[ecrea] CfP: Future of eTextbooks Workshop at ICSLE'15 conference

Please consider submitting and publishing your original scientific work to the research workshop on the Future of e-Textbooks (FeT 2015).

The Future of e-Textbooks (FeT 2015) is an half-day event collocated with the International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2015), taking place in Sinaia, Romania in September 23 - 25, 2015.

RATIONALE
Digitising textbooks is becoming an increasingly important practice in formal education. While higher education has been the main focus of research on e-textbooks so far, the topic is also gaining attention in
K-12 education. In recent years academic and educational publishers have started to follow the phenomenon of extensive digitisation by converting printed textbooks into digital formats that can be read on a computer screen, a special e-book reader, a tablet, a phablet, or even a smart phone.
Unfortunately, The first generation of electronic textbooks cannot be considered successful as, although digital, they are but downloadable versions of traditional textbooks or digitally generated static e-books (epub, pdf), usually monolithic and not at all interactive but, most of today's students do not read textbooks regularly (most fit into the description of the YouTube Generation) and they prefer learning from short pieces of micro-content and through remixing different media formats (videos, texts, pictures), also actively follow peer recommendations, on top of their teachers' suggestions.
The goal of the workshop is to re-conceptualise the e-Textbook as an aggregate of both professionally authored and user-contributed content accessible through a wide range of artifacts by tackling the challenges of designing for ubiquitous computing while advancing technology-enhanced learning experiences, moving away from the replication of traditional practices and models.

TOPICS
* e-Textbooks standards, technologies and applications
* Pedagogical scenarios for next generation e-Textbooks
* Reference models and architectures for next generation e-Textbooks
* Whole-school policies on BYOD and e-Textbooks
* Case studies on implementing innovative e-Textbooks
* New business models and delivery platforms
* Legal issues related with e-Textbooks
* Quality assurance and evaluation of e-Textbooks
* Enabling theories (both pedagogical and HCI-related)

SUBMISSIONS
We invite position papers, research papers as well as conceptual and technical papers. Papers for submission should be formatted according to the Springer LNET Authors Guidelines and have minimum 6 pages and maximum 10 pages.
The review process is not anonymous and the submitted manuscript should contain the authors' names and affiliations.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 10th.
Authors notifications May 25th.
Camera ready papers July 1st.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
All submitted papers will go through double blind peer review process in the EasyChair environment, managed by the program committee:
* Terje Väljataga (Tallinn University, Estonia)
* Kai Pata (Tallinn University, Estonia)
* Andri Ioannou (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
* Panayiotis Zaphiris (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
* Jelena Jovanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
* Tobias Ley (Tallinn University, Estonia)
* Paulo Dias (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
* Elvira Popescu (University of Craiova, Romania)
* Andrej Flogie (Institute of A.M.Slomska, Slovenia)
* Margus Pedaste (University of Tartu, Estonia)

ORGANISERS
FeT 2015  workshop is organized by co-chairs David Lamas ((drl /at/ tlu.ee)) and Mart Laanpere ((mart.laanpere /at/ tlu.ee)).

More information can be found on the Website of the FeT 2015 workshop:
http://idlab.tlu.ee/fet/


Regards,
Mart Laanpere



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