THE "DIALOGUE" SESSIONS

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This session-type is conceived in order to provide an innovative environment for the Conference participants’ “PROACTIVE GENERATIVE COLLABORATIVE LEARNING”, which is the main Conference meta-objective, and its innovative offer.

This type of session is “focused to enable the dialogue among participants”.

 

(No formal presentations)

Within these sessions, “there will be no formal paper presentations by the authors. Instead, there will be pre-organised, concise commentaries by one or two reviewers, followed by questions and answers, or discussions.

The participants will be asked to play the role(s) of reviewer and/or dialogue/discussion leader for one of the papers.

The role of reviewer consists of reading the paper, writing a concise critical commentary (one or two A4 pages) prior to the conference meeting, and presenting it in the plenary or allocated session.

The role of dialogue/discussion leader consists of urging questions and stimulating discussions following the review, the time-keeping, and creating a constructive atmosphere for dialogue.”

In other words, there will be “face-to-face” dialogue among author(s) and reviewer(s), and other participants (instead of “traditional” previous “blind” review of the papers before submitting the final version of the paper).

 

Evaluation of the papers submitted to the “dialogue” sessions

The papers submitted to the “dialogue” sessions will be previously evaluated by one reviewer from the “point of view” if the paper is acceptable by its overall quality for the Conference and the “dialogue” sessions. After acceptance, the paper will be reviewed usually by one reviewer who will present his review at the “dialogue” session during the Conference, and discussing it with the author(s) and other session participants.  

The author(s) will be notified firstly, on the acceptance of the paper for the “dialogue session” and secondly, about the reviewer(s) allocated for presenting the paper and the review(s) during the conference session.

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THE "AUTHOR'S FORMAL PRESENTATION" SESSIONS

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This type of the session is the well-known model: “traditional” formal presentations of the papers by the author(s).

This type of sessions consists of two parts:

1) The formal presentation of the paper by the author during 15-20 min; and

2) Questions by the session participants and the author’s answers, during, typically, 5-15 min.  

 

The group of formal presentations within one time slot is usually chaired by a Session Chairperson.

 

Evaluation of the papers submitted to the “formal presentation” sessions

The papers submitted to the “formal presentation” (traditional) sessions will be evaluated through the “double blind” review process by two reviewers, in order to decide on the paper acceptance, and in the (acceptance) positive case, to recommend improvements for the paper before submitting the final version.

Therefore, the authors will receive the reviews in due time in order to prepare and submit the final, improved version of the paper – please see the “IMPORTANT DATES”.

 

The evaluation of the papers will be based on the following criteria:

1. relevance to the conference theme and topics

2. originality of the research

3. practice quality

4. appropriateness of the methodology

5. contribution to the state of knowledge / scientific contribution

6. paper structure and clarity.  

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