(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.) CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline extension) ICALT 2008: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies Learning technologies in the Information society Santander, Cantabria, Spain July 1st- July 5th, 2008 http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2008/ New deadline: January 29th, 2008 It is unquestionable that technology is a useful tool to enhance the learning process and during the last ICALT conferences significant advances have been presented in this sense. Besides the usual topics of the conference, this edition of the conference aims to explore the role of learning technologies to step forward in the transformation from the information society to a knowledge society where everybody (independently of race, sex, abilities, capabilities, ...) can be benefit from technologies to enhance her learning process. This open a world of opportunities for analysing the use of technology in inclusive learning environments that take into account the characteristics and expectations of different kinds of users and different kinds of learning experiences, whether formal or informal, individual or cooperative, life-long or short term... TOPICS OF INTERESTS Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Inclusive learning environments, tools and experiences * Formal and informal learning * HCI guidelines and principles for educational systems * Transforming schooling and training through learning technologies * New Generations of educational technologies * Web 2.0 and social computing for learning and instruction * Educational technologies for new generations * Technologies for real-time assessment of learning and performance * Linking dynamic concept mapping and problem solving in complex domains * Personalized mobile computing for learning and instruction * Personalized educational systems * Interdisciplinary programs to prepare educational technologists CSCL technologies * Content authoring technologies * e-Pedagogy and Instructional Design * Knowledge Management Technologies in Education * Organizational Management of e-Learning in Universities * e- testing and new test theories * Data mining, text mining, and web mining in education IMPORTANT DATES * January 29, 2008: Papers, workshops, panels and tutorials submissions * February 28, 2008: Notification to authors about the review process * March 15, 2008: Final camera-ready manuscript and Copyright form submission * March 30, 2008: Author registration deadline * April 15, 2008: Early bird registration * Conference: July 1st- July 5th, 2008 SUBMISSIONS We invite submission of papers reporting original academic or industrial research in the area of Advanced Learning Technologies. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Complete papers are required to be reviewed. The expected type of submissions are: * Full paper: 5 pages * Short paper: 3 pages * Posters: 2 pages * Tutorial proposals: 2 pages (The tutorial proposal should clearly outline the novelty of the tutorial content, the expected audience, objectives, and outcomes. Each tutorial will run for about 3 hours.) * Panel proposals: 2 pages (The panel proposal should clearly outline the theme of the panel, its significance, expected outcomes, and at least five panel participants. Each panel will run for about one and half hours. Panel participants will have the possibility of submitting two-page papers for review process for the papers to be included in the conference proceedings.) * Workshop: 2 pages (The workshop proposal should clearly outline the theme of the workshop, its emerging nature, expected outcomes, and at least five panel participants. Each workshop will run for about two and half hours. Workshop participants will have the possibility of submitting two-page papers for review process for the papers to be included in the conference proceedings. Please submit your manuscript at: http://www.ask4research.info/conference/upload.php If you have any problems with the above web submission form, you can send the manuscript by email to icalt-operations@ieee.org (subject: ICALT2008 Submission). ORGANIZATION, SPONSORED BY AND PROCEEDINGS Organizated by Laboratorio DEI, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid School of Industrial and Telecomunication Engineering, Universidad de Cantabria Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology IEEE Computer Society ADIE IEEE Spanish Chapter on Education Master in Management and Production of e-learning (UC3M) Santander City Council Smart Technologies Proceedings Published by IEEE Computer Society Press COMMITTEES General Chairs * Ignacio Aedo. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. * Eduardo Mora. Universidad de Cantabria. Program Chairs * Paloma Díaz. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. * Kinshuk. Athabasca University. Advisory Committee * Darina Dicheva. Winston-Salem State University. * Roger Hartley. University of Leeds. * Rob Koper. Open University of the Netherlands. * Toshio Okamoto. University of Electro-Communications. * Demetrios Sampson.Center of Research and Technology Hellas and University of Pireus. * Nian-Shing Chen. National Sun Yat-sen University. * J. Michael Spector. Florida State University. Tutorial chairs * Demetrios Sampson. Center of Research and Technology Hellas and University of Pireus, Greece. * Miguel Rodriguez-Artacho. Universidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain. Workshop chairs * Baltasar Fernández-Majón. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain. * Steve J. H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan. Panels chairs * Monica Landoni. Université de Lausanne. Switzerland * Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia. Publicity chairs * Telmo Zarraonandia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * J.Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA. Local Committee * Laura Bravo. Universidad de Cantabria. (Local Co-Chair) * David Díez. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. * Juan Manuel Dodero. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. * Tomás Fernández. Universidad de Cantabria. * Camino Fernández. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. * Carmen Padrón. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. * Telmo Zarraonandia. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. (Local Co-Chair) Program Committee (not yet complete) Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Eshaa M. Alkhalifa, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Mohamed Ally, Athabasca University, Canada Rachid Anane, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Luis E. Anido-Rifon, Universidade de Vigo, Spain Reuven Aviv, The Open University of Israel, Israel Werner Beuschel, University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany Madhumita Bhattacharya, Massey University, New Zealand Rosa Maria Bottino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genova, Italy Francis Brouns, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Manuel Castro, UNED, Spain Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan Ni Chang, Indiana University, USA Yam-San Chee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Gwo-Dong Chen, National Central University, Taiwan Christophe Choquet, Universiti du Maine, France Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA Lisa Fan, University of Regina, Canada Baltasar Fernandez Manjon, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Carlo Giovannella, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Sabine Graf, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dai Griffiths, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Ray Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan Hans Hummel, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Gwo-Jen Hwang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Mike Joy, University of Warwick, United Kingdom K. Robert Lai, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Stefano Levialdi, Universita di Roma, Italy Tzu-Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany Manuel Ortega Cantero, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain Frans Ronteltap, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Judith Schoonenboom, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Katherine Sinitsa, Intl Res. and Trng Ctr of Info. Tech. and Systems, Kiev, Ukraine Amy Soller, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA Krassen Stefanov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski",Sofia, Bulgaria Jarkko Suhonen, University of Joensuu, Finland Pierre Tchounikine, Universiti du Maine, France Chin-Chung Tsai, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan