Call for papers

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Fourth On-line Meeting On Education and Free Software, EDUSOL 2008

"Knowledge society and free culture"

From 10 to November 21, 2008

Call:

The portal Bin: The online community Academic Institute of Economic Research UNAM and the draft of the FES Research Psychoeducational Iztacala, UNAM.
Details of the papers

It invites teachers, researchers, free software developers and people interested in the education area to propose papers with the following characteristics:

* Research Reports (partial or final), reports of experiences, ideas or proposals environment education and free software.
* What constitutes a contribution to the development of knowledge of the educational field and free software in some of the themes outlined above.
* To include the problem of study, questions and objectives, methodology and a discussion of the results or whether it is a thoughtful approach, orderly, critic and purpose of the current state and future of education and free software.
* To make an effort to formalize academically body of factual knowledge that currently integrates the educational experience with free software.

Presentation form of papers and tutorials.

Papers should be sent to the site of encounter with the following specifications:

* The submission should include a summary no longer than 400 words and the text with an extension of at least 1900 words and 4000 words maximum including references, charts and tables (about 10 letter-size pages, single-spaced, letter of 12 points).

Proposals must contain:

* Job Title
* Type of work (research paper, tutorial or symposium)
* Data from the author or authors (name, office or academic affiliation, working full physical address, and e-mail address)
* A summary of the work (with a maximum of 400 words)
* From 4 to 6 keywords
* The body of the article (divided into sections and subsections)
* References

Presentation form of workshops and tutorials.

In the case of workshops and tutorials is necessary to address the following points:

* Treating a workshop or tutorial to focus on modeling and training for the use of free software tools for education.

Examples of this can be: a tutorial for using some LMS (moodle or claroline), use of jclic for the development of educational materials, among many others.
* The authors must ensure mentoring and monitoring of its students enrolled at least for the time proposed for the meeting. Contemplating the platform to teach is Moodle.
* The platform will be to teach Moodle

Proposals for workshops and tutorials should contain:

* Data from the author or authors (name, office or academic affiliation, working full physical address, and e-mail address).
* Name responsible academic course.
* Names assigned mentors.
* Object (s) of aprendazaje.
* Introduction and summary.
* Agenda and learning activities proposals.
* Materials (for inclusion in the LMS).
* Duration (4 to 12 hours of work, which can be spread in one or two weeks).

Details of the symposium by IRC

The symposiums will be exhibitions by IRC lasting 2 hours, which involved three or four speakers around a specific topic.

Proposals for symposia for the encounter must have the following characteristics:

* Part of the symposium.
* Referee academic (must necessarily be one of the speakers at the symposium).
* In each of the speakers:
or Name
Cargo or academic or secondment
or e-mail
Summary of curriculum or at most three paragraphs
* Subject to the paper.
* From 4 to 6 keywords.
* Screenplay of the initial Exposition (each speaker) for the introductory 15 minutes of the table with between 1000 to 2000 words.
* References.

The day of the symposium will be necessary lodged with the IRC at least 15 minutes before, in the event that at the start missing more than a rapporteur will be canceled by the meeting.

Accepted formats

All proposals submitted to opinion must provide the full text of the conference, workshop or symposium tutorial as if it were to be included in the memoirs of the congress, one of the following formats:

* OpenDocument (OpenOffice.org)
* Abiword
* HTML (ISO code-Latin-1)
* ASCII (ISO code-Latin-1)

In the case of opting for HTML or ASCII images and / or graphics should be in any of these formats:

* PNG
* JPG

Under no circumstances will accept submissions in a format different from those listed above.

Publication and licensing.

All lectures, workshops and tutorials accepted will be published in the pages of the encounter and the portal bin: the academic community in line, under license from the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial type - Without adaptation, so it means giving the non-exclusive publishing rights; carrying any contribution associated non-publication of an agreement will be rejected.

Additionally be issued in line with the same license discussions and comments generated from analysis of the same. Bin EDUSOL and reserve the right to publish in any other media distribution under the same license or sell the memoirs printed or digital.

Delivery of records.

It will issue digital record for each of the authors of the various modalities listed to participate actively, presenting and / or defending his work on the pattern recorded.

In the case of workshops and online tutorials will be issued a certificate for presenting the work and another by the specified number of hours of work tutoring online.