Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials

The International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL) brings together academic research and practical applications of e-Learning from all areas. ICEL brings together varied groups of people with different perspectives, seeking to bring top research and proven best practices together into one location, for the purposes of helping practitioners find ways to put research into practice, and for researchers to gain an understanding of additional real-world problems.

The advisory group for the conference invites submissions of papers on both the theory and practice of all aspects of web-enabled technology in learning and teaching. The conference in June 2008 is seeking qualitative, experience-based and quantitative papers as well as case studies and reports of work in progress from academics, teachers, practitioners, vendors and government departments.

Topics for submissions may include, but are not limited to:

e-Learning design; usability; evaluation; content development; authoring tools, LCMSS, and LMSS; communities of practice; instructional design; e-Learning technology and standards; discussion forums; mobile learning; podcasting; societal and cultural issues in e-Learning; online and computer aided assessments; knowledge management; absolute and relative boundaries of e-Lessons; content management;  simulations and virtual learning environments; asynchronous interaction; structural representation of e-Lessons; Learner characteristics; e-Learning portals; course development strategies; new e-Learning methodologies; uses of multimedia in e-Learning; marketing and promoting e-Learning; successful web-based innovative exemplars; student access, diversity, expectation, involvement, motivation and retention; e-Learning adoption; e-Learning implementation; cognitive styles; e-Learning to support communities and individuals; research barriers: use of open-source; blended learning approaches; retention strategies; asynchronous text-based conferencing; e-Learning attrition; social benefits of e-Learning; socio-technical systems; Inter-Institutional education program cooperation; new partnerships to deliver e-Learning; e-universities and other computer-enabled systems in learning and teaching; widening student participation; e-Learning ROI; in-house training, human resource development using e-learning at the company; satellite campus issues; faculty development; university management using ICT; the use of social networks to support learning; Web 2.0 technologies being used in the classroom; universities and Internet society; e-Learning in 50 or 100 years; innovation in the e-Learning Context; digital learning; other/specialist e-Learning topics.

In addition to the main conference, submissions are welcome to four mini-tracks: Educational technology and the digital divide chaired by Laura Czerniewicz, University of Cape Town, South Africa, e-Portfolios chaired by Philip Jones, Hong Kong Institute of Technology, HK, Academic Analytics chaired by Antoinette van der Merwe, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and Mobile Learning chaired by Stella Lee, Athabasca University, Canada.

Publication Opportunity

Papers presented at the Conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Electronic Journal of e-Learning  (the latest issue, Volume 5, Issue 3 is now available online)

Purchase previous conference proceedings  The proceedings for this conference are listed in the Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP),  the Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP/ISI Proceedings), the Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP) and the Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP/ISI Proceedings)

Submission details:

Important information:

• The selection panel of the conference committee will consider all paper abstracts received by the submission deadline to ensure that the proposed paper is relevant to the Conference.
• The authors of abstracts that describe a relevant paper will receive a notification of abstract selection.
• All submissions for demonstrations will be reviewed by the conference organisers to ensure that the proposed demonstration is likely to be of interest to the conference participants.
• All full papers will be double-blind reviewed by members of the conference committee to ensure an adequate standard, that the proposed subject of their abstract has been followed, that the paper is of a suitable length, the standard of English is adequate and the paper is appropriately referenced.
• For authors whose first language is not English we request that you have your work proof read prior to submission by a native English speaker (or at least a fluent English speaker). Papers can be rejected due to a poor standard of English.
• Papers that are accepted will be published in the conference proceedings providing at least one author registers and presents the work at the Conference (see the registration section of the conference website for more information about registration).
• Due to the large number of papers expected for this conference, the committee only allows an author to present one paper. Therefore if multiple papers are accepted for presentation different co-authors need to present each paper.

Important Dates

For operational reasons we have had to alter the submission dates for this conference. However, as we are aware that a considerable amount of literature was in circulation before we did this we will honour all submissions that arrive by the original dates (17 January for Abstracts and 6 March for papers). We would ask that you strive to meet the new dates as these have been arranged to allow a longer paper review period which we hope will give authors more time to arrange travel and registration after receiving reviewer feedback.

Updated 18 April 2008

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