TOPICS AND SUBTOPICS
1. Education and Research

• Politics of educational process in knowledge society
• Platforms for consensus, comparison, evaluation, and development of politics of education
• National and European Qualifications Framework
• Revitalization of higher education and promotion of industry - university collaboration
• Multinational educational, training, and youth partner programs
• International projects of innovative teaching and learning
• Educational structures over crossing country borders - international recognition of qualifications and comparability of qualifications
• Sharing best practices on intercultural education
• Education, Research and Globalization
• Leadership and University Administration
• Digital Divide and access to the Internet
• ICT Skills

2. Emerging Technologies in Education

• Evaluation of impact of high - speed networks and new generation Internet access on users
• Experiences with building and operation of emerging broadband communication structures, in particular of high - speed internet for academic sphere
• Presentations and verification of publicly oriented network applications and systems (e.g. multimedia applications, videoconferencing, IP streamings with elements of Quality of Services)
• Architectures and design of distributed learning environments
• Methodologies for www - based courses
• Multimedia/hypermedia systems
• Presentation and sharing of knowledge in the implementation and operation of eStrategy
• Social Networking: Blogs, Wikis, …
• Educational/Serious Games and Software
• IT Services Management and Development
• Security and Data Protection
• Videos for Learning and Educational Multimedia
• Animation and 3D Applications
• Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Learning and Teaching Innovations
• Advanced classroom applications and technologies
• m-Learning: mobile applications and technologies
• Blended Learning and Flipped Classroom
• e-Tutoring and e-Mentoring
• Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Building Virtual Communities

3. E-content Management and Development, tools and content – oriented application

• Agents and agent’s systems
• Author environment and authoring tools
• Interactive learning environments
• Group-ware tools
• Virtual reality and virtual eLearning infrastructures
• Quality and efficiency of eLearning
• Complex eLearning environments and solutions
• Concepts and modeling of virtual infrastructures: eLearning, e-business, e-medicine, virtual laboratory, virtual university
• mLearning: blending the web - based training and wireless eLearning
• Management and engineering of eLearning systems
• Standardization of eLearning objects
• Intelligent tutoring
• Perspectives in security and research
• Digital Libraries and Repositories
• User-Generated Content
• Open Content
• Learning Analytics
• Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Building Virtual Communities
• Plagiarism and Intellectual Property Rights
• Digital Rights Management
• Knowledge Management
• Training the e-Trainer
• Online Assessment

4. Cases and projects

• Specific courses and designing solution in the countries and institutions
• Institution - specific cases
• Virtual universities and university portals
• Trends in development of new communication technologies and services
• eLearning and legislation
• The sustainability of open access in news media and higher education, and the impact of massive open online courses (MOOCs)
• New Experiences for Curriculum
• Integration of cross-cultural studies
• Generic skills and their development
• Courses, Tutorials and Labs
• Course management
• Skill needs of Labour

5. New Trends and Experiences and New Challenges for the Higher Education Area

• Vocational training
• Employability issues and trends
• Language Learning Innovations
• STEM Education Experiences
• Pedagogical Methods and Innovations
• Collaborative and Problem-based Learning
• Game-based learning and Gamification
• Academic Advising and Tutoring
• Assessment of student learning
• Examination Policies and Grading methods
• Learning space design: Next generation classroom
• New challenges for the Higher Education Area