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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Student Mobility and ICT: Can E-LEARNING overcome barriers of Life-Long learning?

19 - 20 November 2008

Conference website: http://www.masterproject.info/

Online submission is available now: http://confious.ics.forth.gr/index.php?conf=121-NSKL-fdadee5c

Submission deadline: 30^th of June 2008

Following contributions are welcomed:

An increasing number of students enroll in educational programmes in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> outside their native country. A reasonable response in order to facilitate their transition is to offer remedial education in distance learning format. Information Communication Technology (ICT) offers some powerful tools which might benefit life-long learning. Recently, ICT has gained the power to support independent learning as well as learning irrespective of time and geographical dispersion with the wide-spread implementation of Internet. In addition, ICT provides powerful tools for learning in collaborative settings where students work and learn together.

This conference should be regarded as an opportunity to present how ICT and E-learning can help European learners on their life-long learning paths, and to discuss your recent research findings with other scholars. We are looking for proposals within the following fields:

1. Knowledge acquisition in e-learning and the role of social knowledge building in (distance) education
2. Collaborative knowledge construction in education context and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
3. Barriers to Life-long learning and how to solve them
4. Good-practices of remedial education and special education and the combination with e-learning

In order to take advantage of different fields of expertise in different areas of learning, contributions of the following members will be very welcome:

1. Researchers and scholars on education and learning psychology, computer science and communication sciences
2. Practitioners in instruction and education matters
3. E-learning researchers and scholars
4. Teachers, tutors, managers of e-learning activities

Important dates:

1.      Abstract submission deadline: 30^th of June 2008

2.      Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15^th of July 2008

3.      Registration deadline for authors and submission of full paper (camera-ready copy): 23^rd of September 2008

4.      Final program: 1^st of October 2008

5.      Conference dates: <st1:city w:st="on">Maastricht</st1:city>, The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>, 19^th – 20^th of November 2008

Looking forward to meeting you in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Maastricht</st1:city></st1:place>!

The S-ICT conference organisation.