The European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) is a unique opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. Through EC-TEL, established and emerging researchers as well as practitioners, entrepreneurs, and technology developers explore new collaborations, strengthen networks, and complement their core expertise. Educational arrangements in our modern society are increasingly characterized by openness in terms of participation, of institutionalisation as well as of tools, devices and resources used. We see shifts between formal, non-formal and informal learning. Learners come together in different social settings and communities (such as in groups in schools, teams in a company, or in informal communities of learners). They share and co-create educational resources and interact with an ever increasing number of open educational resources. Learning communities differ in dimension from local ones, through distributed groups up to global communities (as witnessed by the emerging MOOCs paradigm). The learners use multiple computational tools and devices, often at the same time (e.g. tablets and smartphones for individual learning, interactive tables and electronic whiteboards for collaboration, or mobile technologies for taking learning outside the classroom). Access to the open educational arrangements takes place in a mobile ubiquitous fashion. There is a pressing need to understand how learning in such open educational communities happens and how learning and teaching technology can support in this context. To address these challenges the theme of EC-TEL 2014 is "Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities". EC-TEL 2014 is collocated with the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business (i-KNOW 2014). The focus of i-KNOW 2014 is the advancement of research at the intersection of disciplines such as Knowledge Discovery, Semantics, Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Social (Semantic) and Ubiquitous Computing.
From both research and innovative practice perspectives the following topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: Technological underpinning Large-scale sharing and interoperability Personalization, user modelling and adaptation Data mining and information retrieval Learning analytics Context-aware systems Recommender systems for TEL Adapted learning flow, content and monitoring process Serious games and 3D virtual worlds Augmented reality Social computing Social media Semantic Web Natural language processing and latent semantic analysis Mobile technologies (Tablets & smartphones) Network infrastructures and architectures for TEL Sensors and sensor networks Roomware, ambient displays and wearable devices Guidance for tutors Cloud Computing in TEL eLearning specifications and standards Interoperability of devices, tools and architectures Pedagogical underpinning Problem- and project-based learning / Inquiry based learning Computer-supported collaborative learning Collaborative knowledge building Game-based and simulation-based learning Story-telling and reflection-based learning Learning design and design approaches Communities of learners and communities of practice Teaching techniques and strategies for online learning Learner motivation and engagement Evaluation methods for TEL Individual, social & organizational learning processes Cognitive mechanisms in knowledge acquisition and construction Self-regulated and self-directed learning Reflective learning Social processes in teams and communities Social awareness Trust and reputation in TEL Knowledge management and organizational learning Learning communities and contexts Schools and universitues of the future Applications of TEL in various domains Formal education: initial (K-12, higher education), post-initial (continuing education) Workplace learning in small, medium and large companies, networked enterprise settings as well as public and third sector organisations Distance and online learning Lifelong learning Vocational training Informal learning Non-formal learning Ubiquitous learning Seamless learning Open Learning Arrangements Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Open educational resources (OER) Learning Networks Teacher Networks Bring your own Device (BYOD) Orchestration of learning activities Learning ecologies, learning ecosystems, fitness and evolvability of learning environments Business models for TEL TEL in developing countries and for users with special needs ICT Inclusion for learning Digital divide and learning Generation divide and learning Education policies Rural learning Accessible learning for all Visual, hearing and physical impairments Psycho-pedagogic support for users Standards about accessibility and learning
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