Workshop on E-Learning for Business needs

in conjunction with
11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)

Innsbruck, Austria
May 5, 6 or 7, 2008

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Deadline for submissions: March 16, 2008

Focusing on the business community, this workshop aims bridge the gap between Human Resource Management (HRM) and emerging technologies to create robust eLearning solutions for the knowledge workers of today. In addition, guidance is needed for organizations to no only create new eLearning solutions but also implement these solutions as customers.

The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to e-Learning for business needs. We want to facilitate discussion on the topics including theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to:

Topics

E-Learning business models
- New learning technologies within a commercial environment
- Business models
- New business models on the existing eLearning industry
- Distance learning
- Effective e-Learning
- Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Social software
Security in e-Learning
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks as a source of the e-Learning content
- Digital licensing of electronic content
- Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Ubiquitous computing for e-Learning
- Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Multi Modal Infrastructure (MMI)
- Mobile learning

Submission

Long papers: max. 5000 words
Work-in-progress rep.: max. 2500 words
Position papers: max. 2500 words
Demo papers: max. 2500 words

Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0.

Submission system is available on-line at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elearning2008.

The proceedings will be published jointly with proceedings of other BIS workshops as a book or CD with ISBN number, and on-line at CEUR WS.org workshop proceedings publication service (open content).

Workshop format

All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abtracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion.
Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops (see: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/bis2008/ws.php).

Important dates

March 16, 2008 - submission deadline for papers
March 31, 2008 - notification of acceptance/rejection
April 14, 2008 - submission of final papers
May 5, 6 or 7, 2008 - the workshop

Organizers

DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway

Chairs

Slawomir Grzonkowski
Tadhg Nagle
Jonny Parkes

Program Committee

Slawomir Grzonkowski, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
Tadhg Nagle, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
Juri Luca De Coi, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany
Bill McDaniel, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
Katarzyna Stankiewicz, Gdansk University of Technology, ZIE, Poland
Jonny Parkes, Enterprise Ireland, Ireland
Tony Hall, NUI Galway, Ireland
Cristina Chuva, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Giuseppe Bux, , Italy

The workshop is supported by the Lion project supported by Science Foundation Ireland under Grant No. SFI/02/CE1/I131 and Enterprise Ireland under Grant No. *ILP/05/203*.