LINKEDLEARNING 2012 - 2nd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data (LiLe2012)

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Deadline: February 10, 2012 | Date: April 17, 2012

Venue/Country: Lyon, France

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Call For Papers - CFP

2nd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data

(LiLe2012)

In conjunction with the World Wide Web Conference 2012 (WWW2012)

Lyon, France, 17 April 2012

- http://linkededucation.org/lile2012 -

IMPORTANT DATES

* 10 February 2012: Full & short research paper submission deadline

* 05 March 2012: Notification of acceptance

* 05 March 2012: Poster & demo submission deadline

* 20 March 2012: Camera-ready paper

* 17 April 2012: LinkedLearning 2012 workshop day

OVERVIEW

Distance education and openly available educational resources on the Web

are becoming common practices with public higher education institutions as

well as private training organisations realising the benefits of online

resources. However, most of the research in E-learning has been focusing on

creating a variety of metadata formats and environments for the exchange of

educational resources. This has led to a fragmented landscape of Web

standards and approaches used in the educational domain. Consequently, it

is not only the case that interoperability between repositories of

educational resources remains a challenge, but also that educational Web

resources remain underexploited, as their connection, reuse and repurposing

are barely supported by such technologies.

The very nature of the Linked Data approach offers promising solutions that

can address these open challenges in the education arena. In addition, the

Linked Data movement has produced a vast body of knowledge and data which

can substantially support and contribute to educational services and

content. Building on the overwhelming success of Linked Learning 2011, the

Linked Learning 2012 workshop will provide a forum for researchers and

practitioners making innovative use of Linked Data technologies for

educational purposes on the Web to discuss, exchange and disseminate their

work.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The workshop aims to become a highly interactive research forum for

exploring the promises of the Web of Linked Data in the broad area of

education by gathering researchers from the areas of the Semantic Web,

Social Web, E-Learning, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), Open

Educational Repositories, pedagogy and education. We will welcome

high-quality papers about actual trends in (a) how education takes

advantage of the Web of Data, especially through Linked Data technologies

and (b) how Linked Data principles are being applied in educational

contexts. We will seek application-oriented, as well as more theoretical

papers and position papers in the following, non-exhaustive list of topics:

* Linked data for informal learning

* Using the Web of Data for personalisation and context-awareness in

E-Learning

* Usability and advanced user interfaces in learning environments and

linked data

* Light-weight educational metadata schemas

* Exposing learning objects to the Web of Data

* Semantic & syntactic mappings between educational metadata schemas

* Controlled vocabularies, ontologies and terminologies for E-Learning

* Personal & mobile learning environments on the Web

* Learning flows and designs with Semantic Web technologies

* Linked data in (visual) learning analytics and educational data mining

* Linked data in organizational learning and learning organizations

* Linked data for harmonizing individual learning goals and organizational

objectives

* Competency management with linked data

* Collaborative learning on the Web of Data

* Linked-data enhanced social learning

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

We welcome the following types of contributions.

* Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 15 pages) research papers

* Poster abstracts and system demonstrations should

not exceed 2 pages.

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted

according to the LNCS format (

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0).

Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at

* http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lile2012

Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality,

technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least

one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.

The main workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR

Workshop Proceedings. Furthermore, authors of selected papers will be

invited to submit extended versions to a journal special issue .

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

* Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center (DE)

* Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University (UK)

* Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University & Simon Fraser University (Canada)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

* Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

* Soeren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany

* Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

* Charalampos Bratsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

* Dan Brickley, W3C & Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

* Christopher Brooks, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

* Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

* Gianluca Demartini, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

* Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA

* Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK

* Nikolas Dovrolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

* Hendrik Drachsler, Open University of the Netherlands

* Hannes Ebner, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

* Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada

* Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany

* Nicola Henze, L3S Research Center, Germany

* Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

* Eleni Kaldoudi, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

* Carsten Keßler, University of Münster, Germany

* Ivana Marenzi, L3S Research Center, Germany

* David Millard, University of Southampton, UK

* Lyndon Nixon, Semantic Technologies Institute, Austria

* Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, UK

* Melody Siadaty, Simon Fraser University & Athabasca University, Canada

* Davide Taibi, Institute for Educational Technologies, Italian National

Research Council, Italy

* Dhavalkumar Thakker, University of Leeds, UK

* Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK

* Carlo Torniai, Oregon Health and Science University, USA

* Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada

For further questions please contact the organisers via

lile2012linkededucation.org.