The EC-TEL 2011 Best Paper Awards go to:

• Best student paper award (Sponsored by EATEL): Monitoring Pattern-Based CSCL Scripts: A Case Study. María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana, Alejandra Martínez-Monés, Juan Ignacio Asensio-Pérez, Iván Manuel Jorrín-Abellán and Yannis Dimitriadis



• Best paper AWARD (Sponsored by EATEL): Unsupervised Auto-Tagging for Learning Object Enrichment. Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Marco Fisichella, Ricardo Kawase, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Avaré Stewart.



• Best STELLAR Stakeholders Distinct Award (Sponsored by STELLAR): Student Behavior in Error-Correction-Tasks and its Relation to Perception of Competence. Lenka Schnaubert, Eric Andrès , Susanne Narciss, Anja Eichelmann , Dr. George Goguadze and Erica Melis.

It's been confirmed that EC-TEL 2012 Conference is going to take place in Saarbrücken (Germany), from 18 to 21 september 2012. More detailed information will be published later.

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• EC-TEL 2010
• EC-TEL 2009
• EC-TEL 2008
• EC-TEL 2007
• EC-TEL 2006

Chris Dede (Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA): “Emerging Technologies, Ubiquitous Learning, and Educational Transformation”. Click to see the slides

Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership.  Read more at his personal website

Carlo Perrotta (Futurelab, UK): Ubiquitous learning vs. the value of boundaries: reflections on five years of “innovation in education”. Click to see the slides

Carlo works as a researcher at the London Knowledge Lab in London and at Futurelab. His research is concerned with innovation processes in education, and generally with the aspects which influence and shape “change” in teaching and learning. More information can be found on his personal page: http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=280&Itemid=111

ECTEL 2011 is now included in Conference Navigator 3 (CN3), a conference support platform that provides scheduling, bookmarking, and social linking.

Update (20/09/2011): Now available the mobile version of Conference Navigator for EC-TEL 2011. The app allows to view conference schedule, presented papers, workshops, tutorials, and keynotes. You can mark and schedule papers you liked and interested to attend. https://market.android.com/details?id=ectel.com

The programme of EC-TEL 2011 has been published.

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

The registration for EC-TEL 2011 is now open. The deadline for early registration is July 10, 2011. Remember that at least one author of each accepted paper must register by this deadline.

See the registration page for more details.

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. Accompanying professors will provide feedback to the papers that are selected for the doctoral consortium and participate actively and contribute to the discussions. The Doctoral Consortium is co-located with and will take place immediately before the EC-TEL 2011 conference. The working language of the Doctoral Consortium is English.

For more information please go to: http://www.ec-tel.eu/doctoral-consortium-ectel2011

Only electronic submissions are accepted. Please use https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcectel2011 for uploading.

Deadline for submitting applications is 15 July 2011

Professor Daniel Burgos interview with Martin Wolpers (Programme Chair) at EC-TEL 2010 Conference, explaining the purpose of EC-TEL Conferences, in particular the last year's conference, held in Barcelona (Spain) from 28 september 28 to October 1, 2010.

Sixth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning: Towards Ubiquitous Learning

20-23 September 2011, Palermo, Italy

EC-TEL is a unique setting for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in Technology Enhanced Learning from Europe and other continents to meet together and exchange on the current challenges and advances in the field. At EC-TEL, experts and young researchers in Computer Science, Education, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Social Science, as well as entrepreneurs have the opportunity to establish collaborations, strengthen their links and cross-fertilize their core disciplines.

EC-TEL 2011 will push further the Ubiquitous Learning paradigm by not only tackling the challenges of exploiting new trendy devices in various contexts, but also by investigating ways to meet and support formally and informally the learners in their learning playgrounds and social environments thanks to innovative scenarios.

In addition to regular papers, we invite contributions for demonstrations, workshops and project meetings. A doctoral consortium will also be organized concurrently with the workshops.

Donatella Persico (Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche, Italy) talks about Resource Exploitation.