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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 - 2 October 2006
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/mediawiki/index.php/What_Went_Wrong
Background
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?
Workshop
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.
Accepted Papers
- David Massart, CELEBRATE’s Lessons (presentation slides)
- Peter Scott, Kevin Quick, Eleftheria Tomadaki, Jon Linney, Ambient Video Awareness: “It’s Great, but I Still Don’t Want It”''
- Carola Salvioni, A technology enhanced learning case from its born to its deployment: critical analysis of the ALaRI intranet platform (case study)
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
- Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & Ariadne Foundation (co-chair)
- Wayne Hodgins, Autodesk
- Jan Pawlowski, University of Duisburg-Essen (co-chair)
- 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
- Frans Van Assche, European Schoolnet
- David Wiley, Utah State University
Dates
- 8 August: deadline for proposals
- 29 August: notification of acceptance
- 15 September: camera-ready copy
- 2 October: workshop
