-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ViWo 2009 Workshop: Extended Deadline May 28th, 2009 Datum: Mon, 18 May 2009 14:45:59 +0200 Von: Mohammad Smadi msmadi@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at An: Mohammad Smadi msmadi@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
First Workshop on Virtual Worlds for academic,
organizational, and life-long learning
(ViWo Workshop 2009)
Aachen, Germany, August 19-21, 2009
http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo/ViWo2009Workshop
In conjunction with
8th International Conference on
Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning (ICWL2009)
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Extended Deadline: May 28th, 2009
New Paper Template:
http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo/ViWo2009Workshop/Template.doc
This CfP is also available as PDF:
http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo2009Workshop/ViWo2009-CfP.pdf
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This workshop will take place during the ICWL 2009 in Aachen, Germany (August 19-21) as a special program item.
The Workshop ViWo 2009 provides an interdisciplinary forum for international scientists and practitioners to discuss various aspects of learning and training in virtual worlds.
The 8th International Conference on International Conference on Web-based Learning, ICWL2009, will be jointly organized by Hong Kong Web Society, RWTH Aachen University, and Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science. ICWL is an annual international conference on web-based learning.
Background
Our society of the 21st century makes great demands on its members caused by rapid developing and ever-changing political, social, economical and technological situations. Consequently, it is expected that members of the society keep pace with these mutable situations, adapt their skills and expertise. As a result, modern instructional design, learning goals and processes as well as appropriate learning environments must support the development of the aforementioned skills and expertises. Consequently, educational approaches have changed dramatically over time from less formal schooling in the agrarian society to remedial repetitive learning in the industrialization age to learning with an understanding in today's knowledge society. Based on that, different modern educational strategies have been developed which includes aspects such as self-directed learning, collaborative learning, experiential-based learning and actively participating. Educational approaches have also been influenced by technology but have also increasingly applied technology over the last decades, such as motion pictures, radio, television, computers and other emerging information and communication technologies (ICT).
Last year's hype surrounding the virtual world "Second Life" has also generated significant interest in the education community. Although virtual worlds have been an active research topic for a long time, technology was not ready for complex application scenarios since recent years. New interesting and powerful platforms and tools, such as Second Life, Active Worlds, Multiverse, Open Croquet, OpenSim and Sun's 3D Wonderland, have been emerged applicable to complement or even replace other knowledge transfer and learning settings. Modern virtual worlds are seen from an optimistic viewpoint as a disruptive and transformative technology. However, it still remains unclear to some extent where the real benefits and limitations of using virtual worlds as knowledge transfer and learning environments are when compared to more traditional methods. In order to avoid the same pitfalls of past e-learning solutions by just applying traditional learning approaches to a new technology, this special track is indented to offer a multidisciplinary platform which brings together international researchers from different organizations in order to share their experience with this technology.
Topics
We invite submissions of papers in the categories research, development, evaluation and best practices that deal with virtual worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning issues including, but not limited
to:
. Technological approaches, their limitations and how to overcome them
. Virtual worlds and mobile learning
. Virtual learning space design and architecture
. Modern learning settings
. Didactic and cognitive aspects
. New learning and teaching activities
. Interaction and behavior patterns
. Distance and blended learning
. Organizational learning, vocational training and certification
. Academic learning, assessment and feedback
. Collaborative and social learning
. Mixed Virtual world and classroom learning
. Virtual Laboratories and experiments . Knowledge Transfer and
Collaboration
. Artificial Intelligence Approaches
. Usability and Human-Computer-Interaction
Important Dates
. May 28, 2009 (extended): Submission of the full papers (6 Pages)
. Juni 15, 2009: Notification of acceptance
. July 15, 2009: Registration
. July 15, 2009: Camera ready version (6 Pages)
. August 19-21 2009: ICWL 2009 Conference
Submission Procedure
File Types: Windows Word or PDF
Language: English (British or US)
Style Guides & Template:
http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo/ViWo2009Workshop/Template.doc
Paper Submission System:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=viwo2009workshop
In case of problems or questions concerning the submission of papers, please contact the track chairs at ViWo2009@iicm.edu mailto:ViWo2009@iicm.edu.
Notification of Acceptance and Publishing
Accepted papers will be published as electronic proceedings within the ViWo Website. At least one author has to register until July 15th, 2009 after the notification of acceptance to be included into the conference program.
Authors fee is applicable only once per paper!
Some authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for publication in a special issue in J.UCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science, http://www.jucs.org/.
ViWo 2009 Chair
Christian Gütl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Frank Kappe, Graz University of Technology, Austria
ViWo 2009 Organization team
Alexander Nussbaumer, University of Graz, Austria
Mohammad Smadi, Graz University of Technology, Austria
ViWo Program Committee
. Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria
. Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria
. Vanessa Chang, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
. Samir A. El-Seoud, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan
. Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
. Judson Harward, MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, USA
. Sven Havemann, Graz University of Technology, Austria
. Mitja Jermol, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
. Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium, USA
. Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
. Stephanie Linek, Universität Graz, Austria
. Phillip D. Long, University of Queensland, Australia
. Michelle Lucey-Roper, Federatoin of American Scientists, USA
. Ignazio Passero, University of Salerno, Italy
. Lalita Rajasingham, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
. Peter Reimann, University of Sydney Australia
. Torsten Reiners, University of Hamburg, Germany
. Diane Salter, University of Hong Kong, China
. Sandra Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria
. Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institut, Germany
Further Information:
. Information about ICWL 2009: http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2009/
. Tourist Information: http://www.aachen.de/EN/index.html
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Mohammad Smadi
PhD Student
Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM)
Faculty of Computer Science
Graz University of Technology
Brückenkopfgasse 1, 8020 Graz, Austria
Tel: +43 (316) 873 5662
Fax: +43 (316) 873 5699
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