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II Workshop in Business, Economics & eLearning (BEeL 2014)

October 24, 2014, Barcelona (Spain)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 7, 2014

The workshop is intended to foster exchanges of ideas and experiences involving the field in which business and economics meet e-learning, a crossing of paths that encompasses the following subject areas:

The use of e-learning methods to teaching business and economics disciplines at any level of education:

• Developing interpersonal skills and other generic competences
• Learning quantitative subjects
• Working with synchronous communication
• Experience-based learning: work placements and projects in businesses; recognizing professional experience
• Simulator use
• Social network use
• Personalized e-feedback
• Teachers: profile, training and motivation
• Virtual teaching teams
• Quality assurance
• Tutor activity

E-learning in the world of business and organizations:

• E-learning for workplace-based employee training
• Embracing e-learning: barriers and facilitating factors
• Detecting needs and designing activities involving e-learning
• Managing e-learning in organizations
• The status of e-learning in specific sectors

The economics of e-learning:

• E-learning as a sector of activity
• The efficacy and efficiency of e-learning
• E-learning’s acceptance in the labour market
• E-learning’s contribution to development
• Managing virtual universities

The above list is by no means exhaustive. Papers on other topics within the general framework established are welcome.

The Organizing Committee wishes to receive abstracts of papers on theoretical or empirical work related to any of the areas in which business, economics and e-learning interact. Your abstract should be at least 500 and no more than 800 words long, and must include each author’s name and institution, a postal or an email address for correspondence, and a maximum of 5 keywords. Please use this for your abstract and submit it through .

Papers of a scientific nature will be assessed for publication in an academic journal in the field, which will be announced soons. Papers on innovations, best practices or case studies will be assessed for publication in Oikonomics, the journal of the UOC’s Economics and Business Studies Department.

Key dates

• – 7 Septembre 2014: Deadline for abstract submission
• – 15 September 2014: Notification of acceptance of papers
• – Up to 22 October 2014: Registration process