Topics

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

DOMAIN APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES

– Mobility of lecturers and students
– Critical success factors in transnational education
– Interdisciplinary programs for transnational education
– Joint-degrees
– Virtual Labs: examples, architecture and organization
– Virtual universities and classrooms
– e-learning success cases
– Errors in e-learning

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR TRANSNATIONAL LEARNING

– Synchronous and asynchronous learning
– Mobile learning (M-learning)
– Web-based learning, wikis and blogs
– Virtual learning environments
– e-learning platforms and tools
– Authoring tools and content development
– Groupware tools
– Intelligent tutoring systems

LEARNING CONTEXT

– Language skills
– Learning organizations
– Collaborative learning
– International partnerships in teaching
– Community building
– Lifelong learning: continuing professional training & development
– Theoretical bases of transnational education environments
– Distance and e-learning in a global context
– Cooperation with industry in teaching
– Context dependent learning
– Accessibility to disabled users

TEACHING AND EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES

– Supervising and managing student projects
– Teaching to multicultural students
– Simulated communities and online mentoring
– Pedagogy enhancement with e-learning
– Educating the educators
– Immersive learning
– Blended learning
– Computer-aided assessment
– Metrics and performance measurement
– Assessment software tools
– e- testing and new test theories

QUALITY ASSESMENT

– Benchmark metrics for broad domain learning
– Standards and interoperability
– Course design and curriculae
– Emerging and best practices
– Managing quality in e-learning
– e-learning tactics and strategies
– Course/program evaluation
– Teacher evaluation
– Quality assurance, recognition, accreditation & certification
– Assessment and accreditation of courses and institutions