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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Social Information Retrieval in Technology-Enhanced
Learning (SIRTEL07)
2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07)
Crete, Greece,September 17-20, 2007
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/sirtel/
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*** Deadline Extension: New deadline for paper submissions: July 1,
2007 ***
*** David Wiley will contribute as invited speaker at the workshop ***
RATIONALE
Social information retrieval (SIR) refers to a family of techniques
that assist users
in obtaining information to meet their information needs by
harnessing the knowledge
or experience of other users. Examples of SIR techniques include
sharing of queries,
collaborative filtering, social network analysis, social bookmarking
and the use of
subjective relevance judgements such as tags, annotations, ratings
and evaluations.
SIR methods, techniques and systems open an interesting new approach
to facilitate
and support learning and teaching. There are plenty a resource
available on the Web,
both in terms of digital learning content and people resources (e.g.
other learners,
experts, tutors) that can be used to facilitate teaching and learning
tasks.
The remaining challenge is to develop, deploy and evaluate systems
that provide
learners and teachers with guidance to help identify suitable
learning resources
from a potentially overwhelming variety of choices.
Several questions are being researched around the application of SIR
methods
in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) settings. The aim of the
SIRTEL'07 Workshop
is to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working
on topics related
to the application of SIR methods, techniques and systems in
educational settings,
as well as present the current status of research in this area to
interested researchers
and practitioners. It aims to serve as a discussion forum where
researchers will present
the results of their work, also establishing liaisons between
different groups that are
exploring related subjects. In addition, it aims to outline the rich
potential of
modern SIR methods, techniques and systems in order to build TEL
systems and services.
TOPICS OF INTEREST (include but are not limited to):
* Defining the scope, purpose and objects of social information
retrieval in TEL
* Recommender systems and collaborative filtering in educational
settings
* Novel ways of generating input information for recommenders in the
area of learning and teaching
* Ranking of search results to support individualised learning needs
* Integrating SIR services in existing learning management systems
* Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based information
retrieval systems
* Social navigation processes and metaphors for searching information
related to teaching and learning
* Analysing social interactions in learning communities and social
networks on the Web
to facilitate information sharing and retrieval
* Approaches to TEL metadata that reflect social ties and
collaborative experiences
in the field of education
* Interoperability of SIR systems for TEL
* Visualisation techniques to support social navigation in learning
and teaching
* Semantic annotation and tagging for social information retrieval
purposes
* Evaluating the performance of SIR systems in educational applications
* Measuring the effectiveness of SIR systems in supporting learning
and teaching
* Evaluation the user satisfaction with SIR systems in supporting
learning and teaching
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The aim of the workshop is to chart out the current state-of-the-art
of SIR in TEL
and list the main enablers and challenges for the near future as well
as in the long term.
Each presenter of the workshop is asked to explicitly identify such
enablers and challenges.
The workshop will conclude with an open discussion listing and
prioritising the main enablers
and challenges for the short and the long term. One of the aims is to
identify the need for
new research.
The workshop will be strongly discussion oriented. To that effect,
all accepted papers will be made available online before the workshop.
Presenters will be asked to focus more on comparison with related work
presented by others and demonstration of early prototypes,
so as to take maximum advantage of the added value of a face-to-face
meeting.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full
papers (8 pages),
work-in-progress as short papers (max. 4 pages) or position
statements (max. 2 pages).
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members
of the
program committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality.
Papers will be published online as EC-TEL workshop proceedings, as
part of the
CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognised ISSN
publication series,
with ISSN 1613-0073.
Authors of papers presented in the Workshop will also be invited to
submit
enhanced versions of their papers for potential publication in a planned
special issue of a relevant journal.
Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/
lncs).
For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors"
instructions
at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Submissions should be made through the online submission system
especially set up
for this purpose: http://infolab-dev.aua.gr/sirtel2007/submissions.htm
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: July 1, 2007 *** NEW DEADLINE ***
Results Notification: July 15, 2007
Camera Ready Submission: August 15, 2007
Workshop dates: September 17 or 18, 2007
Main conference dates: September 19-20, 2007
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* John Dron, University of Brighton, UK
* Hendrik Drachsler, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
* Alexander Felfernig, University of Klagenfurt, Germany
* Mikko Laine, WSOY Educational, Finland
* Brian Lamb, University of British Columbia, Canada
* Francisco J. Martin, MyStrands, USA
* David Massart, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
* Brandon Muramatsu, Utah State University, USA
* Amborn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
* Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador
* Demetrios Sampson, CERTH/ITI & University of Piraeus, Greece
* Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain
* Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Marc Spaniol, RWTH Aachen, Germany
* Gulden Uchyigit, Imperial College, UK
* David Wiley, Utah State University, USA
* Martin Wolpers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium
ORGANISERS
* Riina Vuorikari, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & European
Schoolnet, Belgium
* Nikos Manouselis, Informatics Laboratory, Agricultural University
of Athens, Greece
* Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium & ARIADNE
Foundation
ABOUT EC-TEL07
After the success of EC-TEL06, the Second European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research
related to TEL, including its interactions with knowledge management,
business processes and work environments. This is a competitive and
broad
forum for TEL research in Europe and world-wide through specialized
workshops
and the main conference. EC-TEL07 provides unique networking
possibilities
for participating researchers throughout the week and includes
project meetings
and discussions for ongoing and new research activities supported by
the European
Commission. See http://www.ectel07.org/ for details.
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