Deepak Kumar & Joe Turner 
Education for the 21st Century – Impact of ICT and Digital Resources 
IFIP 19th World Computer Congress, TC-3 Education, August 21-24, 2006, Santiago, Chile

It is a pleasure to offer you this book containing papers about ICT and education from the World Computer Congress 2006 (WCC 2006), held in Santiago, Chile and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). A lot of people worked very hard to make this event happen and to produce this book. The programme committee with IFIP members from around the world issued a call for papers inspiring almost 80 people to submit papers, posters, demonstrations, and workshops to the IFIP TC3 (Technical Committee on Education) sub-conference of WCC 2006. The submitted papers were reviewed by a large group of referees to select the papers to be presented at the conference. What is really amazing is that all these people freely contributed their time and effort to do all this work. The TC3 sub-conference of WCC 2006 has two themes: Informatics Curricula, TEaching Methods and best practice (ICTEM II), and Teaching and Learning with ICT: Theory, Policy and Practice. These themes represent many of the broad range of interests of the Working Groups of IFIP TC3. Two kinds of papers are included in this book: full papers and short papers. Full papers are standard papers that are appropriate for an international conference on ICT and informatics education. Of the 64 full paper submissions, 28 (44%) were accepted. A short paper represents work in progress, opinion, a proposal, work with untested results, or an experience report.

Table of Content

Full Papers.- Impact of Lifelong E-learning.- Technologies and Educational Activities for Supporting and Implementing Challenge-Based Learning.- An Integrated Content Modeling Approach for Educational Modules.- Error Simulation in a Maturity Environment for Software Engineering Teaching.- A Service-Oriented Infrastructure for Collaborative Learning in Virtual Knowledge Spaces.- Applying New Educational Models in ICT Teaching and Learning.- Media Stickiness and Cognitive Imprinting: Inertia and Creativity in Cooperative Work & Learning with ICTs.- Teaching Modern Heuristics in Combinatorial Optimization.- An e-Learning Application Based on the Semantic Web Technology.- Linking Communities of Practice with Learning Communities in Computer Science Education.- Some Experiences in Using Virtual Machines for Teaching Computer Networks.- Trust in Virtual Teams: A Performance Indicator.- “Aquatic Metaphors”: an Innovative Interface for Virtual Learning Spaces.- Influence of Individual Learning Styles in Online Interaction: a Case for Dynamic Frequently Asked Questions (DFAQ).- Instructing with Advanced Collaboration Technology.- Characterizing E-learning Practices in Companies.- e-learning Activities in Educating e-business: a Pilot with a Process-Oriented e-learning Environment.- Integrating Synchronous and Asynchronous Internet Distributed Education for Maximum Effectiveness.- Structural Awareness for Collaborative Learning Environments.- Meaning Making Through e-Learning.- A Model to Design Multimedia Software for Learners with Visual Disabilities.- Adult Learners in an Online College Class: Combining Efficiency and Convenience of E-learning.- E-learning Tools and Web-resources for Teaching Reconfigurable Systems.- Teaching for Blended Learning.- Blending Projects Serving Public Education into Teacher Training.- Understanding the Continued Usage of Business e-learning Courses in HK Corporations.- Short Papers.- Knowledge Details in Web Forums: How High or Low above the Ground?.- Partial Distance-Learning Training for Information Technology Higher Education Trainers.- Collaboration Model in E-Learning for Universities Based on Agents.- Engineering Modular Web-based Education Systems to Support EML Units of Learning.- Gesture Friendly Interfaces for Classroom Teaching with Thinking Tools.- National Qualification Systems Integration using Ontologies.- Research on Open Source Software Intended to Promote its Usage in Education.- Use of Morphisms as a Tool to Help Learning Object Oriented Concepts.- Student’s Approach to Linear Programming Modeling.- Web Teaching and Learning Programming Environment Based on Plan Method and Constructs.- Some Aspects of Application of Software Agents in Information Retrieval in Virtual-Based Educational Environments.- Remote Lab Experiments: Opening Possibilities for Distance Learning in Engineering Fields.- Credibility: Norwegian Students Evaluate Media Studies Web Sites.- A Collaborative Learning Approach And its Evaluation.- Experiences From Virtual Learning in Upper Secondary Schools in Finland.- Information Security in an E-learning Environment.- Teaching Supervisory Control Based on a Web Portal and a System of Laboratory Tasks.- Role of Online Supportive Environment in Professional Development of In-service Teachers – Case of TELMAE.- An Integrated Pedagogical Approach for Distance Learning Courses: Curriculum, ICT and Management.- Is it Computer Literacy, IT, ICT or Informatics?.- M-learning Standardization: Concepts and New Ideas about Learner Profile.- Teaching IT to Managers or Teaching Management to Engineers? None of the Above.- Implementing Use of ICT in Teacher Education.- edu.LMC and Other LMC Simulation Approaches: Contributions to Computer Architecture Education Using the LMC Paradigm.- Information Technology Literacy: Examples from Academia in Chile and Hawaii.- A Staff Development Program for Promoting Change in Higher Education Teaching and Learning Practices.- Intelligent Learning Objects: An Agent Approach to Create Interoperable Learning Objects.- Software Engineering 2004 — A Jewel in the ACM/IEEE-CS Curricula Effort.- Posters, Demonstrations, and Workshops.- Abstracts for Posters.- Discovering Mathematical Concepts with Dynamic Software: A Demonstration.- Workshop on Informatics Education: Bridging the University/Industry Gap.