Concluding Report on the
International Workshop on Technology for Education, T4E'09

by General Chair, S. Sadagopan and
Program Co-Chairs: Kinshuk, Srinivasan Ramani and Mangala Sunder

The International Workshop on Technology for Education (T4E 09) was held at Radha Regent Hotel, Electronics City during 4-6, August 2009. The Workshop was planned by the IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore Chapter and was technically cosponsored by:

IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Learning Technology (LTTC) http://lttf.ieee.org,
IEEE Bangalore Section http://www.ewh.ieee.org/R10/Bangalore,
IEEE Computer Society http://www2.computer.org

and was cosponsored by:

National Project on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), India http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
The International Institute of information Technology, Bangalore (IIITB) http://www.iitb.ac.in
Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) http://www.cdac.in
OpenCourseWare (OCW) consortium, USA http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

HP Labs India was the Patron.

The following made major contributions to the Workshop:

Invited Paper Authors:

Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan and
Leong Ko, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies,
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Irene Cheng, Saul Rodriguez and Anup Basu, Dept of Computing Science,
University of Alberta, Canada
Kannan Moudgalya, Rahul Deshmukh and Arvind Patil, CDEEP, IIT, Bombay, India
Mangala Sunder Krishnan, IIT-Madras, India
A R D Prasad and Devika P Madalli, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Rory McGreal, Research Centre, Athabasca University, Canada.
Miguel Nussbaum, Heinz Susaeta, Felipe Jimenez, Ignacio Gajardo, Juan Jose Andreu,
Marco Villalta, Universidad Catolica de Chile, and
John Nordlinger, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA

Tutorial Speaker:

Prof Kinshuk from the University of Athabasca, Canada, gave a half-day tutorial on Adaptivity and Personalization in Mobile Learning Technologies.  

Invited Speakers:

M P Ravindra, Head E & R, Infosys, Bangalore
Stephen Carson, MIT OpenCourseWare, USA
K R Srivathsan, IGNOU, India

Panel on Grand Challenges for Technology in Education – Indian and Foreign Perspectives:

K Mangala Sunder, IIT-Madras, India
Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada
M S Vijay Kumar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
S Sadagopan (Joined at the end), IIIT-B, India
Srinivasan Ramani, IIIT-B, India

Contributed Papers and Poster Papers

There were twelve contributed papers, selected out of 65 that had been submitted, and three poster papers.

There were three WebEx Sessions from speakers in USA and Canada. There was a paper by two undergraduate students from Sri Lanka. The workshop came to an end on 6th August 2009, with a panel discussion on the Grand Challenges for Technology in Education – Indian and Foreign Perspectives.

There were sixty five participants in all.

The Workshop proved to be valuable to researchers in the field, as indicated by the proposal to make it an annual event.  Prof Kannan Moudgalya at IIT, Bombay has offered to organize T4E'10 in early July'10. Ms Sandhya Kode IIIT, Hyderabad and Dr Sarat Chandra Babu at CDAC, Hyderabad have offered to organize T4E'11.