From robert.kozma at sri.com Wed Oct 3 02:32:21 2007 From: robert.kozma at sri.com (Robert Kozma) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:32:21 -0700 Subject: Invitation to the Economist online debate Message-ID: <01b701c80522$93016bf0$0a00a8c0@BobKozma> I would like you to invite you to observe and participate in the Economist's inaugural debate in an online series designed to "elevate the dialog on pressing issues facing the world today." The proposition addressed in this first debate will be: The house believes that the continuing introduction of new technologies and new media adds little to the quality of most education. Sir John Daniel, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth of Learning, will argue for the proposition. I will argue against it. You can access the online debate at: http://www.economist.com/debate. The debate will follow a modified version of the Oxford rules for debate. It will take place between October 15th and October 23rd and there will be plenty of opportunity for reactions from the floor. I encourage you to contribute your best thoughts. I hope to see you there. Bob ____________________ Robert B. Kozma, Ph.D. Emeritus Director and Principal Scientist Center for Technology in Learning SRI International 2151 Filbert St. San Francisco, CA 94123 USA CTL Website: http://ctl.sri.com Personal Website: http://robertkozma.com Phone +1 415 292 2471 Mobile +1 415 623 4340 Fax: +1 415 651 9954 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hsiuling at cl.ncu.edu.tw Thu Oct 4 08:46:35 2007 From: hsiuling at cl.ncu.edu.tw (HSIULING) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 08:46:35 +0800 Subject: G1:1 News Message-ID: <20071004004637.DE34151F009@mail.lst.ncu.edu.tw> Dear all, Thanks Jeremy Roschelle for providing news. Please visit the SRI international website for six published articles and book chapters discussing the topics of successful integration of handheld technologies in the classroom learning. Best, G1:1 Web Master -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hsiuling at cl.ncu.edu.tw Thu Oct 4 08:55:25 2007 From: hsiuling at cl.ncu.edu.tw (HSIULING) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 08:55:25 +0800 Subject: G1:1 News Message-ID: <20071004005527.5934B51F00B@mail.lst.ncu.edu.tw> Dear all, Thanks Jeremy Roschelle for providing news. Please visit the site for six published articles and book chapters discussing the topics of successful integration of handheld technologies in the classroom learning. Best, G1:1 Web Master -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From thomas.huelsmann at uni-oldenburg.de Fri Oct 5 01:47:04 2007 From: thomas.huelsmann at uni-oldenburg.de (Thomas Huelsmann) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 19:47:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Fwd: Interesting debate on new tech and new media to take place between Oct 15 and 23] In-Reply-To: <2193.91.97.47.160.1191414269.squirrel@webmail.uni-oldenburg.de> References: <2193.91.97.47.160.1191414269.squirrel@webmail.uni-oldenburg.de> Message-ID: <1146.84.129.222.105.1191520024.squirrel@webmail.uni-oldenburg.de> Interessant. Ich sch?tze Kozmas Aufs?tze. Wo kann man den show down verfolgen? Thomas > FYI > ULI > > ------------------------ Urspr?ngliche Nachricht ------------------------ > Betreff: Interesting debate on new tech and new media to take place > between Oct 15 and 23 > Von: "tzemin" > Datum: Mi, 3.10.2007, 06:53 > An: "Christine Walti" > "Prof Ulrich Bernath" > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hi, > > Will appreciate it if you could circulate this :-) > > Best wishes, > -- tzemin > > > ------ Forwarded Message > *From: *Robert Kozma > *Date: *Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:32:21 -0700 > *To: * > *Subject: *Invitation to the Economist online debate > > I would like you to invite you to observe and participate in the > *Economist*'s > inaugural debate in an online series designed to "elevate the dialog on > pressing issues facing the world today." The proposition addressed in > this > first debate will be: > > *The house believes that the continuing introduction of new technologies > and > new media adds little to the quality of most education. > * > Sir John Daniel, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth > of Learning, will argue *for* the proposition. I will argue *against* it. > > You can access the online debate at: http://www.economist.com/debate. The > debate will follow a modified version of the Oxford rules for debate. It > will take place between October 15th and October 23rd and there will be > plenty of opportunity for reactions from the floor. I encourage you to > contribute your best thoughts. > > I hope to see you there. > > Bob > > > ____________________ > > Robert B. Kozma, Ph.D. > Emeritus Director and Principal Scientist > Center for Technology in Learning > SRI International > 2151 Filbert St. > San Francisco, CA 94123 > USA > > CTL Website: http://ctl.sri.com > Personal Website: http://robertkozma.com > > Phone +1 415 292 2471 > Mobile +1 415 623 4340 > Fax: +1 415 651 9954 > From oscarl at athabascau.ca Thu Oct 11 14:54:32 2007 From: oscarl at athabascau.ca (Oscar Lin) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:54:32 -0600 Subject: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Computing and Information Systems (Athabasca University, Canada) Message-ID: <470DC8A8.50809@athabascau.ca> Dear All, Please forward the following ad to your friends, colleagues, or students who may be interested in the position: Thank you. Oscar Lin -------------------------------------------------------------------- Athabasca University, Canada School for Computing and Information Systems Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Computing and Information Systems Athabasca University (AU) is Canada's Open University, delivering education at a distance to over 37,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Courses use a combination of multimedia delivery via the World Wide Web and printed materials, delivered to the student's home or workplace. SCIS offers a B.A. Major in Information Systems, a Certificate in Information Systems, a B.Sc. in Computing and Information Systems, and an M.Sc. in Information Systems All SCIS faculty are expected to work in both the undergraduate and graduate programs as normal workload. Athabasca University, invites applications for a tenure-track position in the School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS) to initiate and/or lead international quality research; develop, revise, coordinate, and teach courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level; carry out related administrative duties; and assist in the development of new doctoral track, MSc IS program streams and/or a Gaming Certificate. The candidate will also be responsible for supervising graduate and undergraduate essays and projects and serve on graduate committees. An interest in, and preferably experience with, distributed learning environment and distance education are essential for this position. Over the past ten years SCIS has developed and implemented innovative approaches to delivering and supporting post-secondary distance education in computing and information systems. SCIS is looking for a flexible individual who enjoys teaching, and is comfortable with the systematic approaches to course development and delivery required for this form of distance education. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related discipline, and applied experience are required for this position. In addition, the candidate must have research interests in one or more of the following areas: e-learning, game programming, human computer interaction, pervasive computing, mobile computing, multimedia, grid computing, and software engineering. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining courses and teaching in these and related areas. In accordance with Canadian immigration department regulations, this advertisement gives priority to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. All educational credentials must be recognized in Canada. This is an AUFA tenure-track appointment. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience, supplemented by a generous benefits package. Further information about this position may be obtained from the Selection Committee Chair, Dr. Kinshuk at kinshuk at athabascau.ca. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and Permanent Residents will be given priority. Applicants should forward a letter of application, a r?sum? and the names and addresses of three referees by December 20, 2007, quoting competition AU-AAFPCIS-1002. Applications should be e-mailed to the Human Resources Advisor, Human Resources, at resume at athabascau.ca. __ This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communications received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. --- From zoubi at psut.edu.jo Tue Oct 16 02:10:57 2007 From: zoubi at psut.edu.jo (Professor Al-Zoubi A Y) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:10:57 +0200 Subject: IMCL2008 Submission Deadline Extended Message-ID: <016b01c80f56$bdc9c420$6401a8c0@Drzoubi> Apologies for Multiple Posts Full Paper Submission Deadline is Extended to 15 November 2007. The 3rd International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, IMCL2008 Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan, 16-18 April 2008 http://www.imcl-conference.org/ Jointly organized by: Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden. Keynote Speakers 1 Cathleen Norris, Department of Technology and Cognition, University of North Texas, USA, 2 Elliot Soloway, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 3 Susan Patrick, President and CEO, North American Council for Online Learning, USA, 4 Rob Reilly, MIT Media Lab, USA, 5 Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO, Giunti Labs, Chair, ELIG, European Learning Industry Group, Global Strategy Advisor, MIT OKI, Open Knowledge Initiative, Italy, 6 Mike Sharples, Professor of Learning Sciences, Director, Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham, UK, 7 Josep M. Duart, Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies and Continuing Education, Open University of Catalonia, Director of the International Institute of Postgraduate and Director of UNESCO Catedra of e- Learning, Spain, 8 Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Adjunct Professor of Maryland University College, USA, and University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, Germany Supporting Journals Authors of selected articles are welcomed to submit extended version for publication in regular issues of the following reputed journals, in addition to publication in the conference proceedings. New copyright forms must also be signed and delivered to the appropriate journal. The conference organizers will assist in the process of selection and publication of the selected papers. 1 International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technology, 2 International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 3 International Journal for Online Engineering, 4 International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organization, 5 Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 6 International Journal of Engineering Education, 7 Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 8 International Journal of Computing and Information Sciences. 9 IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine (MEEM), In addition, a special award will be given to the best IMCL2008 conference paper. Topics ? Design and development of course content; ? M-learning emerging hardware and software; ? M-learning applications; ? Mobile technology support for educator and student; ? Mobile Web and video Conferencing; ? M-learning objects and development tools; ? Service providers for mobile networks; ? M-learning standards; ? Life-long m-learning; ? Impact of m-learning on social change; ? Future trends in m-learning; ? Web and Computer-based learning; ? Tools for interactive learning and teaching; ? Platforms and authoring tools; ? Applications of the Semantic Web; ? Adaptive learning environments; ? Virtual campus and e-learning; ? Remote and virtual laboratories. International Advisory Committee ? Michael E. Auer (Chair), Carinthia University for Applied Sciences, Austria ? Richard Larson, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, MIT, USA ? Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK ? Rob Reilly, MIT Media Lab, USA ? Torsten Fransson, KTH, Sweden ? Peter Goodyear, The University of Sydney, Australia ? Tarek M. Sobh, University of Bridgeport, USA ? Taisir Subhi Yamin, University of Ulm, Germany ? Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada ? James Dalziel, Macquarie University, Australia ? Tom Brown, Midrand Graduate Institute, South Africa ? Hermann Schumacher, University of Ulm, Germany ? Jeanne Schreurs, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium ? Mike Sharples, University of Nottingham, UK ? Hojjat Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA ? Peter Raimann, The University of Sydney, Australia International Program Committee ? Michael E. Auer, Chair, Austria ? G?ran Karlsson, KTH, Sweden ? Denis Gillet, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- Lausanne, Switzerland ? Domenico Ponta, University of Genoa, Italy ? David Guralnick, Kaleidoscope Learning, USA ? Anxo Cereijo Roibas, University of Brighton, UK ? Abdel-Badeeh Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt ? Mona Laroussi, Centre Urbain Tunis, Tunisia ? Jose Manuel Martins Ferreira, Porto University, Portugal ? Doru Ursutiu, University Transylvania Brasov, Romania ? Armands Strazds, Riga Technical University, Latvia ? Rafael Calvo, The University of Sydney, Australia ? Gerald Friedland, Freie Universit?t, Germany ? Golberi de Salvador Ferreira, Centro Federal de Educa??o Tecnol?gica, Brazil ? Amr Ibrahim, American University-Cairo, Egypt ? Gary Evans Scudder, Champlain College, USA ? Arthur Edwards Block, Universidad de Colima, Mexico ? Rhena Delport, University of Pretoria, South Africa ? Kalogiannakis Michail, University Paris 5, France ? Mohammad Otair, Arab Academy, Jordan ? Habib Hamam, Universit? de Moncton, Canada ? Jacquie Bennett, Open University, UK ? Hans L. Cycon, FHTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, Germany ? Carme Anguera Iglesias, Spain ? Marga Franco i Casamitjana, Spain ? Bj?rn Hedin, Sweden ? Marguerite Koole, Athabasca University, Canada ? Salam Abdallah, Jordan ? Khalid Khawaja, American University in Dubai, UAE ? Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui, AUB, Lebanon ? Ching-Jung Liao, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan ? Osama Alshara, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan ? Nawar Alawan, University of Damascus, Syria ? Saleh Al-Jufout, Tafila Technical University, Jordan ? Kholoud ALnajjar, Faculty of Educational Technology, Kuwait ? Ercan Akpinar, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey ? Mohammed Ali Akour, Al al-Bayt University, Jordan, ? Ezz Hattab, Arab Academy for banking and Financial Sciences, Jordan ? Mustafa Yassen, Amman University, Jordan. ? Piet .A.M. Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands ? Faruq Al-Omari, Yarmouk University, Jordan ? Sameh Ghwanmeh, Yarmouk University, Jordan ? Yousef Torman, JUnet, Jordan ? Ahmad Sharieh, , University of Jordan, Jordan ? Ammar Assoum, Lebanese University, Lebanon ? Syed Faizan, Forman Christian College, Pakistan ? Yahya Ibrahim Harande, Bayero University, Nigeria. ? Yili Liu, University of Michigan, USA ? Mohamed Ally, Athabasca University, Canada ? Anna Marina Scapolla, University of Genoa, Italy ? George Ioannidis, Patras University, Greece ? Lars Knipping, Berlin University of Technology,Germany ? Adi Anani, Sweden ? Wallace Hannum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA ? Bertrand David, Laboratoire LIESP; Ecole Centrale de Lyon ; France ? Wolfram Laaser, FernUniversit?t in Hagen, Germany ? Jubair Al-Jaafer, International Islamic University, Malaysia ? Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, University of Nottingham, UK ? Christopher R. Merlan, Publication Director, MITOpenCourseWare, MIT, USA ? Sabina Jeschke, Stuttgart University, Germany ? Mario Zagar, University of Zagreb, Croatia ? Ulf Ehlers, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany ? Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia ? Karsten Henke, Germany ? Panagiotes S. Anastasiades, University of Crete, Greece ? Kathryn Chang Barker, e-TQM College, Dubai, U.A.E. ? Mohammad Afshari, Multimedia University, Malaysia ? Eduard Babulak, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Canada Submission Requirements We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, government, and consulting. Accepted formats are word and PDF. The maximum length of a paper is 10 pages. Papers must be submitted electronically at the conference website. http://www.conftool.net/imcl-conference/ Important Dates 15 November 2007, Submission of full paper, 15 December 2007, Notification of acceptance, 15 January 2008, Author registration deadline, 15 February 2008, Camera-ready papers. Conference Language The official languages of the conference is English and abstracts, slides and contributions must be in English. Contact Information Please visit the conference website at www.imcl-conference.org, submit your paper and register for the Conference or contact: info at imcl-conference.org, IMCL2008 at psut.edu.jo for further information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Marcelo Milrad SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED --- November 3rd, 2007 ************************************************************************ Third Call for Papers ************************************************************************ 5th International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2008) March 23-26 2008 Beijing, China http://www.wmute2008.org/ Important Dates: November 3rd, 2007 Submissions due <--- EXTENDED December 10th, 2007 Notification of acceptance January 14th, 2008 Camera ready papers due Call For Papers: The rapid progress of mobile and ubiquitous technologies enables internet connections, anytime and anywhere, with ease. Traditional ways of learning and teaching, happening at fixed times and places such as schools or offices and limited with numbers of people, are changing remarkably. Although such technologies allow people to learn in an appropriate context, they cannot guarantee that the learning environments we design will be successful. Issues of design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of such technology supported learning environments should be investigated from interdisciplinary points of view, including computer science, educational research, cognitive science, and so on. WMUTE 2008 is the 5th international meeting, extending the four previous WMTE/WMUTE workshops held in 2002 (Vaxjo, Sweden), 2004 (Taipei, Taiwan), 2005 (Tokushima, Japan) and 2006 (Athens, Greece) to become a conference the first time. This conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners of this emerging area for discussing these innovative learning technologies and challenging research issues through high quality papers and presentations. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: ?Innovative and practical use of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies for education, learning and training ?Adaptive and adaptable learning environments using mobile and ubiquitous devices ?Agent support for mobile and ubiquitous learning ?Architectures and implementations of context-aware learning technology systems ?Architectures and infrastructures for ubiquitous learning systems ?Design of learner-supportive interfaces of ubiquitous learning applications ?Designs for wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in education ?Digital tangibles or wireless sensor networks for learning ?Entertainment computing for ubiquitous learning ?Evaluation and evaluation methodologies for ubiquitous learning environments ?Game-based learning in mobile and ubiquitous learning environments ?Innovative devices for mobile/ubiquitous learning ?Amalgamating Integrating individual and collaborative learning in mobile and ubiquitous learning environments ?Lifelong learning support in ubiquitous/mobile environment ?Mobile and ubiquitous computing support for collaborative learning ?Mobile, ubiquitous and wireless technologies for indoor and outdoor learning ?New pedagogical theories for ubiquitous learning environments and society ?Virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies for ubiquitous/mobile learning General Co-Chairs: Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan Demetrios G. Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece Local Chair: Ronghuai Huang, Beijing Normal University, China Program Co-Chairs: Claire O'Malley, University of Nottingham, UK Masanori Sugimoto, University of Tokyo, Japan Program Committee: Mohamed Ally, Athabasca University, Canada Gerardo Ayala, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan Maiga Chang, Office of e-Learning National Project, Taiwan Yam-San Chee, National Institute of Education, Singapore Irene Y.L. Chen, Ching Yun University, Taiwan Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway Panayiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece Guangzuo Cui, Peking University, P.R. China Ulrich Hoppe, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Sherry Hsi, Exploratorium, USA Gwo-Jen Hwang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Tomoo Inoue, University of Tsukuba, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada Siu Cheung Kong, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Lam-for Kwok, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chen-Chung Liu, National Central University, Taiwan Chee-Kit Looi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Rose Luckin, Institute of Education, UK Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada Marcelo Milrad, Vaxjo University, Sweden Jun Nakahara, University of Tokyo, Japan Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan Roy Pea, Stanford University, USA Jeremy Roschelle, SRI International, USA Danae Stanton Fraser, Bath University, UK Mike Sharples, University of Nottingham, UK Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan, USA Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Yao-Tin Sung, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Makiko Takenaka, Oita University, Japan Deborah Tatar, Virginia Tech, USA Qiong Wang, Peking University, P.R.China Barbara Wasson, University of Bergen, Norway Earl Woodruff, University of Toronto, Canada Stephen J. H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robert.kozma at sri.com Wed Oct 24 01:12:14 2007 From: robert.kozma at sri.com (Robert Kozma) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:12:14 -0700 Subject: Economist debate: And the winner is . . . Message-ID: <002301c81597$dd611030$7205a8c0@BobKozma> You are invited to participate in a debate of the effect of technology on the quality of education: http://economist.com/debate. The closing statements have been presented, over 300 comments have been posted, and over 700 votes have been cast. You have until October 26 to cast (or change) your vote. At 10am Pacific on Tuesday, the contrary position (i.e., that technology is making a difference) is ahead 55% to 45%. What do you think? Bob ____________________ Robert B. Kozma, Ph.D. Emeritus Director and Principal Scientist Center for Technology in Learning SRI International 2151 Filbert St. San Francisco, CA 94123 USA CTL Website: http://ctl.sri.com Personal Website: http://robertkozma.com Phone +1 415 292 2471 Mobile +1 415 623 4340 Fax: +1 415 651 9954 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: