3rd International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training July 4-6, 2002, Budapest, Hungary #### 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. Please, send the extended summary by e-mail to Jan Paralic (jan.paralic@tuke.sk) Submission deadlines Extended summary: 15 February 2002 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2002 Camera-ready submission of full papers: 15 April 2002 Organized by 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 IEEJ Education Socitey Honorary Chairman Marion Hagler, President IEEE ES József Erdélyi (Budapest Polytechnic) General Chair Imre J. Rudas (Budapest Polytechnic) General Co-Chair Okyay Kaynak (Bogazici University) Special Session Chair Amiram Moshaiov, (Tel-Aviv University) moshaiov@eng.tau.ac.il Program Chairs Hidenori Akiyama, (Kumamoto University) Jan Paralic, (University of Technolgy in Kosice) Advisory Committee David A. Conner - Editor IEEE Tans. on Education Fumio Harashima - TMIT, Japan Torbjörn Hedberg. - President of SEFI Kruno A. Hernaut - Siemens AG, Germany Magdy Iskander - NSF, USA Hans Peter Jensen - Tech. U. of Denmark Pentti Lappalainen - President of EAEEIE Adolf Melezinek - President of IGIP Michael J. Pavelich - ASEE Stephen Seidman - Colorado State Univ., USA Dezső Sima - Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary Victor Schutz - IEEE Education Society Prof Tor-Ulf Weck - Helsinki Univ. of Tech. Finland Keizo Nagaoka - National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan 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 Yavuz Akpinar (Bogazici University, Turkey) Terry Berreen (Monash University, Australia) Walter Buchanan (Northeastern University, USA) Christophe Cerin (Universite d'Amiens, France) Melany M. Ciampi (University Center of Lusiada, Brazil) 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) László Horváth (Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary) 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) Claudio da Rocha Brito (SENAC School of Engineering and Technology, Brazil) Zenon A. Sosnowski (Tech. Univ. of Bialystok, Poland) Rodney J. Soukup (University of Minnesota, USA) Jószef K. Tar (Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary) Bogdan M. Wilamowski (Univ. of Wyoming, USA) Ramon Vasquez-Espinosa (Univ. of Puerto Rico, USA) Michihiko Minoh (Kyoto Univ., Japan) Naoyuki Shimomura (Univ. of Tokushima, Japan) #### Back to Table of Contents