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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd Special Track on
Virtual Worlds for
academic,
organizational, and life-long learning (ViWo 2010)
Putrajaya, Malaysia, 29
or 30 November 2010
http://www.iicm.edu/ViWo2010
In conjunction with
18th International Conference on
Computers in Education (ICCE 2010)
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ViWo 2010 - 29 or 30 November 2010, 2010 - Putrajaya, Malaysia
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Workshop on
Virtual Worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long
learning (ViWo 2010)
This CfP is also available as PDF: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo2010/ViWo2010-CfP.pdf
A Paper Template is available at http://www.icce2010.upm.edu.my/author_guide.html
This workshop will take place on the first of second day of the
ICCE 2010 in
Putrajaya, Malaysia (November 29 - December 3) as a special
program item. The
ViWo 2010 provides an interdisciplinary forum for international
scientists and
practitioners to discuss various aspects of learning and
training in virtual
worlds.
The 18th International Conference on Computers in Education
(ICCE 2010) will be
organized by the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education
(http://apsce.net/)
and hosted by the Faculty of
Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. More
information can
be found at http://www.educ.upm.edu.my.
Background
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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.
The special track will bring together international researchers
as well as
practitioners from different organisations who will have plenty
of time for
networking and real-world knowledge sharing.
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
• Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration
• Artificial Intelligence Approaches
• Usability and Human-Computer-Interaction
Important Dates
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• August 27, 2010: Submission of the full papers (6-8
Pages)
• September 23, 2010: Notification of acceptance
• October 1, 2010: Camera ready version (8 Pages)
• October 1, 2010: Early Bird Registration at ICCE 2010
Conference
• November 27 - December 3, 2010: ICCE 2010 Conference
• November 29 or 30, 2010: ViWo 2010 Workshop
Submission Procedure
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File Types: Windows Word or PDF
Language: English (British or US)
Style Guides & Template: http://www.icce2010.upm.edu.my/author_guide.html
Paper Submission System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=viwo2010
In case of problems or questions concerning the submission of
papers, please
contact the workshop organisers at viwo2010@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
Notification of Acceptance and Publishing
Camera ready papers have to be submitted as Word (or RTF) file
together with a
copyright statement until October 1, 2010. At least one author
has to register
until October 1, 2010 after the notification of acceptance to be
included into
the conference program.
Accepted papers will be published in the consolidated ICCE 2010
Workshop
Proceedings on ICCE 2010 Web site. 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 2010 Chairs
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Christian Gütl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Frank Kappe, Graz University of Technology, Austria
ViWo 2010 Organization team
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Alexander Nussbaumer, University of Graz and Graz University of
Technology, Austria
Mohammad Smadi, Graz University of Technology, Austria
ViWo 2010 Program Committee
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• Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria
• Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied
Sciences, Austria
• Santi Caballé Llobet, Open University of Catalonia,
Spain
• Vanessa Chang, Curtin University of Technology,
Australia
• Sara de Freitas, Coventry University, UK
• Samir A. El-Seoud, Princess Sumaya University for
Technology, Jordan
• Michael Gardner, University of Assex, UK
• Judson Harward, MIT Center for Educational Computing
Initiatives, USA
• Sven Havemann, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Margit Höfler, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Michael Jacobson , University of Sydney, Australia
• Mitja Jermol, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium, USA
• Irene Karaguilla Ficheman, University of Soa Paulo,
Brasil
• Stephanie Linek, Universität Graz, Austria
• Ignazio Passero, University of Salerno, Italy
• Lalita Rajasingham, Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand
• Daniel Rongo, EON Reality Pte Ltd, Singapore
• Thomas Sancho Pilar, Complutense University of
Madrid, Spain
• Sandra Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft,
Austria
• Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institut, Germany
• Nicole Yankelovich, OpenWonderland, USA
Further Information:
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• Information about ICCE 2010: http://www.icce2010.upm.edu.my/
• Travel Information: http://www.icce2010.upm.edu.my/travel_info.html
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Mohammad
Smadi
PhD
Candidate
Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM)
Faculty
of Computer Science
Graz
University of Technology
Inffeldgasse 16c , A-8010 Graz, Austria
Tel: +43 (316) 873 5662
Fax:
+43 (316) 873 5699
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