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Gonçalo Costa & Nuno Silva ______________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Special Issue on “Content authoring in e-learning: tools and social/ethical issues" edited by Gonçalo Jorge Morais Costa and Nuno Sotero Alves Silva Important dates: ü Abstracts submission: May 25th, 2012 ü Abstracts selection: May 31st, 2012 ü Full papers submission: July 31st, 2012 ü Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 15th, 2012 ü Final paper submission: October 15th, 2012 Discussion: The importance of content within educational environments is well established in literature, despite the potential philosophical debate between knowledge and content is vital. For instance, content may refer to materials (images or text within literary or artistic work) and their significance. E-learning development produced various tools to promote content development; however, literature seems to neglect: methodologies for their assessment regarding their key features or technical issues. Content authoring in e-learning enables numerous potential “authors” as for example: vendors, lecturers or even learners. Likewise, these multiple creators face different various ethical (e.g. ethicultural sensitivity), social (e.g. learning styles or emotional states), legal (e.g. intellectual property) or political (e.g. international versus national regulations) dilemmas that require an urgent debate. In conclusion, this special issue aims to achieve a transdisciplinary debate among technologists versus ethicists about content authoring in educational environments. Topics/suggestions: ü CMS tools (present and future): analysis, generations, evaluation and technical issues ü Personal content authoring (present and future): ethical, social, legal and political dilemmas ü “Common” content authoring (present and future): ethical, social, legal and political dilemmas ü Content authoring (present and future): learning styles, emotional states, etc. Guest Editors: Gonçalo Costa (corresponding editor), De Montfort University, UK, goncaloj@netc.pt Nuno Silva, Lusíada University of Lisbon, Portugal, nsas@lis.ulusiada.pt Reading Suggestions: Alepis, E. Virvou, M. and Kabassi, K. (2011). Emotion based user interaction in multimedia educational applications, 50(6), 277-289. Blackhall, L. (2011). Educational content authoring tools- A content analysis. Word Press .Available on http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/dxml/bitstream/handle/1944/1281/37.pdf?sequence=1 (accessed March 20th 2012). Costa, G. and Silva, N. (2010). Knowledge versus content in e-learning: a philosophical discussion! Information Systems Frontiers, 12(4), 399-413. Finger, G., Jamieson-Proctor, R. and Albion, P. (2010). Beyond pedagogical content knowledge: The importance of TPACK for informing preservice teacher education in Australian introduction- Moving beyond PCK to TPACK to design. Key Competencies in the Knowledge Society IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, (324), 114-125. Kohlhase, A. (2006). The user as prisioner: How the dilemma might dissolve. E. Tomadaki and P. Scott (Eds.), Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing 2006 Workshop Proceedings (p. 132-137). Milton Keynes: Open University. Kohlhase, A. and Kohlhase, M. (2004). CPoint: Dissolving the author´s dilemma. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3119, 175-189. Martin, B. (2008). Authoring educational games with Greenmind. Intelligent tutoring Systems, 5091, 684-686. Mugwanya, R. et al. (2012). Using a Participatory Action Research approach to design a lecture podcasting system. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 4(2), 67-86. Silva, N. et al. (2010). Knowledge authoring in e-learning: an ethicultural diagnosis. In P. Dondon and O. Martin (Eds.), 7th WSEAS International Conference on Engineering Education (pp. 48-53). Athens: WSEAS. SiteCore (2009). Choosing the best web content management solution. Awareweb. Available on http://www.awareweb.com/~/media/files/aware/com/docs/ChoosingtheBestWebCMS.p df (accessed March 25th 2012). Sunny, S. K. (2008). Evaluation of open source content management system: A comparative study. Inflibnet. Available on http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/dxml/bitstream/handle/1944/1281/37.pdf?sequence=1 (accessed March 20th 2012). Submissions: Potential authors are requested to provide an abstract (max. 1.000 words) by May 25th, 2012, which have to be submitted in English. Afterwards, the abstracts will be evaluated by the guest editors and the International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education Editor Chief (Professor Kadir Beycioglu). The authors will be informed of acceptance or rejection by May 31st, 2012. Deadline for the final article (between 5.500-8.000 words) is July 31st, 2012. All contributions will be subject to peer review until September 15th, 2012. So, the approval of an abstract does not imply the publication, except the manuscript has been approved by the peer review and revisions (if required) until October 15th, 2012. All submissions should be sent by email with “IJCEE Submission” for any guest editor: goncaloj@netc.pt (Gonçalo Costa, De Montfort University, UK) or nsas@lis.ulusiada.pt (Nuno Silva, Lusíada University of Lisbon, Portugal). For more information about the journal see: http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-cyber-ethics-educati on/41025.