TEL-CoPs'09: 3rd International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning solutions for Communities of Practice

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CALL FOR PAPERS

TEL-CoPs'09: 3rd International Workshop on
Building Technology Enhanced Learning solutions for Communities of Practice

Theme: Linking individual with organizational learning in CoPs.
(Workshop URL: http://palette.cti.gr/workshops/telcops09.html)

held in conjunction with the 4th European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning Nice, France,
September 29, 2009 .
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INTRODUCTION

Communities of Practice (CoPs) have been widely recognized as effective environments to support learning among professionals, organisations and educational institutions. Collaborative learning is inherent in such communities, in that their members learn from each other by making their knowledge and practices explicit, sharing them with their peers, and reflecting on them. CoPs have several characteristics that distinguish them from formal organizations and learning situations. In fact, such communities are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, deepen their practical knowledge and expertise in the area under consideration, and interact on an ongoing basis. CoPs often emerge in the context of existing organisations or professional networks, in which people are already involved in common professional practices. Throughout their life, CoPs elaborate current (or develop new) practices, through debates and exploration of internal and external knowledge.

It has been recognized that web-based technologies could support the development of virtual CoPs. Consequently, more and more CoPs use virtual environments to support their activities. However, despite the rapidly increasing potential offered by technologies (including web-based platforms, wireless communications, mobile devices and extensive use of multimedia contents), recent research underline the lack of adequate scaffolding in the form of both technical supports and usage of the technology to express, represent and share practices, debate and reflect about the practices and about the life of the CoP, develop, reify and exploit knowledge inside and outside of the CoP, and facilitate engagement, participation and learning.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The workshop focuses on current research trends in technology enhanced learning solutions that aim at addressing the multiplicity
and complexity of needs of Communities of Practice all along their lifecycle.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Software Engineering issues in tools supporting CoPs
* Multimedia authoring and reuse in CoPs
* Knowledge management services for CoPs
* Mediation services for CoPs
* Computer-supported collaborative argumentation
* Learning issues and CoPs
* User profiling and awareness issues in tools supporting CoPs
* Adaptability issues in tools supporting CoPs
* Visualization issues in tools supporting CoPs
* Web-based interactive applications
* Evaluation issues and case studies

SUBMISSIONS

Papers up to 10 and no less than 5 pages are solicited. All submissions should be original and not published elsewhere or
intended to be published during the review period. They must correspond to the EC-TEL conference format requirements, as they
are described at the conference's web site (http://www.ectel09.org/calls.papers.html) . All accepted papers must be presented
by one of the authors. Workshop attendees need to register for the main EC-TEL conference.

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to both Manolis Tzagarakis (tzagara@cti.gr) and Styliani Kleanthous
(stellak@comp.leeds.ac.uk).

IMPORTANT DATES

* June 25, 2009: workshop paper submission deadline
* July 5, 2009: notification of workshop paper acceptance
* July 15, 2009: workshop paper camera-ready submission

ORGANIZATION

Liliane Esnault, E.M. Lyon, France, esnault@em-lyon.com
Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras & RA Computer Technology Institute, Greece, karacap@cti.gr
Styliani Kleanthous, University of Leeds, UK, stellak@comp.leeds.ac.uk
Manolis Tzagarakis, RA Computer Technology Institute, Greece, tzagara@cti.gr

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marco Bettoni, Swiss Distance Learning University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Bernadette Charlier, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Amaury Daele, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
Sandy El Helou, EPFL, Switzerland
Christina Evangelou, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Denis Gillet, EPFL, Switzerland
Dimitris Kalles, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Vassilis Komis, University of Patras, Greece
Thibaud Latour, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Lydia Lau, University of Leeds, UK
Constantinos Mourlas, University of Athens, Greece
Vincent Quint, INRIA - Rhone Alpes, France
Cecile Roisin, University of Grenoble & INRIA - Rhone Alpes, France
Luc Vandenabeele, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Christine Vanoirbeek, EPFL, Switzerland
Claus Atzenbeck, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark