Dear colleagues

After receiving many requests for extension, the deadline for SCORM 2006 paper submission
has been extended till September 10, 2005. Hopefully, this gives you plenty of time
to finalise your submission.

Please let others know who may be thinking of submitting their work.

Regards.

Kinshuk
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The 2006 International Conference on SCORM (SCORM'2006)

Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan
January 17 - 19, 2006
http://ia.nknu.edu.tw/scorm2006/

(In Conjunction with the International Plugfest II)


** Important Dates

Paper Submission: September 10, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2005
Author Registration: December 15, 2005
Receipt of Final Papers and Presentation Slides: December 15, 2005
Presentation: January 17 - 19, 2006 



CALL FOR PAPERS

The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) aims to foster creation of reusable
learning content as instructional objects within a common technical framework for computer
and Web-based learning. The 2006 International Conference on SCORM (SCORM'2006) will
provide a forum for discussion on SCORM related research issues. The conference is
co-sponsored by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), Tamkang University, Institute
for Information Industry, Taiwan, National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning,
Taiwan, and Endorsed by the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology.

The conference covers theory, design and application of SCORM-related research issues.
Aside from the regular presentations, the conference will include keynote addresses with
speakers from both industry and academia. Prospective authors are invited to propose papers
in any of the following areas:
* Content Authoring and Converting
* Automatic Generation of Metadata
* Visualization of Content Aggregation and Sequencing
* Metrics of Learning Objects and Content Aggregations
* Game Technology for Distance Learning
* Modeling and Simulation in Distance Learning
* Question, Test, and Performance Assessment
* Intelligent Tutoring Based on Sequencing and Navigation
* Automatic Testing of Sequencing and Navigation
* Practical Usage and Examples of Sequencing and Navigation
* Experimental Design for Adaptive Learning
* Infrastructure and Design of Repository
* Discovery and Registration of Repository
* Searching and Reusing of Learning Objects
* Open Architecture for LMSs
* Mobile Technology for Distance Learning
* Collaborative Learning Systems


** Paper Submissions

Submit a full paper of at most 4 pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts
style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts,
and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author
Guidelines at http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Contact author must provide
the following information:

paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address
of the author(s), about 200-250 words abstract, and about five keywords. Prepare your
paper in Word, RTF or PDF file and send it by email to

David Yang, Professor
National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
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All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, significance,
and clarity. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Best
papers recommended by the program committee will be extended and published in a special
volume of the IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter. Besides, authors of selected papers
will be invited to make an extension of their papers to be published in the International
Journal of Distance Education Technologies (http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/JDET). 

The authors of accepted papers will present at the conference and be required to complete
ADL release forms when submitting their final papers. In addition, presentation slides
should be submitted to the conference organization committee. Presentations slides will be
posted on the ADL Plugfest website after the conference. 


** For questions, please contact:

Timothy K. Shih, Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering 
Tamkang University, Taiwan
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: + 886 2 26209749
Phone: + 886 2 26215656 x2743, x2616

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