Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:46:19 +0800 (CST) From: "Kinshuk" kinshuk@inspire.net.nz To: BERND.SIMON@WU-WIEN.AC.AT Subject: CFP: IEEE Intl Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE 2003) X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-WU-uvscan-status: clean v4.1.60/v4253 charon 6ed1356deddae92d70b352d7ea24fb39 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by isis.wu-wien.ac.at id h2Q3kOwO131362

Dear colleague

Here is the call for papers for IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE 2003). I look forward to receive your research work for this workshop.

Please also forward this WMTE2003 announcement to your colleagues.

Thanks.

Kinshuk

   Second IEEE International Workshop on

Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE 2003)

          December 8-10, 2003

National Central University, JungLi, Taiwan http://lttf.ieee.org/wmte2003/

Theme: "Mobile Support for Learning Communities"

*- The WMTE 2003 proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press -*

** Important dates:

Submissions due: June 16, 2003 Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2003 Final articles due: September 1, 2003 Author registration deadline: September 1, 2003 Workshop: December 8-10, 2003

IEEE WMTE 2003 will be held at National Central University, Taiwan. Taiwan is the world's leading manufacturer of computer technology, and an important center of mobile learning technology research and development in Asia.

WMTE 2003 will bring together researchers, academia and industry practitioners who are involved in the design, development and evaluation of Wireless and Mobile Learning Technologies. The event will provide an opportunity to discuss promising directions for lightweight, connected tools that enhance teaching and learning.

Emerging wireless and mobile technologies bring new opportunities for learners to be more intensely connected, either face-to-face or at a distance, and extend one's learning community to friends, teachers, mentors, parents, and beyond. Modern learning theories advocate many social aspects of learning such as discourse, communities of practice, collaborative learning, internalization of social process, participation in joint activity, and situated learning. Thus it becomes natural to ask: How can wireless and mobile connections, sustained over time within a community, intensify the learning process? Conversely, how can ongoing connection with other learners intensify participants' sense of a more extended educational community?

** Topics of Interest

We invite full papers, works-in-progress, and posters. The program committee will seek to achieve a balance of empirical investigations and design studies, including relevant methodologies from computer science and engineering research as well as cognitive science and educational research. All submitted papers should address mobile and/or wireless technologies and provide new insights relating to their use in teaching and learning.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Innovative designs and uses of tools to overcome barriers of learning
• Principles and patterns for learner-centered design
• Design of learning activities supported by mobile devices
• Advances in teaching conceptually difficult topics in school
• Interface designs optimized for small screens or other modes of

interaction that fit on mobile devices

• Architectures that support rapid prototyping, reuse, or large-scale test

beds

• Techniques of instrumentation devices and networks for research data

gathering

• Case studies of teaching and learning
• Surveys of learners that reveal important trends and opportunities
• Analysis of the topology of learning communities
• Evaluation of effectiveness
• Comparisons of alternative designs
• Issues of scaling up to reach large numbers of learners
• Mobile agents for learning

** Paper submission:

Submissions are invited in the following categories:

• Full papers (maximum 8 pages)
• Works-in-progress (maximum 5 pages)
• Posters (maximum 2 pages)

Details of submission procedure are available at the conference website: http://lttf.ieee.org/wmte2003/

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Associate Professor Kinshuk kinshuk@massey.ac.nz kinshuk@inspire.net.nz Chair, IEEE Learning Technology Task Force http://lttf.ieee.org/

Information Systems Dept., Massey Univ., Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North, New Zealand Tel: +64 6 3505799 ext. 2090 Fax: +64 6 3505725 http://infosys.massey.ac.nz/~kinshuk