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Apologies, the new deadline for contributions to the TENCompetence Open Workshop in Madrid should of course read February 29th 2008 and not January 29th. Thank you Chris Christopher Kew TENCompetence Dissemination Officer University of Bolton Tel: + 44 (0)1204 903561 Fax: + 44 (0)1204 399044 [log in to unmask] www.tencompetence.org ________________________________ From: Kew, Christopher Sent: 13 February 2008 13:17 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: FW: Call for Papers- Extended Deadline - TENCompetence Open Workshop - Madrid 2008 Apologies for cross-posting. An extended deadline for those interested in contributing to the TENCompetence call for papers: TENCompetence Open Workshop Empowering Learners for Lifelong Competence Development: Pedagogical, organisational and technological issues Call for Papers – Extended Deadline – 29th February 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Extended deadline for paper submissions February 29, 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: http://ld06.uni-sofia.bg/CFP_Instructions%20for%20Authors.pdf 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 or later in the event of an extension. 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 <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, Amsterdam. The Netherlands 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 Santo Domingo Madrid http://www.hotelsantodomingo.com <http://www.hotelsantodomingo.com/> 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. Thank You