ICETA 2020

18th International Conference on Emerging eLearning Technologies and Applications

NOVEMBER 12 – 13, 2020
THE HIGH TATRAS, SLOVAKIA – GRANDHOTEL STARÝ SMOKOVEC

Conference is organized in close cooperation with Technical University of Košice.

CONFERENCE PROFILE

Official conference language and language which contributions are accepted in is English.

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

Exchange of experiences in utilization of advanced ICT for education
Development of a multidisciplinary platform for information exchange in research and development of multimedia and hypermedia applications, in a complex computer support of learning and in new telecommunication services
Creating of a broad database of future customers and users of the presented services
Supporting a collaboration among the users and suppliers of learning solutions

CONFERENCE STRUCTURE

Plenary lectures of invited speakers
Oral sessions
Dialog (poster) sessions
Videoconferencing and virtual presentations
Panel discussions
Exhibition and showcases

TOPICS AND SUBTOPICS

1. Education and Research 2. Emerging Technologies in Education 3. E-content Management and Development, tools and content – oriented application 4. Cases and projects 5. New Trends and Experiences and New Challenges for the Higher Education Area

Politics of educational process in knowledge society
Platforms for consensus, comparison, evaluation, and development of politics of education
National and European Qualifications Framework
Revitalization of higher education and promotion of industry - university collaboration
Multinational educational, training, and youth partner programs
International projects of innovative teaching and learning
Educational structures over crossing country borders - international recognition of qualifications and comparability of qualifications
Sharing best practices on intercultural education
Education, Research and Globalization
Leadership and University Administration
Digital Divide and access to the Internet
ICT Skills

Evaluation of impact of high - speed networks and new generation Internet access on users
Experiences with building and operation of emerging broadband communication structures, in particular of high - speed internet for academic sphere
Presentations and verification of publicly oriented network applications and systems (e.g. multimedia applications, videoconferencing, IP streamings with elements of Quality of Services)
Architectures and design of distributed learning environments
Methodologies for www - based courses
Multimedia/hypermedia systems
Presentation and sharing of knowledge in the implementation and operation of eStrategy
Social Networking: Blogs, Wikis, …
Educational/Serious Games and Software
IT Services Management and Development
Security and Data Protection
Videos for Learning and Educational Multimedia
Animation and 3D Applications
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Learning and Teaching Innovations
Advanced classroom applications and technologies
m-Learning: mobile applications and technologies
Blended Learning and Flipped Classroom
e-Tutoring and e-Mentoring
Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Building Virtual Communities

Agents and agent’s systems
Author environment and authoring tools
Interactive learning environments
Group-ware tools
Virtual reality and virtual eLearning infrastructures
Quality and efficiency of eLearning
Complex eLearning environments and solutions
Concepts and modeling of virtual infrastructures: eLearning, e-business, e-medicine, virtual laboratory, virtual university
mLearning: blending the web - based training and wireless eLearning
Management and engineering of eLearning systems
Standardization of eLearning objects
Intelligent tutoring
Perspectives in security and research
Digital Libraries and Repositories
User-Generated Content
Open Content
Learning Analytics
Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Building Virtual Communities
Plagiarism and Intellectual Property Rights
Digital Rights Management
Knowledge Management
Training the e-Trainer
Online Assessment

Specific courses and designing solution in the countries and institutions
Institution - specific cases
Virtual universities and university portals
Trends in development of new communication technologies and services
eLearning and legislation
The sustainability of open access in news media and higher education, and the impact of massive open online courses (MOOCs)
New Experiences for Curriculum
Integration of cross-cultural studies
Generic skills and their development
Courses, Tutorials and Labs
Course management
Skill needs of Labour

Vocational training
Employability issues and trends
Language Learning Innovations
STEM Education Experiences
Pedagogical Methods and Innovations
Collaborative and Problem-based Learning
Game-based learning and Gamification
Academic Advising and Tutoring
Assessment of student learning
Examination Policies and Grading methods
Learning space design: Next generation classroom
New challenges for the Higher Education Area

DEADLINES

Paper full version (min. 6 pages, for reviewing process)	October 1, 2020
Notification about acceptance	October 15, 2020
Final paper (final format for publishing in IEEE pproceedings)	October 25, 2020
Last information and Final Program	November 1, 2020

REGISTRATION FEES and OPTIONS

AUTHOR REGISTRATION FEE

€ 335

Incl. access to the conference program, IEEE CD ROM proceedings, paper publication in IEEE conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore database, coffee breaks, lunches and welcome party

IEEE MEMBER AND STUDENT FEE

€ 285

Incl. access to the conference program, IEEE CD ROM proceedings, paper publication in IEEE conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore database, coffee breaks, lunches and welcome party

CO-AUTHOR AND PASSIVE PARTICIPANT FEE

€ 285

Incl. access to the conference program, IEEE CD ROM proceedings, coffee breaks, lunches and welcome party

ACCOMPANYING PERSON FEE

€ 145

Incl. access to the conference venue, coffee breaks, lunches and welcome party

Cancellation of registration: In case you need to cancel your participation at the conference, the cancellation must be sent in writing and sent to the Conference Secretariat by fax or e-mail. Refunding of the conference fees (to be returned to the participant) (as per mail stamp or date of your fax or e-mail messages) is not possible after November 1, 2020.

The Organizing committee will not provide participants with an invitation letter on the official form of the alien police for the EU visa purposes. The reason is that such official form assumes organizer (elfa, Ltd.), as the inviting institution, to take all the responsibilites (even financial) for the invited participants. Due to safety reasons, elfa, Ltd. cannot keep such responsibilities for purposes of the ICETA 2020 conference. We ask the registered participants from non-EU countries with a visa obligation to take this limitation into account seriously!

AUTHOR SECTION

All papers must be presented either in oral session or in poster session. If a paper, included into the proceedings, fails to be presented any way at the conference, papers wont be published in IEEE Xplore database. Pay to publish is not allowed in IEEE.

Before final paper submission authors MUST use IEEE PDF eXpress (http://www.pdf-express.org) to ensure that the paper is IEEE Xplore compatible. If the paper is not created totally similar to IEEE format and requirements, it will not be included into IEEE Xplore database after the conference. You can find detailed informaton about IEEE PDF eXpress verification process in this PDF. Conference ID is 48886X.

Papers will be check within the context of plagiarity. Accepted papers will be submitted to inclusion into IEEE Xplore Databases, SCOPUS and WoS. If paper plagiarism exceeds 20 percent paper won´t be added to conference program and proceedings. The paper should be original and unpublished. Please, do not copy from other publications, because the paper will be checked by the IEEE plagiarism detection software, and it will indicate if there are copied parts. IEEE takes it very seriously, here are all the details regarding plagiarism. If your paper is not original, not the authors’ own work, or submitted to other conferences or journals, or a copy of another paper, then the paper is removed at once. It is not even allowed to copy from the author’s own paper. ‘Pay to publish’ is not allowed by IEEE, at least one author of the paper must show up and present it at the conference. Conference proceedings papers are double-blind peer reviewed.

For preparing your poster, please follow the instructions in the guidelines and use the following template.

TEMPLATE

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PAPER UPLOAD

COMMITTEES

HONORARY COMMITTEE PROGRAM COMMITTEE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chairman

Kmeť Stanislav	Technical University of Košice

Members

Molnár Ľudovít	Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
Newman B. Harvey	California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Rudas Imre	Óbuda University, Budapest

Chairman

Jakab František	Technical University of Košice

Members

Babič František	Technical University of Košice
Bauer Pavol	Delft University of Technology
Bauerová Danuše	Technical University, Ostrava
Behun Marcel	Technical University of Kosice
Berke József	John von Neumann Computer Society
Bieliková Mária	Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
Billings Jeff	Paradise Valley Unified School District, Phoenix, Arizona
Brestenská Beáta	Comenius University Bratislava
Cehlar Michal	Technical University of Košice
Chovanec Martin	Technical University of Kosice
Čičák Pavol	Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
Čižmár Anton	Technical University of Kosice
Dado Milan	University of Žilina
Doboš Ľubomír	Technical University of Košice
Dolnák Ivan	University of Žilina
Doroshenko Anatoliy	Institute of Software Systems of NASU, Kiev
Drozdová Matilda	University of Žilina
Dzupka Peter	Technical University of Košice
Feciľak Peter	Technical University of Kosice
Galgoci Gabriel	AT&T Bratislava
Gavurova Beata	Technical University of Košice
Genči Ján	Technical University of Košice
Gramatová Elena	Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
Haľama Marek	Technical University of Košice
Hämäläinen Timo	University of Jyväskylä
Hautamaki Jari	University of Appl. Science
Hluchý Ladislav	Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Informatics
Horváth Pavol	SANET - Slovak Academic Network, Bratislava
Huba Mikuláš	Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
Hudak Radoslav	Technical University of Košice
Hvorecký Jozef	City University of Seattle, Bratislava
Jelemenská Katarína	Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
Juhár Jozef	Technical University of Košice
Juhas Gabriel	Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Kess Pekka	University of Oulu
Kireš Marian	University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik
Klačková Ivana	University of Žilina
Klimo Martin	University of Žilina
Kocúr Dušan	Technical university of Kosice
Korshunov Alexander	Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University of the name M.T. Kalashnikov
Kotuliak Ivan	Slovak University of Technology
Kováčiková Tatiana	COST Office, Brusel
Kovács Levente	Óbuda University, Budapest
Lavrin Anton	Technical University of Kosice
Lelovsky Mario	Slovak IT Association Bratislava
Levický Dušan	Technical University of Košice
Lumnitzer Ervin	Technical University of Kosice
Mechlová Erika	University of Ostrava
Mesaroš Peter	Technical University of Košice
Meško Dušan	Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Martin
Michalko Miroslav	Technical University of Kosice
Modrak Vladimir	Technical University of Kosice
Murín Vladimír	The Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications
Mytnyk Mykola	Ternopil National Ivan Pul`uj Technical University
Nakano Hiroshi	Kumamoto University
Nikitin Yury	Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University of the name M.T. Kalashnikov
Pavlik Tomaš	Technical University of Košice
Philippovich Andrey	Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Pietrikova Alena	Technical University of Kosice
Pisutova Katarina	Comenius University
Piteľ Jan	Technical University of Košice
Poruban Jaroslav	Technical University of Košice
Poulová Petra	University of Hradec Králové
Radács László	University of Miskolc
Restivo Maria Teresa	University of Porto
Ristvej Jozef	University of Zilina
Salem Abdel-Badeeh M.	Ain Shams University of Cairo
Semanišin Gabriel	University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik
Simonics István	Obuda University, Budapest
Šimšík Dušan	Technical University of Košice
Sinčák Peter	Technical University of Košice
Sobota Branislav	Technical University of Košice
Šorm Milan	Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno
Sovak Pavol	University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik
Stopjakova Viera	Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Strémy Maximilián	Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava - Advanced Technologies Research Institute – University Science Park CAMBO, Trnava
Stuchlikova Lubica	Slovak University of Technology
Šveda Dušan	UPJŠ Košice
Szabo Stanislav	Technical University of Košice
Szentirmai László	University of Miskolc
Tapus Nicolae	University Politehnica of Bucharest
Turna Jan	Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information, Bratislava
Usawaga Tsuyoshi	Kumamoto University
Vagan Terziyan	University of Jyvaskyla
Vasková Iveta	Technical University of Košice
Vokorokos Liberios	Technical University of Košice
White Bebo	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University
Zivcak Jozef	Technical University of Košice
Zolotová Iveta	Technical University of Košice

Chairman

Jakab František	Technical University of Košice

Members

Fejedelem Štefan	elfa, s.r.o., Košice	Conference Manager
Rakoci František	elfa, s.r.o., Košice	Webmaster
Zámečníková Iveta	elfa, s.r.o., Košice	Finance Chair

CONFERENCE VENUE - GRAND HOTEL STARÝ SMOKOVEC

Conference participants are responsible for making their own hotel arrangements. We recommend the accomodation in the conference venue.

Address:
Starý Smokovec
062 01 Vysoké Tatry
Slovakia

Reservations:
phone: +421 44 290 13 39
fax: +421 52 44 22 157
e-mail: reservation@grandhotel.sk

Reception:
phone: +421 52 47 80 000
fax: +421 52 44 22 157
e-mail: info@grandhotel.sk

FURTHER INFORMATION

Currency

The official currency in Slovakia is the Euro – EUR.

Insurance

The Organizing Committee does not accept any liability or responsibility for death, illness or injury to persons or for the loss of, or damage to property or for any financial loss of any person attending the Conference. Participants should make their own arrangements in respects of health and travel insurance.

Post services

The nearest post office is 2 km from the Conference venue, in Tatranska Lomnica.

Credit cards

Visa and MasterCard are the most widely accepted credit cards. The hotels at the conference venue accept payments by credit card. The nearest ATMs are in the cities Poprad, Starý Smokovec, and Tatranska Lomnica.

Smoking

Smoking in the Conference building is not allowed.

Climate and Weather

In October the weather is getting really cold, foggy and humid. Average temperatures are about 0-2 degrees of Celsius.

TOURIST INFORMATION

The High Tatras Mountains, the pearl of the Slovak countryside, extend over the north of the country. The peaks rise steeply over Liptov, Poprad ans Spiš basin. The main ridge is 26 km long and more than twenty peaks are higher than 2500 m above the sea level. Although its total area is only 260 km2 a very characteristic Alpine world exists there. There are 32 Tatra valleys, all of glacial origin and in most of them there is at least one tarn, called "pleso". It greatly enhances the charm of the wild rocky valleys.

The mountain range is divided into eastern (the High Tatras) and western sections (the West Tatras). The tallest peak is Gerlach, spiking to a summit at 2655 meters above sea level.

The High Tatras offers many facilities for individual tours into valleys, to mountain chalets and peaks along well-marked paths. Good footwear and warm clothes with raincoats are required. There are three main tourist centres in the High Tatras: Starý Smokovec, Tatranská Lomnica, and Štrbské pleso. Each season of the year in the Tatras has its particular spell but autumn, when the conference will be held, is the most delightful season when the weather usually is stable.