EC-TEL 08 (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Monday, May 19th, 2008 by Conference Editor| September 17, 2008 | to | September 19, 2008 |
Third European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 08, invites all researchers across the different fields of TEL (education, psychology, computer science, etc.) to contribute to the scientific landscape of technology enhanced learning.
Technologies have spread across a variety of learning contexts. They are used in formal (primary, secondary and higher) education, corporate training and lifelong learning. Large corporations are creating campuses, which reveals their convergence with universities. Technologies are used in general curricula as well as in vocational training. The spread of mobile devices, social learning techniques and personalization technologies is closing the gap between formal and informal learning. Recent developments promote the integration of individual learning, small group collaboration as well as class-wide or community activities within a coherent pedagogical scenario. These scenarios combine activities that intensively rely on computers with activities that marginally use technologies. Such activities occur in the classrooms and in the training centres but also across multiple other spaces: offices, homes, cars, field trips, ski lifts, and so on. Most modern learning environments do not fit anymore within one pedagogical stream: they integrate heterogeneous software components such as a simulation tool, hypertext, an argumentation tool and a tutorial. Old barriers between different visions of learning technologies are fading out. A similar convergence is happening between research on knowledge management and technology enhanced learning.
