TEL-CoPs’06 - the 1st International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning solutions for Communities of Practice (http://palette.cti.gr/workshops/telcops06.htm), was set up to promote and stimulate the exchange of knowledge on current research trends in technology enhanced learning solutions that aim at addressing the multiplicity and complexity of needs of Communities of Practice all along their lifecycle. 

The workshop aimed to bring together scientists and engineers who work on designing and/or developing the above solutions, as well as practitioners who evaluate them in diverse real environments. Particular interest was given to approaches that are built according to well-established pedagogical principles.

TEL-CoPs’06 was held in conjunction with EC-TEL’06 - the 1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (Crete, Greece, October 1-4, 2006). It was supported by and organized in the context of the PALETTE FP6 IST project (http://palette.ercim.org). Out of 22 initial submissions, 12 were accepted as full papers and 5 as position papers. All papers were blind-reviewed by at least 2 members of the workshop’s Program Committee. A volume of proceedings was prepared, which also includes the paper of Chris Kimble, our invited speaker, entitled “Communities of Practice: Never Knowingly Undersold”. The volume of proceedings is accessible at: http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS//Vol-213/paper33.pdf