Due to its potential to make learning easier, more convenient, and more effective, education is one of the preeminent areas of applications for multimedia. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers who are interested in the intersection area between the technological point of view and the human-centered view of multimedia technologies for e-learning.

The workshop topics include but are not limited to:

* Multimedia in M-Learning and Learning Apps
- Use of mobile devices for recording
- Use of mobile devices for playback
- Mobile devices and multimedia-based learning-apps or learning-games

* Augmented and Virtual Reality in E-Learning
- Augmented Reality application for immersive learning
- Virtual Reality for explorative teaching
- Machine Learning for adaptive content
- Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)

* Learning Analytics
- Tools and Frameworks
- Big Data approaches
- Analysis Techniques

* Academic Research Projects
- Research Methodologies
- Links between Education and Research
- New Projects and Innovation

* Content Creation & Content Development
- Solving the content dilemma
- Quick-creation of multimedia learning content
- Video- and animation-content for teaching

* Lecture Recording, Multimedia Authoring & Classroom Methodology
- Automated lecture recording and presentation techniques
- Classroom note taking and whiteboard capturing and analysis
- Multimedia authoring software for e-learning

* Experiments, Laboratories
- Simulations
- Animations
- Virtual laboratories

* Multimedia Architectures, Repositories & Interfaces
- Repositories for multimedia education
- Architectures for user tracking
- Technical infrastructures for large scale learning repositories
- Big Data approaches
- Information visualization and novel user navigation

* Semantic Multimedia in e-Learning Scenarios
- Context aware semantic analysis of e-learning content
- Semantic modeling and ontological engineering for e-learning scenarios


Workshop Proceedings

The workshop solicits regular technical papers of up to 6 pages (IEEE double-column format). Workshop papers will be official publications of IEEE which will be included in IEEEXplore and also be available as printed workshop proceedings. A number of selected papers will be invited for extension and publication in a special issue of ITSE (International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education) published by Emerald.

Submission Details

Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. Papers should be submitted in electronic form as PDF file to the organizers. Submissions must be formatted according to the 8.5x11 inch double column IEEE CS proceedings format and must not exceed 6 pages.

Submit to: ieeemtel@gmail.com

Important Dates

Submission due: October 06, 2020
Notification: October 23, 2020
Camera-Ready due: October 30, 2020

Co-Chairs

MARKUS KETTERL, .msg Systems, Germany
FLORIAN SCHIMANKE, Hochschule Weserbergland, Germany

Advisory Chairs

GERALD FRIEDLAND, ICSI Berkeley, USA
LARS KNIPPING, Berlin Inst. of Technology, Germany

Program Committee (tentative)

MICHAEL AUER, Univ. of Appl. Sc. Kärnten, Austria
HELMAR BURKHART, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland
CHRISTOPHER BROOKS, Univ. of Michigan, USA
PAUL DICKSON, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA
WOLFGANG HÜRST, Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands
KAI MICHAEL HOEVER, TU Darmstadt, Germany
ULRICH KORTENKAMP, University of Potsdam, Germany
FLEMING LAMPI, Kavisio, Germany
YING LI, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
THOMAS RICHTER, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
HARALD SACK, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
DOMINIQUE VAUFREYDAZ, Univ. Pierre-Mendès
HEINZ-DIETRICH WUTTKE, Ilmenau Inst. of Technology

The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL) in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2020 (ISM2020) December 2-4, 2020, VIRTUALLY