June 18-19, 2008, Rostock, Germany
http://www.e-learning-baltics.de/

AIMS AND SCOPE

The international conference »E-Learning Baltics« addresses all aspects of teaching and learning with digital media. It was initiated by both representatives from science and business. E-Learning Baltics offers with a scientific conference (eLBa-Science), an application forum (eLBa-Business) and an accompanying fair an ideal opportunity for presenting innovative products as well as actual and ongoing research results.

The event provides a platform for exchange of results, solutions, experiences and for starting new collaborations. The International Scientific E-Learning Conference eLBa-Science presents the scientific part of »E-Learning Baltics« and affords presentation and publication of peer reviewed scientific contributions covering the fields of computer sciences, pedagogy, psychology, and design.

The 2008 conference focuses on the topic e-learning in working processes. The demand for permanent education and training - life long learning – is by now inherent part of daily job routine. Methods and tools of e-learning can play an important role to meet these demands. The understanding of working processes shall not be narrowed to job routine only. Also pupils, vocational school students, and university students more and more face learning situations that force the use of computers for learning, i.e. e-learning in learning processes. Not least e-learning contributes beyond the active professional life also to the constitution of everyday life, summarized in e-learning for seniors.

Following this, e-learning in working processes addresses very divers topics and perspectives, technologies and theories, implementations and evaluations in the fields of computer sciences, pedagogy, psychology, and design. Accordant we invite contributions from all these fields.

TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to:

• E-learning in working processes; e-learning in learning processes; e-learning for seniors
• Communication, cooperation, and collaboration in learning processes; computer supported cooperative learning (CSCL)
• Game based learning; game based training
• Didactic for e-learning; game didactics
• Modes of learning and teaching; scenarios for learning and teaching
• Learning technologies; learning platforms; learning programs
• Best practice; examples from professional use

SUBMISSIONS

Submission Deadline: April 7, 2008

We invite contributions to the above-named topics. Extended abstracts of 1-3 pages written in English or German should be submitted until April 7, 2008 via email at submit@e-learning-baltics.de. All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference (30 minutes for talk and discussion) and published in the conference proceedings. Conference languages are English and German.