ISEE@EC-TEL'10 2010 - 4th International Workshop on INTELLIGENT SUPPORT IN EXPLORATORY ENVIRONMENTS (ISEE@EC-TEL'10)

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Deadline: July 04, 2010 | Date: September 28, 2010-September 30, 2010

Venue/Country: Barcelona, Spain

Updated: 2010-06-29 09:28:12 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

INTELLIGENT SUPPORT IN EXPLORATORY ENVIRONMENTS

(ISEEEC-TEL'10)

http://link.lkl.ac.uk/isee-ectel10

to be held in conjunction with the

Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

"Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice"

Barcelona (Spain), 28 September-1 October 2010

(Selected papers will be invited to submit extended

versions for a journal special issue.)

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: July 4th (extended)

Notification of acceptance: July 18th

Camera-ready version: September 4th

Workshop: 28th/29th September, Learning Café Methodology

OBJECTIVES

There is a growing research interest in Exploratory Learning

Environments (ELEs). ELEs can be contrasted with more traditional

intelligent systems that are oriented to well-defined tasks and

domains, and generally constraint the learning trajectory by

prescribing the sequence of steps and tasks that the learners

undertake. ELEs have been found to be particularly beneficial in terms

of providing opportunities for acquiring deep, conceptual and

structural knowledge. However, there are several factors that can

impede appropriate learning within an ELE, and a crucial determinant

of learning is the nature of support provided by teachers, peers,

technologies and the structure of the learning activities.

There has been a lot of work in the learning science literature about

support for learning in ELEs, but developing the technology to support

learning processes faces several impressive challenges. On this

edition of the workshop, the focus is on using intelligently supported

exploratory environments in ecologically valid situations, e.g.

integrated in a classroom or workplace. What are the main challenges

that are faced when exploratory environments are taken out of the lab

and faced with real-world learners? How can they be overcome? And how

can these systems be evaluated?

We encourage researchers to submit papers related to these questions

and the topics listed below. Additional information about the

challenges of providing intelligent support for exploratory

environments can be found at the workshop web page at

http://link.lkl.ac.uk/isee. The web page also enumerates the research

questions that will be the focus of the workshop.

This edition builds on the success of the former three editions of

ISEE at EC-TEL'08, AIEd'09, and ICLS'10.

TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to)

- Adaptive feedback for exploratory tasks

- Design of exploratory learning environments

- User, domain, and task modelling in exploratory environments

- Technical and pedagogical Evaluation of support for explorative environments

- Authoring of open-ended tasks with intelligent support

- Modelling based on open-ended tasks

- Fuzzy and probabilistic techniques for modelling

- Educational data mining in exploratory environments

- Sequencing of activities in open learning environments

- Support for teachers in blended learning scenarios

- Collaborative tools for open environments

- Collaborative learning in open environments

WORKSHOP FORMAT

The workshop will be discussion-oriented framed around specific

questions. The aim therefore is to have fruitful discussion prior and

during the workshop rather than a mini-conference format.

In particular, the methodology used will be based on an adaptation of

the 'learning discussion forum' (aka Learning Cafe Methodology) which

involves experts' introductions and group discussions ensuring that all

participants can have a direct impact in addressing the workshop

questions. This methodology has been successfully implemented in

previous editions of ISEE, with good feedback from participants.

More details of this methodology are given at the workshop web

page (http://link.lkl.ac.uk/isee/)

SUBMISSION

Authors should submit papers that clearly address one or more of the

questions to be explored at the workshop. All submissions will be

refereed by the Programme Committee in order to decide on acceptance

based on originality, clarity, and relevance to the community.

Full papers should should be 8-10 pages long and short papers should

be up to 5 pages. Authors should follow the same template that is

used for the main conference. All papers should be formatted according

to Springer-Verlag LNCS guidelines. LaTeX and word templates can be

found at the Springer-Verlag website (http://www.springer.com/lncs).

Accepted papers will be incluided the workshop proceedings, to be

published as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series (CEUR-WS.org

is a recognized ISSN publication series, with ISSN 1613-0073). Papers

will be discussed prior to the workshop and form the basis for the

discussions on the day of the workshop.

Selected papers will also be invited to submit extended versions for a

journal special issue (details to be confirmed at a later stage).

Papers should be sent by email to isee.submissiongmail.com.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Vincent Aleven (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Ryan Baker (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Andrea Bunt (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Sergio Gutierrez-Santos (Birkbeck College, UK)

Wouter van Joolingen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Ken Kahn (University of Oxford, UK)

Kenneth R. Koedinger (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Chronis Kynigos (University of Athens, Greece)

Bruce McLaren (DFKI, Germany)

Vanda Luengo (Laboratoire CLIPS-IMAG, France)

George Magoulas (Birkbeck College, UK)

Manolis Mavrikis (Institute of Education, UK)

Richard Noss (Institute of Education, UK)

Niels Pinkwart (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)

Kaska Porayska-Pomsta (Institute of Education, UK)

Ido Roll (CWSEI, University of British Columbia, Canada)

Cristobal Romero (Universidad de Cordoba, Spain)

Mike Sharples (University of Nottingham, UK)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Sergio Gutierrez-Santos (London Knowledge Lab, Birkbeck College, UK)

Manolis Mavrikis (London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, UK)

Ido Roll (CWSEI, University of British Columbia, Canada)