Special Interest Groups

On this page you find an overview of the Special Interest Groups in EATEL. The SIGs and the people behind the SIGs enable, initiate and support a wide range of activities and events.

ECTEL Advisory Board

The first ECTEL conference was organized in 2006. Since then, the series of annual conferences has established itself as one of the main conferences on TEL and related fields. To ensure that the high standards will be met at future conferences, the ECTEL Advisory Board reviews the bids for organization and provides advice and feedback to the organizers.

• Call for bids to host ECTEL 2012 – deadline 1 July

Currently, the advisory board consists of the following members: Wolfgang Nejdl, Klaus Tochtermann, Ralf Klamma, Erik Duval, Pierre Dillenbourg, Ulrike Cress, Vania Dimitrova, Paul Kirschner, Martin Wolpers and Marcus Specht.

JTEL Doctoral Academy

Chair: Katherine Maillet

This SIG supports Doctoral actions such as the International JTEL Summer School, which is now in its 7th year.  Each year, approximately 50 students participate in this event. The overall figures and responses from both students and teachers are very positive.

• Doctoral Consortium at EC-TEL 2011: apply before July 15, 2011
• The 2011 School was  held in Plataniás, Crete. Read the survey results (PDF)
• Survey results from Summer School 2010. (Word)

SIG Professional Learning

Chairs: Stefanie Lindstaedt and Martin Wolpers

The Special Interest Group for Professional Technology Enhanced Learning is a cluster to form a more coherent landscape of research in the area of Technology Enhanced Professional Learning. It brings together researchers, project managers and coordinators from national and international projects, to cooperate on a multitude of skills, ranging from discussions on thematic topics to administrative issues and exploitation.

• Join the SIG ProTEL group on LinkedIn

SIG Roadmap / Forecasting Activities

Chair: Vana Kamtsiou

This special interest group continues the roadmapping activities that were inititated by the Networks of Excellence Kaleidoscope and Prolearn. This year’s focus was on the development of the iCoper roadmap.

SIG Datatel

The goal of this SIG is to stimulate the collection and usage of various datasets for learning analytics and TEL-focused recommender systems. The SIG will also focus on the legal and ethical issues regarding public datasets.

Get involved in Datatel via their group page in TELeurope.