Submission Deadline Extended: December 18th, 2008

OBJECTIVES

The importance of the Internet in learning, as well as the use of web tools and applications for teaching, is becoming one of the main topics in education research. During the last years, different web applications based on the use of Internet environments have been introduced to help teachers and students in the learning-teaching process. These web applications, mainly supported by Internet systems and services, are changing the traditional educational process not only in Higher Education (HE) qualifications, but also in open learning for any type of course.

Nowadays, there exist different public and commercial Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) aimed at helping teachers to manage courses and contents, as well as to support the students’ learning process. In this sense, VLE are an important factor contributing towards the change from traditional educational methodologies to new paradigms including active teaching.

This implies not only a shift in the way of tackling learning and teaching, but also new challenges for software engineers and developers. Virtual Learning Environments have to be built bearing in mind their mandatory use through the Internet, thus requiring important characteristics and capabilities such as security, good latency, several tools for interoperability, storage management, etc.

VEWAeL track complements the remaining tracks at ICIW conference by focusing on learning-teaching web platforms and applications, which have to be used through the Internet. This topic will not only be considered from the development perspective but also from the human point of view, taking into account the interaction of the user with Internet and web applications, especially in the educational scope.

TOPICS

We encourage and invite authors from multiple disciplines to submit their papers related to Virtual Environments and Web Applications specially related to the educational role, as well as welcoming those who merely want to present and provide their experience using the named tools. Workshop topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• E-Learning
• Web Technologies and Tools for Educational Purposes
• Services for E-Learning Platforms
• Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)
• Course Management Systems
• Web applications for Teaching
• Social Implications of E-Learning
• Lifelong E-learning
• Teaching-Learning Experiences using the Internet for Educational Purposes
• E-learning in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and other HE contexts
• Web protocols for VLE
• Security for VLE
• QoS for VLE
• Storage management in VLE

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance

The ICIW 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission (full paper): December 18, 2008

• Authors notification: January 25, 2009
• Registration: February 10, 2009
• Camera ready: February 15, 2009

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBC)

• Grigore Albeanu, Spiru Haret University - Bucharest, Romania / Danish Technical University, Denmark

• Angelos Amditis, ICCS- NTUA - Athens, Greece
• Matthias Ehmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
• Mihaela Brut, "A.I.Cuza" University, Romania
• Gregorio Díaz Descalzo, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
• Ioan Dzitac, Agora University, Oradea, Romania
• Jacques Fayolle, ISTASE / TELECOM Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne University
• Jean-Pierre Gerval ISEN – Brest, France
• Feliz Gouveia, University Fernando Pessoa-Porto, Portugal
• Christophe Gravier, University Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne, France
• Thomas Y Kwok, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Huiye Ma, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Francisco Montero, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
• Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Extremadura Spain
• Dorin-Mircea Popovici, Universitatea OVIDIUS Constanta, Romania
• Andre Santos, CEFET-MA, Brazil
• Eduardo Vendrell Vidal, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• Jim Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Matthias Ehmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany Thomas Y Kwok, IBM T.J.

Watson Research Center, USA Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Extremadura, Spain