TEDC
 


 

 

 

IEEE 1st International Workshop on

Technology for Education in Developing Countries

 

In Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE 2003)

 

August 12, 2003  

Newark, New Jersey, USA

 

www.ee.columbia.edu/dvmm/tedc

 

Call for Papers

[Postcript version] [PDF version][Text version]

 

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

The workshop is open to anyone interested in attending. In order to attend the workshop, however, you must REGISTER for the ITRE conference. Please check the ITRE website for registration details. Click HERE to go directly to registration information.

We encourage educators and researchers in technology for education to attend. You do not need to submit a paper to participate in the workshop; the only requirement is to register..


Workshop Chairs:      Alejandro Jaimes (Columbia University, New York City USA) ([email protected])

Daby Sow (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY USA) ([email protected])

Kinshuk (Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand) ([email protected])

Invited Papers:

Regular papers:

Panel: "Barriers on Using Technology for Education in Developing Countries" (see below for panelist bios)

Panelists

After the panel there will be a roundtable discussion which will serve as an open forum for all workshop participants.


Dr. Peter G. Fairweather, panel co-chair

 

Dr. Peter G. Fairweather works in the Learning Research and Technologies De- partment at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center concentrating on adaptive instructional and instructional support systems Upon completing a doctorate at Northwestern University, he joined its faculty to research models of text com- prehension through psychological experiment as well as machine simulation. He continued this work at the University of Texas, turning more toward instruc- tional issues. Seduced by more available resources in industry, he has held posts in learning technologies companies, developing intelligent device and process simulations and authoring tools with commercial and military applications. He has also designed interactive elementary and middle school curricula offered by several publishers.

He is the co-author of Computer-based Instruction: Design and Development, a popular text in instructional design courses. He has published over 60 papers, monographs, and book chapters on tools and environments for computer- mediated learning and has been granted several patents involving technologies for learning and accessibility. Currently he is involved with a group developing Web-based literacy and language learning technologies and helping to set IBM strategy in eLearning.


Prof. Piet Kommers, panel co-chair

 

Dr. Piet Kommers is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Educational Science and Technology at Twente University in the Netherlands. His research field is the design and application of media in learning situations. His courses are Multimedia Design, Virtual Reality and Societal Effects of ICT. Concept mapping and metaphoric design stages play an important role here. Projects are undertaken in the field of multicultural communication. The learning processes at individual and societal levels manifest in terms of existential expressions and awareness. Media play an ever more important role in it.


Prof. Alfred Bork, panelist

 

Prof. Alfred Bork is Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His degrees are from Georgia Tech and Brown University. He has been at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, the University of Alaska, Reed College, and Harvard University. He directs the Educational Technology Center, a research and development group in technology-based learning. He is Vice President of A Bork Endeavors. Recent projects include production systems for highly adaptive learning, learning about the methods of science, improving reasoning capability, voice input to computers, learning Japanese, and education for all.. The Scientific Reasoning Series and Understanding Spoken Japanese Were commercially available. Bork is interested in effective use of highly interactive multimedia technology to make order of magnitude improvements in learning at all levels. He has published hundreds of papers and books about these issues. The most recent book, with Sigrun Gunnarsdottir, is Tutorial Distance Learning.


Dr. Alvaro Galvis, panelist

 

Dr. Alvaro Galvis is a senior scientist at The Concord Consortium and a former professor at University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. He has led several important research projects related to information technologies in education, both in USA and abroad. Most recently, Dr. Galvis has led the research effort of the Seeing Math Telecommunications project, an initiative focused on helping math teachers face some of the content and pedagogical challenges that NCTM 2000 standards present to math educators. He and his research group are studying the impact that video case-based teacher professional development (TPD) has on the larger TPD systems, as well as on teachers' practices and on students' learning. One of his projects--Ludomatica, Playful Learning Environments for Colombian kids--was awarded a global price by the city of Stockholm (1999). His eLEarning "metacourses" have helped Latin-American educational leaders and educators become acquainted with pedologies and technologies that help them realize and benefit from virtual digital learning environments.


Dr. John E.S. Lawrence, panelist

 

Dr. John E.S. Lawrence is a research psychologist with over 30 years experience in human development policy.  Currently he consults with several international agencies on using electronic communication systems as instruments of public policy.  He is also adjunct professor at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. He was Principal Technical Adviser in Human Resources Development(HRD), and then Deputy Director of the Social Developmant Division in UNDP's Policy Bureau.  His substantive specialty is in organizational use of information, specifically in the context of HRD, socioeconomic development and livelihoods.

He received his Ph. D. in Psychology from North Carolina State University in 1977.  He also has an M. Sc. in Psychology from NCSU, and the M.A. degree from Exeter College, Oxford, England.  Prior to coming to the U.S. in 1967 to help design and build the North Carolina Outward Bound School, he was an instructor with Outward Bound Schools in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

Dr. Lawrence has consulted with the World Bank, regional banks, governments, and UN agencies, with practical development experience in more than eighty countries worldwide, in all world regions.  He has published regularly and widely, with authorship of over 100 publications in his field.



 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS & OTHER INFORMATION

Technology plays a very important role in education. In developing countries, conditions, constraints, and resources differ sharply with industrialized nations, creating special challenges for the technical and educational research communities. This international workshop aims to further research in technology as it applies to education in developing countries by setting a stage for exchange of original research ideas. Researchers in different fields who are interested in applying their expertise to problems in education in developing countries are strongly encouraged to participate. 

 

We seek high quality submissions of original unpublished research on all aspects of technology for education in developing countries. Educators with new perspectives on applications of technology in this context are also strongly encouraged to submit their work. Accepted papers will be published in the ITRE conference proceedings.

 

The main topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

 

-         Teaching Tools and Applications

o       Multimedia applications

o       Intelligent learning/tutoring environments

o       Applications for low-cost devices

o       Literacy applications

o       Open source tools for teaching

o       Educational databases

-         Distance Learning

o       Distributed tutoring/learning

o       Asynchronous applications

o       Portals/web tools

o       Information retrieval for slow/unreliable connections

o       Web-based instruction/teacher training

-         Impact of Technology

o       Project deployments

o       Cultural issues in educational development

o       Minority language requirements

o       Cross-language interfaces

o       Human Computer Interfaces

-         Resource Sharing

o       Collaborative learning in local environments

o       Human Computer Interfaces for resource sharing

o       Teaching resource management

o       Grid computing infrastructures

 

The workshop will include invited papers and a panel. High quality submissions from developing countries are strongly encouraged.

 

Workshop Chairs:      Alejandro Jaimes (Columbia University, New York City USA) ([email protected])

Daby Sow (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY USA) ([email protected])

Kinshuk (Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand) ([email protected])

 

Program Committee: Consists of an international pool of leading researchers in diverse areas (partial list below).

 

        

Important Dates:       February 15, 2003: Original full-length unpublished papers due (5 pages IEEE 2 column format).

                                    March 24-28, 2003: Reviewers’ comments are sent to authors; authors respond to reviewers’ comments.

                                    April 4, 2003: Notification of acceptance.

                                    May 1, 2003: Final camera-ready manuscript due.      

                                    June 28th, 2003: Advanced registration deadline.      

Submission information. Accepted papers will be published in the ITRE conference proceedings. Therefore, authors MUST submit their papers according to the ITRE conference guidelines. Submissions are now CLOSED. Please click here (http://web.njit.edu/~itre2003/submission.html) to view the guidelines.

 

Technical Program Committee:

- Edward Altman, Institue for Infocomm Research (Singapore)

- Tomaz Amon, Center for Scientific Visualization (Slovenia)
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile (Chile)
- Stefano A. Cerri, LIRMM: Université Montpellier II et CNRS (France)
- Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taiwan)
- Cornel Constantinescu, IBM Almaden (USA)
- Johannes Cronje, University of Pretoria (South Africa)

- Galaye Dia, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis (Senegal)
- Paloma Diaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
- Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research (USA)
- Mauricio Duque, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)

- Peter Fairweather, IBM Watson (USA)

- Vladimir Fomichov, K. E. Tsiolkovsky Russian State Technological     University (Russia)
- Javier Gomez-Castellanos, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico)
- Piet Kommers, University of Twente (Netherlands)

- Chul-Hwan Lee, Inchon National University of Education (Korea)

- Robert Lewis, University of Lancaster (UK)

- Luis Facundo Maldonado, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional (Colombia

- Bakhtiar Mikhak, MIT (USA)

- Sanjaya Mishra, Commonwealth Education Center (India)

- Mikhail N. Morozov, Mari State University (Russia)

- Fabio Paraguaçu, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (Brazil)
- Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan (USA)
- Elaine Raybourn, Sandia National Laboratories (USA)
- Demetrios G Sampson, Center for Research and Technology (Greece)
- Alain Senteni, University of Mauritius (Mauritius)
- Katherine Sinitsa, International Research and Training Center of Inforomation Technology and Systems (Ukraine)

- Brian K. Smith, Pennsylvania State University
- Jennifer Trelewicz, IBM Almaden (USA)
- Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University (USA)
- Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA)

Student Volunteers:

- Huei-Ching Anita Huang, Teachers College, Columbia University (USA)

-         Mahesh Kumar, MIT (USA)

 

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Acknowledgements:

We'd like to thank Prof. Shih-Fu Chang of the DVMM group (Columbia University Electrical Eng. dept.) for hosting this website. We are very greatful to IBM for sponsoring the workshop. We'd like to thank the ITRE organizers, the TPC and the authors for their excellent contributions.

 

 

 

 

Last update: June 10th, 2003