Final Call for Papers:
Theme: "Cognitive Skills Acquisition in Life-long Learning"
Special issue of 'Interactive Learning Environments' journal (ISSN
1049-4820)
* Important dates:
Paper submission Friday 2 February 2001
Outcome notification Monday 19 March 2001
Revised version Friday 4 May 2001
Feedback on revised version Monday 11 June 2001
Final version Friday 13 July 2001
Publication November 2001
* Introduction:
Cognitive skills are concerned with analysis, interpretation and decision
making processes required for performing the procedural tasks. The
development
of cognitive skill demands a more sophisticated learning process as much of
its process runs inside a human mind and may largely rely on
self-explanations
as a learner studies an example and attempts a given problem.
It is easier for a learning system researcher, designer or implementer to
consider the facilitation of physical skills due to their external
visibility,
but it seems important to have stronger focus on cognitive skills
acquisition,
particularly for life long learners who may not be learning in the
traditional
setting.
We invite discussion on these and related issues with a view to better
understand
the emerging trends in research, design and implementation of systems for
cognitive skills acquisition in life-long learning.
* Guest editor:
Kinshuk
Information Systems Department
Massey University, Private Bag 11-222
Palmerston North
New Zealand
Email:
kinshuk@massey.ac.nz or
kinshuk@mailandnews.com
* Submission procedure:
The papers should be around 5000 words and should address one or more
aspects
relating to the theme of the special issue. They should be sent as
attachment
by email to the guest editor at
kinshuk@massey.ac.nz (alternatively
kinshuk@mailandnews.com) latest by Friday February 2, 2001. Preferred file
formats are RTF, PDF and Word but we shall try our best for other formats
too.
Your submissions will be considered on first come first served basis
allowing
for more flexible planning of your further work. We encourage you for early
submission at each stage.
Please provide following details with each submission:
- Author(s) full name(s) including title(s)
- Job title(s)
- Organisation(s)
- Full contact details of ALL authors including email and postal address,
tel/fax
General details about the journal are available at:
http://www.szp.swets.nl/szp/journals/il.htm
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Dr. Kinshuk
kinshuk@massey.ac.nz kinshuk@mailandnews.com
General Chair, Intl.Conf.on Adv.Learn.Tech.(ICALT2001)
http://lttf.ieee.org/icalt2001/
Editor, "Educational Technology & Society"
http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/
Chair, IEEE Learning Technology Task Force
http://lttf.ieee.org/
Chair, ACM SIGCHI New Zealand
http://www.acm.org/chapters/sigchi_nz/
Information Systems Dept., Massey Univ., Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston
North, New Zealand
Tel: +64 6 3505799 ext. 2090 Fax: +64 6 3505725
http://fims-www.massey.ac.nz/~kinshuk