The European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (ECTEL) engages researchers, practitioners, educational developers, entrepreneurs, industry leaders and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. ECTEL 2023 will take place face-to-face on 4-8 September 2023 in Aveiro, Portugal with the theme “Responsive and Sustainable Educational Futures”.

This year’s conference builds on the theme of the last year’s conference and focuses on sustainable teaching and learning practices in the post-pandemic educational ecosystem. In the past few years, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many educational institutions were forced to adopt numerous educational technologies to continue serving their students. For many of these institutions, it was a novel practice, and they needed to adapt fastly by implementing different strategies, tools, services, and digital platforms to provide learning opportunities for a wide range of students. 

As we are discovering a “new normal”, educational institutions can follow three trajectories when responding to learners’ and teachers’ needs in the post-pandemic world: a return to the status quo pre-pandemic, a short-term focus on remediating learning loss, or an organized effort to reinvent education to be more human-centered, responsive and responsible. We dedicate this year’s conference to exploring the third proposition and are calling for papers that can improve our understanding of how such an organized effort can be designed and implemented sustainably. We are looking for contributions that address different types of educational technologies and pedagogies that support teachers and learners. Importantly, we welcome papers that address not only technologies that aim to enhance learning and teaching, but also examine organizational, social and responsible aspects of teaching and learning with technologies in post-pandemic educational settings.

The topics of interest are grouped into the following nine blocks:

1. Pedagogical and theoretical underpinning of educational technologies
2. Technologies used for educational tools
3. Individual, social, and organisational learning processes
4. Students’ skills and competences
5. Supporting teacher professional development
6. Ethics, privacy, regulations and policies
7. Fairness, equity and equality
8. Educational Technology in lifelong learning contexts
9. Global teaching and learning

We invite contributions for research papers, posters, demonstrations, as well as workshops. A doctoral consortium will be organised concurrently with the workshops. The detailed list of topics of interest for the conference can be found here.

No matter the length, research papers are expected to be mature research contributions to the field of technology-enhanced learning. Research papers should clearly define research objectives and questions. In addition, research papers should discuss the state-of-the-art in the area in which the work is framed, how the new proposal advances state of the art, present an appropriate research methodology, as well as present and discuss the results of the research conducted. Preliminary results or work in progress fit very well in the poster paper category. Research papers should highlight their novelty and contribution to the field. It is important for ECTEL 2023 research papers to consider both technology and learning.

Accepted research papers will be published in LNCS Springer Conference Proceedings.

Poster Papers report on significant work-in-progress research and developments. Theoretical and practice-oriented contributions are welcomed. The submission should include theoretical background, a description of the work, preliminary results, and references.

Accepted poster papers will be published in LNCS Springer Conference Proceedings.

Demonstration papers are expected to describe innovative TEL applications, practices and prototypes aligned with the conference theme and topics (e.g. dashboards, recommender systems, chatbots, practice-oriented contributions, etc.). The submission should include pedagogical and technological background, a description of the application/practice/prototype/use case to demonstrate its relevance, results and outcomes achieved, future agenda and/or next steps.

Accepted demonstration papers will be published in LNCS Springer Conference Proceedings.

Workshops provide a venue for community building and idea generation for emerging research topics to groups of like-minded researchers and practitioners, further elaborating on how learning technologies can add educational value to the different stakeholders and contribute to effective education. Workshops Organisers interested in coordinating a workshop are welcome to submit a proposal by filling out this form.

Workshop proposals will not be published in the conference proceedings.

More information about the Workshop track can be found on this page. 

The Doctoral Consortium is an exceptional opportunity for PhD candidates to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international atmosphere. Prominent professors and researchers in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning will provide formative feedback to the selected papers through the review process and contribute actively to discussions at the workshop. More information on preparing the submission and application procedures is available on this page. 

The submissions will be published in CEUR Workshops Proceedings.

Research, Posters, and Demonstration Papers

• 17 March  2023 24 March 2023 EXTENDED – Mandatory submission of an abstract (to prepare the review phase)
• 7 April 2023 14 April 2023 EXTENDED – Submission of the full version
• 26 May 2023 – Notification of acceptance
• 25 June 2023 – Camera-ready versions
• 4-8 September 2023 – EC-TEL 2023 conference

Workshops

• 5 May 2023 – Submission of workshop proposal 
• 19 May 2023 – Workshops notification
• 7 June 2023 – Workshops sites launched
• 4-5 September 2023 – ECTEL 2023 Workshops

Doctoral Consortium

• 3 July 2023 – PhD candidate application deadline
• 31 July 2023 – Doctoral Consortium reviews
• 4 September 2023 – EC-TEL 2023 Doctoral Consortium
• 1 October 2023 – Camera-ready version of the improved submission
• November 2023 – Expected publication date

All papers submitted to ECTEL, except Doctoral Consortium submissions, will be reviewed through a double-blind review process, meaning that author names are not disclosed to the reviewers and reviewer names are not disclosed to the authors.

For this purpose, authors must submit their manuscript:

• without any reference to themselves and their institutions;
• without any URLs to projects, products or self-developed systems;
• with relevant self-references blinded or written in the third person.

Research, poster and demonstration paper authors must consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines. The use of the supplied template is mandatory in the preparation of their papers:

• LaTeX template (also available on Overleaf)
• Word template 

Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers.

Upload your submission to ECTEL 2023 EasyChair submission system before the official deadline ( 7 April 2023, 23:59 UTC-12).

Please note that:

• Workshop proposals will be handled separately, and submissions will be made using another system as specified on this page.
• Doctoral Consortium submissions should follow the instructions listed on this page.

Accepted research, poster and demo papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Like every year, the proceedings will be published within Springer “Lecture Notes in Computer Science” (LNCS) Series.

Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted submission must register for the conference by the camera-ready deadline for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

Workshop proposals and workshop contributions will not be included in the conference proceedings. Workshop organisers who wish to publish workshop contributions or outcomes are expected to manage the process independently.

Doctoral Consortium papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS).

As in previous years, we want to encourage Open Science within the EATEL research community. We therefore encourage authors to document their research in a reproducible and verifiable manner, and in general to use Open Science best practices. Two best practices that we specifically would be happy to see in ECTEL 2023 research papers are:

1. Pre-registration. Results from empirical studies are more robust when researchers predefine a research and analysis plan and register it before data collection. To do so, we encourage authors to use services like AsPredicted and the Open Science Framework to preregister their research so that confirmatory and exploratory analyses can be better evaluated. The research manuscript should then include a link to the preregistration document.
2. Sharing data and code for replication purposes. Sharing data sources (always anonymised!) as well as the scripts or programs you used to analyse them can help other researchers to replicate or extend your analysis. We encourage authors to share this information by providing a link to the data and code in the manuscript.

Best papers, and additional selected papers, get an invite to IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies to publish there with 30% new content and if these papers contain design-relevant knowledge as envisioned by the journal. Extended papers submitted to IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies will undergo a new review process and acceptance is not guaranteed.

Details on the Conference Organization Committee can be found here and supporting organizations here.