3rd International Workshop on Evidence Based and User Centred Technology Enhanced Learning (ebuTEL'13)

CALL FOR PAPERS 

3rd International Workshop on Evidence Based and User Centred Technology Enhanced Learning (ebuTEL'13)

co-located with the CHItaly 2013 Conference                    

http://ebutel.usal.es

16th September, 2013

Trento, Italy

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:  July 26th, 2013
Acceptance notification:  August 23rd, 2013
Final version submission:  September 9th, 2013
Conference dates:  September 16th, 2013

SCOPE

The design of accessible, usable and pedagogically effective Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) products requires solid empirical evidence and the involvement of real users. This workshop seeks contributions that describe how empirical evidence or the involvement of real users in the design process allow TEL researchers to produce accessible, usable and pedagogically effective TEL products.

The workshop will build on the experience matured within the evidence based TEL workshops (ebTEL), see <http://ebtel.usal.es/>. The ebuTEL workshop welcomes papers that describe TEL work the efficacy of which rests on empirical evidence, as well as contributions that report on TEL solutions designed with and for specific types of users, e.g., users with special needs. ebuTEL also welcomes contributions to TEL from contiguous research areas like smart cities, cognitive systems and robotics, technologies for digital content and languages, inclusion and governance, creativity and learning. Expected participants are TEL researchers and practitioners alike. 

The meeting will be held in Trento (Italy) on September 16th 2013, in parallel with the CHItaly 2013 Conference.

TOPICS AND KEYWORDS
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

-Evidence and user based personalisation, user modelling and adaptation in TEL;

-Evidence and user based games and game learning for TEL;

-Knowledge representation and reasoning for TEL;

-Knowledge management for TEL;

-Semantic web for TEL;

-Web 2.0 and social learning environments for TEL;

-Natural language processing for TEL;

-Effective teaching techniques and strategies for TEL;

-TEL case studies;

-Evaluation guidelines, methodologies and methods for TEL;

-Usability guidelines, methodologies and methods for TEL;

-Accessibility guidelines, methodologies and methods for TEL;

-TEL for users with special needs;

-Sharing and interoperability between TEL systems;

- Smart TEL environments.

EXPECTED PARTICIPANTS
The ebuTEL workshop invites contributions in the area of TEL, both from computer science as well as evidence-based medicine, educational psychology and pedagogy. Researchers from these areas and education stakeholders are all expected contributors or participants. The organising committee will particularly encourage the participation of stakeholders and researchers in the educational or TEL field so as to foster the sharing of best practices in the field, and disseminate the research progress in the educational context.

SUBMISSION DETAILS
We invite the submission of papers (max. 8 pages in Springer format) reporting original research, not previously published, relevant to the workshop's themes.
All submissions will be carefully reviewed by an international program committee. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least two experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.

As a reference, the proceedings of the ebTEL editions are available via Springer at <http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-642-28800-5>.

PRESENTATION AND POST-PROCEEDING PUBLICATION
All the accepted papers will be presented during the workshop. At least one of the authors will be required to register for the workshop and to present the paper therein for being eligible for a publication in the workshop post-proceedings for the Springer in the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (AISC) series.

After the workshop, the ebuTEL participants will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for the AISC post-proceeding. 

 STEERING COMMITTEE
- Fernando De la Prieta - University of Salamanca (Spain)

- Tania Di Mascio - University of l'Aquila (Italy)

- Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
- Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of l'Aquila (Italy)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be extended)
- Mohammad Alrifai - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
- Anthony Baldry - University of Messina (Italy)
- Ulrike Cress - University of Tübingen (Germany)
- Giovanni De Gasperis - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
- Juan Francisco De Paz - University of Salamanca (Spain)
- Dina Di Giacomo - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
- Gabriella Dodero - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
- Peter Dolog - Aalborg University (Denmark)
- Erik Duval - Katholike Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
- Wild Fridolin - Open University of the UK (UK)
- Ana Belén Gil - University of Salamanca (Spain)
- Oscar Gil - University of Salamanca (Spain)
- Eelco Herder - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
- Ralf Klamma - RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
- Ralf Krestel - University of California (Irvine - USA)
- Katherine Maillet - Telecom Ecole de Management (France)
- Wolfgang Nejdl - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
- Stefano Necozione - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
- Emanuele Pianta - FBK-irst (Italy)
- Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova (Romania)
- Sara Rodríguez - University of Salamanca (Spain)
- Mario Rotta - Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
- Maria Grazia Sindoni - University of Messina (Italy)
- Marcus Specht - Open University of the Netherlands (Netherlands)
- Sara Tonelli - FBK-irst (Italy)
- Carolina Zato - University of Salamanca (Spain)

CONTACTS
Tania Di Mascio and Fernando de la Prieta Pintado
Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of L'Aquila

Department of Computers and Automation, Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca
ebutel@usal.es

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ebuTEL has been launched under the collaborative frame provided by the TERENCE project (http://www.terenceproject.eu/). The TERENCE project, n. 257410, is funded by the European Commission through the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, Strategic Objective ICT- 2009.4.2: ICT: Technology-enhanced learning.

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Deadline Extension - ECSCW Workshop Models and their Role in Collaboration (MoRoCo 2013)

Call for Papers, Extended Deadline:

Workshop "MoRoCo - Models and their Role in Collaboration" at ECSCW 2013

http://moroco2013.wordpress.com

---Important Dates---

July 07: Paper submission ***** new deadline *****
July 31: Acceptance notification
August 9: Early registration deadline for ECSCW 2013

---Organizers---

Alexander Nolte, Michael Prilla; University of Bochum, Germany Peter Rittgen; BorÂs University, Sweden Stefan Oppl; Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria

---Workshop Content---

Using visual representations of work or business processes can be considered a common practice in modern organizations. These models serve a large variety of different purposes such as documentation of current practices, or informing and planning change or software development. Given the nature of work and businesses they reflect it is reasonable to develop and use them collaboratively. There are, however, also many downsides to collaborative model usage and development in current practice. Among others, models are often not fully understood and are thus not used by people who work in the processes the models represent, resulting in limited impact of process redesigns on everyday work. Furthermore, only a minority of people within organizations actually use, even though they have been proven to be very useful especially for collaborative work. Given the increasing popularity of models in organizations, understanding and defining their role in collaboration is of vital interest for the CSCW community and therefore this workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners and forming a community for research in this area.

In this workshop we want to bring together researchers, lecturers and practitioners from different fields, who are interested in the collaborative usage and development and sustainment of structured visual representations such as process models, conceptual models or mind maps. This includes experiences from empirical case studies, teaching and the introduction of models and modeling into organizations. Furthermore the workshop also welcomes contributions describing research upon understanding the way models are used in organizations, coupled with activities and artifacts of everyday work and their role in collaborative work. The workshop will also host a special demo track where systems supporting collaboration on and with models can be presented.

---Topics---

The overall goal of the workshop is to build a large picture of research on the role that models play in collaborative work including their usage and sustainment as well as their development in order to set up a common research agenda among the participants. The topics of the workshop thus include but are not restricted to:
- The process of cooperative modeling: design cycles, model negotiation, view integration, roles of participants in modeling, team organization, etc.
- Sustaining model usage and maintenance in organizations
- Motivating involvement and active usage of models
- Involving non-experts in model development and usage
- Increasing the range of involvement: from core stakeholders to all stakeholders
- Coupling models with activities and entities of work
- Roles of models for collaboration e.g. guides / maps
- Models as instruments for consensus building
- The role of models in spanning inter or intra organizational boundaries
- Integrating visual modeling and model dialogues in natural language
- ìMetaî-modeling: structuring the dialogue around models
- Access to models: Creating a model friendly cooperation environment
- Alignment of different understandings about collaborative work during modeling
- Empirical evidence for positive effects of modeling and model use


---Submission---

We will accept contributions in two different formats:

- Research papers such as reports of empirical studies, research in progress and position papers which may not exceed 8 pages.
- Demo papers describing systems for collaboration on and with models which may not exceed 3 pages. As there will be a special track during the workshop upon these systems we expect you to bring your system or a poster to the workshop.

All contributions have to be formatted according to the ECSCW formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moroco2013).

Author kits and paper templates are available at the ECSCW website (http://www.ecscw2013.org).

The selection process will be a double blind review through an international program committee.

All accepted paper will be published electronically at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Means for further publications of the results are currently in the planning and will be reported on the workshop website once agreements with journal editors have been reached.

The papers of the previous workshop on "Collaborative usage and development of models and visualization" at ECSCW 2011 are available online at http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-777/. Selected papers from the workshop will be published in the next few months in a special issue of the International Journal for eCollaboration.

For more and up to date information on the workshop please visit the workshop
website: http://moroco2013.wordpress.com


---Program committee---

Christian Bartelt, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Eike Bernhard, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Sebastian Döweling, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany Benjamim Fonseca, UTAD / INESC TEC, Portugal Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stephan Lukosch, TU Delft, Netherlands Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Hajo Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands EtiÎnne Rouwette, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria


---Venue---

The ECSCW 2013 conference will be held at the Coral Beach Hotel and Resort in Paphos, Cyprus from 21 to 25 September 2013. ECSCW is a bi-annual, international conference series. Since 1989, it has engaged researchers and scholars from academia and industry with high quality presentations and intense discussions (www.ecscw.org). ECSCW is interested in cooperative settings in the workplace, in everyday life, and the civic society, and across boundaries between these spheres of life. Submissions should address the unfolding practices of everyday work and life, and the application of computing technologies in these practices. Papers may also focus on design of such technologies or on historical accounts of use. With design is meant processes, methods, and outcoming artifacts. ECSCW solicits reports reflecting a rich variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including field studies and participatory approaches.

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4th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2014)

First Call for Papers

LAK 2014

The 4th International Conference 

on Learning Analytics & Knowledge

24-28 March 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

http://lakconference.org

Conference theme: Intersection of learning analytics research, theory and
practice The International Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference is now
in its fourth year! LAK 14 will keep up the momentum generated in the earlier
meetings as we continue to define who we are as a community and how our
research can inform the important decisions facing education today. We are
experiencing conditions that create a "perfect storm" for making analytics
vitally important for supporting learning in our information age. Not only do
we know more about the basic processes involved in learning, the explosion of
online technology platforms and services provide new opportunities for learning
and generate new forms of data about those processes. Coupled with increasing
societal demands to make learning more accessible and effective for all, we
need scholarly research to ensure that advances in learning technologies and
practices benefit society as a whole. Advances in analytics, data mining and
data visualization promise a way forward for making sense of the massive
amounts of data available so that we can thoughtfully inform learners,
educators, and policy makers.  The location for the conference this year,
Indianapolis, is called "The City at the Crossroads of America."  Accordingly,
the theme for LAK 14 focuses on the crossroads, or intersection, of basic
research on learning, learning theory, and educational practice. We invite
papers that address at least one of these foci, but especially encourage
submissions that demonstrate how they fit together in ways that make our work
relevant to improving learning for people of all ages, leverage the
technologies available to today's learners, and scalable within the many places
where learning occurs. To accomplish these goals, we seek theoretically
motivated papers that utilize analytics to provide direction for understanding
and supporting learning.

TOPICS

LAK 2014 is seeking contributions in a wide variety of topics. The overarching
topic is how data can be used to improve any aspect of a learning
experience. As a guidance, the conference will consider any of the following
topics (authors are strongly encouraged to read the instructions on the
conference web site): Analytic approaches, methods, and tools for sense-making
in learning analytics.  Theories and theoretical concepts for understanding
learning.  Measures of learning, change and Success.  Learning activities,
applications, and interventions.  Issues in learning analytics such as ethics,
cultural transitions, capacity building, etc.  These topics can be studied in a
variety of learning scenarios whether: formal or informal; face-to-face,
blended, or online settings. Proposals are welcome from any various application
domains be it primary and secondary schools, higher education, corporate
workplace or learning in governmental, military, health or commercial
situations. Focus may be on distance or graduate education, mobile and
ubiquitous learning, online communities, to name a few.

SUBMISSION TYPES AND FORMAT

The conference accepts the following type of submissions:
  - Full papers: 10 pages.
  - Short papers: 5 pages.
  - Panel proposals: 4 pages plus 2 separated pages with information about the
    confirmed panelists.
  - Workshop proposals: 2 pages.
  - Tutorial proposals: 2 pages (will not be included in the proceedings).
  - Tool demonstrations: 2 pages.
  - Posters: 2 pages.

All documents must follow the ACM Proceedings Format. Please check the
conference website for detailed author instructions for each type of
submission. Submissions will be received and processed with EasyChair. The
conference proceedings will include all accepted conference submissions except
tutorial proposals and workshop papers.  The conference will also include a
doctoral consortium, the details of which will be available soon.

BEST PAPER AWARD

The three full papers that obtain the highest scores from the reviewers will be
"nominees for the best paper award".  A committee composed by the program
chairs of the current and past edition of the conference will choose the "best
paper award" among the nominees. Both the nominees and the best paper award
will be reflected in the proceedings.

RELEVANT DATES

  - 21 October 2013: Deadline for full/short papers, panel proposals, workshop
    proposals, tutorial proposals, demonstrations and posters (no extension
    will be considered).
  - 11 November 2013: Notification of acceptance for workshop and tutorial
    proposals.
  - 16 December 2013: Notification of acceptance for full/short papers, panel
    proposals, demonstrations and posters.
  - 3 February 2014: Final version of accepted papers due.
  - 24-28 March 2014: Conference.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER

Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) - http://www.solaresearch.org

General Chairs

  - Matthew Pistilli, Purdue University, IN, USA
  - James Willis, Purdue University, IN, USA
  - Drew Koch, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate
    Education, NC, USA
  - Kimberly Arnold, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA

Program Chairs

  - Stephanie Teasley, University of Michigan, MI, USA
  - Abelardo Pardo, The University of Sydney, Australia

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs

  - Kalina Yacef, The University of Sydney, Australia
  - Hendrik Drachsler, Center for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open
    University Netherlands

Demonstrations and Posters Chairs

  - Zach Pardos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
  - Anna de Liddo, The Open University, UK

Social Media Chair

  - Sean Goggins, Drexel University

Webmaser Chair

  - Krista Galyen, University of Missouri, MO, USA

Publicity Chairs

  - Jenni Swenson, Lake Superior College, MN, USA
  - Tricia Leggett, Zane State College, OH, USA

Local Chair

  - James Willis, Purdue University, IN, USA

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Special Issue on Digital Scholarship - IJDL

International Journal of Digital Libraries

Special Issue on Digital Scholarship

Digital scholarship, or "cyberscholarship" - that based on data and computation - is radically reshaping knowledge discovery, creation, analysis, presentation and dissemination in many topical areas. Scientists are using vast amounts of data to explore galaxies, measure stresses on earth systems, create genetic profiles of living things and study the changing behaviors and mores of societies and individuals in a an increasing populated and fragile physical world steeped in networked digital technologies.  Similarly, humanists are using new types of information objects, methodologies and tools to transform and expand their scholarly endeavors.  Examples include the creation and use of digital representations of material culture by historians, introducing spatial and temporal indexed data into the study of literature and information visualizations to communicate the outcomes of traditional humanistic inquiry.

The enabling environment for digital scholarship is a rapidly expanding global digital ecology composed of large and diverse datasets, richly annotated.globally linked, and accessible to all using open source tools.  Accompanying technology changes have been trends within scholarly communities toward rich informal dialogues, cross-disciplinary collaborations and equable sharing of research findings.

Data-centered approaches to inquiry have now become a staple of research and scholarship in almost every disciplinary domain. Accompanying this have been cultural shifts in the scholarly community that challenge long-standing assumptions that underpin the structure of academic institutions and beg new models of scholarly communication.  Network-centric models of scientific communication that capture a comprehensive record of scholarly workflows are now seen by many as a necessary condition for accurate and complete reporting of scholarly work.

Much of the seminal work in developing the information environments and resources that support digital scholarship can be linked directly to digital libraries research ­ past and present.  Pioneering digital libraries research illuminated essential core information architectures and environments and inspired a generation of researchers to look beyond the confines of their own discipline and often partner with others to pursue interdisciplinary projects ­ many of which captured national attention and captivated the general public with their brilliance.

This special issue will solicit high quality papers that demonstrate exceptional achievements in digital scholarship, including but not limited to:

o    scholarly work that demonstrates innovation in the creation and use of complex information objects and tools to advance domain scholarship
o    domain research that exemplifies creative and innovative data-intensive research in the formal, natural, social sciences and the humanities and arts
o    new applications, tools and services that expand the scope and means for interdisciplinary digital scholarship
o    data repositories and infrastructure projects of exceptional quality and value that illustrate how community-based efforts can serve global constituencies
o    models for leveraging and expanding web-based infrastructure for scholars
o    document models that support multiple information types, update, annotation, executable objects, linkages, rapid integration and staged release of document components
o    scholarly communication models that capture a comprehensive record of research and provide new means of presentation, dissemination and reuse

Important Dates
November 30, 2013                Paper Submission deadline
March 1, 2014                First notification
May 1, 2014                    Revision submission
July 1, 2014                    Second notification
September 1, 2014                Final version submission

Guest Editors
Stephen M. Griffin, University of Pittsburgh (contact person)
Stefan Gradmann, University of Leuven

Editorial Board:
Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
Elizabeth Lyon, University of Bath, UKOLN
William Arms, Cornell
Christine Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles (tentative yes)
Tom Moritz, Consultant
Michael Buckland, University of California, Berkeley

Paper Submission
Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/607 Please select ³Special Issue² under Manuscript Category of your submission. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on its website provided above. Papers will be reviewed following the journal standard review process.

Please address inquiries to sgriffin@pitt.edu.

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Open PhD position @ Web Engineering Group, TU/e, The Netherlands

Open 4-year PhD position @ Web Engineering Group, TU/e

We offer a 4-year full-time PhD research position in the WiBAF project (Within-Browser Adaptation Framework) situated on the crossroads of the Adaptive Hypermedia, Data Mining and User Modeling areas. The project is funded by the Data Science research center of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.
The research will be conducted at the Information Systems Group, Department of Computer Science.

RESEARCH PROJECT AND TASK DESCRIPTION
Personalized information systems will undergo dramatic changes in the near future, caused in part by rising privacy concerns (and
legislation) and in part by the need to distribute the computation involved in generating recommendations and performing adaptation.

In Web-based information systems data mining techniques are applied to model user intent, preferences or current context and thus facilitate data-driven personalization. Such data-driven user modeling has been heavily used already in recommender systems that employ content-based and collaborative filtering, and in search engines with personalized or context-aware ranking of organic search results or ad placement.
In the area of personalization and adaptation of content, interaction and navigation, with applications in e.g. e-learning and e-culture, either hand-crafted adaptation rules or semantically rich databases have been used as the basis for deciding how to perform personalization.

The main objective for the PhD student in WiBAF project is to investigate how to bring these two currently distinct and to a large extent isolated approaches to personalization, i.e. purely hand-crafted and purely data-driven, together to perform within-site or even within-page adaptation based on both the analysis of user behavior and background knowledge of a certain domain.

One of the concrete targets is defining, studying and implementing a complete framework including a generic language for expressing adaptation and for generating client-side code that performs this within-browser adaptation, based on local client-side user model and global adaptation knowledge available at the server-side.

The framework should enable meta-adaptation which continuously adapts (updates) the adaptation process as user behavior changes.
This makes use of research into the topics of explore-exploit trade-off in adaptive information systems like recommenders, context-awareness and recurrent concept drift in data mining.

It is expected that the PhD candidate will be involved in the complete R&D cycles including theory, framework and techniques development; implementation of the software prototypes; and experimentation with real use cases that are facilitated by the industrial collaborator - Digital Innovations Lab of the Web analytics company Adversitement B.V.

PROFILE
We are looking for highly motivated applicants with a Master degree in Computer Science or other related disciplines.
(Candidates expecting to graduate by August 2013 are also eligible to apply.) You are expected to have good knowledge and at least some experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Adaptive hypermedia, personalization and user modeling,
- Data mining/machine learning/pattern recognition,
- Recommender systems and/or (personalized) information retrieval,
- Web technology

Successful candidates are expected to posses
- Good analytical and software development skills,
- Good command of spoken and written English,
- Good communication skills and willingness to collaborate with other researchers and developers having diverse computer science background,
- Experience with writing research papers and technical reports is a plus.

SETTINGS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
This is a fixed term 4-year full-time fully funded PhD research position with a formal evaluation after the first year.

The PhD candidate will be guided by prof. dr. Paul De Bra (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~debra/) and dr. Mykola Pechenizkiy (http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/).

You will also collaborate with other researchers of the Information Systems group working on related projects, e.g. STW CAPA project (http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/projects/capa/), participate in the Dutch national research school
SIKS: School for Information and Knowledge Systems (http://www.siks.nl/) and get an opportunity to go for a visiting research/do an internship at R&D labs abroad.

Digital Innovations Lab of the Dutch company Adversitement B.V. (http://www.adversitement.nl/) is teaming up with TU/e to contribute to the development of the foundations and generic technology for on-site within browser or within page adaptation. adaptation. PhD student is expected to spend one day a week collaborating with their researchers and developers, particularly with dr. David Smits (nl.linkedin.com/pub/david-smits/6/287/768).

The conditions of employment are according to Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. The gross salary is € 2062 during the first year, increasing to € 2638 in the fourth year.

HOW TO APPLY
Applications including:
- Motivation letter explaining your interest in the proposed research field;
- Curriculum Vitae;
- Copies of diplomas (MSc or equivalent) and other relevant certificates (like MOOC courses);
- A complete list of attended courses and corresponding grades;
- A copy or a link to your master thesis;
- Some evidence of your proficiency in English;
- Names and contact details of two references willing to provide recommendations;

should be submitted electronically at https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/TUE/vacancy/18628/apply/.
Applications without included motivation letter are not likely to be considered. Selected candidates will be invited for an interview on Skype and/or on site.

The deadline for submitting applications is August 25th, 2013. However, the screening process will start by the end of June 2013 and continue until the position is filled. Therefore, it is advisable to apply asap.
Candidates must be available to start working in this position at the earliest possible date, but no later than December 1st, 2013.

For more information about the project please send inquiries to wibaf.tue@gmail.com

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EC-TEL 2013 Workshop on Computational Tools fostering Creativity in Learning Processes

Call for Papers 

for the Workshop on 

Computational Tools fostering Creativity in Learning Processes

 http://ccl2013.iit.demokritos.gr/

taking place on September 17, 2013 in Paphos (Cyprus) in conjunction with

the Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2013)

Paphos (Cyprus), 17 - 21 September 2013.

About the workshop

The main objective of the 1st Workshop on Computational tools fostering Creativity in Learning processes is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experiences in
the study, development and deployment of creativity in learning concepts, applications, tools and systems. It will provide an international forum for the presentation of both theoretical and practical results aiming at the
identification of items for a research agenda. To this end, we are seeking contributions that mainly address one or more of the following topics:

- Theories and Methodologies for Computational Creativity in Learning
- Modelling of Social Behaviour for Creativity in Learning
- Architectures and Design of Computational Systems for Creativity in Learning
- Leveraging the Social Web (e.g., Social Networks, Social Media) to Support Creativity in Learning
- Discovery, Collection, and Extraction of Creativity Triggers from Learning Resources
- Privacy and Security Trade-offs in Computational Tools for Creativity in Learning
- Visualization, Diversity, Personalization, Novelty and other Characteristics of Creativity-support Tools
- Social Recommender Systems for Creativity in Learning
- Machine Learning Methods for Computational Tools for Creativity in Learning
- Human Computation and Social Computational Tools for Creativity in Learning
- Wisdom of Crowds Applications (e.g., prediction markets) and Crowdsourcing for Creativity in Learning

Paper Submission

Papers must be based on unpublished, original work and must be submitted only to CCL 2013. Selection of papers will be based on the clarity of the submitted materials, the stage of maturity of the presented research and the degree of innovation of the presented ideas. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. The submitted papers should conform to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The use
of the supplied templates (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) is strongly
encouraged. The papers should be submitted (as PDF files) via EasyChair. Please note that you must setup an EasyChair account (if you do not already have one) in order to submit your work.

Workshop papers: up to 4 pages

Important Dates

Paper Submission: 12 July 2013
Notification of Acceptance: 26 July 2013
Camera-ready version: 9 August 2013

Workshop Website
http://ccl2013.iit.demokritos.gr/

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ACM RecSys 2013 Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web (RSWEB 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

for the 5th Workshop on

Recommender Systems and the Social Web (RSWeb 2013)

Held in conjunction with ACM RecSys'13 in Hong Kong, China

http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/homepage/rsweb2013/index.shtml

***19 July, 2013 : Paper submission***
16 August, 2013 : Author notification
6 September, 2013 : Camera-ready papers
12-16 October 2013 : ACM RecSys held

The exponential growth of the social web poses challenges and new opportunities for recommender systems. The Social Web has turned information consumers into active contributors creating massive amounts of information. Finding relevant and interesting content at the right time and in the right context is challenging for existing recommender approaches. At the same time, social systems by their definition encourage interaction between users and both online content and other users, thus generating new sources of knowledge for recommender systems. Web 2.0 users explicitly provide personal information and implicitly express preferences through their interactions with others and the system (e.g. commenting, friending, rating, etc.). These various new sources of knowledge can be leveraged to improve recommendation techniques and develop new strategies which focus on social recommendation. The Social Web provides huge opportunities for recommender technology and in turn recommender technologies can play a part in fuelling the success of the Social Web phenomenon.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researcher and practitioners to explore, discuss, and understand challenges and new opportunities for recommender systems and the Social Web.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
==================
We solicit original contributions in the following areas:

* Social network and folksonomy development: Recommending friends, tags, bookmarks, blogs, music, communities etc.
* Leveraging models of user behavior on the Social Web for recommendation
* Recommender systems mash-ups, intelligent user interfaces, rich media recommender systems
* Collaborative knowledge authoring, collective intelligence
* Topic emergence and evolution on the Social Web and their role in recommendation process
* Recommender applications involving users or groups directly in the recommendation process
* Exploiting folksonomies, social network information, user interactions, and communities in the recommendation process
* The role of context in Social Web recommendation
* Trust and reputation aware social recommendations
* Semantic Web recommender systems, use of ontologies or microformats
* Empirical evaluation of social recommender techniques, success and failure measures
* Case studies and novel fielded social recommender applications
* Economy of community-based systems: Using recommenders to encourage users to contribute and sustain participation
* Social recommender systems in the enterprise
* Recommendation for groups

We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other areas to the workshop topics.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
=============================
* Bamshad Mobasher,  School of Computing, DePaul University, USA
* Dietmar Jannach,  Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund, Germany
* Werner Geyer,   IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
* Jill Freyne,  CSIRO ICT Center, Australia
* Andreas Hotho,   Universität Würzburg, Germany
* Sarabjot Singh Anand,   Algorithmic Insight, India
* Ido Guy,   IBM Research, Haifa, Israel


SUBMISSIONS AND STYLE
=====================

We solicit short and long papers as well as research demos on all aspects of recommender systems in the Social Web. Papers should be formatted according to the style guide of RecSys'13.

Long papers present original research work and can be of up to 8 pages in length. Short papers report on work in progress and can have up to 4 pages. Presenters of demo systems are asked to submit short papers describing their system.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format by using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=rsweb2013 
Paper selection will be based on a peer review process; there will be no blind review process - author names and affiliations should be included in the paper.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop.

Information about registration is provided at the RecSys 2013 Web page:
http://recsys.acm.org/2013/
Important Dates
===============
* 19 July, 2013 : Paper submission due
* 16 August, 2013 : Author notification
* 6 September, 2013 : Camera-ready papers due
* October, 2013 : Workshop held
Question and inquiries: rsweb2013@ls13.cs.uni-dortmund.de

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ACM RecSys 2013 Workshop on Reproducibility and Replication in Recommender Systems Evaluation (RepSys 2013)

ACM RecSys Workshop on

Reproducibility and Replication in Recommender Systems Evaluation - RepSys2013

7th ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys 2013)

Hong Kong, China, 12 or 16 October 2013

http://repsys.project.cwi.nl

* Submission deadline: 22 July 2013 *


== Scope ==

Experiment replication and reproduction are key requirements for empirical research methodology, and an important open issue in the field of Recommender Systems. When an experiment is repeated by a different researcher and exactly the same result is obtained, we can say the experiment has been replicated. When the results are not exactly the same but the conclusions are compatible with the prior ones, we have a reproduction of the experiment. Reproducibility and replication involve recommendation algorithm implementations, experimental protocols, and evaluation metrics. While the problem of reproducibility and replication has been recognized in the Recommender Systems community, the need for a clear solution remains largely unmet, which motivates the present workshop.

== Topics ==

We invite the submission of papers reporting original research, studies, advances, experiences, or work in progress in the scope of reproducibility and replication in Recommender Systems evaluation. Papers explicitly dealing with replication of previously published experimental conditions/algorithms/metrics and the resulting analysis are encouraged. In particular, we seek discussions on the difficulties the authors may find in this process, along with their limitations or successes on reproducing the original results.

The topics the workshop seeks to address include –though need not be limited to– the following:

* Limitations and challenges of experimental reproducibility and replication
* Reproducible experimental design
* Replicability of algorithms
* Standardization of metrics: definition and computation protocols
* Evaluation software: frameworks, utilities, services
* Reproducibility in user-centric studies
* Datasets and benchmarks
* Recommender software reuse
* Replication of already published work
* Reproducibility within and across domains and organizations
* Reproducibility and replication guidelines

== Submission ==

Two submission types are accepted: long papers of up to 8 pages, and short papers up to 4 pages. The papers will be evaluated for their originality, contribution significance, soundness, clarity, and overall quality. The interest of contributions will be assessed in terms of technical and scientific
findings, contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the problem, methodological advancements, or applicative value. Specific contributions focusing on repeatability and reproducibility in terms of algorithm implementations, evaluation frameworks and/or practice will also be welcome and valued.
All submissions shall adhere to the standard ACM SIG proceedings format:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
Submissions shall be sent as a pdf file through the online submission system now open at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=repsys2013.

== Important dates ==

* Paper submission deadline: 22 July
* Notification: 16 August
* Camera-ready version due: 30 August

== Organizers ==

* Alejandro Bellogín, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
* Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* Alan Said, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
* Domonkos Tikk, Gravity R&D, Hungary

== Programme Committee ==

* Xavier Amatriain, Netflix, USA
* Linas Baltrunas, Telefonica Research, Spain
* Marcel Blattner, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
* Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* Ed Chi, Google, USA
* Arjen de Vries, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
* Juan Manuel Fernández, Universidad de Granada, Spain
* Zeno Gantner, Nokia, Germany
* Pankaj Gupta, Twitter, USA
* Andreas Hotho, University of Würburg, Germany
* Juan Huete, Universidad de Granada, Spain
* Kris Jack, Mendeley, England
* Dietmar Jannach, University of Dortmund, Germany
* Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Alexandros Karatzoglou, TID, Spain
* Bart Knijnenburg, University of California, Irvine, USA
* Ido Guy, Google, Israel
* Jérôme Picault, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France
* Till Plumbaum, TU Berlin, Germany
* Daniele Quercia, Yahoo!, Spain
* Filip Radlinski, Microsoft, Canada
* Yue Shi, TU-Delft, The Netherlands
* Fabrizio Silvestri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
* Harald Steck, Netflix, USA
* David Vallet, NICTA, Australia
* Jun Wang, University College London, UK
* Xiaoxue Zhao, University College London, UK

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Journal special issue on MMOGs - IEEE TETC

CALL FOR PAPERS Massively Multiplayer Online Games Technologies and Applications

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
Special Issue/Section June Issue 2014
http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tetcsi_mmogta.pdf

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Section on Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) Technologies and Applications scheduled to appear in the June Issue of 2014.
MMOGs are gaining an increasing importance worldwide because they pose a number of new challenges to science, engineering, and industry, not to mention that they constitute a vibrant market that involves large budgets and businesses. These challenges may be understood from three points of view: computing, information, and communication. Having computers capable of dealing with massive data and computations per time unit is essential for online games demanding interactive rates or real-time, but it is not least true we need enough network bandwidth in order to guarantee that the game updates across the network are conveyed and received without lags. Recall that online games as, for example, World of Warcraft has over ten million subscribers with a peak of about half a million players interacting simultaneously within a virtual world. In general terms, we can even say that computer games constitute the driving force behind the new generation of high-end GPU-based personal computers that produce stunning graphics and deliver massive general-purpose computations.
This special issue will cover enabling technologies for MMOGs, as well as applications of MMOGs in other domains like military training, e-learning, among others. The focus will be mostly on the technological aspects of games, i.e., the computing (e.g., load balancing), information (e.g., persistent worlds), and communication (e.g., networking topologies as P2P), but high-quality papers that tackle these technological aspects in non-massive multiuser games may be also considered if they are able to contribute with solutions that can benefit MMOGs too. Hence, topics include, but are not limited to:

 Security Issues, Anti-Cheating Solutions, and Trust Modeling
 Computer-Human Interaction, User Behavior Analysis, Game Design Experience
 Scalability, Quality of Service and Latency Compensation Techniques
 Network Protocols, Traffic Analysis and Modeling
 Decentralized / Peer to Peer / Overlay Networks
 System Design / Architecture
 Sensor Networks for Games
 Grid and Cloud Computing and Mobile Games
 GPUs and Networks for Games
 Seamless Movement and Migration of Players
 Persistent Worlds and Embedded Databases

Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them at the IEEE Computer Society web site, www.computer.org. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. TETC is the newest Transactions of the IEEE Computer Society with Open Access only.
Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tetc-cs
Please note the following important dates.
• Submission Deadline: June 30, 2013
• Reviews Completed: August 15, 2013
• Major Revisions Due (if Needed): September 20, 2013
• Reviews of Revisions Completed (if Needed): October 11, 2013
• Minor Revisions Due (if Needed): November 1, 2013
• Notification of Final Acceptance: November 15, 2013
• Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: December 31, 2013
• Publication date: Third Section of 2014
Please address all other correspondence regarding this special Section to both Guest Editors A. Gomes and E. Prakash.

GUEST EDITORS
Abel Gomes University of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal) Email: agomes@di.ubi.pt
and Edmond Prakash

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EC-TEL Workshop - Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA 2013)

Call for Papers

Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA) 2013

in conjunction with the

Eight European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) 2013

Paphos, Cyprus

http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/tefa2013.html

Overview

Today, learning often occurs collaboratively in learner networks; formal
learning is combined with informal learning; and learners use, for example,
personalised and personal learning environments adapted to their needs and
preferences. While in a general sense any assessment can be used for
formative
or summative purposes, more genuinely formative assessment needs to
provide:
(a) rich, detailed information about learning (feedback),
(b) information that offers guidance on how to improve learning, and
(c) opportunities to actively construct an understanding about how to
regulate
learning, and negotiate a successful outcome amongst the key stakeholders.

Workshop Goals

The goal of the workshop is to develop the notion of technology-enhanced
formative assessment (TEFA) as a component for extending existing or new
TEL approaches, further combining expertise from pedagogy, educational
measurement, cognitive science, and information technology. A trend from
dedicated to integrated and from sporadic to continuous formative
assessment
is envisioned. Challenging research questions will be addressed such as:
* How are established forms of formative assessment changing with
the
inclusion of technology and what new forms of formative assessment
become possible?
* How is this reflected in new pedagogical approaches?
* How can today VLE support the provision of elaborated feedback?

Workshop Topics

The following topics are proposed, but the submissions need not be limited
to
these:
* formative assessment in adaptive systems
* formative assessment for users with special needs
* formative assessment for 21st Century skills
* mobile assessment
* feedback technologies
* integrated e-assessment, embedded assessment
* location-based/context aware educational feedback
* (automated) item design and generation
* automated analysis of open answers
* alignment of formative and summative feedback
* peer-assessment
* learning analytics for assessment purposes
* standard-conform e-assessment, flexible e-assessment,
interoperable e-assessment
* e-assessment in complex learning - i.e. collaborative learning,
serious games, 3D worlds and digital stories, discussion forums
* learning analytics and assessment
* assessment rubrics


Workshop Format

Position statement submissions are solicited (6 pages max. in Springer
Format)
that deal with approaches and innovative assessment technologies that
support
the transition from current assessment scenarios towards the development of
e-assessment forms through which high level of meta-cognitive skills are
evaluated, on-going feedback is provided, and students are more engaged in
the learning process.

Submissions

Position statement submissions are solicited (6 pages max. in Springer
Format)
that deal with approaches and innovative assessment technologies that
support
the transition from current assessment scenarios towards the development of
e-assessment forms through which high level of meta-cognitive skills are
evaluated, on-going feedback is provided, and students are more engaged in
the learning process.

email submissions to eric.ras@tudor.lu

Important Dates in 2013

* Submissions deadline: June 27
* Author notifications: July 19
* Final versions due: August 9
* Workshop date: September 17-18

After the workshop a few papers will be invited to submit an extended
version
to the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, IJTEL by
Inderscience (http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2251).

Organisers

Dr. Eric Ras (first contact), Public Research Centre Henri Tudor,
Luxembourg-Kirchberg, LUXEMBOURG, eric.ras@tudor.lu, +352 425991 - 2685

Dr. Mohammad AL-Smadi, Centre for Educational Technology Institute of
Informatics Tallinn University, Tallinn, ESTONIA, msmadi@tlu.ee +372 6409
355

Dott. Ivana Marenzi, Leibniz Universiät Hannover, L3S Research Center,
Hannover, GERMANY, marenzi@l3s.de, +49 511 762 - 17710

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EC-TEL Workshop - 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL13)

3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL13)

to be held in conjunction with EC-TEL 2013, Paphos (Cyprus). September 17, 2013.

Submission deadline: 30.06.2013

Workshop webpage: http://teleurope.eu/artel13 

Twitter hashtag: #artel13

----- Introduction -----

Awareness and Reflection are important aspects of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) and have to be adequately supported to enable learners to tap the potential of learning tools. The concepts awareness and reflection are viewed differently across the disciplines informing TEL (CSCW, CSCL, psychology, educational sciences, computer science, ...). ARTEL13 aims to push forward the discussion and research on these concepts in TEL. This year's theme for  ARTEL 2013 is:

"How can awareness and reflection support learning in different settings (work, education, continuing professional development, lifelong learning, etc.). What are the roles that technology can play to support awareness and reflection in these contexts?"

This workshop is a direct follow-up of last year's EC-TEL workshop ARTEL12, and the previous workshops ARNETS11 (Awareness and Reflection in Learning Networks) and ALECR11 (Augmenting the Learning Experience with Collaborative Reflection).

----- Objectives -----

The objectives of this workshop are

1. to provide a forum for presenting and discussing research on awareness and reflection in TEL

2. to create an interactive experience that connects participants' research, current tools or latest prototypes and models with real end users' learning experiences and requirements regarding reflection technology

3. to create an agenda for future ARTEL research and development.

----- Topics of interest -----

We invite contributions that address the following aspects:

- Theoretical discussion of awareness and reflection in TEL and related concepts (e.g. collaborative learning, creativity techniques, experiential learning)

- Methodologies to identify, study and analyse awareness and reflection in the context of (technology-enhanced) learning

- Empirical studies about technology support for awareness and reflection

- Technology (design, application, evaluation) supporting awareness and reflection

- Designing awareness and reflection in TEL applications and processes

- Using awareness and reflection support to enhance the learning experience

- Awareness of social context, knowledge, artefacts and processes

- Awareness and reflection in specific contexts, such as higher education, work-integrated learning, learning networks, etc.

----- Submission -----

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work. The organisers particularly encourage the submission of work-in-progress, cutting-edge prototypes. The following types of contributions are welcome:

- Full papers (max. 15 pages) that describe problems, needs, novel approaches and frameworks within the scope of the workshop. Empirical evaluation papers and industrial experience reports are welcome for submission.

- Short papers (max. 7 pages) that state the position of the authors within the scope of the workshop and describe solution concepts and work in progress.

- Demo papers (max. 2 pages) describing the motivation of the concept, the system and technology, and scenarios of application. During the workshop will be a dedicated slot were you can present and discuss your system. Additionally, you can submit a video of your system. Videos will be featured on TELeurope.eu.

Please submit your proposal via the ginkgo event management system at http://ginkgo.cs.upb.de/events/artel13. All submitted contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee for originality, significance and quality.

The papers will be published in the CEUR-WS.org (http://ceur-ws.org) workshops proceedings. Submissions should use the Springer LNCS template (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

----- Important dates -----

30.06.2013 Submission Deadline

10.08.2013 Notification of Acceptance

30.08.2013 Camera-Ready Papers due

17.09.2013 Workshop

----- Organizers -----

Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Birgit Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Adam Moore, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Viktoria Pammer, Knowledge Technologies Institute, TU Graz, Austria

Lucia Pannese, imaginary, Italy

Michael Prilla, University of Bochum, Germany

Wolfgang Reinhardt, WALLMEDIEN AG / European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning, Germany

Thomas Ullmann, The Open University, United Kingdom

----- Format of the workshop -----

The workshop will have a mixture of paper presentations, a demo session and interactive group work. We aim to link theory and existing prototypes (both from the involved projects and from the presented papers and demos) to practical needs in educational and professional settings. This link will be of value to both practitioners (in that research insights become more tangible) and researchers (in that insights and research prototypes become grounded in practice). 

We will use various media to encourage comments, questions and identification of hot topics during the workshop. Highlights from the presented papers and tools will be brought together in light of the workshop agenda in a final summary session, and the result will be presented during ECTEL 2013 both in the workshop summary and in the prototype sessions. 

The tentative programme is as follows: 

- Morning session 1: Paper presentations

- Morning session 2: Interactive demo session

- Afternoon session 1: Paper presentations

- Afternoon session 2: Interactive, small group work and plenum 

----- Supporting projects -----

ARTEL13 pulls together research on awareness and reflection in technology-enhanced learning across disciplines (psychology, educational science, computer science) and across European TEL projects: 

- MIRROR (Reflective Learning at Work): http://www.mirror-project.eu/

- ImREAL (Immersive Reflective Experience-based Adaptive Learning): http://www.imreal-project.eu/

- Learning Layers (Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Cluster): http://learning-layers.eu/

----- Networking and updates -----

To stay updated about the event and with the activity of the goup, consider to join the Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning group (http://teleurope.eu/artel). 

----- Background of the workshop ----- 

The 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL13) is the third workshop in a successful series of EC-TEL workshops.

- 2nd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL12). Workshop homepage: http://www.teleurope.eu/artel12 Proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-931/

- 1st European Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Learning Networks (ARNets11). Workshop homepage: http://teleurope.eu/arnets11 Proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-790/

- Augmenting the Learning Experience with Collaboratice Reflection (ALECR11). Workshop homepage: http://www.i-maginary.it/ectel2011/index.html

- 1st Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Personal Learning Environemnts (ARPLE11). Workshop homepage: http://teleurope.eu/arple11 Proceedings: http://journal.webscience.org/view/events/ 

----- Background of the EC-TEL conference -----

The EC-TEL 2013: Eight European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, will take place in Paphos, Cyprus, 17-21 September 2013. The motto for this year is "Scaling up learning for sustained impact". The European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) is a unique opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. Through EC-TEL, established and emerging researchers as well as practitioners, entrepreneurs, and technology developers explore new collaborations, strengthen networks, and compliment their core experience. For more information visit http://www.ec-tel.eu/

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EC-TEL Workshop - Teaching Analytics (IWTA 2013)

Call for Papers

3^rd International Workshop on Teaching Analytics (IWTA)

http://www.next-tell.eu/teachinganalytics/iwta-2013b/

at

EC-TEL 2013 (http://www.ec-tel.eu/)

Wednesday, 18-September-2012

Paphos, Cyprus

Purpose

The core problem that this workshop series on “Teaching Analytics” addresses is that in comparison with most other professionals that work in dynamically changing environments, teachers do not get the information they need for decision making in a timely fashion and in a meaningful and actionable format. Teaching Analytics is conceived as a subfield of learning analytics that focuses on the design, development, evaluation, and education of visual analytics methods and tools for teachers in primary, secondary, and tertiary educational settings. Furthermore, diagnostic data can be collected and needs to be displayed in real-time during a classroom activity or of smaller groups. Teachers’ professional practices with visual analytics methods and tools are a central concern of teaching analytics. Teaching analytics methods and tools aim to develop innovative solutions to assist and augment teachers’ dynamic diagnostic decision-making in the classrooms of the 21st century. An example usage scenario (but not limited to) is the use of teaching analytics methods and tools in high-performance classrooms that are characterized by 1:1 computing, high cognitive density, and big data.

Building on the NEXT-TELL project, the first international workshop on teaching analytics (TAPTA-2012) held at EC-TEL 2012 (http://www.next-tell.eu/tapta/) and the second workshop held at LAK-2013 (http://www.next-tell.eu/iwta-2013/), this workshop explores pedagogical and research approaches to studying teachers’ use of visual analytical techniques and tools. This workshop’s ambitious objective is to jumpstart a new learning analytics research stream on teaching analytics by bringing together learning scientists in different sub-fields such as CSCL, ITS, EDM, researchers in Visual Analytics, and data scientists working with “Big Data” in public institutions and private enterprises. In addition to researchers, we are also targeting teachers at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education to be involved as co-designers and discussants.

Topics

For the third workshop, we specifically seek position papers on pedagogical and research approaches to educating and investigating teachers’ needs and use of visual analytical techniques and tools. Other topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

·         Historical and contemporary practices in notations, representations, and  visualizations of classroom activities and student learning

·         Theories and methods for designing and evaluating new notations, representations, and visualizations for teaching analytics

·         Cognitive dimensions of notations for learning and teaching purposes

·         Visual analytics for activity tracking

·         Visual analytics for knowledge tracking

·         Visual analytics for formative vs. summative evaluations

·         Visual analytics for technology enhanced formative assessment

·         Engendering  teachers’ professional vision in high-performance classrooms

·         Synthesis of visual analytics oriented theory and practice in the Learning Sciences, e-Learning, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Educational Data Mining, and Learning Analytics.

·         Technical architectures and technological infrastructure for teaching analytics

·         Instrumentation of classrooms and ecosystems for learning and teaching

·         Critical perspectives on teaching analytics

Please note workshop submissions should be concerned with teachers’ use of visual analytics methods and tools in some shape or form. No requirements are placed on contexts such as high-performance classrooms or big data volumes or real-time decision-making

Author Guidelines:

• Length & Format: A position paper of maximum six pages formatted using the Springer LNCS template without the Springer Copyright text. http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
• Relevance and Substance: Ideally, the position paper should address methods for educating and/or researching teachers’ use of visual analytics tools or a topic relevant to the workshop theme on teaching analytics.

Submission Guidelines:

·         Please submit your position paper no later than 15-July-2013 by email to iwta@next-tell.eu 

Important Dates

• Submission of Position Papers: 15-July-2013
• Author Notifications:  01-August-2013
• Final Versions for Accepted Papers: 31-August-2013
• Workshop Date: Wednesday, 18-September-2012

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be made available to all via this site and published online as a volume of the CEUR series of workshop proceedings.

·         1^st International Workshop on Teaching Analytics

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-894/ 

·         2^nd International Workshop on Teaching Analytics

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-985/

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Peter Reimann, University of Sydney, Australia
• Susan Bull, University of Birmingham, UK
• Andreas Breiter, University of Bremen, Germany

Program Committee

·    Charoula Angeli, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

·    Geneviève Gauthier, University of Alberta, Canada

·    Sean P. Goggins, Drexel Univerity, USA

·    Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

·    Jelte de Jongh, University of London, UK

·    Anouschka van Leeuwen, Univeristy of Leuven, Belgium

·    Paul Libbrecht, Martin Luther University of Halle, Germany

·    Anna Mavroudi, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

·    Carlos Monroy, Rice University, USA

·    Kostas Pantazos, Copenhagen  Business School, Denmark

·    Philip Uys, Charles Sturt University, Australia

·    Barbara Wasson, University of Bergen, Norway

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