The IEEE international conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2012, will be held at IIIT-Hyderabad, India from July 18-20, 2012. It will provide a forum to bring together colleagues interested in promoting learning and teaching through the use of technology. Proposals are invited from students, teachers and researchers in academia and industry to present results of their research and development efforts in education through the use of technology and to discuss further directions. This is fourth in a series of annual conferences.The first three were held in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Chennai in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively.

Areas of Focus

The Conference is expected to have several sessions, jointly or in parallel, on the following themes:
Development of technologies used to support education
Innovative use of ICT for content development and classroom use
Pedagogies for remote learning and e-learning, blended learning and learning using technology
Assessment and evaluation of above technologies, content and pedagogies
Support systems for distance education, e-learning, blended learning
Mobile learning
Cognition and learning technologies
Growth and impact of the Open Educational Resources movement
Techniques and standards for accurate identification of relevant learning resources
Content repositories for teaching and learning and different methodologies for creation of social networks for group learning
Development of software to enhance learning
Semantic web technologies in education
Adaptive, cognitive and personalized approaches for improvement of education
Smart technologies in education
Impact of social networks on learning
Virtual/online experimentation and scalable solutions