The European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (ECTEL) engages researchers, practitioners, educational developers, entrepreneurs, industry leaders and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. ECTEL 2023 will take place on 4-8 September 2023 in Aveiro, Portugal with the theme Responsive and Sustainable Educational Futures. ECTEL 2023 will be a face-to-face conference.
Call for Papers This year's conference builds on the theme of the last year's conference and focuses on sustainable teaching and learning practices in the post-pandemic educational ecosystem. In the past few years, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many educational institutions were forced to adopt numerous educational technologies to continue serving their students. For many of these institutions, it was a novel practice, and they needed to adapt fastly by implementing different strategies, tools, services, and digital platforms to provide learning opportunities for a wide range of students. As we are discovering a “new normal”, educational institutions can follow three trajectories when responding to learners’ and teachers’ needs in the post-pandemic world: a return to the status quo pre-pandemic, a short-term focus on remediating learning loss, or an organized effort to reinvent education to be more human-centered, responsive and responsible. We dedicate this year’s conference to exploring the third proposition and are calling for papers that can improve our understanding of how such an organized effort can be designed and implemented sustainably. We are looking for contributions that address different types of educational technologies and pedagogies that support teachers and learners. Importantly, we welcome papers that address not only technologies that aim to enhance learning and teaching, but also examine organizational, social and responsible aspects of teaching and learning with technologies in post-pandemic educational settings. The topics of interest are grouped into the following nine blocks: 1. Pedagogical and theoretical underpinning 2. Educational Technologies 3. Individual, social, and organisational learning processes 4. Students’ skills and competences 5. Supporting teacher professional development 6. Ethics, privacy, regulations and policies 7. Fairness, equity and equality 8. Educational Technology in lifelong learning contexts 9. Global teaching and learning Submission formats * Research Papers: 8-15 pages (including references), published in LNCS Springer Conference Proceedings. * Poster Papers: 4-6 pages (including references), published in LNCS Springer Conference Proceedings. If the paper is accepted, authors will be required to prepare an additional page describing their work. This page will not be published in the proceedings, but it will be used to organize the sessions. * Demonstration Papers: 4-6 pages (including references), published in LNCS Springer Conference Proceedings. If the paper is accepted, authors will be required to prepare an additional page describing their work. This page will not be published in the proceedings, but it will be used to organize the sessions. * Workshop proposals: online form, not published in proceedings. Workshop submissions will be handled independently by workshop organisers, specific instructions are provided below. * Doctoral Consortium papers: 5-10 pages (including reference), published in CEUR DC Proceedings Important dates Research papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: * 17 March 2023 – Mandatory submission of an abstract * 7 April 2023 – Submission of the full version * 26 May 2023 – Notification of acceptance * 25 June 2023 – Camera-ready versions * 4-8 September 2023 – ECTEL 2023 conference Workshops: * 5 May 2023 – Submission of workshop proposal * 19 May 2023 – Workshops notification * 7 June 2023 – Workshops sites launched * 4-5 September 2023 – ECTEL 2023 Workshops Doctoral Consortium: TBD All submission deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 Submission Formats Research papers, posters and demonstrations, as well as Doctoral Consortium (DC) submissions will be handled through EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ectel2023). Apart from the DC submissions, all papers will be reviewed through a double-blind review process, i.e. authors must upload their papers without any reference to themselves or their institutions. Accepted research, poster and demo papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Like every year, the proceedings will be published within Springer “Lecture Notes in Computer Science” (LNCS) Series. The use of the supplied template is mandatory: https://www.springer.com/de/it-informatik/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX (Overleaf template) or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Workshop proposals will be handled separately and submissions will be done using another system as specified below. Doctoral Consortium papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS) and authors have to comply with the CEUR template. Research Papers Research papers for ECTEL 2023 should be 8-15 pages long (including references). No matter the length, research papers are expected to be mature research contributions to the field of technology-enhanced learning. Research papers should clearly define research objectives and questions. In addition, research papers should discuss the state-of-the-art in the area in which the work is framed, how the new proposal advances the state of the art, present an appropriate research methodology, as well as present and discuss the results of the research conducted. Preliminary results or work in progress fit very well in the poster paper category. Research papers should highlight their novelty and contribution to the field. It is important for ECTEL 2023 research papers to consider both technology and learning. Posters Posters report on significant work-in-progress research and developments. Theoretical and practice-oriented contributions are welcomed. Please submit papers of 4-6 pages, including theoretical background, description of your work, preliminary results, and references. Poster papers will be published in the ECTEL 2023 proceedings if accepted. Demonstrations Demo papers are expected to describe innovative TEL applications, practices and prototypes aligned with the conference theme and topics (e.g. dashboards, recommender systems, chatbots, practice-oriented contributions, etc.). Demo papers will be published in the ECTEL 2023 proceedings if accepted. Please submit papers of 4-6 pages, including: 1. Pedagogical / Technological background 2. Description of the application/ practice/ prototype / use case to demonstrate its relevance 3. Results and outcomes achieved 4. Future agenda / next steps Workshops ECTEL 2023 offers an opportunity to host half-day or full-day workshops. Workshops will take place on the 4th and 5th September. Organisers interested in coordinating a workshop are welcomed to submit a proposal by filling out this form https://forms.gle/ZY6FaaXt5XGSv5k68), no later than 5 May 2023. Successful proposals will be confirmed by 19 May 2023. Workshops are encouraged but not required to promote the conference theme – Responsive and Sustainable Educational Futures – and provide a venue for community building and idea generation for emerging research topics to groups of like-minded researchers and practitioners, further elaborating on how learning technologies can add educational value to the different stakeholders and contribute to effective education. Workshop organisers are encouraged to propose innovative and interactive formats, which will be given priority in the selection process. The workshop selection will be handled competitively to achieve a balanced workshop program. Ideally, the ECTEL workshop program will comprise different formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving, and established research topics. Proposals will be ranked according to their fit with ECTEL 2023 conference topics, innovativeness, the extent of interaction, overall quality, and comprehensiveness of planning including pla! nned dissemination activities to recruit attendants. In case of overlapping workshops, organisers may be contacted to clearly differentiate the workshops or to merge them. We encourage interested organisers to propose not only “traditional” workshops with paper presentations but also other interactive types of workshop (e.g., tutorial) The proposal should be submitted via this form (https://forms.gle/ZY6FaaXt5XGSv5k68) and workshop organisers must indicate: * Workshop title and acronym * Workshop theme, list of topics addressed * Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time * Workshop objectives and expected outcomes * Proposed schedule and duration (full-day or half-day) * Workshop activities that participants can expect * The proposed timeline, including any tentative submission deadline for workshop participants. We plan to support the workshop dissemination by including the workshop timelines and links to their websites on the ECTEL 2023 conference website. Nevertheless, accepted workshops are expected to launch their websites (latest by 7 June 2023), identify workshop participants, and handle the call for workshop contributions as well as the publication of workshop outcomes (if any). In publishing the workshop contributions, workshop organisers are encouraged to target high-quality publication outlets (international impact-rated journals, including special issues within them). Workshop proposals will be assessed according to their fit with ECTEL 2023 conference topics, innovativeness, the extent of interaction, overall quality and comprehensiveness of planning (including planned dissemination activities to recruit attendants). In case of overlapping workshops, organisers may be contacted to clearly differentiate the workshops or to merge them. Doctoral consortium ECTEL 2023 will organize a Doctoral Consortium for PhD candidates working on topics related to Technology-Enhanced Learning. The Doctoral Consortium is an exceptional opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international atmosphere. Prominent professors and researchers in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning will provide formative feedback to the selected papers through the review process and contribute actively to discussions at the workshop. More information on the Doctoral Consortium will be found in the EC-TEL website. Statement on Open Science As in previous years, we want to encourage Open Science within the EATEL research community. We therefore encourage authors to document their research in a reproducible and verifiable manner, and in general to use Open Science best practices. Two best practices that we specifically would be happy to see in ECTEL 2023 research papers are: 1. Pre-registration. Results from empirical studies are more robust when researchers predefine a research and analysis plan and register it before data collection. To do so, we encourage authors to use services like AsPredicted and the Open Science Framework to preregister their research so that confirmatory and exploratory analyses can be better evaluated. The research manuscript should then include a link to the preregistration document. 2. Sharing data and code for replication purposes. Sharing data sources (always anonymised!) as well as the scripts or programs you used to analyse them can help other researchers to replicate or extend your analysis. We encourage authors to share this information by providing a link to the data and code in the manuscript. Invitation to publish in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Best papers, and additional selected papers, get an invite to IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (https://ieee-edusociety.org/publication/ieee-tlt) to publish there with 30% new content and if these papers contain design-relevant knowledge as envisioned by the journal. Extended papers submitted to IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies will undergo a new review process and acceptance is not guaranteed. Conference Organization Details on the Conference Organization Committee can be found here in https://ea-tel.eu/ectel2023/committee. With best wishes, EC-TEL organizers
