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Computing and communication technology continue to make an ever-increasing impact on all aspects of cognition, education and training, from primary to tertiary and in the growing open and distance learning environment. The journal is an established technically-based, interdisciplinary forum for communication in the use of all forms of computing in this socially and technologically significant area of application and will continue to publish definitive contributions to serve as a reference standard against which the current state-of-the-art can be assessed.
The Editors welcome any papers on cognition, educational or training systems development using techniques from and applications in any technical knowledge domain: social issues and gender issues; curricula considerations, graphics, simulations, computer-aided design, computer integrated manufacture, artificial intelligence and its applications including intelligent tutoring systems and computer assisted language learning; hypertext and hypermedia; user interfaces to learning systems; management of technological change on campus and in local education; uses of advanced technology information systems, networks, terrestrial and satellite transmissions and distributed processing; and virtual reality in an educational context; state-of-the-art summaries and review articles.

ijCSCL is a high-quality, peer-reviewed academic journal reflecting the interests of the international CSCL community. The first volume will be available in print and online in 2006 — submissions for the first issue are welcome now.
The primary aim of the journal is to promote a deeper understanding of the nature, theory and practice of the uses of computer-supported collaborative learning. A main focus is on how people learn in the context of collaborative activity and how to design the technological settings for collaboration.

The Journal of Computer Assisted Learning is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, international journal which covers the whole range of uses of information and communication technology to support learning and knowledge exchange. It aims to provide a medium for communication between researchers and the practitioners and to foster collaborative research. It is a rich source of material for research students in areas such as collaborative learning, knowledge engineering, open, distance and networked learning, developmental psychology and evaluation. The research themes are treated in a way which will maximize their influence on developments and practice in education, vocational training and professional development.
Each volume includes one, sometimes two, Special Issues and these provide readers with an in-depth perspective on a specific topic.
First published in 1985, JCAL continues to have the aim of making the outcomes of contemporary research and experience accessible. During this period there have been major technological advances offering new opportunities and approaches in the use of a wide range of technologies to support learning and knowledge transfer more generally. There is currently much emphasis on the use of network functionality and the challenges its appropriate uses pose to teachers/tutors working with students locally and at a distance.

JETC invites submissions of original technical papers describing research and development in emerging technologies in computing systems. Major economic and technical challenges are expected to impede the continued scaling of semiconductor devices. This has resulted in the search for alternate mechanical, biological/biochemical, nanoscale electronic, and quantum computing and sensor technologies. As the underlying nanotechnologies continue to evolve in the labs of chemists, physicists, and biologists, it has become imperative for computer scientists and engineers to translate the potential of the basic building blocks (analogous to the transistor) emerging from these labs into information systems. Their design will face multiple challenges ranging from the inherent (un)reliability due to the self-assembly nature of the fabrication processes for nanotechnologies, from the complexity due to the sheer volume of nanodevices that will have to be integrated for complex functionality, and from the need to integrate these new nanotechnologies with silicon devices in the same system.
The journal provides comprehensive coverage of innovative work in the specification, design analysis, simulation, verification, testing, and evaluation of computing systems constructed out of emerging technologies and advanced semiconductors.

A cognitive science journal providing a multidisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of important ideas that can change our understanding of learning and teaching.

The International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (http://aied.inf.ed.ac.uk/aiedsoc.html) organises a biennial AIED conference, which is the major international forum for reporting the best research in the field of AI in Education. The conferences provide the opportunity for the exchange of information and ideas on related research, development and applications. Society members receive reduced registration rates for AIED conferences. AIED 97 was held in Kobe, Japan; AIED 99 was held in Le Mans, France; AIED 01 was held in San Antonio, USA; AIED 03 was held in Sydney, Australia. AIED 05 (the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The CSCL conference series is being sponsored by the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS http://www.isls.org/ ).
The CSCL conference series is dedicated to the advancement of inter-disciplinary research on collaborative learning and the ways it might be supported using technology. The first CSCL conference took place at Indiana University in 1995. Subsequent meetings have been held at the University of Toronto (1997), Stanford University (1999), University of Maastricht (2000), University of Colorado at Boulder (2002), and the University of Bergen (2003). CSCL 2005 will be held in Taiwan, May 30-June 4, 2005. Past CSCL conferences have typically had 300-400 people in attendance. Since the last two meetings were in Europe and Asia, we suggest but not require a return to North America in 2007.
The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference has become an internationally-recognized forum for the exchange of research findings related to learning in the context of collaborative activity and the exploration of how such learning might be augmented through technology.
　

The International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE) is in an established series of annual international conferences highlighting quality research and development related to the field of computers in education. ICCE conferences are widely regarded as the premier conference series on computers in education in the Asia-Pacific region. They are organized under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE http://www.apsce.net/APSCE_WebsiteV2/ ).

UM2003 http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~um2003/program.html

UM2005 http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/um2005/um05.html