Call for Papers

1st Moodle Research Conference

14th and 15th of September 2012
Heraklion, Crete, Greece

http://research.moodle.net/

The Moodle Scientific Conference will become a major event for academics, researchers, experts and practitioners - sharing experiences, research achievements and innovative developments with Moodle. It is a unique opportunity to participate in an event dedicated to research and development (R&D) on learning and teaching carried out with Moodle. The conference will provide opportunities for sharing, discussing and providing constructive criticism of research outcomes and methods.

The conference venue is a beautiful location in the historic island of Crete, Greece. Participants will have opportunities to connect with peers and learn about new Moodle R&D trends and debate research ideas that could improve the design of Moodle in the future.

We invite scientists and practitioners to submit manuscripts (full papers or posters) critically reporting on quantitative and qualitative research results concerning learning with Moodle.

Topics

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments on the following topics:

• Research studies and case studies on teaching with Moodle
• Mobile Learning with Moodle
• Innovative Moodle plugins
• Learning Analytics in Moodle
• Collaborative Learning with Moodle
• Moodle communities of practice
• Interoperability with Moodle
• Accessibility in Moodle
• Adaptivity in Moodle


Paper submission guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit
? Research papers - of up to 8 pages, including figures and references
? Posters and research in progress that should be up to 1000 words in length.


Submission will be made by the conference management system EasyChair conference management system. All submissions will undergo a blind peer review process involving two program committee members.
Accepted papers will be published as conference proceedings (with ISBN) in an open access, online-only version. The proceedings will be available online approximately one month prior to the conference opening


Important Dates
28 May 2012: Submission of manuscripts (NEW: extended)
11 June 2012: Notification of acceptance
9 July 2012: Submission of final copy of accepted papers
16 July 2012: Early Bird Deadline
14th and 15th September 2012: MoodleSco2012 Conference


Conference Chairs

Martin Dougiamas, Founder of Moodle
Symeon Retalis, Associate Professor, University of Piraeus

Programme Committee

Shirley Agostinho, University of Wollongong, Australia
Juan Ignacio Asensio, University of Valladolid, Spain
Nikos Avouris, University of Patras, Greece
Gerassimos Barlas, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Daniel Burgos, International University of La Rioja, Spain
Brock Craft, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, UK
Athanasios Daradoumis, University of Aegean, Greece
Michael Derntl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Peter Goodyear, University of Sydney, Australia
Stylianos Hatzipanagos, King's College London, UK
Davinia Hernandez-Leo, University of Valladolid, Spain
Stamos Karamouzis, Regis University, USA
Theodoros Kargidis, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Heide K. Lukosch, Technical University Delft, Holland
Liz Masterman, Oxford University Computing Services, UK
Alejandra Martinez Mones, University of Valladolid, Spain
Yishay Mor, Open University, UK
Konstantinos Mourlas, University of Athens, Greece
Andreas Papasalouros, University of Aegean, Greece
Francesca Pozzi, Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche – CNR, Italy
Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece
Patti Schank, SRI Center for Technology in Learning, USA
Peter Sloep, Open Universiteit Nederland, Holland
Chih-Hsiung Tu, Northern Arizona University, USA
Charalambos Vrassidas, CARDET, Cyprus
Steven Warburton, University of London, UK


Organisers

The Moodle.com and ITisART Ltd, with the support of the University of Piraeus, are organising the1st Moodle Scientific Conference – MoodleSCo2012 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Venue

Creta Maris Beach Resort in Crete[http://www.maris.gr/creta.aspx ].


More Info

Conference Secretariat: Mr Nikos Manousakis. Email: info[at]research.moodle.net

URL: http://research.moodle.net/