International Conference on ICT Integration in Technical Education

The 5th International Conference on ICT Integration in Technical Education (ETLTC) to be hosted at the University of Aizu in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan. The event will be hosted and partially funded by THE UNIVERSITY OF AIZU, and sponsored by the ETLTC and the ACM Chapter on Elearning and Technical Communication. Information Communications Technology (ICT) has an important role to play in science and technology teaching. Rapid developments in hardware and software technology mean that a great deal .. continue reading is now possible, yet there remains a considerable gap between the aspirations of experts and the realities of the classroom. ICT can provide access to a huge range of resources that are of high quality and relevant to scientific learning. ICT also allows teachers with different teaching styles to modify materials and the way they are used in different and effective ways. ICT can improve the quality of data available to students. ​Research calls for adopting a multidisciplinary design approach when developing ICT interventions and proposes employing a user-centered design framework as a tool to help achieve higher user acceptance and efficient information transfer. That's why this conference draws on educators from different technical disciplines who integrate ICT in different ways in their pedagogy and research. ICT integration is defined as the use of ICT to introduce, reinforce, supplement and extend skills (Pisapia, 1994). ICT integration has been attracting a great deal of interest among researchers in professional development communities and human-computer interaction circles. ​With special sessions, this international conference will also aim to draw on researchers to provide a rich discussion of emerging information and communications technology (ICT) -led innovations in the academic fields of artificial intelligence, technical communication, machine learning, analytics, and computer vision.