Things That Went Wrong
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WWW-TEL06: What Went Wrong with Technology Enhanced Learning
A workshop at the First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
Crete, Greece - October 1-4, 2006
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Most conferences and workshops report on success stories only. This is somewhat perplexing: • Isn’t research supposed to deal with challenging approaches? • Aren’t we supposed to take risks? • Doesn’t that imply that things should occasionally not work out as hoped? • If nothing ever goes wrong, then maybe we are not taking enough risks? • If things do occasionally go wrong, then why do we never hear about those failures in conferences and workshops?
More importantly: what can we learn from failures in E-Learning projects? How do we utilize failures to improve our work? In this WWW-TEL06 workshop, we will explore these and related questions. We explicitly solicit papers that report on Technology Enhanced Learning projects that did NOT achieve the originally intended outcome. Such projects can be more research oriented or more practically oriented. A crucial aspect of the submissions is the analysis of WHY things went wrong and what can be learned from the experience. Maybe the original idea was misconceived? Maybe the resources were inadequate? Maybe there were some additional, unexpected problems? Maybe everything worked fine on the technical level but organization barriers blocked progress? What can be done to avoid things going wrong in future? For this workshop, we expect research papers of 6 to 8 pages. As this is a somewhat “different” workshop, authors are encouraged to contact the organizers if they have any questions! Before the actual workshop event, all accepted papers will be made available in an open way on the workshop web site. Participants will be expected to have read the papers before the event, so that the workshop can be more discussion than presentation oriented. Plans for a special issue of a journal – or maybe a “different” kind of continued continuation are being discussed…
Program Committee: • Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano • Wayne Hodgins, Autodesk • Dan Rehak, Workforce ADL Co-Laboratory • Maria Rimini-Döring, Robert Bosch GmbH • Robby Robson, Eduworks • Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus & Center for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece • Frans Van Assche, European Schoolnet
Dates • 8 August: deadline for proposals • 22 August: notification of acceptance • 15 September: camera-ready copy • 2 October: workshop
Jan Pawlowski & Erik Duval. Workshop chairs
