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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies - ICALT2015

Hualien, Taiwan, July 6-9, 2015

http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2015/

Deadline: January 20th, 2015

Track 1: Digital Systems for Open Access to Education and Learning
(i-OPENLearn@ICALT2015)

Track Program Chairs

- Michail N. Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Carlo Giovannella, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
- Ray Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
- Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece [Co-ordinator]
- Ramesh C. Sharma, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India
- Panagiotis Zervas, CERTH & University of Piraeus


Track Description and Topics of Interest:

Over the past years, openness in education and learning has become a key issue in Technology-enhanced Learning, with several initiatives that have been developed worldwide. Currently, Open Access to Educational Resources (mainly, academic courses and learning objects) Initiatives are turning to mainstream policies and practices. Nowadays, key research challenges for the future of openness initiatives involves open access to resources, practices, tools, services, people and spacesin an effective and interoperable manner, as well as strategic approaches like crowd collaboration and making practices. The main objective of the i-OPENLearn@ICALT2015 track is to bring together researchers and practitioners to present their research results and to debate about future research directions in the area of Open Educational Resources and Open Access as well as more generally on openness in education and learning.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
• Cloud Services and Architectures for Open Access to Education and Learning
• Open Standards and Federated Repositories for Education and Learning
• Open Learning Eco-systems and PlatfomsOpen Learning Processes and Methodologies
• Open Linked Data for Education and Learning
• Massive Open Online Courses - Open Educational Resources and Practices
• Assessment and Accreditation in MOOCs and other openness initiatives
• Open Flipped Classrooms : Pedagogical Design, Policies, Practices
• Interaction Design in Open Education and Learning
• Novel competences and roles for openness in education and learning
• Strategies and Policies for Open Access in Education and Training
• Cultural issues and social innovation related to openness in education and learning


Members of Track Program Committee

- Michail N. Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Carlo Giovannella, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
- Ray Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
- Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece
- Ramesh C. Sharma, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India
- Panagiotis Zervas, CERTH & University of Piraeus
- Tore Hoel, Oslo University College, Norway
- Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada
- Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Christian M. Stracke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Krassen Stefanov, Sofia University ‘St. Kl. Ohridski’, Bulgaria
- Kateryna Synytsya, International Research and Training Centre UNESCO, Ukraine
- Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
- Martin Llamas-Nistal, Universida de Vigo, Spain
- Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, UK
- Francis Brouns, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
- Wolfgang Greller, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
- Stephen Marshall, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador
- Michael Verhaart, Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand
- Jon Mason, Charles Darwin University, Australia
- Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet, Belgium
- Jun Hu, Eindhoven University of Technology, Taiwan
- Weizhan Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
- Kumiko Aoki, The Open University of Japan, Japan
- Grainne Conole, University of Leicester, UK
- Robert Schuwer, Open University of Netherlands, Netherlands
- David Porter, BC Campus, Canada
- Avgoustos Tsinakos, Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece
- Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Sandhya Kode, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India
- Li Zhang, Northumbria University, UK
- Yuan-Jen Chang, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
- Chien Ching Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology, Austria
- Daniel Russell, Google Inc, USA