SCOPE
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Education is the cornerstone of any society and it serves as one of the foundations for many of its social values and characteristics. State-of-the-art and novel methodologies and technologies allow researchers, designers, and domain experts to pursue Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) solutions targeting not only cognitive processes but also motivational, personality or emotional factors. Nowadays, we can identify two main legs, providing necessary and complementary strengths to a TEL oriented design process: appropriate technologies should be applied, and appropriate methods should guide such application. Technologies in TEL are capable of delivering smart, personalized, tailored, and motivating learning solutions. Methods are coming from different fields, such as education psychology, medicine, computer science, and from diverse communities, where collaboration and co-working is used, such as maker communities and participatory design communities. In addition, Learning Analytics can help manage available (big) data and allow to augment learning opportunities for learners and educators alike, for instance by supporting self-regulated learning or adaptation of the learning material.

As to these topics, the annual appointment of MIS4TEL established itself as a consolidated fertile forum where scholars and professionals from the international community, with a broad range of expertise in the TEL field, share results and compare experiences. The 10th edition of the conference calls for novel research in TEL and expands the topics of the previous editions, highlighting the role of the most recent methods and technological opportunities (ranging from Artificial Intelligence and agent-based systems to Robotics, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things and wearable solutions, among others) and looking for papers discussing how they can be employed to create novel approaches to TEL, innovative TEL solutions and valuable TEL experiences. As in the tradition of MIS4TEL, this edition aims at offering the different perspectives, and complementary voices, coming from the multidisciplinary field of TEL (e.g., engineering, computer science, education, medicine) from this multidisciplinary field.

MIS4TEL 2021 will be held in Salamanca (Spain) on October 6th-8th, 2021, in parallel with the PAAMS'21 International Conference.


info@mis4tel-conference.net



TOPICS
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Technologies and technology-based solutions for TEL

- AI technologies and tools for TEL
- Agent-based and multi-agent TEL systems
- Knowledge representation, reasoning and management systems for TEL
- Natural language systems for TEL
- Recommendation, personalisation and adaptation in TEL systems
- Social networks for TEL
- Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for TEL
- Internet of things (IoT) solutions for TEL
- Smart solutions or environments for TEL
- Wearable technologies for TEL
- Robotics for TEL
- Virtual reality environments for TEL
- Games for TEL or gamified TEL
- Sharing and interoperability between TEL environments
- Making and fabrication for TEL


Learning analytics for TEL

- Big data and data visualisation in TEL
- Learning analytics for curriculum design
- Learning analytics for personalising the learner experience
- Learning analytics for predicting behaviour
- Learning analytics for designing learning interventions
- Learning analytics for stakeholders


Methodologies and experiences for TEL

- Methodologies for personalisation, user modelling and adaptation in TEL
- Methodologies for recommendation systems and user modelling in TEL
- Methodologies for fostering motivation and engagement in TEL
- Methodologies for the design of accessible and usable TEL systems
- Methodologies for including different voices in the design process of TEL
- Methodologies for informal learning for TEL
- Methodologies for fostering TEL in small, medium and large companies
- Methodologies, tools and frameworks supporting experiments in TEL
- Methodologies or approaches from game design and gamification for TEL
- Novel experiences and studies (e.g., case studies, ethnographic studies, field studies, experimentations) with methodologies for TEL


SPECIAL ISSUES
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∎ Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2021 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (ISSN 1551-0018, JCR: 1.285(Q4)

∎ Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2021 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in ADCAIJ (ISSN: 2255-2863, indexed in DOAJ, ProQuest, Scholar, WorldCat, Dialnet, Sherpa ROMEO, Dulcinea, UlrichWeb, Emerging Sources Citation Index of Thomson Reuters, BASE y Academic Journals Database)




AWARDS
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Electronics MDPI will award the best paper with 300 CHF





COMMITTEE
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General Co-Chair

Fernando De la Prieta - University of Salamanca, Spain



Technical Program Co-Chair

Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Marco Temperini - Sapienza University, Rome, Italy


Paper Co-Chair

Tania Di Mascio - University of L'aquila, Italy
Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of L'aquila, Italy



Proceedings Co-Chair

Sara Rodríguez - University of Salamanca, Spain



Publicity Chairs

Federica Caruso - University of L'aquila, Italy
Nestor Dario Duque Mendes - National University of Colombia, Colombia
Alessandra Melonio - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Demetrio Arturo Ovalle Carranza - National University of Colombia, Colombia



Workshop Chairs

Zuzana Kubincova - Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia
Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, România





INVITED SPEAKERS
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Vicente Botti, Director of VRAIN (Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence). Technical University of Valencia (Spain)

Yves Demazeau, Senior Researcher at CNRS Grenoble (France)

Iyad Rahwan, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Germany)





CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
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Following the successful initiative from previous years, the International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) intends to host a number of workshops on different TEL-related areas also in the next edition of the conference. Therefore, the MIS4TEL 2021 Organizing Committee invites workshop proposals.

The aim of the workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on emerging topics in the scope of the conference.

Workshop contributions should be full papers (10 pages) or exceptionally short papers (6 pages); papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC template. Accepted workshop papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published by AISC series of Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/11156). At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend MIS4TEL 2021 to present the paper in order to have it included in the conference proceedings.

Please note that workshop organizers will be responsible for creating and advertising the Call for Papers, managing the review process and collecting the camera ready papers. A dedicated Easychair installation will be provided by MIS4TEL conference organizers (under a centralized management).

For each accepted workshop, one of its organizers will be invited to co-edit the proceedings of the conference.

Please note that workshop proposals will be evaluated on a continuous basis and acceptance / rejection decisions will be sent to the workshop organizers within one week from submission. Early submissions are highly encouraged, so that workshop organizers have sufficient time to attract papers.The proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and include the following information:

- Workshop title
- Workshop organizers' short bio (including prior experience in organizing workshops) and contact information
- Workshop description and topics
- Relevance of the workshop to the conference
- Information about previous editions of the workshop (if applicable)
- Program Committee members (tentative)
- Estimated number of submitted papers
- Draft CFP

Please submit your workshop proposal by email to info@mis4tel-conference.net (Subject: MIS4TEL 2021 Workshop Proposal).




FORMAT
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All papers must be formatted according to the AISC template, with a maximum length of 10 pages (4 pages en Doctoral Consortium), including figures and references:

Microsoft word format.
Latex Format.




SUBMISSION
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All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the MIS4TEL 2021 conference management system.





PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be included in MIS4TEL Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings.

Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series.


** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink **





IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: --14th May, 2021-- 28th May, 2021
Workshop proposal submission deadline: March 26, 2021
Notification of acceptance: --7th June, 2021-- 18th June, 2021
Camera-Ready papers due: --28th June, 2021-- 2nd July, 2021
Conference Celebration: 6th-8th October, 2021





ORGANIZERS
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University of L'aquila (Italy)
National University of Colombia (Colombia)
Sapienza University, Rome (Italy)
Comenius University of Bratislava (Slovakia)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
University of Salamanca (Spain)
University of Craiova (România)



SPONSORS
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IBM
INDRA




SUPPORT FROM NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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AEPIA
APPIA