Call for Papers - Please excuse us if this is of no interest to you. 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training ITHET 2013. 10-12 October 2013, Antalya, TURKEY
http://www.ithet.boun.edu.tr Deadline for electronic submission of one page abstracts - June 28, 2013 We have pleasure in inviting you to submit a paper for presentation at ITHET 2013. This year we will have a special theme as well as all the traditional themes of previous events. We want to explore both the opportunities and the challenges of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS). The university world is abuzz with this phenomenon which has come to visit all of us. Will they change the university business model forever? Will they eventually revolutionize university education as information technology has promised to do for many years? Will they threaten our jobs, or will they help us to ensure that our students really do “get it”? We want to explore all of this at this year’s ITHET. Please join us. (For some background just put MOOCS into your search engine.) This year's conference will be in beautiful Anyalya, reputed to be one of "gems" of the Mediterranean. For more detail, visit the website. Details: Objectives: The convergence of current technologies provides the infrastructure for transmitting and storing information faster and cheaper. For information to be used in gaining knowledge, however, environments for collecting, storing, disseminating, sharing and constructing knowledge are needed. Such environments, knowledge media, brings together the telecommunication, computer and networking technologies, learning theories and cognitive sciences to form meaningful environments that provides for a variety of learner needs. The World Wide Web is one such technology that provides access to valuable educational resources such as e-mail, e-groups, bulletin board services, audio conferencing, video conferencing, e-journals, search engines and databases. ITHET 2013 will have a special theme as well as all the traditional themes of previous events. This year we want to explore both the opportunities and the challenges of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS). The university world is abuzz with this phenomenon which has come to visit all of us. Will they change the university business model forever? Will they eventually revolutionize university education as information technology has promised to do for many years? Will they threaten our jobs, or will they help us to ensure that our students really do “get it”? We want to explore all of this at this year’s ITHET. Please join us. (For some background just put MOOCS into your search engine.) Location: The organizing committee of ITHET 2011 extends a cordial invitation to you to come to Antalya to meet renowned scholars and practitioners not only from the region but also from many different parts of the world, at a place that is reputed to be one of the most attractive cities of the Mediterranean. Topics: The scope of the conference will cover but not be limited to: * Massive Open Online Courses * WWW education tools * Asynchronous learning * Multimedia tutorials * Distance leaning * Intelligent training technology * Blended learning * Authoring technology * Virtual student laboratories * Second language education * Virtual classroom, virtual universities * Industry-university partnership * Creating courses on-line * Learning and Assessment * Network based education and training * Accreditation issues * New strategies for higher education and training * Role of information society and global communication systems * Development and use of IT Tools and Environments * Quality management in higher education * Interactive learning modules Paper Submission: Prospective participants are invited to electronically submit an extended abstract (min. 500 words, as PDF file), following the instructions available on the Conference web site. Accepted and presented papers will be copyrighted to IEEE and published in conference proceedings that will appear in IEEE Xplore and therefore customarily be indexed by EI Compendex. Some papers will be selected for expansion into journal papers and invited to participate in the normal peer review process of IEEE Transactions on Education or IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. Special Sessions: Prospective participants of ITHET 2013 are encouraged to organize special sessions (5-6 papers) in a particular area within the conference topics. Those interested should contact Okyay Kaynak at [email protected] for details. Submission deadlines: Apr 26, 2013 - Deadline for electronic submission of one page abstracts May 17, 2013 - Notification of acceptance Jun 21, 2013 - Submission of full papers -- Robin Braun, Professor of Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology School of Computing and Communications, and Centre for Real-time Information Networks (CRIN) University of Technology, Sydney, Australia crin.eng.uts.edu.au/~rob _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
