MTDL 2011 - The Second ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Leaning (MTDL 2011)

The Second ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Leaning (MTDL 2011)
** In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2011

Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A., December 1, 2011

URL: http://MTDL2011.mine.tku.edu.tw

Multimedia technologies and networking infrastructure have
changed human social behavior. One typical example is
education. The impact of distance learning to traditional
universities in particular allows educational professionals to
rethink about how to efficiently and effectively apply
multimedia technologies to improve instruction, as well as to
encourage students to learn. Although multimedia technologies
have already been used widely in e-learning, various
considerations should be carefully addressed from both
pedagogical and technological perspectives, to ensure the
successful incorporation of these technologies in e-learning.

This ACM workshop aims to discuss problems, current studies,
and solutions in how to use multimedia and communication
technologies to improve e-learning. Especially, presentations
should address the difference between using and without using
multimedia technologies in education. Practical solutions are
encouraged, although pedagogical theories may be used to
support the solutions.

The first MTDL 2009 Workshop was held in Beijing, China,
followed by MTDL 2010, which was held in Firenze, Italy. This
is the third MTDL Workshop in the series.

The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. Topics of
interests include but are not limited to the following:

- Efficient Authoring Methods for Instruction Creation/Generation
- Management of Multimedia Learning Objects
- Multimedia Edutainment Technologies
- Multimedia Technologies for Collaborative Learning
- Multimedia Technologies for Mobile/Situated Learning
- Multimodal Interactions for e-Learning
- Game-based Learning
- Pedagogical Issues of using Multimedia Technologies in e-Learning
- Real-time Delivery of Multimedia Instructions
- Retrieval of Multimedia Learning Objects
- Server and System Architecture for Multimedia Instructions
- Usability Study of Multimedia Learning Objects

Submission Details
Each paper for submission should be formatted using the ACM
Proceedings templates. It should be written in 9 points and
must not be longer than 10 pages in length, including
references and figures. Authors may submit their papers in PDF
format via the ACM Multimedia 2011 paper submission system.
Note that the review process is double-blind, i.e., all
submissions must contain no information identifying the authors
or their organizations.

For more information, please contact Frederick Li
(frederick.li-AT-durham.ac.uk) and Neil Yen (neil219-AT-gmail.com).

Important Date
Paper Submission: Jul. 06, 2011

Workshop Co-Chairs
Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Timothy K. Shih, National Central University, Taiwan

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Frederick Li, Durham University, United Kingdom
Neil Yen, Waseda University, Japan

Web and Media Chair
Christopher Watson, Durham University, United Kingdom