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MAIN TRACK 3: Knowledge, Learning and Education for the Knowledge Society

Knowledge Society: A roadmap for government consultation

Strategies and support for:

• Creating a public knowledge and learning management environment
• Achieving sustainability and interoperability of knowledge-intensive public services in an open and accessible digital environment
• Replicating services across national borders – handling regulatory, administrative, linguistic and cultural differences
• Improving the take-up and quality of public services
• Bridging the digital divide and avoiding new forms of digital exclusion based on, e.g., education, language, culture, age or gender
• Raising the level of trust and confidence in the enabling technologies for the knowledge society
• Creating sustainable business models for the knowledge society that leverage the entire value chain and enable the full participation of as many stakeholders as possible
• Establishing policies and practices that would help to make the knowledge society an implementable reality.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

• Knowledge-based learning management systems
• Knowledge-based approaches to competence management
• Design and conceptual issues about learning objects
• Knowledge and learning flows
• Learning and knowledge in social networks
• Knowledge and learning strategies
• Benchmarking of learning and knowledge strategies
• Learning and knowledge exploitation in corporate and government
• Learning and knowledge portals
• Virtual learning symposiums
• Ubiquitous and pervasive learning
• Epistemology of knowledge and learning
• Innovative case studies
• Lessons learned (successes and failures)
• Focused studies of learning and knowledge in sectors
• Maturity models of learning and knowledge exploitation
• Methodologies for effective learning
• Virtual communities and universities
• Corporate universities
• Knowledge and learning for people with disabilities Open forums
  

TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING

• Learning models and theories
• Deployment of ICTs in education
• Policy issues of TEL, integration issues,
• Pedagogical theories and models of TEL
• Constructivist approaches to TEL
• Collaborative/context aware/personalised TEL approaches
• Communities of learners and TEL
• Web 2.0 and TEL
• Semantic web and TEL
• Adaptive and personalised hypermedia for TEL
• Metadata and content standards and TEL
• Free and open source software for TEL
• Ubiquitous and pervasive technologies for TEL
• Intelligent agents for TEL
• Learning management systems
• Emerging technologies
• Grid technologies for learning
• TEL practices in different educational/learning contexts
• Surveys of TEL adoption in education
• Future of TEL
• TEL tools/emerging technologies

The School of the Future: New World, New School - Knowledge Society to its Best

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Section A. The School of the Knowledge Society

Section B. The Big Agenda of Open Issues

Section C. The Key Propositions

Section D. Cases/ Demonstration of worldwide activities

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Knowledge and Learning Technologies for National Educational Systems: New Horizons for open minds

• Educational paradigms of the knowledge and learning societyKnowledge and learning technologies in national educational systems
• Educational portals at the national level
• Digital educational archives and context-driven learning
• Culture for educational, technology-enhanced initiatives
• Virtual spaces for knowledge and learning in educational systems
• Educational content repositories and content dissemination strategies
• Approaches for community development of educational content
• Frameworks, models and strategies for the deployment of knowledge and learning technologies in educational systems
• International technology-enhanced partnerships for education
• Knowledge and learning technologies for education in developing countries
• Knowledge and learning technologies for minorities and excluded communities

Exploiting Information and Communication Technologies for Effective Management of Education: Towards Interactive Managerial and Leadership Styles in Schools

Topic include but are not limited to:

Topic include but are not limited to:

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Technology Enhanced Learning in FP5-FP6 and FP7 Programmes of the European Union: A European Citizen/Learner Perspective – Real World Learning Services – Missing Opportunities – Great Challenges

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Knowledge Management Technologies for E-learning

• Knowledge Management Systems for learning purposes
• Knowledge Networking & E-learning
• Knowledge Engineering & E-learning
• Communities of Practice, Learning Communities & E-learning
• Virtual & corporate universities and knowledge flows
• Knowledge sharing in learning communities
• Innovative Case Studies
• Ubiquitous Learning
• Ontologies & Knowledge Systems
• Peer-to-Peer Technologies and E-learning
• Learning value propositions of Interactive TV & Mobile Technologies from a knowledge management perspective
• Ubiquitous Computing and Knowledge Management

Advances of Semantic Web for E-learning: Expanding learning frontiers

A. Preparation for Semantic E-learning / Semantic e-learning readiness
In this area the main emphasis is placed on the conversion and the compliance of learning content to semantic web standards. In the current stage of Semantic Web evolution, this is basically pursued through the specification of ontologies and their use for e-learning. Typical themes in this area are:

B. Semantic E-learning
The Realization of Semantic E-learning requires a multifold approach to a number of vertical and horizontal themes. The international collaboration can promote such a goal, and obviously the success of the previous area (Semantic E-learning Readiness) will influence the possibilities for successful and wide adoption of Semantic E-learning. Some interesting research themes in this area include:

C. Next Generation E-learning
Undoubtedly, Semantic Web is present on many milestones towards our goal for effective learning. In the next years we think that the key challenge for Semantic Web as well as for e-learning will be to develop infrastructures capable of exploring learning content in every format in an integrative way. This means that we will see a shift of focus from formalizing/codifying learning content to managing content in multimedia forms through automated reasoning and exploitation of mobile, wireless networks as well as new vehicles through digital TV channels.
Some interesting research themes in this area include: