Deadline Extension - 12th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2013)

Call for Papers

12th International Conference 

on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2013)

Kenting, Taiwan

Oct 6 ~ 9, 2013

ICWL is an annual international conference on web-based learning. The first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002. Since then, it has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004), Hong Kong (2005), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), China (2008), Germany (2009), China (2010), Hong Kong (2011) and Romania (2012). ICWL 2013 will be the 12th ICWL conference and will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The technical program will feature keynote addresses and workshops in addition to technical presentations of refereed papers.


CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference program consists of high quality technical papers that are reviewed and selected by an international program committee. Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of web-based learning and related technologies, including but not limited to the following topics:
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* Personalized and Adaptive Learning
* Computer Support for Intelligent Tutoring
* Intelligent Tools for Visual Learning
* Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages Learning
* Game-based Learning
* Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
* Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
* Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments
* HTML5 Web-based Learning
* Intelligent Learner and Group Modeling
* Learning Analytics
* Human Factors and Affective Computing for Learning
* E-Learning Platforms and Tools
* Design, Model and Framework of e-Learning Systems
* Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects
* E-Learning Metadata and Standards
* Semantic Web and Ontologies for E-learning
* Mobile, Situated and Blended Learning
* Cloud-based Learning
* Pedagogical Issues
* Practice and Experience Sharing


PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION

Authors are invited to submit original papers reporting on research results or novel applications in technology-enhanced learning. All accepted papers presented at the conference will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Papers for submission should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelinesand have maximum 10 pages. Since the review process will be double-blind, the submitted manuscript should not contain the authors' names, affiliations, or any information that may disclose the authors' identity. All papers should be submitted in PDF format. The submission web page is: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwl2013.

According to last years' tradition, a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be granted. Furthermore, authors of the best papers presented in the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible publication in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: May 10, 2013 (extended)

Paper submission deadline: May 17, 2013 (extended, sorry for the error!)

Notification of paper acceptance: June 3, 2013

Camera-ready paper due: June 24, 2013

Conference dates: October 6-9, 2013

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
* Jhing-Fa Wang, Tajen University, Taiwan
* Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong

Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Frederick Li, University of Durham, United Kingdom
* Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
* Yueh-Min Huang, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Taiwan

Workshop Co-Chairs
* Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
* Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece
* Timothy Shih, National Central University, Taiwan
* Chu-Sing Yang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan

Panel Co-Chairs
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Local Organization Committee Co-Chairs
* Jaw-Shyang Wu, Tajen University, Taiwan
* Chai-Kuen Chuang, Tajen University, Taiwan

Publicity Co-Chairs
* Frederick Li, University of Durham, United Kingdom
* Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada

Steering Committee Representatives
* Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Treasurers
* Howard Leung, City University of Hong Kong


Please refer to the conference website (http://icwl2013.tajen.edu.tw/) for more information and contact us at icwl2013@mail.tajen.edu.tw for any inquiry.

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Advances in Web-based Learning - ICWL 2012 Proceedings online

Elvira Popescu, Qing Li, Ralf Klamma, Howard Leung, Marcus Specht (Eds.): Advances in Web-Based Learning ICWL 2012  - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning, Sinaia, Romania, September 2012, LNCS 7558, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2012

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2012, held in Sinaia, Romania, in September, 2012. The 28 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from about 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments; Personal Learning Environments; Learning Objects’ Management and Ontologies; Game-Based Learning; Personalized and Adaptive Learning; Feedback, Assessment and Learning Analytics; Design, Model and Implementation of E-Learning Platforms and Tools; Pedagogical Issues, Practice and Experience Sharing.

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IWCL 2012 Contributions from the ACIS Group at RWTH Aachen University

The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning ICWL 2012, Sinaia, Romania is over. Our Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) group at RWTH Aachen University has made some contributions to the program.

In the learning analytics track we had a paper on "Learning Analytics for Learning Blogospheres" . It combines research from the TELMAP as well from the TELLNET project.

Manh Pham, Michael Derntl, Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma: Learning Analytics for Learning Blogospheres, in E. Popescu et al. (Eds.): ICWL 2012, LNCS 7558, pp. 255–264, 2012. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

Abstract. In blogospheres the learning process is characterized by evolving roles of bloggers and dynamic change of content. Existing approaches for learning blogospheres do not provide a comprehensive solution to dealing with these dynamics. In this paper, we propose a learning analytics approach for learning blogospheres unifying two complementary perspectives: (1) structural analysis of the blogosphere to identify learners' social capital; and (2) content analysis to capture dynamics in blog content over time. To support both types of analysis, social network analysis methods are applied as a fundamental approach to analyzing and visualizing knowledge sharing on learning blogospheres. We exemplify the learning analytics approach using two real-world learning blogospheres: the Mediabase - a large blog collection for technology enhanced learning, and the European eTwinning Network - a lifelong learning blogsphere. Results show that both analytics perspectives in combination advocate an advanced learning analytics approach to understanding and assessing learning processes in learning blogospheres.

Learning Analytics for Learning Blogospheres from Yiwei Cao

In the personal learning environments track we had a paper on "A Mashup Recommender for Creating Personal Learning Environments". It presents research from the ROLE project. This paper won the ICWL 2012 best paper award!

Alexander Nussbaumer, Marcel Berthold, Daniel Dahrendorf, Hans-Christian Schmitz, Milos Kravcik, Dietrich Albert: A Mashup Recommender for Creating Personal Learning Environments, in E. Popescu et al. (Eds.): ICWL 2012, LNCS 7558, pp. 79–88, 2012. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 (Best Paper Award)

Abstract. This paper presents an approach and an integrated tool that supports the creation of personal learning environments suitable for self-regulated learning. The rationale behind this approach is an ontology of cognitive and meta-cognitive learning activities that are related to widgets from a Widget Store. Patterns of such learning activities allow for providing the user with appropriate recommendations of widgets for each learning activity. The system architecture follows a Web-based approach and includes the Mashup Recommender widget and its backend service, the ontology available through a Web service, the Widget Store with its interface to retrieve widgets, and the integration into the learning environment framework. The pedagogical approach regarding the usage of this technology is based on self-regulated learning taking into account different levels between guidance and freedom. A quantitative and qualitative evaluation with teachers describes advantages and ideas for improvement.

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Learning Analytics for Learning Blogospheres

My colleague Yiwei Cao from my ACIS group at RWTH Aachen University gave a presentation on "Learning Analytics for Learning Blogospheres" at the ICWL 2012 in Sinaia, Romania last week. It combines research from the TELMAP as well from the TELLNET project.


Abstract. In blogospheres the learning process is characterized by evolving roles of bloggers and dynamic change of content. Existing approaches for learning blogospheres do not provide a comprehensive solution to dealing with these dynamics. In this paper, we propose a learning analytics approach for learning blogospheres unifying two complementary perspectives: (1) structural analysis of the blogosphere to identify learners' social capital; and (2) content analysis to capture dynamics in blog content over time. To support both types of analysis, social network analysis methods are applied as a fundamental approach to analyzing and visualizing knowledge sharing on learning blogospheres. We exemplify the learning analytics approach using two real-world learning blogospheres: the Mediabase - a large blog collection for technology enhanced learning, and the European eTwinning Network - a lifelong learning blogsphere. Results show that both analytics perspectives in combination advocate an advanced learning analytics approach to understanding and assessing learning processes in learning blogospheres.

Learning Analytics for Learning Blogospheres from Yiwei Cao

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Springer Proceedings online - Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2012

Image courtesy by my wife Michaela

The proceedings of ICWL 2012 are available online by Springer. Will see all the people in Sinaia next week.

Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2012 

11th International Conference, Sinaia, Romania, September 2-4, 2012. Proceedings 

Ed.: Elvira Popescu, Qing Li, Ralf Klamma, Howard Leung and Marcus Specht

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The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2012) - Final Program

ICWL 2012

The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning

2-4 September 2012, Sinaia, Romania
http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012/

Final Program 

Keynote speech 1 – Sunday, September 2, 10.15 – 11.15 

Title: From Transfer of Learning to Transfer Learning 

Speaker: Qiang Yang 

Abstract. In today's networked world, it is possible to create an atmosphere of community effort and sharing, which will significantly benefit collaborative topic study. Usually, people finish their own works on their personal computing devices and discuss together. When discussing, frequent exchange of ideas and documents occurs, and problems of inefficient device switching come out consequently. Even more, comparison among parts of work from different group members is lack of supporting technology. This talk will present UI (User Interface) Sharing technologies, which could help creating a truly collaborative environment. In such scenario, a large display serves as a natural substrate for people to get together and perform their tasks simultaneously, which greatly promotes work efficiency in comparison with the single presenter style. Peripheral computing devices, such as laptops, mobile phones and tablet PCs, communicate with large displays (wall or tabletop) via wireless network. To deal with the differences in file types and platforms, only designated visual representation of the opened documents and software will be transferred to the large display. Participants can interact with the distributively archived digital content via shared UI on large displays. Related technologies will be discussed in this talk.

Short bio. Yuanchun Shi is a professor of the Department of Computer Science, the director of Institute of Human Computer Interaction & Media Integration of Tsinghua University, and the director of Pervasive Computing Division of Tsinghua National Lab of Information Science and Technology, China. Her research interests include human computer interaction, pervasive computing, multimedia communication and eLearning Technology. Prof. Shi has publications in IEEE Pervasive Computing, TPDS, TKDE, ACM CHI, MM, UIST, etc. She received her PhD, MS and BS in Computer Science from Tsinghua University. She became a faculty member in Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University in 1993. She was a senior visiting scholar at MIT AI lab during Aug 2001-Feb 2002. She had chaired several conferences like the ACM Ubicomp2011 and chaired the Technology Committee on Pervasive Computing of CCF (China Computer Federation) from Jun 2005-Jan 2012. Now she serves as the Area Editor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC, Elsevier), Editor of Interacting with Computer (IwC, Elsevier) and Vice Editor-in-Chief of Communications of CCF (CCCF).

Keynote speech 2 – Monday, September 3, 09.00 – 10.00 

Title: Informal Personalized eLearning across Open Content and Social Media Networks 

Speaker: Vincent Wade 

Short bio. Vincent Wade (BSc (hons), MSc, MA., PhD, FTCD) is Professor and Head of Intelligent Systems in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) University. He is Deputy Director of CNGL, a world leading multi-institutional research centre focusing on multilingual, multi modal globalisation of digital content. In 2012 he founded the Centre for Learning Innovation which is an applied research centre focus on Informal Learning technologies. In 2002 Vincent was awarded Fellowship of Trinity College (FTCD) for his contribution to research in the areas of knowledge management, web based personalisation and adaptive learning technologies. Vincent was a visiting scientist at IBM (2006-9) and holds multiple patents in the area of personalisation and adaptive digital content. He has authored over two hundred and fifty scientific papers in peer reviewed research journals and international conferences and he has received seven 'best paper' awards for in IEEE, ACM, and IFIP conferences. In 2010 he received the European Language Label Award for his work on dynamic personalisation of Serious Games for enhanced learning.

Sunday – September 2, 2012 

09.00 – 09.30
Registration
09.30 – 10.15
Opening ceremony
10.15 – 11.15
Keynote 1
11.15 – 11.45
Coffee break
11.45 – 13.00
Session 1a, Session 1b
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 16.15
Session 2a, Workshop SCiLearn
16.15 – 16.45
Coffee break
16.45 – 18.00
Session 3a, Session 3b
19.00 – 22.00
Reception dinner

Monday – September 3, 2012 

09.00 – 10.00
Keynote 2
10.00 – 11.15
Session 4a, Session 4b
11.15 – 11.35
Coffee break
11.35 – 13.10
Session 5a, Workshop KMEL 1
13.10 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 16.10
Session 6a, Workshop KMEL 2
16.10 – 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 –
Departure for Bran Castle (optional tour 1),
followed by conference banquet

Tuesday – September 4, 2012 

09.00 – 10.45
Session 7a, Workshop CCSTED 1
10.45 – 11.05
Coffee break
11.05 – 12.50
Session 8a, Workshop CCSTED 2 & Panel
12.50 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 14.30
Closing ceremony
14.30 –
Departure for Peles Castle (optional tour 2)

Session 1a - Sunday, September 2, 11.45 – 13.00 

Chair: Élise Lavoué
Title: Semantic Web and Ontologies for E-learning
. Discovering Hierarchical Relationships in Educational Content
Marián Šimko, Maria Bielikova
. An Evaluation Methodology for C-FOAM Applied to Web-based Learning
Ioana Ciuciu, Yan Tang Demey
. Modelling the Knowledge Domain of the Java Programming Language as an Ontology (Short Paper)
Aggeliki Kouneli, Georgia Solomou, Christos Pierrakeas, Achilles Kameas

Session 1b - Sunday, September 2, 11.45 – 13.00 

Chair: Yiwei Cao
Title: Learning Analytics
. Learning Analytics for Learning Blogospheres
Manh Cuong Pham, Michael Derntl, Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma
. Towards an Integrated Approach for Evaluating Textual Complexity for Learning Purposes
Mihai Dascalu, Stefan Trausan-Matu, Philippe Dessus
. How about Using the PCA to Analyze Changes in Learning Styles? (Short Paper)
Federico Scaccia, Carlo Giovannella

Session 2a - Sunday, September 2, 14.30 – 16.15 

Chair: Sabine Graf
Title: Personalized and Adaptive Learning
. AMASE: A Framework for Composing Adaptive and Personalized Learning Activities on the Web
Athanasios Staikopoulos, Ian O'Keeffe, Rachael Rafter, Eddie Walsh, Bilal
Yousef, Owen Conlan, Vincent Wade
. Learning Activity Sharing and Individualized Recommendation Based on Dynamical Correlation Discovery (Short Paper)
Xiaokang Zhou, Jian Chen, Qun Jin, Timothy K. Shih
. Designer - Supporting Teachers Experience in Learning Management
Systems (Short Paper)
Silvia Baldiris, Sabine Graf, Jorge Hernandez, Ramon Fabregat, Nestor Duque
. RECALL – Location Based Services for Excluded Communities (Short Paper)
Camelia Popescu, David Brown, Nick Shopland
. Broadening the Use of E-learning Standards for Adaptive Learning (Short Paper)
Anna Mavroudi, Thanasis Hadzilacos

Session 3a - Sunday, September 2, 16.45 – 18.00 

Chair: Zuzana Kubincova
Title: CSCL, Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments 1
. An Approach to Exploit Social Bookmarking to Improve Formal Language Learning
Giuliana Dettori, Simone Torsani
. How to Get Around with Wikis in Teaching
Zuzana Kubincová, Martin Homola
. Wiki - A Useful Tool to Fight Classroom Cheating?
Zoran Putnik, Mirjana Ivanovic, Zoran Budimac, Ladislav Samuelis

Session 3b - Sunday, September 2, 16.45 – 18.00 

Chair: Stefan Trausan-Matu
Title: Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects
. Slicepedia: Towards Long Tail Resource Production through Open Corpus Reuse
Killian Levacher, Seamus Lawless, Vincent Wade
. Learning Path Construction based on Association Link Network
Fan Yang, Frederick Li, Rynson Lau
. An Automated Analysis and Indexing Framework for Lecture Video Portal
Haojin Yang, Christoph Oehlke, Christoph Meinel

Session 4a - Monday, September 3, 10.00 – 11.15 

Chair: Ralf Klamma
Title: Game-Based Learning
. Towards Universal Game Development in Education: Automatic and Semiautomatic Methodologies
Javier Torrente, Ángel Del Blanco, Ángel Serrano-Laguna, Jose Angel Vallejo-Pinto, Pablo Moreno-Ger, Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon
. Towards Social Learning Games
Elise Lavoué
. Computer Games and English Language Learning
Sabina-Nadina Cehan, Dana-Anca Cehan

Session 4b - Monday, September 3, 10.00 – 11.15 

Chair: Marco Temperini
Title: Feedback and Assessment
. BlueFix: Using Crowd-Sourced Feedback to Support Programming Students in Error Diagnosis and Repair
Christopher Watson, Frederick W.B. Li, Jamie L. Godwin
. Dealing with Open-Answer Questions in a Peer-Assessment Environment
Andrea Sterbini, Marco Temperini
. Slide Test Maker: An Educational Software Tool for Test Composition
Salvatore Cuomo, Vittorio Fuccella, Aniello Murano

Session 5a - Monday, September 3, 11.35 – 13.10 

Chair: Giuliana Dettori
Title: CSCL, Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments 2
. Annotation Tool for Enhancing E-Learning Courses
Bernardo Pereira Nunes, Ricardo Kawase, Stefan Dietze, Gilda Helena Bernardino De Campos, Wolfgang Nejdl
. Project-Based Learning with eMUSE - An Experience Report
Elvira Popescu
. Perceived Support in E-Collaborative Learning - An Exploratory Study Which Makes Use of Synchronous and Asynchronous Online-Teaching
Approaches
Stefanie A. Hillen, Tero Päivärinta
. Teaching Culture as Social Constructivism (Short paper)
Cat Kutay, Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Lynette Riley, Janet Mooney

Session 6a - Monday, September 3, 14.30 – 16.10 

Chair: Marcus Specht
Title: Personal Learning Environments
. From LMS to PLE: a Step Forward through OpenSocial Apps in Moodle
Evgeny Bogdanov, Carsten Ullrich, Erik Isaksson, Matthias Palmer, Denis Gillet
. A Mashup Recommender for Creating Personal Learning Environments
Alexander Nussbaumer, Marcel Berthold, Daniel Dahrendorf, Hans-Christian Schmitz, Milos Kravcik, Dietrich Albert
. A Federated Recommender System for Online Learning Environments
Lei Zhou, Sandy El Helou, Laurent Moccozet, Laurent Opprecht, Omar
Benkacem, Christophe Salzmann, Denis Gillet
. Trust and Security Issues in Cloud-Based Learning and Management
Birgy Lorenz, Kätlin Kalde, Kaido Kikkas

Session 7a - Tuesday, September 4, 09.00 – 10.45 

Chair: Mart Laanpere
Title: Design, Model and Implementation of e-Learning Platforms and Tools
. Towards a Design Theory for Educational Online Information Security Laboratories
Sarfraz Iqbal, Tero Päivärinta
. Pedagogy-driven Design of Digital Learning Ecosystems: the Case Study of Dippler
Mart Laanpere, Kai Pata, Peeter Normak, Hans Põldoja
. The Use of Expert Systems in Building the Quality Model of a Web-based Learning Platform
Traian-Lucian Militaru, George Suciu, Gyorgy Todoran
. A Prototypical Implementation of the Intelligent Integrated Computer-Assisted Language Learning (iiCALL) Environment (Short Paper)
Harald Wahl, Werner Winiwarter

Session 8a - Tuesday, September 4, 11.05 – 12.50 

Chair: Philippos Pouyioutas
Title: Pedagogical Issues, Practice and Experience Sharing
. E-learning - The Bologna Process, the European Credit Transfer System
(ECTS), Learning Outcomes and ReProTool
Philippos Pouyioutas, Harald Gjermundrod, Ioanna Dionysiou
. The Implementation of the E-Learning Systems in Higher Education. Sharing the Work Experience from Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti
(Short Paper)
Gabriela Moise, Mihaela Suditu, Loredana Netedu
. Enhancing Online Class Student Engagement through Discussion - A Case Study on Modern Educational Technology (Short Paper)
Fengfang Shu, Chengling Zhao, Liyong Wan

SCiLearn 2012
International Workshop on Learning within and from Smart Cities 

Sunday, September 2, 14.30-16.15

. Scenarios for Active Learning in Smart Territories
Carlo Giovannella, Andrea Iosue, Antonello Tancredi, Fabrizio Cicola,
Andrea Camusi, Fabrizia Moggio, Vincenzo Baraniello, Simone Carcone,
Silvio Coco
. Understanding Trajectories of Experience in Situated Learning Field Trips
Ilaria Canova Calori, Chiara Rossitto, Monica Divitini
. Learning in the Smart City: a Virtual and Augmented Museum Devoted to Chaos Theory
Francesca Bertacchini, Eleonora Bilotta, Manuela Carini, Lorella
Gabriele, Giuseppe Laria, Pietro Pantano, Assunta Tavernise, Stefano Vena
. Contextual Mobile Learning for Professionals Working in the “Smart City”
Bingxue Zhang, Bertrand David, Chuantao Yin, René Chalon, Yun Zhou

KMEL 2012
2nd International Symposium on Knowledge Management  and E-Learning 

Monday, September 3

Session 1: 11.35 – 13.10

. A Web Content Accessibility Evaluation Process for Learning Objects in the Context of a Virtual Learning Environment
Cecilia Avila Garzon, Silvia Margarita Baldiris Navarro, Ramon Fabregat, Juan Carlos Guevara
. Virtual Laboratory for the Study of Kinematics in Engineering Faculties
Andrei Craifaleanu, Cristian Dragomirescu, Iolanda-Gabriela Craifaleanu
. Effect of Multiplayer Interactive Violent Video Games on Players’ Explicit and Implicit Aggression: A Social Interaction Perspective
Chang Liu, Xuemin Zhang, Fawei Sun, Lang Lang Wang, Xinyuan Fu
. Quality Criteria for Open Courseware and Open Educational Resources
Monica Vladoiu


Session 2: 14.30 – 16.10

. Developing Online Collaborative Games for e-Learning Environments
Traian Anghel, Adrian Florea, Arpad Gellert, Delilah Florea
. Supporting Knowledge Transfer and Mentoring in Companies by E-
Learning and Cloud Computing
Ileana Hamburg, Marius Marian
. Wiki Tools in Teaching English for Specific (Academic) Purposes - Improving Students’ Participation
Cristina Felea, Liana Stanca
. Ad-Hoc Business Process Management in ECM Systems
Julia Stavenko, Alexander Gromov

CCSTED 2012
1st International Workshop on Creative Collaboration through Supportive Technologies in Education 

Tuesday, September 4

Session 1: 09.00 – 10.45
Chairs: David Lamas - Tallinn University, Estonia
 Margarida Romero - Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

Welcome message: Gabriel Gorghiu - Valahia University Targoviste, Romania, Tommi Inkilä - University of Oulu, Finland

. Collaborative Processes in Virtual Learning Spaces - Does Structuring Make a Difference?
Essi Vuopala, Sarah Eagle, Pirkko Hyvönen
. Supporting Collaborative Creativity with Educational Visualizations in 3D Virtual Worlds
Mikhail Fominykh, Monica Divitini, Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland
. Towards Increasing Learners’ Creativity Based on a Fuzzy Collaborative Learning Model
Gabriela Moise
. Creative Re-instrumentation of Collective Learning Activity Terje Väljataga, Sebastian Fiedler
. Towards Assessing Quality of Open Courseware
Monica Vladoiu
. The Development of a Scale to Assess Creative Collaboration via Online Tools
Jocelyn Wishart, Sarah Eagle

Session 2: 11.05 – 12.05
Chairs: Gabriel Gorghiu - Valahia University Targoviste, Romania  Tommi Inkilä - University of Oulu, Finland

. Computer-Based Creative Collaboration in Online Learning
Margarida Romero, Elena Barberà
. Trust as Leverage for Supporting Learning Creativity in On-line Learning Communities
Sonia Sousa, David Lamas, Kersti Toming
. Exploring Creativity with E-learning 2.0: a Personal Account
Kersti Toming, David Lamas
. A Student Perception Related to the Implementation of Virtual Courses
Andrei Chilian, Roxana Bancuta, Cristina Bancuta

Panel: 12.05 – 12.50
Technology in Support of Collaborative Learning - Challenges and
Perspectives

The Workshop is organized with the support of European Commission, Education and
Training, under LLP Transversal Programme KA3-ICT, through Project 511733-LLP-1-2010-1-FI-
KA3-KA3MP: "CoCreat - Enabling Creative Collaboration through Supportive Technologies"

Conference Organization

Conference Co-Chairs
* Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
* Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong

Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
* Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, the Netherlands
* Howard Leung, City University of Hong Kong

Workshop Co-Chairs
* Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
* Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece
* Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

Panel Co-Chairs
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Publicity Co-Chairs
* Frederick Li, University of Durham, UK

Steering Committee Representatives
* Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong
* Timothy Shih, National Central University, Taiwan

Local Organization Committee Co-Chairs
* Eugen Bobasu, University of Craiova, Romania
* Marius Brezovan, University of Craiova, Romania

Please refer to the conference website
(http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012) for more information and contact us at icwl2012@software.ucv.ro for any inquiry.

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Deadline extension: Learning within and from the 'Smart Cities' (SCiLearn 2012 ) @ ICWL 2012

**** DEADLINE for paper submission HAS BEEN EXTENDED to: JUNE, 25 at noon ****

**** Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS ****

"Learning within and from the 'Smart Cities'" (SCiLearn 2012)

Sinaia (Romania), September 2-4, 2012

co-located at ICWL 2012

http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012/

organized by

Dept. of Science and Technology of Education& IaD School of Tor Vergata

University of Rome

and

PH Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education.

Temporary workshop website:

http://www.scuolaiad.it/SCiLearn2012/

IMPORTANT DATES
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* June 25 at noon, 2012: Deadline for submission of contributions (extended)
* July 5, 2012: Authors' Notification on the review process results
* July 15, 2012: Authors' Registration Deadline and upload of Final Camera-Ready Manuscript

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Papers are solicited on the following 'open' list of topics:

• Technological Ecosystems supporting learning within and from the 'smart cities' (toward 'web-mobile-internet of thing' integrated
environments)
• Future 'smart cities' learning scenarios (contexts and methods) • Ecological monitoring and visualization of flows, behaviours, experience's styles and 'smart cities' learning • The impact of contextualization, glocalities, identities • Educational Ecosystems: from ''intelligence' to autopoietic education
(edupoiesis)

PAPER FORMAT and PUBLICATION
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Accepted workshop contributions will be published with Springer.
Authors are thus required to submit their manuscript according to the LNCS proceedings format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Papers should be no exceed 10 pages.

In addition to the ICWL workshop proceedings an extended version of selected workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the IxD&A Journal (ISSN 1826-9745)

SUBMISSIONS
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Please submit your manuscript using the IxD&A submission System at:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php

CONTACTS:
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Carlo Giovannella - giovannella@scuolaiad.it Alke Martens - alke.martens@googlemail.com

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The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2012) - Call for Workshop Papers

ICWL 2012

The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning

2-4 September 2012, Sinaia, Romania

http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012/

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to one of the 4 fantastic workshops which will be held in conjunction with the ICWL 2012 conference. For more information on submission procedure, important dates, program committee and contacts, please refer to the website of each single workshop
(http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~icwl2012/workshops.php)


International Symposium on Knowledge Management and E-Learning (KMEL 2012) 

Website: http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu/kmel2012.htm
Organizers:
  * Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
  * Federick Li, Durham University, UK
  * Maggie M. Wang, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong


International Workshop on Creative Collaboration through Supportive Technologies in Education (CCSTED 2012) 

Website: http://ccsted.ssai.valahia.ro/
Organizers:
  * Gabriel Gorghiu, Valahia University Targoviste, Romania
  * Mikhail Fominykh, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
  * Tommi Inkilä, University of Oulu, Finland
  * David Lamas, Tallinn University, Estonia
  * Margarida Romero, Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain


International Workshop on Learning within and from the 'Smart Cities' (SCiLearn 2012)

Website: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/scilearn2012/index.php
Organizers:
  * Carlo Giovannella, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  * Alke Martens, PH Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education, Germany


International Workshop on New Approaches to Serious Games (IWNASG 2012)

Website: http://www.seriousgamesnet.eu/IWNASG/
Organizers:
  * Carlos Vaz de Carvalho, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
  * Baltasar Fernandez Manjon, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  * Siu Cheung Kong, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
  * Janet C Read, University of Central Lancashire, UK
  * Pedro Latorre, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

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Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009 - Download Statistics

	Your eBook downloads			Visit us at springer.com
	Dear Dr. Ralf Klamma, You are surely aware that your book Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009 is published in both print and electronic formats.Today, we would like to update you on the chapter downloads of your eBook on SpringerLink, Springer's online platform. Since its online publication on Aug 06, 2009, Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009 has received a total of 8971 chapter download requests. Over the last year(s) the download figures have been as follows: Year Usage 2011 2108 2010 4738 2009 2125 As you can see, in addition to the print book, the electronic version offers a broad readership and increased visibility for your work. This is especially noticeable in the long run: statistical data shows that the usage of electronic publications will continue to be stable for years. For more information on the different book formats and your benefits of publishing with Springer, please click here. Thank you again for publishing with us. We are very pleased to disseminate your book among the scientific community and look forward to working with you on your next book or journal article. Best regards, Alfred Hofmann Springer

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A couple of days left: The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2012)

ICWL Community Visualization (Co-Authorship Network 2002-2010)

Community Visualization by RWTH Aachen University - Information Systems and Databases

The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning

2-4 September 2012, Sinaia, Romania

http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012/

The conference program consists of high quality technical papers that are reviewed and selected by an international program committee. Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of web-based learning and related technologies, including but not limited to the following topics:

* Technology Enhanced Learning
* Personalized and Adaptive Learning
* Computer Support for Intelligent Tutoring
* Intelligent Tools for Visual Learning
* Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages Learning
* Game-based Learning
* Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
* Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
* Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments
* HTML5 Web-based Learning
* Intelligent Learner and Group Modeling
* Learning Analytics
* Human Factors and Affective Computing for Learning
* E-Learning Platforms and Tools
* Design, Model and Framework of e-Learning Systems
* Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects
* E-Learning Metadata and Standards
* Semantic Web and Ontologies for E-learning
* Mobile, Situated and Blended Learning
* Cloud-based Learning
* Pedagogical Issues
* Practice and Experience Sharing

Paper Submission & Publication
Authors are invited to submit original papers reporting on research results or novel applications in technology-enhanced learning. All accepted full papers presented in the conference will be published as a
volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (pending). Papers for submission should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines and have maximum 10 pages. Since the review process will be double-blind, the submitted manuscript should not contain the authors' names, affiliations, or any information that may disclose the authors' identity. All papers should be submitted in PDF format. According to last years' tradition, a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be granted. Furthermore, authors of the best papers presented in the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible publication in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: May 3, 2012 (extended)
Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2012 (extended)
Notification of paper acceptance: June 10, 2012
Camera-ready paper due: July 1, 2012
Conference dates: September 2-4, 2012

Conference Organization
Conference Co-Chairs
* Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
* Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong

Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
* Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, the Netherlands
* Howard Leung, City University of Hong Kong

Workshop Co-Chairs
* Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
* Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece
* Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

Panel Co-Chairs
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Publicity Co-Chairs
* Frederick Li, University of Durham, UK

Steering Committee Representatives
* Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong
* Timothy Shih, National Central University, Taiwan

Local Organization Committee Co-Chairs
* Eugen Bobasu, University of Craiova, Romania
* Marius Brezovan, University of Craiova, Romania

Please refer to the conference website
(http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012) for more information and contact us at icwl2012@software.ucv.ro for any inquiry.

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"Learning within and from the 'Smart Cities'" (SCiLearn 2012)

"Learning within and from the 'Smart Cities'"

(SCiLearn 2012)

Sinaia (Romania), September 2-4, 2012

co-located at

ICWL 2012

http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012/

organized by
Dept. of Science and Tehnology of Education&     IaD School of Tor Vergata
University of Rome
and
PH Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education.

Temporary workshop website:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/scilearn2012/index.php

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INTRODUCTION
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This workshop proposes itself as a "think tank" to foster a reflection on how the way we learn may be influenced and changed because of the development of 'smart cities', but also 'smart villages' and 'smart territories'.
 From the Far East, to the Americas and to Europe, cities and their surroundings are evolving towards a new dimension in which the info infrastructure becomes an indispensable asset of our life, contributes to the development of info-ecosystems embracing 'smart mobility and last-mile logistics', 'smart health', 'smart government', 'smart culture and tourism', the sustainability of the natural resources and the green economy. Such integrated effort of info-urbanism is expected to produce social innovation and, inevitably, leads to wonder about what forms can take the smart education underlined by all pieces that compose the mosaic of the info-ecosystems.
The person, considered in all her/his complexity, will be placed at the center of educational contexts and scenarios increasingly ubiquitous, complex, organic. The perimeter of the physical space in which the educational experiences develop will become increasingly undefined, liquid and will host more and more nomadic and informal practices characterized by a high density of social interactions. In these scenarios, the mediating role of technology will widen over the time to:
foster relationships with the natural environments, filter content needed to support meaningful experiences at glocal level, disclose feedback necessary to learn how to manage "in action", the complexity of static and dynamic, of learning contexts and processes.

Through which educational path people will become "participatorly" aware citizens of the future "SimCities"? How will we learn from the open books that are represented by the cities of art? How will data flowing from sensorized areas will be elaborated to support awareness and learning? How will our behavior be influenced by knowledge of co-evolution mechanisms and limits of the ecosystems? Will the educational infrastructure be smart enough to readjust, even autopoietically, to satisfy the needs that everyone could develop life long, in different contexts?
The future perspective is that of territories that become increasingly open to awareness and participation and of a 'smart education' that becomes more and more spatially widespread and temporally continuous.

IMPORTANT DATES
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* June 10, 2012: Deadline for submission of contributions
* July 1, 2012: Authors' Notification on the review process results
* July 15, 2012: Authors' Registration Deadline and upload of Final Camera-Ready Manuscript

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Papers are solicited on the following 'open' list of topics:

• Technological Ecosystems supporting learning within and from the 'smart cities' (toward 'web-mobile-internet of thing' integrated
environments)
• Future 'smart cities' learning scenarios (contexts and methods) • Ecological monitoring and visualization of flows, behaviours, experience's styles and 'smart cities' learning • The impact of contextualization, glocalities, identities • Educational Ecosystems: from ''intelligence' to autopoietic education
(edupoiesis)

PAPER FORMAT and PUBLICATION
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ICWL organizers are finalizing arrangement for publication of workshop contributions with Springer.
Authors are thus required to submit their manuscript according to the LNCS proceedings format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Papers should be no exceed 10 pages.

In addition to the ICWL workshop proceedings an extended version of selected workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the IxD&A Journal (ISSN 1826-9745)

SUBMISSIONS
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Please submit your manuscript using the IxD&A submission System at:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary)
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Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Emmanuelle Blanchard, AAU, DK
Joseph Blat, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain
Rosa Maria Bottino, ITD-CNR, Italy
Antonella Carbonaro, University of Bologna, Italy
Augusto Celentano, University of Venice, Italy
Paolo Ciucciarelli, Politectino di Milano - Density Design, Italy
Walter Colitti, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Paloma Diaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Gabriella Dodero, University of Bozen
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Ray Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada
Andreas Lingnau, University of Strathclyde, UK
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Demetrios Sampson, Univ Piraeus&     CERTH, Greece
Stefania Serafin, AAU, DK
Luca Simeone, Vianet, Italy
Marcus Specht, OU, Netherland
Imran A. Zualkernan, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

CONTACTS:
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Carlo Giovannella - giovannella@scuolaiad.it Alke Martens - alke.martens@googlemail.com

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Dynamic Network Analysis for Computer Science Publications

Dynamic network properties of ICALT, ICWL and ECTEL

AERCS is a visualization tool for communities of academic events in Computer Science. It is developed and hosted by the Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) group at  RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Currently, conferences and journals from the DBLP dataset are visualized. Other data sets will be integrated in the future.  While this bibliographic data set is quite comprehensive it does not show all publications!

Dynamic network analysis uses time series analysis of networks to explore dynamic patterns of networks such as growth and decay. A typical result of our research is the dynamic comparison of computer science communities. A computer science conference or journal can be compared by time series analysis for typical social network growth patterns like density, diameter, clustering coefficient, largest connected component, average path length and maximum betweenness. In our example above, we compare three major conferences in technology enhanced learning: the EC-TEL, the ICALT and the ICWL community. Here, we visualize the time series analysis of the co-authorship network of the three conferences.
For the co-authorship network, the emergence of the giant component (largest component) indicates the cohesiveness of collaboration within the community, while the betweenness shows the existence of gatekeepers and their importance. The clustering coefficient measures the extent to which the community is clustered into sub-communities. Other parameters such as diameter and average shortest path length, show whether the community is still developing or whether it is stable. A complete analysis of the three communities will be published in a future issue of the Journal of Educational Technology & Society.

Everybody can use this service for comparing journals and conference in computer science by means of dynamic network analysis. Just visit AERCS and test it out!


This service is brought to you by the chair of information systems and databases at RWTH Aachen University.

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