Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on eLearning : ICEL 2012

This book represents the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on e-Learning.

The host university this year is The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and it is my pleasure to have the role of Programme Chair, with colleague Dr Victor Lee from The Hong Kong Management Association, who was Director of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at CUHK until January 2012, as Conference Chair.

The opening keynote address is given by Dr Gajaraj Dhanarajan from the Institute for Research and Innova-tion at Wawasan Open University in Penang, Malaysia. The topic of the presentation is “Open Educational Resources: A more Inclusive E-Learning Environment”. The second day will be opened by Dr David M Ken-nedy from the Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC), Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China. David will ad-dress the challenges of engaging students and staff in the effective use of mobile devices in higher educa-tion.

ICEL is a well-established platform for bringing together a wide range of stakeholders involved with the chal-lenges of e-Learning in a rapidly changing global society, including academics, innovators and practitioners interested in benefitting from, using and contributing to current research as well as professionals working in the private and public sector.

ICEL provides a space for the rigorous and stimulating sharing of ideas about e-Learning today. It is an op-portunity for the broader e-Learning community to meet and for overlapping communities of practitioners to join the lively e-Learning conversations. The range of papers will ensure an interesting two days.

With an initial submission of 187 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 59 aca-demic papers, 3 PhD papers, 1 non-academic paper and 5 work-in-progress papers published in these Con-ference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Lat-via, Malaysia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Romania, South Africa, Singapore, South Korea, Swaziland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, USA and Zimbabwe.

I hope that you have a stimulating and enjoyable conference.

Paul Lam

Programme Chair

Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

June 2012