ELEKTRA

Events

28|02|2008 - 29|02|2008The Nordic Conference of Serious Games (NSG-Conference 2008), Jyväskylä, Finland

The conference aims to create a multi-disciplinary forum where actors from academia as well as industry and a multitude of end-user organizations come together to share experiences, ideas and knowledge. In addition to the main conference we will organize a young scientist workshop for doctoral students. The young scientist workshop will consist of theme introductions of experts on the conference topics as well as the presentations of young scientists on their research.

THEMES:
   • The use of games and game-based environments in different fields and contexts, including
   • Issues and subjects related to design and development of serious games
   • Business and societal issues of serious games

»» http://ktl.jyu.fi/ktl/nsg-conference

03|03|2008 - 05|03|2008International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2008), Valencia, Spain

The general objective of INTED2008 is the promotion of international collaboration in the field of technology, engineering and science education. INTED2008 provides an International Forum for researchers, engineers, professors, educational scientists and technologists in the areas of Education, Science and Technology. It will be an excellent opportunity to present, demonstrate and discuss research, development, applications, and the latest innovations and results in the field of Higher Education and Research.

TOPICS:
   • Education and Globalization
   • Intellectual Property on Education
   • Barriers to Learning (e.g.: age, psychosocial factors, ethnicity…)
   • Student Support in Education

»» http://www.iated.org/inted2008

03|03|2008 - 07|03|2008SITE 2008 - Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)

SITE 2008 is the 19th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), http://site.aace.org and Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), http://www.aace.org/

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES:
• Keynote Speakers
• Invited Panels/Speakers
• Papers (Full & Brief)
• Posters/Demonstrations
• Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations
• Tutorials/Workshops
• Roundtables
• Symposia

»» http://site.aace.org/conf/

04|03|2008 - 07|03|2008International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2008), Barcelona, Spain

The aim of the conference is to deliver a platform of scientific interaction between the three interwoven challenging areas of research and development of future ICT-enabled applications:
• Software Intensive Systems
• Complex systems
• Intelligent Systems

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
• Monitoring and analysis of group interactions
• Collaborative learning applications and case studies
• Nomadic and mobile collaborative work

»» http://www.cisis-conference.eu/

16|04|2008 - 18|04|2008ICML 2008 - International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer aided Learning, Amman, Jordan

The conference aims to promote the development of Mobile Learning in the Middle East, provide a forum for education and knowledge transfer, expose students to latest ICT technologies and encourage the study and implementation of mobile applications in teaching and learning.

No information about workshops, panels or presentations available, but some of the accepted papers are:
• Evaluation methods on usability of m-learning environments.
• Guidelines for Developing Adaptive Mobile Learning
• e-Examiner: Towards a Fully-Automatic Knowledge Assessment Tool applicable in Adaptive E-Learning Systems.
• PDAs in the real world of classrooms what is needed to help learners think?
• Mobile Learning in Transforming Higher Education

»» http://209.61.205.141

05|05|2008 - 06|05|2008NLC, Sixth International Conference on Networked Learning, Halkidiki, Greece

THEMES:
• Social Networking in Networked Learning
• Designing Learning Spaces
• Ubiquitous Learning
• Embedding Networked Learning in Institutions: Policy & Practice
• Networked Lifelong Learning
• Interculturality
• Personalisation
• Learner’s & Teacher’s Experiences
• Methodologies for Researching Networked Learning
• Learning Theories and Processes

»» http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/

14|05|2008 - 16|05|2008IST-Africa 2008 Conference and Exhibition, Windhoek, Namibia

The goals of the IST-Africa Conference Series are Community Building to facilitate EU-African research cooperation and successful exploitation of research results, to stimulate take-up of RTD results by industry, Small and Medium Sized Businesses and the public sector, to promote knowledge sharing between commercial organizations, government agencies and the research community, to exchange experiences about the current state of eAdoption at a sectoral, national or regional level, and to support International Cooperation and open up the European Research Area (ERA) to Africa.

THEMES:
• eHealth - Health Information Systems
• Technology Enhanced Learning & ICT Skills
• Digital Libraries and Content
• Open Source Software Applications
• ICT for eInclusion and eAccessibility
• eInfrastructures
• ICT for Environmental Sustainability
• Networked Enterprise
• eGovernment - Secure Services to Citizens & Business

»» www.ist-africa.org/Conference2008

Priority

ELEKTRA is supported by the priority "Information Society Technologies" (IST) within the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union.