ELBa 2009

AIMS AND SCOPE
The eLBa 2009 conference will again focus on workplace learning, covering all kinds of different »workplaces« such as


 * Schools, where the classroom is the workplace of pupils and their teachers,
 * Classrooms in colleges and in vocational schools,
 * University classrooms as workplaces for students and their professors,
 * Workplaces in organizations such as companies, institutions, corporations etc.

Elderly people and people with special needs do need special workplaces and special workplace learning, too.

Following this, the eLBa 2009 conference scope of »workplace learning« addresses diverse topics and perspectives, technologies and theories, implementations and evaluations in the fields of computer science, pedagogy, psychology and design. Accordingly, we invite researches from different fields to contribute to eLBa 2009.

TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to:


 * E-Learning in working processes
 * E-Learning in learning processes
 * E-Learning for elderly people and people with special needs
 * Communication, coordination and collaboration in workplace learning
 * Game-based learning, Game-based training
 * Visual learning and VR/AR based training
 * Didactics for e-learning, games didactics
 * Self-directed learning, motivation for learning
 * Learning technologies, learning platforms, learning programs
 * Best practice, examples from professional use

SUBMISSIONS
We invite submissions of papers presenting original academic or industrial research. Please submit full papers in English language and of 8 to 10 pages by February 1, 2009. All papers must be rendered anonymous to facilitate blind review. They will be peer-reviewed and selected according to reviewer recommendations. Camera-ready papers have to be provided by Mai 1, 2009 and presented at the conference in June in Rostock. Find more information about the submission format and process at www.e-learning-baltics.de.


 * The eLBa Science is supported by the »German Chapter of the ACM«.
 * The eLBa Science is supported by the »Gesellschaft für Informatik« (GI).

Committees

 * Program Chairs
 * has program chair::Bodo Urban, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock
 * has program chair::Sybille Hambach, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock
 * has program chair::Alke Martens, Rostock University
 * has program chair::Djamshid Tavangarian, Rostock University


 * Interantional Program Commitee
 * has PC member::Raffaele de Amicis, Trento University / GraphiTech, Italy
 * has PC member::Peter Baumgartner, Donau-Universität Krems, Austria
 * has PC member::Jürgen Cleve, Hochschule Wismar, Germany
 * has PC member::Holger Diener, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
 * has PC member::Lutz Goertz, MMB, Germany
 * has PC member::Volker Gries, ANOVA, Germany
 * has PC member::Jörg Haake, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
 * has PC member::Martin Hagemann, LiNK MV, Germany
 * has PC member::Sybille Hambach, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
 * has PC member::Udo Hinze, SAZ, Germany
 * has PC member::Lars Kjelldahl, Stockholm University, Sweden
 * has PC member::Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz, Austria
 * has PC member::Andreas Lingnau, IWM Tübingen, Germany
 * has PC member::Ulrike Lucke, Rostock University, Germany
 * has PC member::Stephan Lukosch, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
 * has PC member::Aderito Marcos, University of Minho, Portugal
 * has PC member::Alke Martens, Rostock University, Germany
 * has PC member::Claus Möbus, University of Oldenburg, Germany
 * has PC member::Stefan Müller, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Müller, University of Education Weingarten, Germany
 * has PC member::Jan Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
 * has PC member::Heidi Schelhowe, University of Bremen, Germany
 * has PC member::Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH Aachen, Germany
 * has PC member::Peter Sloep, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Christian Swertz, Wien University, Austria
 * has PC member::Djamshid Tavangarian, Rostock University, Germany
 * has PC member::Klaus Tochtermann, Graz University of Technology / Know Center Graz, Austria
 * has PC member::Bodo Urban, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany