3rd International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training July 4-6, 2002, Budapest, Hungary http://mecha.ee.boun.edu.tr/educ.html #### Back to Table of Contents OBJECTIVES As Europe enters into the emerging global information society, new opportunities are arising for cost-effective solutions to education and training. The convergence of information and communication technologies is enabling the creation and implementation of computer aided and/or multimedia based techniques. It is recognized that traditional, mass-produced, highly controlled static and rigid educational and training methods cannot cope with the greatly increased demand for higher education and with the need to bring ever-increasing amounts of information, knowledge and expert reasoning to students who may be far from a traditional classroom. We increasingly hear concepts like "virtual class" or "virtual laboratory". The planned conference is one of the series initiated by the Euro-Med Information Society Steering Group and has the goal of bringing together experts to discuss the current state of the art in this area. Internet-based education and training will be a topic of particular interest. TOPICS The scope of the conference will cover but not be limited to: New strategies for higher education and training Network based education and training Intelligent training technology Authoring technology Virtual classroom, virtual university Asynchronous learning Distance education Quality management in higher education Accreditation issues Industry-institute partnership Small and medium scale enterprises and the use of new technologies in their training programs Role of information society and global communication system Scientific Program The duration of the conference will be three days. The scientific program will include: Oral presentations Video presentations Demonstrations of technology based training material Panel sessions Proceedings The proceedings of the conference will be published and be available at the time of the conference. Additionally, it is planned to publish some selected papers of the conference in IEEE Transactions on Education and the journal Industry & Higher Education. Paper submission Prospective participants are invited to submit electronically a 700-1000 word extended summary. The details are available on the web site of the conference Submission deadlines Extended summary: 1 February 2002 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2002 Camera-ready submission of full papers: 30 April 2002 Organized Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics, Bogazici University, Turkey IEEE Hungary Section Hungarian Fuzzy Association Technical Co-operation EAEEIE ERM Div. of ASEE IEEE Education Society IGIP SEFI Honorary Chairman President IEEE ES József Erdélyi (Budapest Polytechnic) General Chair Imre J. Rudas (Budapest Polytechnic) General Co-Chair Okyay Kaynak (Bogazici University) Program Co-chairs Victor Schutz (IEEE Education Society) Advisory Committee Ted E. Batchman - Univ. of Nevada, USA Fumio Harashima - TMIT, Japan Kruno A. Hernaut - Siemens AG, Germany Magdy Iskander - NSF, USA Hans Peter Jensen - Tech. U. of Denmark Adolf Melezinek - IGIP Michael J. Pavelich - ASEE Stephen Seidman - Colorado State Univ., USA Dezső Sima - Budapest Polytechnic Anselmo Seoane - EAEEIE Address for Correspondence Prof. Dr. Imre J. Rudas Budapest Polytechnic, Népszínház u. 8. H-1081, Hungary Tel:+36-1 313-8657 Fax:+36 1 333-9183 e-mail: rudas@bmf.hu International Program Committee Terry Berreen (Monash University, Australia) Walter Buchanan (Northeastern University, USA) Christophe Cerin (Universite d'Amiens, France) Alan Clements (University of Teesside, UK) Dante Del Corso (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Patrick Crehan (EC, Belgium) Gordon Davies (Open University, UK) Shahriar Emami (Motorola, Inc., USA) Gerald L. Engel (University of Connecticut, USA) Judith Gal-Ezer (Open University, Israel) Keiichi Fukushi (Kobe Univ. of Mercantile Marine, Japan) Margalit Ganor (Open University, Israel) J. David Irwin (Auburn University, USA) Karel Jezernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Mohammed Karim (University of Tennessee, USA) Haniph Latchman (University of Florida, USA) Maria Joao Martins (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal) Susan Mengel (Texas Tech University, USA) Vito Antonio Monaco (University of Bologna, Italy) Burks Oakley II (University of Illinois, USA) Roy Rada (Pace University, USA) Michel Robert (Université Henri Poincaré, France) Zenon A. Sosnowski (Tech. Univ. of Bialystok, Poland) Rodney J. Soukup (University of Minnesota, USA) Ramon Vasquez-Espinosa (Univ. of Puerto Rico, USA) #### Back to Table of Contents