PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 15-12-2009

Dear reader,

this is a release of the weekly PROLEARN Academy Newsletter. With this approach we wish to inform you respecting the news in PROLEARN Academy about which are the new added elements, which are the events organized for the next week and some information about the projects registered in PROLEARN Academy.

*** Upcoming events

3rd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle-East 2010: Bringing Global Quality to a Local Context Place: Dubai, Date: Feb 01, 2010 - Feb 04, 2010
The 4-day, 3rd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle-East 2010: Bringing Global Quality to a Local Context. This calls for presentations, keynote addresses and research work on ICT Innovations, e-Faculty, e-Training, m-Learning, e-Portfolios, Instructional Design, Digital Libraries, Learning Objects & Repositories, e-Learning Innovation, Content Development, etc. Apart from keynote addresses, coming from academic and corporate sectors, the forum will have interactive discussion forums, post-forum workshops, other interactive activities and networking opportunities, gala dinner and award ceremony to award Best Paper and Best presentation plaques to winners. The forum, as in tradition will end with announcement of the theme for the following forum.

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events

*** New Call For Papers

The Second International conference on Networks & Communications (NeCoM-2010)
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: Jan 15, 2010
The second International conference on Networks & Communications will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Computer Networks & Data Communications. The conference looks for significant contributions to the Computer Networks & Communications for wired and wireless networks in theoretical and practical aspects. Original papers are invited on computer Networks, network protocols and wireless networks, Data communication Technologies, and network security

The Third International Conference on Network Security & Applications (CNSA-2010)
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: Jan 15, 2010
The conference focuses on all technical and practical aspects of security and its applications for wired and wireless networks. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Modern security threats and countermeasures, and establishing new collaborations in these areas

The Second International Conference on Web & Semantic Technology (WeST-2010)
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: Jan 15, 2010
The Second International conference on Web services & Semantic technology will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of web & semantic technology. The growth of the World-Wide Web today is simply phenomenal. It continues to grow rapidly and new technologies, applications are being developed to support end users modern life.

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/cfps

*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure
Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1594 projects, of which 238 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 533 web sites, 74 mailinglists and 654 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 189608 for the feeds, of which 3414 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 4113 entries, of which 17 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 115558 entries, of which 461 last week and for the blogs there are 259842 entries, of which 373 last week.
The feed project with the highest activity level last week was Handelsblatt.com, with 1570 entries, 224 more than the top-project of the week before - Handelsblatt.com. The top mailinglist project last week was LM_NET: Library media specialist information exchange, with 257 entries, 56 less than the top-project of the week before - LM_NET: Library media specialist information exchange. The top blog project last week was Read/WriteWeb, with 49 entries, 31 less than the top-project of the week before - Read/WriteWeb.
There is additional information about the projects in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase
We are continuously enlarging our project database.