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ICWL 2017
16th International Conference on Web-based Learning
http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2017

20-22 September 2017
Cape Town, South Africa

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ICWL is an annual international conference on Web-based learning, founded by the Hong Kong Web Society. The first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002. Since then, ICWL has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004), Hong Kong (2005), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), China (2008), Germany (2009), China (2010), Hong Kong (2011), Romania (2012), Taiwan (2013), Estonia (2014), China (2015) and Italy (2016).

In 2017 we are organizing the 16th ICWL conference in Cape Town, South Africa. It will feature a technical program of refereed papers selected by the international program committee, keynote addresses, and a Doctoral Consortium.

In conjunction with ICWL 2017 the "2nd International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education" (SETE) will also be held. SETE collects the traditional workshop activities managed by ICWL in the past years, and additionally features a novel organization in Tracks. These Workshops and Tracks will add new and hot topics on Technology Enhanced Learning, into the overall conference experience.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Areas of interest include but are not limited to the following:

* Personalized and Adaptive Learning
* Computer Support for Intelligent Tutoring
* Intelligent Tools for Visual Learning
* Informal Learning on the Workplace
* Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages Learning
* Game-based Learning and Serious Games
* Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
* Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
* Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
* Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments
* HTML5 Web-based Learning
* Virtual environments and 3D graphics for e-learning
* Intelligent Learner and Group Modelling
* Learning Analytics
* Human Factors and Affective Computing for Learning
* E-Learning Platforms and Tools
* Design, Model and Framework of e-Learning Systems
* Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects
* Open educational resources (OER)
* E-Learning Metadata and Standards
* Semantic Web and Ontologies for E-Learning
* Mobile, Situated and Blended Learning
* Bring your own Device (BYOD)
* Cloud-based Learning
* Pedagogical Issues
* Mobile learning
* Digital libraries and Web corpora for e-learning
* Assessment in e-learning


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Authors are invited to submit original papers reporting on research results or novel applications in technology-enhanced learning. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwl20170

Papers for submission should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/de/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and have maximum 10 pages. Since the review process will be double-blind, the submitted manuscript should not contain the authors’ names, affiliations, or any information that may disclose the authors’ identity. All papers should be submitted in PDF format.

All accepted papers presented at the conference will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).


IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission: 11 April 2017
Full paper submission: 18 April 2017
Notification to authors: 2 June 2017
Final camera ready Version: 25 June 2017


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
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Conference Co-chairs
* Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Baltasar Fernández Manjón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Technical Program Committee Co-chairs
* Haoran Xie, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania

Organization Chair
* Gerhard P. Hancke, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Steering Committee Representatives
* Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Treasurer
* Howard Leung, Hong Kong Web Society

Web Chair
* Bruno Silva, University of Pretoria, South Africa