-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ViWo 2010: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - 3rd Special Track on Virtual Worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning (ViWo 2010) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:08:57 +0200 From: Mohammad Smadi msmadi@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at To: Mohammad Smadi msmadi@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at

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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 ===============================================

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 ========

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 ===========

. 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 ===============

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 mailto: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 =============

Christian Gütl, Graz University of Technology, Austria Frank Kappe, Graz University of Technology, Austria

ViWo 2010 Organization team =====================

Alexander Nussbaumer, University of Graz and Graz University of Technology, Austria Mohammad Smadi, Graz University of Technology, Austria

ViWo 2010 Program Committee =======================

. 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: ==============

. 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

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