Ubiquitous Learning

The way to deliver education has undergone major changes in last decade years, with the significant advance of digital information transfer, storage and communication technology. Ubiquitous Learning emerges after the concept of ubiquitous computing was introduced in the education domain. Ubiquitous Learning aims to provide intuitive solutions to identifying the right learning collaborators, right materials and right services in the right place at the right time. It allows students at all levels to access to resources available today from the Internet. Ubiquitous Learning has strong implications on both hardware and software development.

This special track serves as a forum for identifying the challenges and requirements that facilitate the new learning environment. We also invite contributions concerning the technical problems, their solutions and the future development in this research area.

Topics

The special track addresses architectures, organization policies, technologies, applications and devices as well as didactical and pedagogical aspects and trends of Ubiquitous Learning.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Architectures for Ubiquitous Learning Environment
• Organization Polices for Ubiquitous Learning
• Instructional Design Approaches for Ubiquitous Learning
• Semantic Web in Ubiquitous Learning
• Service-oriented Ubiquitous Learning
• Ubiquitous Learning Grid
• Design of Ubiquitous Learning Objects
• Security, Trust and Privacy in Ubiquitous Learning
• Authorization, Authentication and Accounting in Ubiquitous Learning
• Context-aware support for Ubiquitous Learning
• Cooperative Learning and Adaptive Learning
• Intelligent Support for Ubiquitous Learning (User Modeling, Profiling,...)
• Artificial Agent in Ubiquitous Learning
• Mobile Communication in Ubiquitous Learning Environment
• Smart Devices and Device-independent Presentation
• Experimental Usage and Evaluation of Ubiquitous Learning Environment
• Domain Specific Applications and Case Studies

Track Programme Co-Chairs

Prof. Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China
Prof. Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan, China
Prof. Xiangxu Meng, Shandong University, China

Contact

Prof. Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China
Phone: +86 025 83793072
Fax: +86 025 83791010
Email: jluo@seu.edu.cn

Track Paper Submission

ICPCA2008 Special Track on Ubiquitous Learning (ULearn@ICPCA)

Important Dates

April 15, 2008
April 30, 2008
May 18, 2008 Full paper submission due
May 30, 2008 Notification of acceptance
July 15, 2008 Final papers due