Call for Papers
Special Session: IMCL2015 Doctoral Consortium (DC)

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Overview

The IMCL 2015 Doctoral Consortium (DC) is an interdisciplinary workshop that provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present their research projects and get valuable feedback from a panel of distinguished researchers. We invite doctoral students (especially those in the first years of their research) in ICT in Education and related areas to apply for this unique opportunity to share their ideas and current work with senior researchers in the field and other students as well.

The IMCL2015 DC will also provide a forum where PhD students can interact, share ideas, and receive constructive feedback on ongoing work from established researchers and fellow students through the Doctoral Consortium Special Session, which will be a session, dedicated to DC Students as part of the program of the main conference.

During the Doctoral Consortium Special Session, each participant (i.e. PhD student) will have the opportunity to present ongoing research to the audience of the main conference by means of an oral presentation. Moreover, during this session each DC attendee will meet the members of the DC program committee who are in charge of providing feedback and suggestions on topics of research, career and trends in ICT in Education.

The topics of the IMCL2015 Doctoral Consortium fit to the area of ICT in education. Examples are the following:

• Smart learning environments
• Adaptive learning
• Affective learning
• Game-based learning
• Virtual environments/virtual worlds to support learning
• Augmented reality for supporting learning process
• Natural interaction technologies in education
• Innovative solution for re-using and distributing interactive educational content and services
• New ways to support assessment and feedback
• Mobile learning issues, applications as well as interactive communication technologies and infrastructures (as they have been described in the main conference topics)

Contribution Types

Proposals for participation in the Special Session can be submitted as a full paper Research Summary (max 5 pages), which addresses the following aspects (possibly organized in separate sections):

• Introduction and Motivation: The main problem you are trying to tackle and why it is relevant
• Background: What is the state-of-the-art in relation to existing solutions to the problem
• Goals and Results: Advances beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of your specific contribution and research plan, as well as expected achievements and possible evaluation metrics to establish the level of success of your results
• Research Plan: Current status of the research plan, and already accomplished results (if any)
• Bibliographical References

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published through IEEE Xplore®, provided the author pays a special registration fee (200 euros), under the category “Doctoral Consortium Authors” before September 15th 2015. For further questions, please contact the track chairs: Stavros Demetriadis (sdemetri@csd.auth.gr), Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos (tsiatsos@csd.auth.gr).

Important Dates

11 May 2015	1. Submission of structured abstracts for the main conference 2. Special Session proposals
18 May 2015	Notification of acceptance for Special Sessions proposals
03 Jun 2015	Notification of acceptance for abstracts for the main conference
07 Sep 2015	Submission of complete papers for Special Sessions and the Main Conference: Full Papers (5 pages), Short Papers (3 pages), Posters (2 pages)
17 Sep 2015	Submission of complete papers for the Doctoral Consortium
21 Sep 2015	Notification of acceptance
09 Oct 2015	Author registration deadline
16 Oct 2015	Camera-ready due
19 Nov 2015	Conference Opening

Submission

Please visit: http://imcl-conference.org/imcl2015/paper_preparation.php and submit your paper as “Special Session: IMCL2015 Doctoral Consortium (DC)”.

Program Committee

Chairs of the Session

• Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Members

• Dionisios Politis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (tbc)
• Anastasios Economides, University of Macedonia, Greece (tbc)
• Vasilios Dagdilelis, University of Macedonia, Greece (tbc)
• Iraklis Paraskakis, South East European Research Centre, Greece (tbc)
• Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece (tbc)
• George Palaigeorgiou, University of Western Macedonia (tbc)
• Tharrenos Bratitsis, University of Western Macedonia (tbc)