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                       Special Issue of
       International Journal of Continuing Engineering
               Education and Lifelong Learning

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WEB-BASED EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR LIFELONG LEARNING

                       CALL FOR PAPERS

In today's rapidly changing technological world learning becomes a lifelong activity. The traditional forms of college, continuous and adult education however are not sufficient to support it, as lifelong learners may not be learning in the traditional setting. Web-based education and learning come as a possible answer to it. The increasing popularity of the Web-based educational environments is due to their clear benefits - classroom independence and platform independence. This independence promotes the new emerging model of education in which the traditional classrooms are complemented or replaced by Web-based virtual classrooms that can accommodate people of different knowledge and cultural backgrounds.

The purpose of this special issue is to provide better understanding of the emerging trends in research, design, implementation and evaluation of Web-based educational systems, as well as tools for supporting professional communities and individual lifelong learners in their Web-based learning. Topics of interest for the special issue include:

  *  Virtual realities and virtual campuses: implications and
     designs for lifelong learning

  *  Pedagogical issues in Web-based learning and training that
     impact on the potential for lifelong learning

  *  Design, implementation and evaluation of Web-based
     educational systems

  *  Authoring tools and application of agents technology to the
     development of Web-based educational environments

  *  Web information support for on-line learning communities and
     individual lifelong learners including Web-based resources,
     collaborative filtering and social navigation for Web
     information  retrieval and Web information services through
     mobile devices

All papers will be refereed according to standard IJCEELL procedures and should be submitted to the SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS. The deadline for submissions is March 15th 2002. However, if you are planning to submit a paper, we ask you to contact the Guest Editors as early as possible (please send the intended title and a short abstract).

Electronic submissions are encouraged. The preferred word processing program for electronic submission is Microsoft Word 8.

If it is necessary to provide a hard-copy submission then please contact the guest editors.

Important dates:

Notification of Intent to Submit as soon as possible Paper Submission March 15, 2002 Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2002 Final Version June 15, 2002 Submission of the issue to the Publisher July 15, 2002 Intended Publication January 2003

Darina Dicheva, dichevad@wssu.edu Catherine McLoughlin, mcloughlin@metz.une.edu.au Guest Editors, IJCEELL

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