{"id":42,"date":"2024-04-04T05:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/icalt2020\/news-0\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T05:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:25:59","slug":"news-0","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/icalt2020\/news-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\tKeynote speakers of the ICALT2020 conference
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\n\t\tIt\u2019s a great honour to announce the ICALT2020 keynote speakers. This year we have three interesting keynotes by four distinguished speakers. We hope that you can disseminate the word about our valuable presenters and it attracts people in your network to register to ICALT2020 as a non-author participant (http:\/\/icalt2020.ut.ee\/registration<\/a>).\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\u201eHelping Young Learners Develop Inquiry and Critical Thinking Skills\u201c<\/strong>
Assistant Professor Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Centre for Educational Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Associate Editor of British Journal of Educational Technology
Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Educational Technology\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\tProfessor Mike Spector
Learning Technologies Department, College of Information
The University of North Texas
University of North Texas
Member of the NATO-AECT Steering Committee
Editor of Educational Technology Research & Development\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\u201eLearning Analytics: State of Adoption and Evidence of Effectiveness\u201c<\/strong>
Professor Dirk Ifenthaler
Chair of Learning, Design and Technology
University of Mannheim
UNESCO Deputy Chair of Data Science in Higher Education Learning and Teaching
Curtin University
Editor-in-Chief, Technology, Knowledge and Learning\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\u201cEmpowering Communities of the World to Contribute into Improving Digital Learning\u201d<\/strong>
M\u00e4rt Aro
Co-Founder, DreamApply
Chairman of the Board, Nordic EdTech Forum \u2013 N8
Co-Founder, European EdTech Alliance\n\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tManuscripts Accepted
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\n\t\tICALT2020 final deadline for uploading Camera-Ready Manuscripts and\u00a0IEEE Copyright Forms as well as for Author Registrations has been passed on May 25. If there are some issues with either manuscripts, copyright forms or payments of any of the authors of an accepted manuscript then you have been already contacted. If you have not been contacted then everything is good.\u00a0To date we have more than 100 papers<\/strong> that will be presented and discussed at ICALT conference.\n\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tVirtual Sonference with Social Program
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\n\t\tOur virtual conference will be a very interesting scientific event. However, virtual format sets some challenges to support \u00a0networking of participants to build new valuable contacts and to meet old friends. ICALT2020 Local Organizing Committee takes this issue seriously and; therefore, we can already now inform you that all ICALT2020 participants can also benefit from several social acitivities during the conference days<\/strong>:\u00a0\n\t<\/p>\n

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  1. \n\t\t\tExclusive live concerts by young Estonian musicians\n\t\t<\/li>\n
  2. \n\t\t\tComedy night: mostly clean jokes about Estonia and its people\n\t\t<\/li>\n
  3. \n\t\t\tQuiz night: what do you know about Estonia and Tartu?\n\t\t<\/li>\n
  4. \n\t\t\tVirtual walking tour in Tartu with live commentary from a local\n\t\t<\/li>\n
  5. \n\t\t\tEnergizing dance breaks\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \n\t\tWe hope that this little touch makes ICALT2020 a memorable conference.\n\t<\/p>\n

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    \n\t\tNon-author Participation Fee 50 Euro
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    \n\t\tAlthough author registration is ended we invite all non-authors (or co-authors of the manuscripts) to register\u00a0to\u00a0ICALT2020. The participation fee for non-authors is only 50\u20ac.\u00a0Read more at:\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t\thttps:\/\/icalt2020.ut.ee\/registration<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n

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    \n\t\tStudent Travel Awards
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    \n\t\tThis year, we received a lot of applications for ICALT2020 Student Travel Awards. Due to the limited resources TCLT has, we cannot award every single application. After review and assessment of all applications, we are pleased to announce the\u00a0winners who have been awarded a reimbursement of a SINGLE author registration ONLY (i.e., 2nd paper\u2019s registration fee cannot be reimbursed).\u00a0Read more at\u00a0https:\/\/icalt2020.ut.ee\/student-awards<\/a>.\n\t<\/p>\n

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    \n\t\tConference Goes Online
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    \n\t\tWe are looking forward to meeting you all at the conference online this year due to COVID-19.\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t\tWe hope that the virtual conference will attract many participants. The deadline for Author Registration is already next Monday, May 25, 2020. However, the registration for non-authors continues until the end of the conference.\u00a0The participation fee for non-authors is only 50\u20ac. Read more at:\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t\thttps:\/\/icalt2020.ut.ee\/registration<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n

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    \n\t\tRegistration Fees Reduced
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    \n\t\tIt has been decided to reduce the ICALT2020 registration fees. New fees as well as registration form can be found at the registration page:\u00a0https:\/\/icalt2020.ut.ee\/registration<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t\tDeadline for Author Registration is May 25, 2020. Non-author registrations can be paid even during the conference days. The registered participants will get a password to access the virtual conference and\u00a0conference proceedings.\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t\tWe hope that the virtual conference will attract many non-authors. The participation fee for them is only 50\u20ac. We hope that you can advertise this information in your channels and ICALT community will expand.\n\t<\/p>\n

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    \n\t\tNew Extended Deadlines
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    \n\t\tRestrictions\u00a0and change of our focus regarding coronavirus call us to flexibility in organizing ICALT2020 conference. We have changed the format of the conference to VIRTUAL CONFERENCE and hope that it allows most of the ICALT community to participate in the conference and present their research online. Conference proceedings will be published as planned. As a result of these changes we have also looked for flexibility in deadlines. The updated extended deadline\u00a0for\u00a0Final Camera-Ready Manuscript<\/strong> and IEEE Copyright Form submission\u00a0<\/strong>but also\u00a0for\u00a0Early Bird Registration<\/strong> for all authors\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0for Non-Author Early Bird Registration is\u00a0May 25, 2020<\/b><\/span>. We also would like to kindly remind all authors that the articles will be included in the conference proceedings only if your have registered on time.\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t\tThe IEEE CPS link for uploading your Camera-Ready manuscript has been\u00a0mentioned in the notification email sent you earlier. However, we also remind it here. You can\u00a0complete the camera ready paper submission and sign the copyright form on IEEE CPS at\u00a0https:\/\/ieeecps.org\/#!\/auth\/login?ak=1&pid=4iCjwFBhzDv7BDGx7xnFnB<\/a>.\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t\tWe will work on the update of participation fees and communicate it to you as soon as we have the approval of IEEE to the updated budget that takes into account all revised expenses to organize ICALT2020.\n\t<\/p>\n

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    \n\t\tCOVID-19\u00a0Situation
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    \n\t\tThe recent developments regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) might have raised worries about the ICALT2020\u00a0conference and travelling. Our organising team have had several meetings to discuss the situation and\u00a0possible scenarios. We are continuously monitoring the situation and come back to new evaluation and decision if needed.\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t\tCurrently we follow\u00a0the suggestions of the\u00a0Estonian Health Board and according to these all large-scale events like ICALT2020 conference are cancelled until May 1. We don\u2019t know yet what is the situation then. However, after that there is still a bit more than two months to the start of ICALT2020 conference\u00a0in the beginning of July. Therefore, we continue with preparations for the conference as planned<\/strong> and hope that our potential participants are not much affected by the virus in the next months and we can have our conference as planned.\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t\tHowever, if the face-to-face meeting is indeed affected by the coronavirus then University of Tartu is fully capable to offer possibilities to enable online participation<\/strong>. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and we hope that all presentations could be presented in one or other format.\n\t<\/p>\n

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    \n\t\tAward Nominations
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    \n\t\tThe\u00a0nominations for best paper awards have been announced. Find them here<\/a>.\n\t<\/p>\n

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    \n\t\tAuthors Notified
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    \n\t\tAuthors have been notified about the review results on March 8 (a few exceptions in case of late reviews).\n\t<\/p>\n

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    \n\t\tRegistration Now Open
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    \n\t\tRegistration to the conference has been started.\u00a0The call for papers (full paper, short paper, discussion\u00a0paper) was open from\u00a0November 2019 to January 22, 2020.\n\t<\/p>\n

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