The 2nd Annual Forum on eLearning Excellence in the Middle East 2009 will bring together eLearning professionals, experts, practitioners, researchers, and educators from around the world to discuss the future of education and eLearning and the development and implementation of eLearning in both the academic and corporate worlds. The forum will provide a platform to address and discuss matters related not only to technical, pedagogical, and management of eLearning but also social, psychological, and cultural considerations that may be of specific relevance to the region.


Topics of interest for the upcoming forum include, but are not limited to:


Inspire

• Costs & Benefits from Investments in eLearning
• Challenges and Future Trends of eLearning in the Middle East
• Case Studies on the Application of eLearning in Various sectors (health, banking, commerce, etc.)
• The Impact of eLearning on Education Re-engineering
• Managing Change in Education

Innovate

• Innovative Pedagogical Models
• Innovations in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
• Innovation in Learners Services (i.e. online libraries, LRM, orientation programs, etc.)
• Implementation and Evaluation of eLearning Technologies (e.g. VLEs, LMS, LCMS,assessment tools, conferencing tools, etc.)
• Faculty and Staff Readiness for eLearning
• Learning Objects and Repositories
• Innovative Instructional Design
• Using eLearning to Support Lifelong Learning
• Open Source and Open Content

Initiate

• Organizational Policies and Strategies for eLearning Implementation
• eLearning Management Issues
• Sociological and Psychological Dimensions of eLearning
• Information Society and eLearning Strategies for eTransformation in the Middle East
• Cultural Considerations for eLearning in the Arab World

Impact

• Evaluation of the Effectiveness of eLearning for the Middle East
• eLearning Standards and Quality Issues
• Measuring eLearning Return on Investments (ROI)
• Ethical Issues of eLearning (authentification, identity management, etc.)
• Evaluation of eLearning Programs
• Assessing the Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning
• Evaluating Learners' and Faculty/ Teacher Performance in eLearning
• ePortfolio Implementation and Impact

Call for Papers and Key Timelines


To submit a paper at the upcoming forum, abstracts of 150 words should be submitted together with a brief resume to elexforum@etqm.ae before 15th of August, 2008.


The technical committee will review abstracts and select authors from whom a full paper will be invited on or before 20th of September, 2008.


Full papers must be received on or before 20th November, 2008.