[ecoop-info] CFP Workshop on Cloud Education Environments-WCLOUD 2013

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Workshop on 
Cloud Education Environments - WCLOUD 2013 

In conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and
Services Science - CLOSER 2013

 

Website: http://closer.scitevents.org/WCLOUD.aspx

 

May 6 - 8, 2013

Aachen, Germany

Co-organized by: RWTH

Sponsored by: INSTICC

INSTICC is Member of: WfMC and OMG

Technically sponsored by: SINTEF and IFIP

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

 

Paper Submission: February 14, 2013 (extended) 
Authors Notification: February 22, 2013 
Camera Ready and Registration: March 6, 2013

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We would like to draw your attention to the Workshop on Cloud Education
Environments  - WCLOUD 2013 (held in conjunction with the 3rd International
Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science- CLOSER 2013), whose
submission deadline is scheduled for February 14, 2013. 

Cloud Learning Environments (CLEs) or Cloud Education Environments (CEE)
consider the cloud as a large ecosystem, which is not owned by any
educational organization. Within this ecosystem, learners and educators act
as the users and producers of cloud-based learning services. They have
complete control over the choice, use and sharing of the learning tools and
content provided by these services. This approach has the potential to
enable and facilitate both formal and informal learning. It allows learners
to learn anywhere and at anytime. It also facilitates collaboration among
learners and educators. Additionally, the openness, sharing and reusability
of learning tools and content on the web are technically enabled and
promoted.

The workshop will focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research
results, as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while
developing and testing cloud education environments, both from a teaching
and a learning perspective.

The workshop will be the second in a series of workshops taking place in
Europe and Latin America. The previous workshop WCLOUD 2012 has taken place
in Antigua/ Guatemala
(http://ges.galileo.edu/cloud-education-environments-workshop/).

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

Learning Tools 

*	Learning tools experiences and Cases of Study
*	Social Environments
*	Content and Multimedia Applications
*	Story Telling Tools
*	Cloud Education Accessibility
*	Other type of tools


Pedagogical Approaches and Learning Contexts 

*	Personal Learning Environments
*	Self Regulated Learning
*	Learning Artifacts
*	Pedagogical approaches for multiple learning environments
*	Modeling Languages
*	Assessment approaches

Orchestration 

*	Orchestration approaches for learning using several tools
*	Prototype experiences of learning orchestration
*	User Interface Management

Interoperability 

*	Standards and Specifications
*	Internet of Services and Technology Enhanced Learning
*	Reference Implementations
*	Virtual Learning Environments and Tools integration
*	Integration Experiences and Cases of Study
*	Authentication and identity handling on service based scenarios
*	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS),
and Software as a Service (SaaS), with education purposes

Business Models 

*	Learning as a Service
*	Service models of educational institutions
*	Ethical Aspects

The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and
Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC),
co-organized with the Aachen University (RWTH) and technically sponsored by
the SINTEF and IFIP. INSTICC is Member of the Workflow Management Coalition
(WfMC) and Object Management Group (OMG).

 

The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and
Services Science, CLOSER 2013, focuses on the emerging area of Cloud
Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure,
operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the
conference considers as essential the link to Services Science,
acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven
collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these
two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also
interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and
techniques to design, analyze, manage, market and study various aspects of
Cloud Computing.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. 

All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book,
under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support.

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SCITEPRESS Digital Library ( <http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/>
http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). 
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef ( <http://www.crossref.org/>
http://www.crossref.org/).

 

CLOSER 2013 will be held in conjunction with WEBIST 2013 (9th International
Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies -
http://www.webist.org/), SMARTGREENS 2013 (International Conference on Smart
Grids and Green IT Systems -  <http://www.smartgreens.org/>
http://www.smartgreens.org/) and CSEDU 2013 (International Conference on
Computer Supported Education -  <http://www.csedu.org/>
http://www.csedu.org/) in Aachen, Germany. 

Registration to CLOSER will enable free attendance to any sessions of
WEBIST, SMARTGREENS and CSEDU conferences as a non-speaker.

 

Please check further details at the workshop website

(http://closer.scitevents.org/WCLOUD.aspx) and the main conference website
(http://closer.scitevents.org).

 

CO-CHAIRS

 

Hans-Christian Schmitz 
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology 
Germany

 

 

Rocael Hernandez 
Galileo University 
Guatemala 

 

Alexander Mikroyannidis 
The Open University 
United Kingdom 

 

In case of questions, please feel free to contact us:
<mailto:%20csedu.secretariat at insticc.org> csedu.secretariat at insticc.org

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Please check the special session´s program committee members at
http://closer.scitevents.org/WCLOUD.aspx

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