Dates

Submission

Extended! 15 June 2021

Notification

1-18 June 2021

Camera ready

22 June 2021

Registration

30 June 2021

Video deadline

10 September 2021

Symposium

23-24 September 2021

Objectives

The International Symposium on Computers in Education provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest advances in research on learning technologies and their practical application in educational processes. It also aims to bring together researchers, developers, institutional representatives and teachers to share views, knowledge and experiences.

The 23rd edition of the Symposium will focus on technologies for learning analytics. The application of institutional intelligence processes and the exploitation of academic data present great opportunities to improve both the teaching/learning processes and the management of academic institutions. To take advantage of this potential requires the definition, development and evaluation of technological constructs that allow the capture, processing and visualization of data for timely decision making.

This edition of the SIIE is held within the framework of the VI Spanish Congress on Informatics (CEDI) 20/21, postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to the Covid-19 crisis.

Contributions

The Symposium calls for quality contributions presenting original work in Educational Informatics related to the topics of interest. Contributions can be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English. The title and abstract must also be written in English. The presentation of papers at the symposium may be in Spanish or English.

This edition of the Symposium will be co-located within the frame of the 6th Spanish Congress of Informatics. The congress will have a hybrid format, both face-to-face and online. All communications will be presented in a virtual format. Authors of selected papers to be presented will provide a short 10-minute video with their contribution and deliver it to the conference organization before September 10th, 2021.

All contributions must be submitted as PDF files and conform to the official IEEE Proceedings Formatting Instructions (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). Regular contributions will be limited to a maximum of 6 pages.

Submissions should be made via the EasyChair platform through the following link (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siie2021).

Accepted papers will be published digitally as symposium proceedings, which will be distributed to participants prior to the symposium. Papers submitted and presented will be included in an edition of post-proceedings

The conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library®. Papers to be submitted for inclusion to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library® must be written in English.

At the end of the symposium, the IX Edition of the "Antonio Vaquero" award will be presented to the best paper of the SIIE 2021.

The best articles will also be selected for publication in extended versions in various journals. Special issues are currently confirmed in:

Special sessions

Besides regular sessions, the following special sessions will take place during the symposium:

  • Round table on computing education and computational thinking, organized by ADIE (Prof. Francisco García-Peñalvo y Prof. Ángel Velázquez Iturbide)
  • Special sessions, the first about European projects, and the second about the impact of COVID-19 in the context of computing education.
  • Doctoral consortium, to present preliminary results of PhD students in the research area of computing education.

Contributions to special sessions must be also submitted as PDF files and conform to the official IEEE Proceedings Formatting Instructions. Contributions to special sessions will have a minimum of 2 page and a maximum of 6 pages.

All submissions should be made via the EasyChair platform through the following link (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siie2021).

Steering Committee

Presidente

Martín Llamas Nistal – Universidad de Vigo, España

Cristina Azevedo Gomes – Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal

Francisco José García Peñalvo – Universidad de Salamanca, España

António José Mendes – Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal

Ángel Velázquez Iturbide – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España

Program Committee Presidents

Program Committee

Alicia García Holgado - Universidad de Salamanca, España

Alvaro Figueira - Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Ana Amélia Carvalho - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Ana Belén González Rogado - Universidad de Salamanca, España

Ana Isabel Molina - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, España

Anabela Gomes - Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal

Ángel Fidalgo - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España

Ángel Velázquez Iturbide - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España

Antonio Balderas Alberico - Universidad de Cádiz, España

António Dias de Figueiredo - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

António José Osório - Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Antonio Manso - Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal

Antonio Miguel Seoane Pardo - Universidad de Salamanca, España

António Moreira - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España

August Climent - La Salle Open University, España

Begoña Ferrero Martín - Universidad del País Vasco, España

Belmiro Rego - Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal

Carina González González - Universidad de La Laguna, España

Carla Morais - Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Carlos Brigas - Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal

Carlos Delgado Kloos - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España

Célio Marques - Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal

Covadonga Rodrigo - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España

Cristian Cechinel - Universidad Federal de Pelotas, Brasil

Cristina Azevedo Gomes - Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal

Davinia Hernández Leo - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, España

Diana Pérez Martín - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España

Eduarda Ferreira - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Erla Mariela Morales Morgado - Universidad de Salamanca, España

Estefanía Martín Barroso - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España

Faraón Llorens Largo - Universidad de Alicante, España

Fernando Albuquerque Costa - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Fernando Mikic - Universidade de Vigo, España

Fernando Ramos - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Francisco José García Peñalvo - Universidad de Salamanca, España

Francisco Jurado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España

Gregorio Robles Martínez - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España

Henrique Gil - Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Barnco, Portugal

Ignacio Aedo Cuevas - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España

Irene Tomé - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Isabel Pereira - Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal

Iván Ruiz Rube - Universidad de Cádiz, España

Jaime Sánchez - Universidad de Chile, Chile

Jaime Urquiza - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España

Jesús González Boticario - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España

José V. Benlloch-Dualde - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, España

José Luis Sierra Rodríguez - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España

Juan Cruz Benito - IBM Research, España

Juan Manuel Dodero Beardo - Universidad de Cádiz, España

Juan Manuel Santos - Universidade de Vigo, España

Lucila Santarosa - Universidades Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Luis Anido Rifón - Universidad de Vigo, España

Luis Pedro - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Luis Valente - Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Manuel Caeiro Rodríguez - Universidad de Vigo, España

Manuel Castro Gil - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España

Manuel José Fernández Iglesias - Universidade de Vigo

Manuel Ortega Cantero - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, España

Manuel Pérez Cota - Universidad de Vigo, España

Maria João Gomes - Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Maria João Loureiro - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Maria João Silva - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal

Maria José Marcelino - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

María Luisa Sein-Echaluce Lacleta - Universidad de Zaragoza, España

Maria Teresa Pessoa - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Maribel S. Miranda-Pinto - Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Martín Llamas Nistal - Universidad de Vigo, España

Maximiliano Paredes Velasco - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España

Mercedes Gómez Albarrán - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España

Miguel Ángel Conde González - Universidad de León, España

Miguel Ángel Redondo Duque - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, España

Miguel Rodríguez Artacho - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España

Natalia Castanon - Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela

Paulo Dias, Universidade Aberta, Portugal

Pilar Rodríguez Marín - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España

Ramón Fabregat Gesa - Universitat de Girona, España

Regina Motz - Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Rita Cadima - Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal

Rosa M. Carro Salas - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España

Rosa Vicari, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Rosário Rodrigues - Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal

Susana Nieto Isidro - Universidad de Salamanca, España

Yannis Dimitriadis - Universidad de Valladolid, España

Topics

The folllowing is a non-exhaustive list of related or complementary subjects that are considered within the main topic of the symposium:

  • Learning analytics
  • Pedagogical theories applied to educational software design
  • Semantic web applications in education
  • Educational software applications in specific domains
  • Distance learning, online and hybrid
  • Collaborative learning
  • Ubiquitous and mobile learning
  • Authoring of educational contents
  • Open knowledge in educational contexts
  • Design and standardization of educational technologies, metadata and modeling languages
  • Design, development and evaluation of educational software
  • e-Assessment: Theory, methods, tools and practices
  • Personalized learning environments
  • Teachers' training in ICTs
  • Knowledge, technology and competence management in educational contexts
  • Artificial intelligence in education
  • Human-computer interaction in educational contexts
  • Virtual and remote laboratories
  • Methodologies and use practices of educational software
  • Educational data mining
  • Multimedia, hypermedia and visualization in education
  • Educational virtual worlds
  • Educational robotics
  • Web-based resources, tools and course systems
  • Learning management systems: architectures and platforms
  • Non formal and informal learning support in the workplace
  • Educational simulations and video games
  • Social web and learning communities

Call for papers

Registration & presentation

Registration

Registration must be completed through the CEDI 20/21 web page at https://www.congresocedi.es/ .

The CEDI 2021 edition is a hybrid event, with two modalities of registration and attendance: in-person and online.

Registration in CEDI for one author must be completed, at least in the online modality, for each paper contribution to be presented at SIIE.

Program

The provisional program of SIIE and all CEDI events is published by the CEDI organization in the following link to Whova platform.

Presenting

Paper presentation will be in-person (in case of in-person modality registration) or online (in case of online modality registration) according to the program schedule.

Language of presentation will be preferably English, but Spanish or Portuguese will be also admitted.

For online presentations, authors must provide in due advance a video recording with their presentation that fulfills the following features:

  • Use preferably English language in the video recording
  • Maximum duration is 10 minutes, in order to have time for questions.
  • The video format must MP4 with 16:9 aspect ratio, 720p minimum resolution, 200 Mb maximum size and a high audio level.
  • Video files will be delivered to Whova platform. There are two options to deliver it: to upload the full video, or to provide a link to youtube or vimeo. In the latter case, the video must be hidden by default in the youtube/vimeo platform, only available to those who know the link. Videos cannot be openly published until the end of the event.
  • Authors will receive an e-mail from the organization requesting to complete their personal information, along with a link to upload the video to Whova. Among 3 alternatives provided by Whova, authors must select “Upload file from your local computer” or “Upload from a cloud URL (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive)”.
  • The deadline to deliver the video in the whova platform is September 9th.

In the scheduled presentation, after playing the video, the presenter will respond to questions made either in-person or by the Zoom videoconference.

Organization

SCIE
CEDI 20/21
UCA
SPI&FM
USAL
GRIAL
IEEE Education Society
ADIE