2008 Global Conference on Educational Robotics

Call for Papers: Special Session on Research on Robotics in STEM Education

GCER is a unique conference which brings together researchers in both technology and education together with K-12 teachers and students. The conference is also host to the international Botball and Beyond Botball tournaments.

For the 2008 conference we are separating out the research track from the student and teacher paper tracks. The research track will go through a full paper peer review process. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be presented by the authors during the conference sessions. Authors will be required to grant copyright permission to KIPR in order for their paper to be published, however, authors will retain copyright to their work.

Papers are sought that describe new and original work in the areas of robotics related STEM education technology, pedagogy, assessment or methodology. Papers are limited to seven pages, including all figures and bibliography. Papers should be submitted through the GCER Paper Submission Site. Use the example paper as a formatting guide. LaTeX users should download the zip archive gcer-latex.

Important Dates:

• Paper submission deadline: local midnight April 30, 2008
• Paper acceptance notification: May 21, 2008
• Submission of Proceedings ready PDF files: local midnight June 10, 2008
• GCER 2008 Conference Dates: July 7-11, 2008.

General information about GCER is available at www.botball.org/current-season/GCER/

Questions about the Research Paper Track should be submitted to dpmiller at ou dot edu (David Miller).

Program Committee:

• David Ahlgren, Trinity College, Harvey Mudd College
• Zachary Dodds, Harvey Mudd College
• Dominique Duhaut, Universite de Bretagne Sud, France
• Hidenori Ishihara, Kagawa University, Japan
• David P. Miller (Chair), University of Oklahoma
• Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College
• Lynn Andrea Stein, Olin College
• Jerry Weinberg, University of Southern Illinois
• Igor Vernor, Technion University, Israel
• Charles Winton, University of North Florida