VEWAeL 2009 - The second event on Virtual Environments and Web Applications for eLearning, VEWAeL 2009

The second event on "Virtual Environments and Web Applications for
eLearning", VEWAeL 2009, will be held within the The Fourth International
Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2009, in
Venice, Italy, on May 24-28.

General site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICIW09.html

Submission details: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICIW09.html

VEWAeL 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library together with ICIW 2009. IEEE
will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will
be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Submissions
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Submission deadline: December 10, 2008

We welcome technical papers presenting research, practical results and
case studies, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific
proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in
industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and
solutions on any of the topics of interest, short papers on work in
progress, and panel proposals.

The topics suggested by the workshop can be discussed in term of concepts,
state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and
applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers,
which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the
following, but not limited topic areas.

Industrial presentations and legal case studies are not subject to these
constraints. We expect short and long presentations that express
industrial/legal position and status.

Topics
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During the last years, different web applications based on the use of
Internet environments have been introduced to help teachers and students
in the learning-teaching process. These web applications, mainly supported
by Internet systems and services, are changing the traditional educational
process not only in Higher Education (HE) qualifications, but also in open
learning for any type of course. Nowadays, there exist different public
and commercial Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) aimed at helping
teachers to manage courses and contents, as well as to support the
students' learning process. In this sense, VLE are an important factor
contributing towards the change from traditional educational methodologies
to new paradigms including active teaching. This implies not only a shift
in the way of tackling learning and teaching, but also new challenges for
software engineers and developers. Virtual Learning Environments have to
be built bearing in mind their mandatory use through the Internet, thus
requiring important characteristics and capabilities such as security,
good latency, several tools for interoperability, storage management, etc.

Topics include (but are not limited to):
E-Learning
Web Technologies and Tools for Educational Purposes Services for
E-Learning Platforms Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) Course Management
Systems Web applications for Teaching Social Implications of E-Learning
Lifelong E-learning Teaching-Learning Experiences using the Internet for
Educational Purposes E-learning in the European Higher Education Area
(EHEA) and other HE contexts Web protocols for VLE Security for VLE QoS
for VLE Storage management in VLE


Committee
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VEWAeL Chairs
Chairs
Matthias Ehmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany Thomas Y Kwok, IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center, USA Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of
Extremadura, Spain

Committee members
Grigore Albeanu, Spiru Haret University - Bucharest, Romania / Danish
Technical University, The Netherlands Angelos Amditis, ICCS- NTUA -
Athens, Greece Matthias Ehmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany Mihaela
Brut, "A.I.Cuza" University, Romania Gregorio D?az Descalzo, University of
Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Ioan Dzitac, Agora University, Oradea, Romania
Jacques Fayolle, ISTASE / TELECOM Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne University
Jean-Pierre Gerval ISEN - Brest, France Feliz Gouveia, University Fernando
Pessoa-Porto, Portugal Christophe Gravier, University Jean Monnet -
Saint-Etienne, France Thomas Y Kwok, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Huiye Ma, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica - Amsterdam, The
Netherlands Francisco Montero, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Extremadura Spain Dorin-Mircea
Popovici, Universitatea OVIDIUS Constanta, Romania Andre Santos, CEFET-MA,
Brazil Eduardo Vendrell Vidal, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain
Jim Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Looking for your contributions,

VEWAeL Chairs
Matthias Ehmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Thomas Y Kwok, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Extremadura, Spain
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