INVITED SPEAKERS

• Hermann Astleitner, University of Salzburg, Austria
• Claus Berg, Ministry of Education, Denmark
• Morten Flate Paulsen, NKI, Oslo, Norway (to be confirmed)
• Carlos José Pereira de Lucena, Brazil
• Lara Stefansdottir, Iceland
• Simon Stobart, Sunderland University, UK

TOPICS OF INTEREST. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Internet as a learning environment; Internet/Intranet teaching tools; Teaching on the Web, Web-based or Tele-Learning; Educational resources on the Internet;
• Advanced Educational Technology; Education in the Information Society;
• Empirical research on learning in computer networks;
• Teaching to use the Internet;
• Preparing tomorrow's teachers to use technology; Technology infusion in teacher training;
• The classroom of the future; The collaborative classroom; Virtual classrooms for disabled students; Adapting curricula for CMC;
• Virtual University projects, and virtual learning environments;
• On-line research and multimedia/streaming media;
• Internet as a vehicle for cultural education.

SUMMER SCHOOL TUTORIALS. A set of tutorials on closed topics will be provided by keynote speakers. The exact contents of the tutorials will be published soon on the RILW Web pages. Student selection will be based on their CVs and background.

The Summer school part will take place in a mixed form: two weeks as a virtual seminar (June 11-23, 2001), and a week of face-to-face meeting (August 11 - 18, 2001), where each student will present the prepared homework.

LANGUAGE. English is the official Language of the Workshop

DEADLINES

• Deadline for Tutorial Proposals: January 15, 2001
• Deadline for Abstract Submission: February 25, 2001
• Notification of Acceptance (for tutorials and abstracts): March 25, 2001
• Full paper submission: May 15, 2001

ABSTRACTS, TUTORIAL PROPOSALS AND PAPERS SUBMISSION. E-mail is the preferred mode of communication. Please send your abstracts and tutorial proposals (both: maximum 300 words) as a plain text attached to e-mail to Dr. Nic. Nistor (nistor@emp.paed.uni-muenchen.de). Every incoming abstract, tutorial proposal and paper will be confirmed as soon as possible via e-mail. The editorial board may suggest modifications, or a poster presentation instead of a paper one.

Paper FORMAT: To ensure that high quality, professional proceedings are published and available at the beginning of the conference, authors are urged to take special care in preparing their papers. Please use the Microsoft Word 97/98 format for your papers! We have created a document template (click here!) as well as two examples (click here for the first example! - Adobe Acrobat 3 format; click here for the second! - MS Word 97/98 format; click here for the third! - RTF format). Color pictures cannot be printed, so make sure that all of them are in black/white or grey tones. The papers should not exceed 10 pages in the recommended format.

PRE-REGISTRATION. Since the number of participants is strictly limited please pre-register, by means of a simple e-mail message, as soon as possible.

REGISTRATION FEES

• For the first author of an accepted paper the registration fees will be covered by the RILW organizers;
• For second and further authors of accepted papers as well as for a poster presenter: 60 DM;
• For an accepted attendee: 200 DM plus the charge for selected tutorials;
• For a vendor: 300 DM.

The fees include the costs of the opening dinner, soft drinks during the conference, social activities, the Proceedings volume of the workshop and other materials.

ACCOMODATION. The Workshop will be held in the 'Bethlen Kata' Study House, Sumuleu-Ciuc, county Harghita, Romania. Full accommodation (hotel rooms and meals) will be provided by the workshop organizer at a reduced rate of 60 DM/day (25 DM/day for Romanian participants) for the duration of the conference.

The full text of accepted papers and posters, together with other materials and information will be published in the Conference Proceedings volume and on the WWW at the locations:

http://rilw.emp.paed.uni-muenchen.de
http://ccd.ubbcluj.ro/rilw/
http://www.itim-cj.ro/rilw/

as well as on mirrored sites elsewhere. All published material will be copyrighted to the Polygon Society. 

WORKSHOP CHAIRMAN: Dr. Mihai Jalobeanu POLYGON POBox 195, RO-3400 Cluj-Napoca 1, Romania rilw@ccd.ubbcluj.ro Tel. +40-64-189018 Fax. +40-64-420042

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRMAN: Dr. Nic. Nistor Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Leopoldstr. 13 D-80802 Munich, Germany nistor@emp.paed.uni-muenchen.de Tel. +49-89-2180 5284 Fax. +49-89-2180 5002

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITEE

• Susan English (Plymouth Univ., UK)
• Zoltan Kasa (Babes Bolyai Univ., Cluj, RO)
• Bill Lindsay (Strathclyde Univ., UK)
• Eugenia Popescu (CCD Cluj, RO)
• Constantin Predescu (Babes Bolyai Univ., Cluj, RO)
• Uwe Matthias Richter (Anglia Polytechnic Univ., Cambridge, UK)
• Mircea Rusu (Univ. of Bucharest, RO)
• Doru Ursutiu (Transilvania Univ. Brasov, RO)
• Nora Vasilescu (Agora Online, Tg.Mures, RO)
• Steve Wheeler (Plymouth Univ., UK)

EDITORIAL BOARD

Susan English, Mihai Jalobeanu, Nic. Nistor, Steve Wheeler