[Tccc] CFP - ITHET 2013 Antalya - Deadline approaching - June 28, 2013
Robin Braun
Robin.Braunatuts.edu.au
Sun May 19 06:31:08 EDT 2013
Call for Papers - Please excuse us if this is of no interest to you.
12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher
Education and Training ITHET 2013.
10-12 October 2013, Antalya, TURKEY
http://www.ithet.boun.edu.tr
Deadline for electronic submission of one page abstracts - June 28, 2013
We have pleasure in inviting you to submit a paper for presentation at
ITHET 2013. This year we will have a special theme as well as all the
traditional themes of previous events. We want to explore both the
opportunities and the challenges of Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCS). The university world is abuzz with this phenomenon which has
come to visit all of us. Will they change the university business
model forever? Will they eventually revolutionize university education
as information technology has promised to do for many years? Will they
threaten our jobs, or will they help us to ensure that our students
really do get it? We want to explore all of this at this years
ITHET. Please join us. (For some background just put MOOCS into your
search engine.)
This year's conference will be in beautiful Anyalya, reputed to be one
of "gems" of the Mediterranean. For more detail, visit the website.
Details:
Objectives:
The convergence of current technologies provides the infrastructure for
transmitting and storing information faster and cheaper. For
information to be used in
gaining knowledge, however, environments for collecting, storing,
disseminating, sharing
and constructing knowledge are needed. Such environments, knowledge
media, brings
together the telecommunication, computer and networking technologies,
learning theories
and cognitive sciences to form meaningful environments that provides
for a variety of
learner needs. The World Wide Web is one such technology that provides access to
valuable educational resources such as e-mail, e-groups, bulletin
board services, audio
conferencing, video conferencing, e-journals, search engines and
databases. ITHET 2013
will have a special theme as well as all the traditional themes of
previous events. This year
we want to explore both the opportunities and the challenges of
Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCS). The university world is abuzz with this phenomenon
which has come
to visit all of us. Will they change the university business model
forever? Will they
eventually revolutionize university education as information
technology has promised to
do for many years? Will they threaten our jobs, or will they help us
to ensure that our
students really do get it? We want to explore all of this at this
years ITHET. Please join
us. (For some background just put MOOCS into your search engine.)
Location:
The organizing committee of ITHET 2011 extends a cordial invitation to you to
come to Antalya to meet renowned scholars and practitioners not only
from the region but
also from many different parts of the world, at a place that is
reputed to be one of the most
attractive cities of the Mediterranean.
Topics:
The scope of the conference will cover but not be limited to:
* Massive Open Online Courses
* WWW education tools
* Asynchronous learning
* Multimedia tutorials
* Distance leaning
* Intelligent training technology
* Blended learning
* Authoring technology
* Virtual student laboratories
* Second language education
* Virtual classroom, virtual universities
* Industry-university partnership
* Creating courses on-line
* Learning and Assessment
* Network based education and training
* Accreditation issues
* New strategies for higher education and training
* Role of information society and global communication systems
* Development and use of IT Tools and Environments
* Quality management in higher education
* Interactive learning modules
Paper Submission:
Prospective participants are invited to electronically submit an
extended abstract (min. 500 words, as PDF file), following the
instructions available on
the Conference web site. Accepted and presented papers will be
copyrighted to IEEE and
published in conference proceedings that will appear in IEEE Xplore
and therefore
customarily be indexed by EI Compendex. Some papers will be
selected for expansion
into journal papers and invited to participate in the normal peer
review process of IEEE
Transactions on Education or IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
Special Sessions:
Prospective participants of ITHET 2013 are encouraged to organize
special sessions (5-6 papers) in a particular area within the
conference topics. Those
interested should contact Okyay Kaynak at okyay.kay... at boun.edu.tr for details.
Submission deadlines:
Apr 26, 2013 - Deadline for electronic submission of one page abstracts
May 17, 2013 - Notification of acceptance
Jun 21, 2013 - Submission of full papers
--
Robin Braun,
Professor of Telecommunications,
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
School of Computing and Communications, and
Centre for Real-time Information Networks (CRIN)
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
crin.eng.uts.edu.au/~rob
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