ED-MEDIA 2013 - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications

ED-MEDIA 2013 - Victoria, BC, Canada
June 24 - June 28, 2013

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 **