[Om] WebALT2006: Call for Participation

[Olga Caprotti]

              CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
   
           Web Advanced Learning Technologies 2006
              TU Eindhoven, 5-6 January 2006
          http://webalt.math.helsinki.fi/webalt2006/

           Early registration deadline: 15 Dec.2005


The First WebALT Conference and Exhibition will take place at the
Technical University of Eindhoven on 5-6 January 2006.

This event, sponsored by the Web Advanced Learning Technologies project
(EDC-22253), aims to gather users and practitioners of e-learning
technologies for teaching mathematics to exchange experience with, and
gain insight into, the best available tools for mathematics education.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

     * Software supported testing and assessment in mathematics
     * Repositories of didactical material for online learning of
       mathematics and the sciences
     * Case studies and success stories of e-learning in mathematics
     * E-learning of mathematics in applied sciences
     * Multilingual aspects in e-mathematics
     * Data formats and communication protocols for mathematics
       in e-learning
     * Intellectual property rights of e-learning materials
       in mathematics
     * Policy issues in cross-cultural re-use of e-learning materials
       in mathematics

The Conference program will consist of contributed and invited
presentations with demonstrations of software and posters as part
of the Exhibition. R. Seiler and P. De Bra are the keynote speakers.


Organization
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Conference Chair: Mika Seppälä, University of Helsinki
Exhibition Chair: Hans Sterk, Technical University of Eindhoven
Program Chair:    Sebastian Xambo, Polytechnical University of Catalonia
Publicity Chair:  Olga Caprotti, University of Helsinki
Local Organizers: Arjeh Cohen and Karin Poels, Technical University of
Eindhoven

Registration
============
To register for the conference, please use the registration site at

http://webalt.math.helsinki.fi/webalt2006/content/registration/registration_site

Early registration fee: 175 Eur.
Late registration fee:  200 Eur.

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     Early registration deadline is December 15, 2005!
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Hotels
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The Local Organization selected two hotels which are listed below and
are within 1 km from the conference location. In these hotels, a block
of rooms is optionally booked until December 20. Special room rates
hold because Technische Universiteit Eindhoven receives a discount.

Please contact the hotel of your choice by email. Do not forget to
mention that you are a participant of the WebALT conference; this
enables you to receive a room in the booked block of rooms at a
reduced room rate. The blocks of rooms are reserved for the period
Januari 4 until Januari 7; if you want to stay for a longer period,
then book your hotel as soon as possible.


Crown Hotel ****
email: info at crownhotel.nl
single: 110 euro
double: 125 euro

Queen Hotel ***
email: info at queeneindhoven.nl
single: 77,50 euro
double: 90 euro





Preliminary Program
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5 January 2005, Blauwe Zaal
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9:30 - 9:40 	Arjeh Cohen 	Opening
9:45 - 10:30 	Mika Seppala 	The WebALT Project
10:30 - 11:00 	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 	Hans Cuypers 	WExEd - WebALT Exercise Editor - for
Multilingual Mathematics Exercises
11:30 - 12:00 	M. J. Grove 	STACK: addressing the needs of the neglected
learners
12:00 - 13:30 	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00 	Poster and Demonstration Session
15:00 - 15:30 	Paul Libbrecht 	The LeActiveMath Search Tool
15:30 - 16:00 	Matti Pauna 	WebALT Metadata = LOM + CCD
16:00 - 16:30 	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 	Dirk Tempelaar 	An online summer course for prospective
international students to remediate deficiencies in Math prior
knowledge: the case of ALEKS
17:00 - 17:30 	André Heck 	Diagnostic Testing with Maple T.A.
17:30 - 18:15 	Paul De Bra 	AHA! Adaptive Environments, a Blessing, an
Adventure or a Nightmare?


6 January 2005, Blauwe Zaal
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9:30 - 10:20 	Ruedi Seiler 	E-Mathematics: Challenges, Oportunities and
Experiences
10:20 - 10:50 	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 	Volker Enss 	MathletFactory: A Component Framework and
Authoring Environment for Mathematical Applets in Interactive eLearning
Platforms
11:30 - 12:00 	S. Xambó 	On the Multilingual Rendering of Mathematical
Problems
12:00 - 13:30 	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00 	Poster and Demonstration Session
15:00 - 15:30 	M. Mavrikis 	WaLLiS: a Web-based ILE for Science and
Engineering Students Studying Mathematics
15:30 - 16:00 	Johan Jeuring 	Feedback in an interactive equation solver
16:00 - 16:30 	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 	G. Goguadze, 
                M. Mavrikis, 
                A. G. Palomo 	Interoperability Issues between Markup
formats for Mathematical Exercises
17:00 - 17:30 	M. A. Huertas 	Designing Math on-line Courses for
Computer Science Students: experiences at the Open University of
Catalonia




Poster and Demonstrations
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Posters, Senaatszaal

Guerino Mazzola, Gérard Milmeister and Jody Weissmann. 	Core IT
Mathematics on the Net
Léon Tolboom. 	Learning and teaching of mathematics in a web-based
learning environment
Isabel Nunes, Teresa Chambel, Pedro Duarte and Joao Pedro Neto. CATS-
Computer Assessable Task System
Lauri Carlson, Anni Laine and Wanjiku Ng'ang'a. Multilingual Generation
of Live Math Problems in WebALT


Demonstrations, Aud12/Aud13

Santiago Molina and Sebastian Xambo.Interactive Classical Geometry
System (ICGS)
Sabina Jeschke, Thomas Richter, Harald Scheel, Ruedi Seiler and
Christian Thomsen. The Experiment in eLearning: Magnetism in Virtual and
Remote Experiments
Jouni Karhima. 	WALTER -- WebALT E-resource Repository
Jasper Bedaux, Leendert van Gastel, Piet Blankert, Jan Mulder, Jeroen
Verschuur and Wopke Wijngaard. The e-Xperimenteren+ project: Pool of
Remote Experiments and Software Environment
Arjeh Cohen, Hans Cuypers, Karin Poels, Mark Spanbroek and Rikko
Verrijzer. WExEd - WebALT Exercise Editor - for Multilingual Mathematics
Exercises