ED-MEDIA 2012 - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of

multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications:

1. Infrastructure: (in the large)

- Architectures for Educational Technology Systems

- Design of Distance Learning Systems

- Distributed Learning Environments

- Methodologies for system design

- Multimedia/Hypermedia Systems

- WWW-based course-support systems

2. Tools & Content-oriented Applications:

- Agents

- Authoring tools

- Evaluation of impact

- Interactive Learning Environments

- Groupware tools

- Multimedia/Hypermedia Applications

- Research perspectives

- Virtual Reality

- WWW-based course sites

- WWW-based learning resources

- WWW-based tools

3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner:

- Constructivist perspectives

- Cooperative/collaborative learning

- Implementation experiences

- Improving Classroom Teaching

- Instructor networking

- Instructor training and support

- Pedagogical Issues

- Teaching/Learning Strategies

4. Human-computer Interaction (HCI/CHI):

- Computer-Mediated Communication

- Design principles

- Usability/user studies

- User interface design

5. Cases & Projects:

- Country-Specific Developments

- Exemplary projects

- Institution-specific cases

- Virtual universities

6. Special Strand: ** Universal Web Accessibility **