ICCE 2010 - ICCE 2010 Workshop on The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Game and Toy Enhanced Learning

Workshop on The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Game and Toy Enhanced Learning affiliated to the ICCE 2010
November 29th to December 3rd, 2010 in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Call for Workshop Papers

Style of workshop: Mini-conference
This workshop is planned as a mini-conference. Short paper presentations will be scheduled in the workshop with a following interactive session.
Workshop Description
Game and Toy Enhanced Learning (GTEL) is an emerging research area, which attracts interdisciplinary researchers involved in it. The goal of this workshop is to discuss the design, implementation, and evaluation of game and toy enhanced learning within a social context. This workshop provides a forum, with short paper presentations and an interactive session, for researchers and practitioners from various discipliners to share and exchange ideas.
The objectives of the workshop
Recently, intelligent toy and digital game enhanced learning are widely accepted as a powerful alternative to traditional ways of teaching and learning, with the merits of motivated learning and practicing higher-order thinking through trial-and-error within a challenging context. They also find that using game and toy in learning can enhance students’ motivation, meta-cognition, problem-solving skill, attitudes, and creativity. However, the opposite opinions from the addiction researchers and some parents expressed the hesitation in applying digital games learning. The positive and negative opinions leave a gap in employing digital game and intelligent toy for enhancing learning. Therefore, this workshop will be of interest to ICCE 2010 participants whom share the common interests in studying the ways to enhance learning through the use of computer technology.
Call for papers
The 18th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2010) will be held from November 29th to December 3rd, 2010 in Putrajaya, Malaysia. The Workshop on Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Game and Toy Enhanced Learning affiliated to ICCE 2010 is calling for papers and interactive event proposals.

The design of digital games and intelligent toys for learning is a rapidly growing research area. Digital games include advanced computing technology, while intelligent toys are embedded with technologies such as ubiquitous technology, 3-D technology, and augmented reality technology. These new technologies provide opportunities that make individual and social activities to be integrated in new ways and reframe long-standing research questions, ideas, and approaches to learning. This workshop will convene experts in digital games and toys from academia, industry and schools to address fundamental questions about digital games and toys for learning.

This workshop provides a forum, with paper presentations and a following interactive session, for researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to exchange ideas in order to lay the foundation for this emerging research area.
Submission Information
Submissions must describe substantial, original, and unpublished work within 8 pages.
Submissions must follow the formatting instruction in “Paper Template File” of ICCE2010.
Please send your submission to hthou-AT-mail.ntust.edu.tw by August 27, 2010