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1st CALL FOR PAPERS
First Workshop on
Virtual Worlds for
academic, organizational, and life-long learning (ViWo Workshop 2009)
Aachen, Germany, August 19-21, 2009
http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo/ViWo2009Workshop
In conjunction with
8th International Conference onInteractive Mobile and Computer Aided
Learning (ICwL2009)
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ViWo 2009 Workshop - 23. August 19-21, - Aachen, Germany
First Workshop on
Virtual Worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning (ViWo
Workshop 2009)
Online Information: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo/ViWo2009Workshop
This CfP is also available as PDF:
http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo2009Workshop/ViWo2009-CfP.pdf
This workshop will take place during the ICWL 2009 in Aachen, Germany
(August 19-21) as a special program item.
The Workshop ViWo 2009 provides an interdisciplinary forum for international
scientists and practitioners to discuss various aspects of learning and
training in virtual worlds.
The 8th International Conference on International Conference on Web-based
Learning, ICWL2009, will be jointly organized by Hong Kong Web Society, RWTH
Aachen University, and Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science. ICWL is an
annual international conference on web-based learning.
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.
Topics
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
• Virtual Laboratories and experiments
• Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration
• Artificial Intelligence Approaches
• Usability and Human-Computer-Interaction
Important Dates
• April 30, 2009: Submission of the full papers (6 Pages)
• Juni 15, 2009: Notification of acceptance
• July 15, 2009: Registration
• July 15, 2009: Camera ready version (6 Pages)
• August 19-21 2009: ICWL 2009 Conference
Submission Procedure
File Types: Windows Word or PDF
Language: English (British or US)
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Paper Submission System:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=viwo2009workshop
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 as electronic proceedings within the ViWo
Website. At least one author has to register until July 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 Chair
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 Program Committee
• Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria
• Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, 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
• Judson Harward, MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, USA
• Sven Havemann, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Mitja Jermol, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium, USA
• Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
• Stephanie Linek, Universität Graz, Austria
• Phillip D. Long, University of Queensland, Australia
• Michelle Lucey-Roper, Federatoin of American Scientists, USA
• Ignazio Passero, University of Salerno, Italy
• Lalita Rajasingham, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Peter Reimann, University of Sydney Australia
• Torsten Reiners, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Diane Salter, University of Hong Kong, China
• Sandra Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria
• Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institut, Germany
Further Information:
• Information about ICWL 2009: http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2009/
• Tourist Information: http://www.aachen.de/EN/index.html
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Mohammad Smadi
PhD Student
Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM)
Faculty of Computer Science
Graz University of Technology
Brückenkopfgasse 1, 8020 Graz, AustriaTel: +43 (316) 873 5662
Fax: +43 (316) 873 5699
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