CALL FOR PAPERS - LACLO 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS
   Fourteenth Latin American Conference on Objects and Learning Technologies
                          (LACLO 2019) XIV LACLO 2019
                            http://www.laclo2019.com

The Latin American countries have an urgent need to share, to join efforts and grow
together in many areas, but especially in those areas that could lead us to improve
the educational level of our people. Learning technologies can be considered by
many as the cornerstone for a new educational era that is under development, and
Latin American countries should maintain an active forum for discussing the existing
technological alternatives that can be applied to our regional contexts. LACLO aims
to be a forum of this type, where researchers, developers and education
professionals are able to share their experiences and technological advances in the
learning technologies field, and integrate these diverse technological developments
in their teaching contexts and learning.

LACLO was achieved for the first time in Guayaquil in 2006, and was organized by
the Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL). In that same year, the Latin American
Community of Learning Objects (LACLO) was created. Since then, the conference
has been organized annually in different region countries (Santiago - Chile in 2007,
Aguascalientes - Mexico in 2008, Mérida - Mexico in 2009, Sao Paulo - Brazil in
2010, Montevideo - Uruguay in 2011, Guayaquil - Ecuador in 2012, Valdivia - Chile in
2013, Manizales - Colombia in 2014 and Maceió - Brazil in 2015, San Carlos, Costa
Rica in 2016, La Plata, Argentina 2017, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2018).

The event subject has been expanding beyond the technology of learning objects,
which covers the entire spectrum of information and communication technologies to
support and improve teaching and learning, which has led to a debate within of the
community on the need and convenience of adopting a new name and renaming the
Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technologies for Learning.

This year, the University of Baja California Sur, UABCS, Mexico, coordinates the
work of the XIV Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology
(LACLO 2019). This conference will take place on October 30, 31 and November 1,
2019 in the city of San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

The conference aims to strengthen relationships and communication between the
educational and technological fields, focusing on the following main actions:

  1. Educational research experiences recovery that allow a better understanding of
the use and impact of ICT in educational practices in Latin America; Y
2. The recognition and understanding of the education in the region real problems,
and the relevant and effective technological solutions construction for them.

In addition to the presentation of full and short papers, LACLO will have call for
papers by international experts, there will be tutorials and workshops on emerging
issues and will hold the LACLO annual extended meeting, as well as meetings of
other existing groups within the community. . Also, since it is a tradition in this
Conference, there will be the EduTech.

Organizing Institutions:
Latin American Community of Learning Objects and Technologies http://
www.laclo.org
Autonomous University of Baja California Sur, Mexico https://www.uabcs.mx/inicio

Relevant subjects (non-exhaustive list):
      Educational research and technology.
            • Experiences in the educational use of technologies.
            • The learning and practice virtual communities.
            • Educational technologies Impact.
            • Problems in the technology integration in the education fields.

      Educational needs and technological solutions
            • Educational problems and the development of relevant technologies.
            • Pedagogical theories, educational models and technology
            development.
            • New students and teachers: roles, relationships and technologies.
            • Collaborative learning technologies.
            • Teaching and learning designs with the support of technology.
            • Design of environments for people with special need education.

      Learning objects and open educational resources
            • Strategies for the educational content generation.
            • The technology use in the design of educational content.
            • Management, use and evaluation of educational content.

      Repositories of Learning Objects
           • Federation, integrated search and recommendation systems.
           • Integration with virtual learning environments.
           • Integration with author tools.
           • Strategies for evaluating the quality of resources within the
           repositories.

      Massive online open courses (MOOCs)

• Theoretical analysis.
       • Participation data analysis.
       • Development models.

Mobile Learning, Educational Television and Ubiquitous Learning
      • The use of mobile devices in the classroom.
      • Voting systems (such as response commands) and others.
      • Mobile phones (SMS use) in distance education.
      • Mobile devices in museums, galleries, etc.
      • Mobile devices and daily learning (language, dictionaries, etc.).
      • Educational Television (tlearning).
      • Learning objects for television.
      • The effective use of media for education.

Learning Analytics
      • Academic analysis (attrition, motivation, etc.).
      • Analytics in class (monitoring of student actions).
      • Online analytics (LMS, web tools, etc.).
      • Multimodal analytics.

Inverted classroom
       • Theoretical analysis.
       • Impact analysis.
       • Development models.

Games, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
     • Educational games.
     • Virtual, augmented and mixed reality for diminished education.
     • Educational applications and the impact of multi-user virtual
     environments in 3D.
     • The serious games.

Personalized Learning
      • Recommendation systems.
      • Automatic creation (semi) of courses or lessons.
      • Intelligent and cognitive tutors.
      • Technological support for self-managed learning.
      Adaptability and Accessibility
      • Creation of content in several languages or languages.
      • The contents adaptation to the educational level.
      • Student modeling and educational adaptation.

• Technologies for educational inclusion.
               • Technologies for a special needs education.
Other topics that the authors consider relevant for the discussion on technology for
education in the region can also be included. All submitted papers will be reviewed
and weighted according to their relevance, originality, coherence and clarity by at
least two reviewers in the same area. The final program will only include works with
at least one author enrolled in the conference and before the deadline for sending
the final version.

Full and short Papers, written in English, accepted and presented at the conference,
will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library and will be submitted to indexing
services. The best complete papers will be selected to present an extended version
for review in indexed journals.

Full and short Papers written in Spanish and Portuguese accepted and presented at
the conference, must have the title and abstract in English to be submitted to IEEE
Xplore Digital Library and submitted to indexing services. The best complete papers
will be selected to present an extended version for review in indexed journals.

A best articles selection received and presented at the conference will be
recommended (post-conference) for an expanded version in: IEEE LATAM - IEEE
Latin America Transactions (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/9/etrans/eng/). ISSN:
1548-0992. The papers not presented at the conference will not be published.

The papers submission by third parties must be authorized by the coordinators of the
general program in advance.

Important dates:
Scientific paper (complete and short papers)
      • Deadline July 14, 2019
      • Notification to authors August 15, 2019
      • Final version September 5, 2019
      • Early registration (author registration) September 21, 2019
EduTech - Competition of Educational Resources and Technologies for
Learning
      • Deadline August 15, 2019
      • Notification to the finalists September 5, 2019
      • Final version September 5 to 20, 2019
      • Early registration (author registration) September 21, 2019
Doctoral Consortium
      • Deadline August 15, 2019
      • Notification to the finalists September 5, 2019
      • Final version September 5 to 20, 2019
      • Early registration (author registration) September 21, 2019

Workshop Proposal (Workshops)
     • Deadline August 15, 2019
     • Notification to the finalists September 5, 2019
     • Final version September 5 to 20, 2019
     • Early registration (author registration) September 21, 2019

General
Papers can be presented in English, Portuguese or Spanish. The title and abstract
must be in English.
The articles format can be downloaded from the "Guide for authors" of the
conference website.
This conference uses an online system that allows participants to submit their
articles through the web. See the conference website for more details.
All contributions must have a summary of 200 words in English.

Full and Short Scientific Papers
The complete papers should be between 6-8 pages and short papers between 4-5
pages in an LACLO 2019 official language (English, Spanish or Portuguese),
including figures, bibliographical references and a summary of 200 words.
All proposals must have a summary in English, and be formatted in accordance with
the standard IEEE formats. Other details of the preparation and presentation of the
papers will be published on the conference site: http://www.laclo.org/laclo2019.
The complete papers must present investigations results, theoretical discussions,
positions, systematization of experiences, new developments.
Short papers should present work in progress, or innovative ideas in the initial stage
of development.
All works will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field.
All papers must be presented individually at the conference.

Tutorials
The tutorials are courses of a maximum of 4 hours that can be offered to the
conference participants.

Those interested in offering a tutorial should send a brief description (maximum 4-5
pages) containing the following information: program, objectives, the state of the
technique in the field, methodology, duration, resources required and the maximum
number of participants . The description should be clear about whether the tutorial
will be emphasized in theory or in practice.

Workshops
The people who participate in the organization of a workshop to send a description
(4-5 pages) contain the following information: objectives, state of the art in the field,
duration, possible stakeholders, expected number of participants, coordinators and
program committee .
The coordinators of the service workshops that provide a workshop website provide
a full description of the workshop's objectives, along with the call.
The workshops coordinators are also responsible for the dissemination of the call for
papers and the review process.

EduTech - Competence of Educational Resources and Technologies for
Learning
Authors should send the product, including a text file (free format) with basic
information: authors, subject, audience and technical requirements (if applicable).
Along with the product and the text file, the author should send a short paper (4-5
pages) that describes how the product was developed, the presentation of the
methodology followed during the development and the technologies used, and any
other aspect considered relevant . The short paper should follow the standard
conference paper format.
The products and their respective short papers will be evaluated by a panel of
experts. The finalists will present their product at the conference.

Short papers will be published in the conference proceedings (not in IEEEXplore
Digital Library).

Student Graduate Consortium
The LACLO 2019 Postgraduate Student Consortium offers students who start their
Master's or PhD the opportunity to present their thesis topics in an interdisciplinary
workshop to interact with colleagues and experts in the field.
The Postgraduate Student Consortium is an instance that allows attendees to share
and discuss the ongoing work of the doctoral and master's thesis in the field of
advanced learning technologies.
Papers should be 4-5 pages in English following the format of the conference.
Cost per paper for authors from September 5 to September 30:
First article: $ 140 (USD)
Additional item: $ 50 (USD)
Assistant without article: $ 70 (USD)

Cost per paper for authors from October 1 to 20:
First article: $ 160 (USD)
Additional item: $ 70 (USD)
Assistant without article: $ 90 (USD)

       Steering Committee Chair
                ● Mónica Carreño Léon, Universidad Autónoma de Baja
                  California Sur, Mexico. mcarreno@uabcs.mx
                ● Jesús Andrés Sandoval, Universidad Autónoma de Baja
                  California Sur, Mexico. sandoval@uabcs.mx

       Program Chairs
               ● Mario Chacón Rivas, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica,
                 Costa Rica. machacon@tec.ac.cr
               ● Francisco Alvarez, Universidad Autónoma de
                 Aguascalientes, Mexico. fjalvar@correo.uaa.mx
               ● Antonio Silva Sprock, Universidad Central de Venezuela,
                 Venezuela. antonio.silva@ciens.ucv.ve

       Local Organization Committee Members
                    ● Israel Duran Encinas, Autonomous University of Baja California
                      Sur, Mexico. iduran@uabcs.mx

● Italy Estrada Cota, Autonomous University of Baja California
            Sur, Mexico. iestrada@uabcs.mx
          ● Miriam Maray Carreño León, Autonomous University of Baja
            California Sur, Mexico. marayc@uabcs.mx
          ● Arturo de Casso Verdugo, Autonomous University of Baja
            California Sur, Mexico. decasso@uabcs.mx
          ● Ricardo Luis Ignacio Sánchez, Autonomous University of Baja
            California Sur, Mexico. rignacio@uabcs.mx
          ● Magda Dinorah Valdéz Ceseña, Autonomous University of Baja
            California Sur, Mexico. mvaldez@uabcs.mx
          ● Ana Laura Ramírez, Autonomous University of Baja California
            Sur, Mexico. al.ramirez@uabcs.mx

Diffusion Chair
          ● Ismar Frango, University of Mackenzie / Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil.
            ismarfrango@gmail.com
          ● Teresita de Jesús Álvarez Robles, Veracruzana University,
            Mexico alvarez88.t@gmail.com
          ● Amado Alejandro Leyva Carrillo, Autonomous University of Baja
            California Sur, Mexico. aleyva@uabcs.mx

Workshops and Tutorials Committee Members
       ● Alicia Diaz, National University of La Plata, Argentina.
           alicia.diaz@lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar
       ● EduTech Coordinator
       ● Ismar Frango, University of Mackenzie / Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil.
           ismarfrango@gmail.com
       ● Julio César Ponce, University of Aguascalientes, Mexico.
           jcponce@correo.uaa.mx

Coordinators of the Graduate Student Consortium
        ● Regina Motz, University of the Republic, Uruguay.
            rmotz@fing.edu.uy
        ● Jaime Muñoz Arteaga, Autonomous University of
            Aguascalientes, Mexico. jmauaa@gmail.com