This year, ICICTE 2008, the best and most intimate e-learning conference in the history of civilisation, will be held on July 10-12 in Kanoni, Corfu (see below).
Papers from the conference will be published in special issues of Campus-Wide Information Systems (here is the 2007 issue), the UCFV Research Review and Interactive Learning Environments. Conference papers will be considered by each publication’s editorial board and authors will be invited to submit journal-length articles.
If you have not been to ICICTE before then, as the Aussies say, 'give it a go' --- you are in for a treat!
The new web siteHeroic action by new web master Ġorġ Mallia means that ICICTE 2008 has a handsome new web site.
Most of what follows is cribbed from Gorg's site. Hey Gorg, I'm sure there will be a beer in it for you in Corfu!
The conference
ICICTE 2008 will seek to address the many challenges and new directions presented by technological innovations in educational settings. Following in the tradition of previous ICICTE conferences, ICICTE 2008 will bring together an international community of scholars and practitioners in a forum setting. Opportunities for discussion on current thinking and practices in applications of technology to education are enhanced by the limited number of participants. The key note will be professor Gilly Salmon. Conference themes include:- Institutional and national responses to technological change
- Political economy and educational technology: Intersections
- The architecture of learning; accessibility; the evolution of the classroom
- Pedagogy in the evolving tech environment
- Informal and formal adult education
- Multi-grade education
- Instructional design and delivery; evaluation and assessment
- Strategies and tools for teaching and learning, simulations and gaming
- Effects on training institutions and industry
- Impacts on educational institutions: effects on faculty, staff, administration, and students; curriculum and program development
- Intellectual property
- Ethical considerations in the use of information technology in teaching and learning
- The internationalization of institutions and of education
- Open/Distance learning
- Building communities of teachers/educators; cooperative learning
- Teacher training
- The use of technology in education to promote democratic ideals, freedom, equality.
This year the conference will be held at the Corfu Holiday Palace Hotel in Kanoni, Corfu. Located in Kanoni, 4km from Corfu town and 4 km from the airport, the location of the hotel is one of outstanding beauty with elevated panoramic views of the Ionian sea.
On one side overlooking the picturesque Convent of our Lady Vlacherna, the fully renovated hotel is the only one with a direct view to the famous “Mouse island”, the trademark of Corfu island. On the other side, a beautiful view of Lake Halikiopoulou and distant hills.
Organizers
ICICTE is lead by Professor Ken Fernstrom (above right) the Canadian with the best jazz appreciation out of B.C. if you are ever stuck in the Greek countryside without a ride home, Ken is your man. The conference director is Nancy Pyrini (above right) who could manage a moonshot for half what NASA would charge. Nicole Levinsky is the conference registra (somewhere above on the left!). Nicole could get mankind to Mars and then fish for salmon to feed everyone once we got there!
P.S. I am proud as punch to be named a friend of the conference alongside Ġorġ Mallia (a talented cartoonist) and Marcie Boucouvalas.
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