Presentation made at the ICWL'13 conference dinner, Oct 8 2013

1. Meet the host of ICWL’14:
Tallinn University
Tallinn University, Centre for Educational Technology, 2013

2. Estonia: population 1.3 million
•1941-1991 in Soviet Union
•Since 2004: member of EU
•Since 2011 in Euro zone
Tallinn: population 0.4 million
•Medieval Old Town, 2 million
tourists annually
•Well connected, incl. ferries from
Helsinki, Stockholm
•IT industry, home of Skype
•Mid-August: short nights
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva road. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva road. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355

3. • Established in 2005 (or 1920)
• 3rd
largest public university in Estonia
• 10 000 students, 540 academic staff
• New campus in the city centre
• Specialisation: educational sciences,
humanities and languages, fine arts,
dance, cultural studies, law, business,
political sciences, natural sciences,
film and media, social sciences,
sports, health and recreation, IT,
library and information sciences
Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355

4. • Attending ICWL since 2009, local organisation of ICWL’14
• Est.1996 in the Faculty of Educational Sciences
• Since 2005: R&D unit within the Institute of Informatics
Staff: 25 researchers, incl. 10 from abroad (Germany,
Austria, Portugal, Italy, Cape Verde, Jordan, Georgia)
Focus: education + technology
• R&D projects in Technology-Enhanced Learning, HCI
• MA programmes: HCI (in English) and Educ. Technology
• PhD programme ‘Information Society Technologies’
• Labs: Apple RTC lab, Interaction Design (IxD) lab, digital
safety lab
Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355

5. Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355
Prof. David Lamas
PhD
Prof. Tobias Ley
Phd

6. Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355
Kai Pata
PhD, Senior
researcher
Terje Vä ljataga
PhD, researcher

7. Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355
Mart Laanpere
researcher
Sonia Sousa
PhD, researcher

8. Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355
Vladimir Tomberg
researcher
Hans Põldoja
researcher

9. Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355
Kairit Tammets
researcher
Martin Sillaots
researcher

10. Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355

12. • Deadline for papers, posters, demos, workshops: Feb 1
• Camera-ready papers submitted by May 8
• Papers to be published in Springer LNCS (pending)
• Posters will be published online (ISBN, TLU)
• General co-chairs: Howard Leung, Mart Laanpere
• Programme co-chairs: Elvira Popescu, Rynson Lau, Kai
Pata
• Panel co-chairs: Ralf Klamma, Weijia Jia
• Workshop co-chairs: Yiwei Cao, Terje Vä ljataga
• Local organisation: Kairit Tammets
Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355

13. See you in Tallinn, in August 2014!

14. E-mail: mart.laanpere@tlu.ee
Skype: martlaa
Phone: (+372) 640 9355
Webpage: http://htk.tlu.ee
Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355