Christopher Kew
TENCompetence Dissemination Officer
University of Bolton
Tel: + 44 (0)1204 903561
Fax: + 44 (0)1204 399044
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