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 2024 will take place face-to-face on 16-20 September 2024 in Krems, Austria, with the theme What is the role of TEL to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all?

In a world undergoing rapid transformation due to technological advancements (e.g., Generative Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Connectivity Technologies), the education landscape is also expanding with new possibilities. However, these advancements bring complex challenges, including effective adoption of technology in educational settings, ethical concerns, and the possible digital divide these technologies could create. Therefore, the theme for the 2024 conference aims to investigate the role of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal for education: “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”

This year’s conference explores the role of TEL within this critical context. We invite submissions that enhance our comprehension of how TEL can promote an equitable, high-quality education for all. Topics of interest include but are not limited to strategies for strengthening digital/AI literacy, facilitating lifelong learning, improving accessibility, and mitigating the digital divide issue. We are interested in papers that not only explore the adoption of emerging technologies for enhancing the educational experience but also explore the limitations of these technologies and undertake investigations in different learning environments and cross-cultural settings. In alignment with the focus on sustainability in past ECTEL conferences, we also welcome papers that offer insights into the scalable and sustainable deployment of these technologies.

The topics of interest are grouped into seven blocks. The detailed list of topics of interest for the conference can be found here.

1. Pedagogical and theoretical underpinning of educational technologies
2. Technologies used for learning
3. Individual, social, and organisational learning processes
4. Ethics, privacy, regulations and policies
5. Learning communities and contexts
   
6. Global teaching and learning
7. Quality education for underrepresented groups

We invite submissions through research papers, demonstrations, posters, and workshops. In addition, a doctoral consortium will be organised to run concurrently with the workshops, offering a platform for doctoral candidates to present and discuss their research.

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 that fit within the scope of the conference and its topics. 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 2024 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 that fit within the scope of the conference and its topics. 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.

Workshop proposals will not be published in the conference proceedings.

Workshops Organisers interested in coordinating a workshop are welcome to submit a proposal by filling out a form available 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. 

The submissions will be submitted for publication in CEUR Workshops Proceedings.

More information on preparing the submission and application procedures will be made available early next year.

Research, Posters, and Demonstration Papers

• 15 March 2024 22 March 2024 EXTENDED – Mandatory submission of an abstract (to prepare the review phase)
• 29 March 2024 5 April 2024 EXTENDED – Submission of the full version
• 31 May 2024 – Notification of acceptance
• 14 June 2024 – Camera-ready versions
• 16-20 September 2024 – ECTEL 2024 conference

Workshops

• 10 May 2024 – Submission of workshop proposal
• 24 May 2024 – Workshop acceptance notifications
• 7 June 2024 – Workshop websites launched
• 16-17 September 2024 – ECTEL 2024 Workshops

Doctoral Consortium

• 1 April 2024 – PhD candidate application opens
• 17 June 2024 – PhD candidate application deadline
• 22 July 2024 – Doctoral Consortium reviews
• 16 September 2024 – EC-TEL 2024 Doctoral Consortium
• 14 October 2024 – Camera-ready version of the improved submission
• November 2024 – 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, and follow Springer policies on publication (including policies on the use of AI in the authoring process).

The use of the supplied template is mandatory in the preparation of their papers:

• LaTeX template (also available on Overleaf)
• Microsoft Word template (Microsoft Word 2003)

Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers.

Before submission, please make sure that the paper does not exceed the allocated number of pages and does not include appendices.

Upload your submission to ECTEL 2024 EasyChair submission system before the official deadline ( 29 March 2024, 23:59 UTC-12). Abstracts are due 15 March 2024.

Please note that:

• Workshop proposals will be handled separately, and submissions will be made using another system specified on this page.
• Doctoral Consortium submissions should follow the instructions that will be published at a later date.

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.

If you are interested in publishing your paper Open Access, please contact us and refer to Springer’s LNCS webpage for prices and additional information. The authors or their institutions must cover costs for the OA publication. The invoicing address and the CC-BY licence-to-publish agreement must be submitted to Springer by the deadline for the camera-ready version.

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 2024 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 repository.
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 reproduce, 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 paper nominations and additional selected papers will be invited to submit an extended article to a Special Issue dedicated to ECTEL 2024 in Wiley’s Journal of Computer Assisted Learning or as a regular submission to IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. The extended articles need to have 30% new content and contain design-relevant knowledge as envisioned by each journal.

The extended papers submitted to either of the two venues will undergo a new review process and acceptance is not guaranteed.

Details on the Conference Organization Committee can be found here.