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this is a call for participation:
Submission by June 29, 2008
Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology-Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL’08)
in
the 3rd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL08)
Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 17, 2008
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/sirtel/
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IMPORTANT DATES

· Submission: June 29, 2008
· Results Notification: July 15, 2008
· Camera Ready Submission: August 31, 2008
· Workshop date: September 17, 2008
· Main conference dates: September 18-19, 2008

CALL FOR WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS

After the successful first SIRTEL workshop last year, we are delighted to welcome
exciting new contributions for the 2nd Social Information Retrieval for Technology-
Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL) workshop:
· Research papers
· System demos
· Hands-on proposals
· “Pecha Kucha” talks

RATIONALE

Learning and teaching resources are available on the Web – both in terms of digital learning
content and people resources (e.g. other learners, experts, tutors). They can be used to
facilitate teaching and learning tasks. The remaining challenge is to develop, deploy and
evaluate Social Information Retrieval (SIR) methods, techniques and systems that provide
learners and teachers with guidance in a potentially overwhelming variety of choices.

The aim of the SIRTEL’08 workshop is to look onward beyond recent achievements to discuss
specific topics, emerging research issues, new trends and endeavors in SIR for Technology
Enhanced Learning (TEL). The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to
present, and more importantly,to discuss the current status of research in SIR and TEL and
its implications for science and teaching.

TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to):

Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and Social Information Retrieval (SIR) techniques such as:
· Recommender systems
· Social collaborative searching, browsing and sharing of queries
· Social network analysis
· Game-theoretic approaches to select learning materials and learning partners in the long tail
· Social bookmarking and tagging, folksonomies
· Annotations, ratings and evaluations

Concepts for Social Information Retrieval (SIR)
· Defining the scope, purpose and objects of social information retrieval in TEL
· Defining user requirements for the deployment of SIR systems in a learning setting
· Current and new trends in SIR methods for TEL
· Approaches to TEL metadata that reflect social ties and collaborative experiences
in the field of education
· Analytical modelling of strategic intentions in TEL communities
· Interoperability of SIR systems for TEL

Implementation of SIR in TEL
· Methods and models of SIR in the area of learning and teaching
· Social processes and metaphors in learning communities and social networks for searching
acquiring and sharing information
· Pedagogical aspects of SIR in TEL; how to scaffold students, activity patterns, etc.
Integrating SIR services in existing learning platforms
· Visualisation techniques to support SIR in TEL
· Successful scaffolding techniques for SIR implementation

Evaluation of SIR in TEL
· Ideas on how can we get more empirical on evaluation
· Best practices
· Evaluation of the success and acceptance of SIR systems in the context of teaching,
learning and/or TEL community building
· Challenges and enablers
· Evaluating the performance and measuring the effectiveness of SIR systems in learning applications
· Evaluation the user satisfaction with SIR system in supporting learning and teaching, etc.

WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS

The workshop invites several types of contributions which allow a wide level of participation:
· Research papers (upto 8 pages)
· System Demos (upto 2 pages)
· Hands-On proposals (1-pager)
· Abstract for Pecha Kucha style presentation (5min)

Papers are to be submitted to: https://togather.eu/handle/123456789/274
Accepted papers will be published online as EC-TEL workshop proceedings
as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series.

The two best papers of the workshop will be published in a special issue of
the International Journal of Technology-Enhanced Learning (IJTEL)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtel

All questions and submissions should be sent to: sirtel @ cs.kuleuven.be

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBC)

· Alexander Felfernig, University of Klagenfurt, Germany
· Brandon Muramatsu, Utah State University, USA
· Clemens Cap, University of Rostock, Germany
· Hendrik Drachsler, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
· Frans van Assche, European Schoolnet, Belgium
· Fridolin Wild, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
· Lisa Petrides, ISKME, USA
· Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Germany
· Markus Strohmaier, Technical University of Graz, TBC
· Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer, Germany
· Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain
· Nikos Manouselis. Greek Research & Technology Network, Greece
· Selmin Nurcan, University of Paris 1, France
· Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
· Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland – TBC
· John Dron, Athabasca University, Canada – TBC
· Rick D. Hangartner, MyStrands, USA – TBC
· Oliver Bohl, Accenture GmbH, TBC
· Martin Memmel, DFKI, TBC

ORGANISERS

* Riina Vuorikari, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) & European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
* Barbara Kieslinger, Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Austria
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
* Prof. Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Belgium & ARIADNE Foundation

ABOUT EC-TEL08

Times of convergence: Technologies across learning contexts
In this age of pedagogical and technological convergence, the two European Networks of
Excellence are also converging. After the two successful EC-TEL conferences organized
in 2006 and 2007 by the ProLearn network, this third edition conveys an explicit invitation
to all researchers across any network and outside any network and intends to offer
a large platform to research across Europe.

17. – 19. September 2008, Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Together with the PALETTE project we are going to organise a Symposium at the ED-MEDIA 2008 conference.

The symposium is titled “How social is my personal learning environment (PLE)” and we would like to discuss the learning impacts of personalization on the adoption of social software and the consolidation of the sense of belonging to a community. In total, we will have eight individual papers of colleagues from Finland, Estonia, Switzerland, Austria, Uk, Greece, Luxembourg, and Canada.

One paper contribution will be focusing on findings from the iCamp trials.

The symposium coordinators are Barbara Kieslinger and Denis Gillet from EPFL.

At the second TENCompetence Winter School in Innsbruck, Austria (February 18.-22., 2008) Terje Väljataga and Martin Sillaots organised a round table session titled “Social software in learning” to discuss different examples of social software applications in higher education.

From January 28th to February 1st, 2008, Sebastian Fiedler and Terje Väljataga took part in an International School on Educational Research in Jyväskylä, Finland. This event was organised by the Finnish Doctoral Programme for Multidisciplinary Research on Learning Environments in collaboration with the Dutch ICO.

The iCamp consortium held a three-days project meeting (14-16th of February) in winterly Istanbul, Turkey. The meeting was focused on the third iCamp validation trial, strategic planning for the last project year, and dissemination activities. Facilitators from Croatia, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Finland joined the meeting to discuss details of the third field trial.

On December 20. the review meeting of iCamp’s second year of project work took place in Vienna, Austria, at the Centre for Social Innovation.

External reviewers were Graham Attwell and Prof.Dr. Vladan Devedzic. The meeting was headed by the European Commission project officer Martin Majek.

The TENCompetence Winter School is considered as an intense training and collaboration on the core topics related to the TENCompetence project (http://www.tencompetence.org), building the European Network for lifelong competence development.

 

The first Winter School (http://www.tencompetence.org/node/116) received a positive feedback from the attendees. The main theme of the second one will be Personal Competence Development. The programme includes lectures and hands-on sessions from leading experts in the field. The School offers enough space for interactive sessions, informal discussions, group work, and students’ presentations. The ambition is to stimulate emergence of communities of practice and learning networks as well as to support joint research opportunities.

 

PhD students and other interested people from the PRO-LC Cluster as well as from outside are invited to participate and become part of the TENCompetence research community.

TOPICS

Personal Competence Management

Web 2.0 Style Competence Development in Communities of Practice

Increasing Global Organizational Competence

Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning

Simulation & Game Based Learning

Digital Identity Management

Personalization in E-learning

Knowledge Representation & Authoring in Adaptive Education

Specification & Use of Policies

Instructional Design

Sales Process Application of Competence Frameworks

Evaluating Personal Competence Management

Evaluation of Knowledge Management Systems

Personal Competence Manager (PCM)

Integrating Your Software with the PCM Services

 

LECTURERS

 

Albert Angehrn, INSEAD, France
Chris Kew, University of Bolton, United Kingdom
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Rob Koper, Open University, the Netherlands
Milos Kravcik, Open University, the Netherlands
Ruud Lemmers, LogicaCMG, the Netherlands
Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Linda Napoletano, Giunti Labs, Italy
Ambjörn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Daniel Olmedilla, L3S, Germany
Judith Schoonenboom, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Henk Sligte, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Martin Smith, CAPDM, United Kingdom
Marcus Specht, Open University, the Netherlands
Scott Wilson, University of Bolton, United Kingdom
Iwan Wopereis, Open University, the Netherlands

 

ORGANISATION

 

Milos Kravcik, Open University, the Netherlands

Christian Glahn, Open University, the Netherlands

Marcus Specht, Open University, the Netherlands

Wolfgang Greller, Open University, the Netherlands

Mieke Haemers, Open University, the Netherlands

 

VENUE

 

The winter school will take place nearby Innsbruck, an internationally renowned winter sport centre in western Austria. The participants will stay in the Tiroler Bildungsinstitut – Grillhof: http://www.tirol.gv.at/themen/bildung/einrichtungen/grillhof

 

COST

 

EUR 500 (including accommodation and meals, excluding traveling expenses). TENCompetence is not allowed to provide any grants to

external students. The School encourages especially the project partners of the PRO-LC Cluster (http://www.professional-learning-cluster.org) to enable their members attending the event and support exchange of knowledge among these closely related projects in this way.

 

APPLICATIONS

 

The winter school is intended for PhD students and other researchers investigating the issues related to lifelong competence development and technology enhanced learning. People are invited to submit applications to milos.kravcik at ou.nl. The application should include a Curriculum Vitae and an abstract describing the research objective. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2007. The school will be limited to 40 participants.

iCamp team members Kai Pata and Sebastian Fiedler contributed to a Symposium titled “Getting beyond centralized technologies in higher education” at this year’s Ed-Media conference in Vancouver, Canada.

Additional contributors were Brian Lamb, University of British Columbia, Canada; George Siemens, University of Manitoba, Canada; Rob Fitzgerald, University of Canberra, Australia; and Scott Wilson, University of Bolton, UK.

Altogether, the symposium was rather well received and spurred some lively discussion.

Brian Lamb published a condensed summary of the session on his Weblog abject learning.

Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning EC-TEL’2007 will take place in Crete, Greece on 17-20 September.

Some of the iCampers will take part in the Annual EDEN conference “NEW LEARNING 2.0?” that will take place in Naples on 13-16 June, 2007 . The paper prepared by 1st Trial facilitators was accepted for conference proceedings.

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