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Best PhD Student Paper Award Given to Bahtijar Vogel at the 6th IEEE WMUTE Conference in Taiwan

17 of April, 2010 By: Marcelo Milrad

Bahtijar Vogel, PhD student at CeLeKT, has presented a long paper at the 6th IEEE International Conference WMUTE 2010 that took place on April 12th-16th in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Bato´s contribution (see reference below) has won the best PhD student paper award. Congratulations to Bato for this excellent achievement! Vogel, B., Spikol, D., Kurti, A, & Milrad, M. (2010). Integrating Mobile, Web and Sensory Technologies to Support Inquiry-Based Science Learning. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education WMUTE 2010 held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, April 12-16th, 2010.
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We at CeLeKT are very proud for getting for the 3rd time in less than one year the "best paper award" at an international conference. In July last year, PhD student Martin Svensson got the best paper award at the 9th IEEE ICALT 2009 Conference and Anna Wingkvist received the best PhD student paper award at mLearn 2009 that took place in Orlando, USA in October last year.

Broad CeLeKT presence at IEEE WMUTE 2010 in Taiwan

14 of April, 2010 By: Richard Guilfoyle

Gil, Pettersson, Svensson, Vogel, and Spikol are presenting five papers at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The team has two long papers and three short papers in the conference. The conference gives the chance for the team to share the research results from the Lets Go! and GeM project on an international level. Additionally, we are meeting up with colleagues from Lets GO! and discussing new research opportunities on a global scale. Keynote presentations from Sherry Tsi, Pierre Dillenborg, Gwo-Jen Hwang, and other renowned researchers. Additionally, the participation at WMUTE 2010 gives the team good insights about different research efforts happening around the globe.
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