Call for Participation ICWL 2009 8th International Conference on Web-based Learning August 19-21, 2009 Aachen, Germany http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2009/
Early bird registration deadline: July 17, 2009 http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2009/registration.html ICWL is an annual international conference on web-based learning. Since the first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002, it has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004), Hong Kong (2005), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), and China (2008). The 8th ICWL 2009 will be held in Aachen, Germany, a city with rich culture, high-tech research, and a truly European spirit. ICWL 2009 will be jointly organized by RWTH Aachen University, Hong Kong Web Society, and Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science. The technical program features keynote addresses, plenary presentations of invited papers, parallel sessions for papers and four compelling workshops. Over 200 researchers and practitioners from the web-based learning community are expected to assemble in the beautiful city of Aachen. Fruitful discussions, additional EU project meetings and an exciting social program are waiting for them. Topics: • Technology Enhanced Learning • Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages • Mobile Learning • Social Software and Web 2.0 for Technology Enhanced Learning • Learning Resource Deployment, Organization and Management • Design, Model and Framework of E-learning Systems • E-learning Metadata and Standards • Educational Gaming and Multimedia Storytelling for Learning • Practice and Experience Sharing • Pedagogical Issues Keynote talks: • "Learning in Times of Abundance: The Snowflake Effect" by Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium • "Exploiting User Generated Content to Improve Search" by Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany Invited papers: • "Debating the wisdom of personalisation" by Helen Ashman, UniSA, Australia • "On Social e-Learning" by Won Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea • "Web-based Learning – Yes we can!" by Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Social Events: • Welcome reception with live Jazz music, August 19, 2009 • Grand Banquette in the old spa house of Aachen, August 20, 2009 • Guided tour to historical Aachen, August 21, 2009 Workshops: • STEG'09: Second Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games • ViWo'09: Workshop on Virtual Worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning • SIRTEL'09: Social Informational Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning • JEM'09: Joining Educational Mathematics – Final Workshop Conference organization: General Chair -------------------- Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany General Co-Chairs -------------------- Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Rynson Lau, City University, Hong Kong Program Co-Chairs -------------------- Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science, Germany Qing Li, City University, Hong Kong Organization Co-Chair --------------------- Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Workshop Co-Chairs --------------------- Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Frederick Li, Durham University, United Kingdom Publicity Co-Chairs --------------------- Anna Hannemann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Christian Gütl, TU Graz, Austria Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China Treasurers --------------------- Howard Leung, Hong Kong Web Society, Hong Kong Zinayida Petrushyna, RWTH Aachen University, Germany We look forward to welcoming you to Aachen in August 2009! Best regards, Anna Hannemann Conference Publicity Co-Chair _______________________________________________ swikig mailing list swikig@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/swikig
