Preliminary calling

Dear Colleague:

We wish to invite you to attend our event, the 14th International Congress of Informatics in Education “InforEdu 2011”, which will be developed during the Convention and Fair Informática 2011, in the Palacio de Convenciones and PABEXPO, in Havana, Cuba.

We have a favorable experience from the previous 13 events and from having counted, in all of them, on the participation of prestigious national and international specialists; which have allowed for our gradual consolidation as an important forum for the scientific and professional interchange on this specialty in Latin America.

Full days, where we will share our achievements, our hopes; but mainly, the enormous riches of the multiple experiences linked to the application and development of the Information and Communication Technologies in the educational field.

Key-note conferences, panels, round tables and visits to Cuban university centers will be our working style; they will surround us, and this will be the best form of interchange. So, when the Congress will be over, we will keep to us the longing for all our good colleagues, with which we will establish bonds of collaboration and friendship, strengthening in this way the common work experience.
 
Because of all that, and confident that we will count on your attendance, we are sure that your participation will be, moreover, professional and humanely beneficial for the rest of the attendance.

Organizing Committee
President: PhD. Francisco Lee Torino
Executive secretary: Lic. Alicia Plasencia Vidal

Scientific Committee
President: PhD. Raúl Torricella Morales
Members:
-  MSc. Ana María Trottini (National University of Rosario, Argentina)
-  PhD. Luisa Noa (University of Havana)
-  MSc. Susana Copertari (National University of Rosario, Argentina)
-  PhD. Carlos Expósito (Ministry of Education of Cuba)
-  PhD. Susana Oceguera (Ministry of Education of Cuba)
-  PhD. Francisco Benítez (Ministry of Education of Cuba)
-  PhD. Vivian Estrada (Ministry of Higher Education MES)
-  PhD. Olga Lidia Martínez Leyet (University of Informatics Sciences. UCI)
-  PhD. Elsa Herrero (Polytechnic Institute "José Antonio Echeverría". CUJAE)
-  PhD. Antonio Díaz Batista (Polytechnic Institute "José Antonio Echeverría". CUJAE)

Topics
This Fourteenth edition is aimed to satisfy the academic interchange needs among teachers, professors, researchers, ITC professionals, administrative managers, librarians, editors, and information managers, related to education.

1.  Advanced Web applications in Education: the info-pedagogy as a tool helping to transform the curricular design through the intensive use of the Information and Communication Technologies with the aim to improve the learning process in diverse areas, the comprehension of concepts, the development of intellectual and other type of capacities in the students of different levels of education, from the primary up to the continuous education.

2.  The class’ Virtualization: the virtual environments for leaning, the virtual laboratories and the distance learning: applications on ways of class Virtualization, the use of teleformation platforms, the WebQuest use in the Web 2.0, etc.

3.  Computerization of the academic management and activity: Information and technological supports devoted to the development of academic networks: Software for Academic Management. Application of advanced protocols in education Ipv6, digital library in multimedia, telepresence, teleimmersion, and virtual reality, application of colaboratories in education, highly efficient computing systems (cluster and data centers) in the academic networks, etc.
 
4.  Contents and Knowledge Management: Development of the techno-social relations and the communication infrastructure aimed at raising the capacities of producing and spreading digital academic documents (scientific articles, text books and study guides, thesis and others), with the purpose of promoting the teaching-learning process in collaborative environments through the intensive use of the Information and Communication Technologies, the virtualization of university libraries and editorials. The intellectual propriety in the digital era, its particularities and case studies. The use of free software in the management of thematic and institutional repositories, edition and electronic publication systems. Open Educational Resources applications.

Collaborators
National University of Rosario, Argentina
E-Bookshop e-libro www.e-libro.com

Contact
e-Mail: inforedu@reduniv.edu.cu
Web site: www.inforedu.cu