IEEE 2nd International Workshop on
Technology for Education in Developing Countries
In
Conjunction with IEEE International
Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2004)
August 31st,
2004
Joensuu,
Finland
http://www.ee.columbia.edu/dvmm/tedc
Call for Papers
[Postcript version] [PDF version][Text version]
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO
ATTEND THE WORKSHOP!
** NEW ** WORKSHOP PROGRAM
AVAILABLE BELOW
Workshop Chairs: Alejandro Jaimes (Fuji Xerox, Nakai Research Center, Japan) (ajaimes@ee.columbia.edu)
Daby Sow (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY USA) (sowdaby@us.ibm.com)
Kinshuk (Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand) (kinshuk@massey.ac.nz)
Keynote Speaker: Prof. David E. Bloom, Harvard University
“Education for All: An Unfinished Revolution” [see talk abstract and speaker biography here on the conference page]
Accepted
Papers:
There
are Presentation Papers (one oral presentation at a time) and Discussion Papers
(will be arranged in the workshop space in poster format so that attendees can
interact with the authors). Please click here for
information on how authors should prepare their presentation.
August 31, 2004
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8:00 - 9:00 |
Registration
(Carelia Hall) |
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9:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote speech
(Auditorium C1, Carelia Hall) |
Paper
presentations [Room H30]
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10:15 - 11:15 (oral
presentations) |
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TEDC29 |
A New Distance Education Model for the University of the
West Indies : A Learning Objects' Approach |
Permanand Mohan, Ben Kei Daniel |
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TEDC49 |
A workable e-learning strategy for distance education in
South Africa |
Frederik Hendrik Bernardus Serfontein |
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TEDC38 |
abcNet: a Literacy Tool in Developing Countries |
Óscar Narciso Mortágua Pereira, Joaquim Manuel Henriques
de Sousa Pinto, António José Batel Anjo, Lygia Maria Marques da Conceição
Pereira |
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12:30 - 14:10 (oral
presentations) |
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TEDC43 |
Addressing digital divide issues in a partially online
masters programme in Africa: the NetTel@Africa experience |
Derek W. Keats, Maria A. Beebe |
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TEDC15 |
Africa Drive Project –Innovative Teacher Development in
South Africa |
Danie Kok, Christian Merz |
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TEDC34 |
ALFA-EVALU: a Collaboration Network among Latin American
and European Universities |
Angelo Tartaglia, Elena Tresso |
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TEDC25 |
Cultural Issues in Developing a Leadership Education
Program in Kosovo |
Andy Stone, Jonathan Briggs, Tom Smith, Christian Olsson |
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TEDC44 |
Developing Video-based Course Material for Slow Dialup
Connections |
Karl Kurbel, Alexei Pakhomov |
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14:30 - 15:30 (discussion by
discussion paper authors) |
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TEDC22 |
Designing Adaptive Educational Web Sites: General
Framework |
Gareth Barrera-Sanabria, Daniel Arenas-Seleey, Juan C.
García-Ojeda, Freddy Méndez-Ortiz |
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TEDC18 |
Information Technology for Learning and Development for
Women in Rural India |
Surbhi Sharma |
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TEDC28 |
Pedaglue Teaching for Life-long Learners: Rapid
Development by Post-Graduates of a PG Course with Modern Content |
Ian G. Kennedy |
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TEDC24 |
Simputer as a Platform for ICT Education in Tanzania |
Marcus Duveskog, Erkki Sutinen, Mikko Vesisenaho, Evgeny
Yusha |
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TEDC30 |
Striving towards International Academic and E-learning
Collaboration: An evaluation of a South African experience |
Dolf Jordaan |
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TEDC48 |
The City that We Want: Generative Themes, Constructionist
Technologies and School/Social Change |
David Cavallo, Paulo Blikstein, Arnan Sipitakiat,
Anindita Basu, Alexandra Camargo, Roseli de Deus Lopes, Alice Cavallo |
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15:30 - 16:10 (oral
presentations) |
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TEDC19 |
Internet/Web Technology in Higher Education in China |
Jianqiang Li, Zhaohao Sun |
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TEDC46 |
“Learning by Construction Camps”: a Model for Informal
Science and Technology Education in Developing Countries |
Milton Villegas Lemus, Yuen Law Wan |
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16:30 - 18:10 (oral
presentations) |
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TEDC47 |
LuTec: A Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Program
for Local Development of New Tools and Strategies for Education |
Milton Villegas, Rolando Alfaro, Jaime Gutiérrez,
Fernando Garzona |
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TEDC32 |
Management Practice in Malaysian Smart School : Tasks and
Support Analysis of the ICT Implementation |
Muhammad Z M Zain, Puvaneswary Murugaiah, Hanafi Atan,
Rozhan M Idrus |
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TEDC20 |
The Amateur Radio as a Learning Technology in Developing
Countries |
Miroslav Skoric |
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TEDC42 |
e-Learning in Developing Countries: Suggesting a
Methodology for Enabling Computer-Aided Assessment |
Noorminshah Iahad, Georgios A. Dafoulas, Maya
Milankovic-Atkinson, Alan Murphy |
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TEDC21 |
WebCT and Anatomical Pathology Tutorials |
Ken Masters, Maureen Duffield |
CALL
FOR PAPERS
The goal of this second
international workshop is to bring together researchers, and educators to
discuss various issues involved in developing new techniques and on novel uses
of technology for education in developing countries.
In developing countries,
conditions, constraints, and resources differ sharply with industrialized
nations, creating special challenges for the technical and educational research
communities.
This workshop will build upon the
first TEDC workshop,
held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Research and
Education (ITRE 2003). The first
workshop included several invited papers, regular papers and a panel.
We seek high quality submissions of original unpublished research on all aspects of technology for education in developing countries. Researchers and educators with new perspectives on applications of technology in this context are strongly encouraged to submit their work. Accepted papers will be published in the ICALT 2004 conference proceedings.
The main topics
of the workshop include but are not limited to:
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- Teaching Tools and Applications o Multimedia applications o Intelligent learning/tutoring environments o Applications for low-cost devices o Literacy applications o Open source tools for teaching o Educational databases |
- Distance Learning o Distributed tutoring/learning o Asynchronous applications o Portals/web tools o Information retrieval for slow/unreliable connections o Web-based instruction/teacher training |
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- Impact of Technology o Project deployments o Cultural issues in educational development o Minority language requirements o Cross-language interfaces o Human Computer Interfaces |
- Resource Sharing o Collaborative learning in local environments o Human Computer Interfaces for resource sharing o Teaching resource management o Grid computing infrastructures |
The workshop will include invited papers
and a panel. High quality submissions from developing countries are
strongly encouraged.
Workshop Chairs: Alejandro Jaimes (Fuji Xerox, Nakai Research Center, Japan) (ajaimes@ee.columbia.edu)
Daby Sow (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY USA) (sowdaby@us.ibm.com)
Kinshuk (Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand) (kinshuk@massey.ac.nz)
Academic Coordinator: Ali Fawaz Shareef (a.f.shareef@massey.ac.nz)
Program Committee: Consists of an international pool of leading researchers in diverse areas (list available soon).
Important Dates: EXTENDED
DEADLINE February 29, 2004: SUBMISSION NOW CLOSED.
Notification of acceptance.Due to the large number of papers, authors will be notified by April 26th.
May 24, 2004: Final camera-ready manuscript due.
May 31, 2004: Author registration deadline.
Paper format: Regular papers 5 pages; posters 2
pages.
Please see IEEE Computer Society
guidelines. Authors can also use Word Template and Format
guidelines.
Please
submit properly formatted PDF files. Papers that do not adhere to the IEEE
guidelines will not be accepted for review.
Submission: --
SUBMISSION IS NOW CLOSED --
Please submit
papers in PDF format. If this is not possible, postcript/MS Word formats will
be accepted.
Papers
should be submitted via e-mail to Ali Fawaz Shareef (a.f.shareef@massey.ac.nz), Academic Coordinator.
Papers can also be submitted using the on-line
submission system at: http://ifets.massey.ac.nz/tedc/
You should
receive an e-mail confirmation within 2 days of your submission.
All reviewing will be
double blind, so the paper must not include any information that allows the
authors to be identified.
This might require that some references to the authors' previous
work be left blank. This is not optional.
Papers that provide obvious identifying information will be
rejected without review.
Authors are asked to send their contact information in the e-mail,
separate from the paper PDF file.
Please note that the workshop does not allow dual submissions to
other conferences.
Only
original, unpublished material that is not under review elsewhere should be
submitted.
Review process: All submissions will be refereed by at least
three reviewers on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness
and clarity.
Author registration: Authors must
register for ICALT and comply with its requirements. One registrant can publish
up to two accepted ICALT papers.
This
could be one TEDC and one ICALT, two TEDC, or two ICALT papers.
Authors
should register according to their respective IEEE category (IEEE member, IEEE
student, non-member, etc.).
At
least one author, per paper, must register. Registration fees and procedure
will be available soon at the ICALT
website.
Related Events: Learning International Networks
Consortium (LINC)
2nd
Annual International MIT LINC Symposium & Workshop: "Creating and Sustaining Learning Communities"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
SYMPOSIUM: Tuesday and Wednesday, March 23, 24, 2004
WORKSHOP: Thursday and Friday, March 25, 26, 2004
Information on LINC Symposium & Workshop: http://ken.mit.edu/linc/
Other
resources: Click here.
Please send e-mail to the organizers if you have related links of interest.
TEDC Technical Program Committee:
* Edward Altman,
Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore)
* Ana B. Benitez,
Columbia University (USA)
* Alfred Bork,
University California at Irvine (USA)
* Mark Bullen,
University of British Columbia (Canada)
* Javier Gomez
Castellanos, UNAM (Mexico)
* Nian-Shing Chen,
National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taiwan)
* Cesar Collazos, U.
del Cauca (Colombia) and U. de Chile (Chile)
* Johannes Cronje,
University of Pretoria (South Africa)
* John S Davis, IBM
Watson (USA)
* Paloma Diaz,
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
* Mauricio Duque, U.
Andes (Colombia)
* Peter Fairweather,
IBM Watson (USA)
* Vladimir Fomichov,
K. E. Tsiolkovsky Russian State Technological University (Russia)
* Alvaro Galvis,
Concord Consortium (Concord, MA, USA)
* Daniel Gatica-Perez,
IDIAP (Switzerland)
* Rozhan M. Idrus,
Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)
* Piet Kommers,
University of Twente (The Netherlands)
* Chul-Hwan Lee,
Inchon Ntl Univ. of Educ (Korea)
* Bakhtiar Mikhak, MIT
(USA)
* Sanjaya Mishra,
Commonwealth Ed. Ctr (India)
* Mikhail N. Morozov,
Mari State Technical University (Russia)
* Dragomir Radev,
University of Michigan (USA)
* Matthias Rauterberg,
Technical University Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
* Demetrios G Sampson,
University of Piraeus (Greece)
* Nicu Sebe,
University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
* Alain Senteni,
University of Mauritius (Mauritius)
* Ramesh Sharma,
Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
* Katherine Sinitsa,
Intl Res. and Trng Ctr of Info. Tech. and Systems (Ukraine)
* Brian K. Smith,
Pennsylvania State University (USA)
* Hari Sundaram,
Arizona Sate University (USA)
* Erkki Sutinen,
University of Joensuu (Finland)
* Jennifer Trelewicz,
IBM Almaden Research Center (USA)
* Alex Twinomugisha,
African Virtual University (Kenya)
* Carlos Varela, RPI
(USA)
* Paul West,
Commonwealth of Learning (Canada)
Student Volunteers:
TBD
Acknowledgements:
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