EC-TEL 2010

STELLAR is pleased to announce that it will be offering a prize of up to 1,500€ to the authors of a winning paper selected by the STELLAR Stakeholder Advisory Board (see: http://www.stellarnet.eu/instruments/community_channels/stakeholder-advisory-board2/). The Stakeholders Distinct Award aims to encourage academic research oriented towards present and emerging challenges and needs in non-academic sectors such as ICT/TEL industry, formal education, corporate training and policy making. The award will be announced during the conference dinner at EC-TEL (30/09/2010) and its funds will be used to support the participation of the winning author(s) to a major TEL event where further visibility will be given to the work presented in the paper. On behalf of the Stakeholder Advisory Board and STELLAR, we wish the best of luck to all authors!

The chairs of EC-TEL have opended the call for bids to host EC-TEL 2011. Interested organisations should submit their bid by September 27, 2010, to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Each bid should contain the following information:

The STELLAR network of excellence regularly offers scholarships for the participation of PhD candidates in TEL events sponsored by the network. EC-TEL2010, as an event partially sponsored by STELLAR, is eligible for such scholarships.

PhD candidates are invited to read more and apply for STELLAR's support to attend EC-TEL2010, at:  http://www.stellarnet.eu/instruments/doctoral_school/sponsorships/

The programme of EC-TEL 2010 has been published.

It features a number of high-ranking speakers that will present significant and interesting new research results.

This year, ICT 2010, Europe's most important forum for ICT research and innovation, will be held in Brussels and is partially overlapping with EC-TEL 2010 event in Barcelona. The Centre for Social Innovation, ZSI, will connect both events using a virtual conference system and invites an interested audience and experts from all over the world to participate remotely.

The exhibition stand at ICT 2010 in Brussels will present a broad range of research and development projects in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL). A specific focus will be placed on social innovations in TEL including participatory design, inclusive learning society, and responsive open learning environments.

At the same time, many experts are present at EC-TEL 2010, the main European conference in the interdisciplinary field of TEL. All visitors of the ICT 2010 in Brussels, who are interested in latest TEL topics, might participate actively in remote discussions with researchers at the EC-TEL 2010. Additionally, making use of latest video conferencing technologies, connections will be established with TEL experts all over the globe, including Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America.

The program of (remote-)speakers will be available at: http://technikundwissen.zsi.at/

Organizer: Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Vienna; Claudia Magdalena Fabian, Teresa Holocher, Barbara Kieslinger, Sylvana Kroop, Dietmar Lampert, Ilse Marschalek, Elisabeth Unterfrauner, Christian Voigt

The subsmission deadline for workshop papers is extended to July 4th. The notification of acceptance is extended, to July the 18th.

The deadline for camera ready versions has been extended to July 9, 2010. See the updated agenda.

The registration for EC-TEL 2010 is now open.

Please go to the registration web page and follow the link Create account and register for conference.
The deadline for registration for at least one author of each accepted paper is July 9, 2010.

See the registration page for more details.

Please see the workshop page for a full list of workshops including brief abstracts and links to the workshop homepages.

The EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium brings together Ph.D. students working on topics related to Technology Enhanced Learning. The Doctoral Consortium will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international atmosphere. The Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning. These accompanying professors will participate actively and contribute to the discussions. The Doctoral Consortium is co-located with and will take place immediately before the EC-TEL 2010 conference. The Doctoral Consortium language is English.
For more information please go to: http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Members/ralf/dc-ectel2010/view

Submissions should be handed in via: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=dcectel2010

Deadline for applications is July 18, 2010

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of papers and demonstrations on Friday 4 June 2010. See the updated agenda.

Update (5 may 2010): Added a new associated event:

Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M)
http://www.learningstandards.eu/seam2010/
collocated with EC-TEL 2010
Barcelona, 27-28 September 2010

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The EC-TEL 2010 paper deadline will not be extended. It is a firm deadline, closing on April 18 (Sunday) at 23:59 CEST.

Reckoning the current somewhat chaotic flight situation in Europe, the EC-TEL program chairs have decided to enable authors to update their submission until April 21 (Wednesday) at 23:59 CEST.

The Paper and Workshop submission deadlines have been extended to 18 April 2010, 23:59 CEST. See the updated agenda.

Keynote speakers will be:

• Prof. Judy Kay, Director of CHAI - Computer Human Adapted Interaction Research Group, University of Sydney, has agreed to present a visionary talk on

Personalisation, HCI and learning.

• Dr. José Ángel Martínez Usero, Director of International Projects, Technosite-Fundación ONCE, has agreed to present a keynote address on

Research trends in accessible elearning: Interoperability of solutions, ubiquity of resources and personalization of services

• Pat Manson and Marco Marsella, from the European Commission, Unit 'Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning' have agreed to present a keynote on

The future funding of TEL from EC point of view (closing session).

See detailed info.

EC-TEL 2010: Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

Barcelona (Spain), 28 September-1 October 2010

The last decade has seen significant investment in terms of effort and resources (time, people, money) in innovating education and training. The time has come to make the bold step from small scale innovation research and development to larger scale implementation and evaluation. The time has come to show the world (government, industry, general population) that we have matured to the stage that sustainable learning and learning practices – both in schools and in industry – can be achieved based upon our work.