DATATEL 2011 - Workshop on Data sets for Technology Enhanced Learning

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Category DATATEL 2011

Deadline: October 25, 2010 | Date: March 30, 2011-March 31, 2011

Venue/Country: La Clusaz, France

Updated: 2010-10-19 21:18:08 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

2nd STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous in La Clusaz, France

SCOPE

Personalisation and analysis of user interaction data is a key

approach to overcome the plethora of information in the knowledge

society. It is expected that personalised learning has the potential

to reduce delivery costs, to create more effective learning

environments and experiences, to accelerate study time, and to

increase collaboration between learners. Recommender systems and

information filtering are some of the promising technologies to

support people in finding most suitable information and peer learners.

They are increasingly applied in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) in

various European projects in order to personalise learning content and

connect suitable peer learners according to their context (e.g.,

individual needs, preferences, and learning goals).

In the world of consumer recommender systems, it is a common practise

to use different data sets as benchmarks to evaluate new recommender

systems algorithms (MovieLens, Book-Crossing, EachMovie data set). In

TEL, there are no standardised data sets publicly available, so that

the outcomes of different recommender systems within TEL are hardly

comparable.

So far, no universally valid knowledge exists on algorithm that can be

successfully applied in a certain learning setting. Having such data

sets could be a first major step towards a theory of personalisation

within TEL that can be based on empirical experiments with verifiable

and valid results.

Therefore, the objective of this workshop is to explore suitable data

sets for TEL ? with a specific focus on recommender and information

filtering systems that can take advantage of these data sets. In this

context, new challenges emerge like unclear legal protection rights

and privacy issues, suitable policies and formats to share data,

required pre-processing procedures and rules to create sharable data

sets, common evaluation criteria for recommender systems in TEL and

how a data set driven future in TEL could look like.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

- publicly available data sets for educational systems

- dealing with legal protection rights towards data sets on a European

level

- privacy preservation for educational data sets

- methods of effective anonymisation of educational data sets

- management and pre-processing procedures for educational data sets

- future scenarios for educational data sets

- impact of educational data sets for learners and teachers

- mash-ups based on educational data sets

- recommender approaches that are based on educational data

- evaluation methodologies and metrics for educational recommender

systems

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as papers

(4-8 pages). Demonstrations and Hands-on sessions are explicitly

encouraged. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least

three members of the program committee for originality, significance,

clarity, and quality. Re-worked versions of accepted submissions will

be published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and

Learning Objects (IJELLO). In addition, the authors are asked to

contribute short summaries of their submissions to the dataTEL group

space at TELeurope to encourage early information sharing and

discussion also with third persons.

Submission will be available through the EasyChair submission system:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datatel2011

All questions and submissions should be sent to: hendrik.drachslerou.nl

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

Based on workshop submissions, the organisers will identify 4 most

pressing research challenges. For each of the challenges, we will

allow around 2 hours discussion, started off through about two short

submission presentations or keynotes. The final 2 hours of the last

workshop day will be utilised to bring the results of the individual

discussions together and to chart a vision of the future of TEL

amplified by publicly available data sets.

FUNDING

Participants pay for their own travel and lodging. But we are able to

fund food and lodging for 3 nights as well as the community event on

Tuesday, March 29th for 10 participants. Please indicate your funding

needs with your submission.

ORGANIZERS

Katrien Verbert (K.U.Leuven, BE)

Riina Vuorikari (European Schoolnet, BE)

Stefanie Lindstaedt (KnowCenter, AT)

Martin Wolpers (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information

Technology, DE)

Miguel-Angel Sicilia (University of Alcalá, ES)

Nikos Manouselis (Greek Research and Technology Network, GR),

Hendrik Drachsler (Open University of the Netherlands, NL)

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of extended abstract (1000-2000 words): October 25th, 2010

Notification of acceptance of abstracts: November 15th, 2010

Submission of papers: December 17th, 2011

Workshop: March 30th to March 31st, 2011

IMPORTANT WEBSITES

dataTEL group space: http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/groups/9405/datatel/

The Alpine Rendez-Vous: http://www.stellarnet.eu/programme/wp3/rendez-vous

La Clusaz: http://www.laclusaz.com/hiver-winter10/index.php?lang=_uk

VENUE DETAILS

The second STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous (ARV) will take place in the

French Alps in the Massif des Arravis at a beautiful ski resort called

La Clusaz (hotel Alpen Roc). There will be some free time in the

afternoons for TEL community building during winter activities.

Funding for lodging and food will be available for a limited number of

participants.

THE ALPINE RENDEZ-VOUS

This 2011 STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous is the second event of a series.

It is organized and funded by STELLAR, a European network of

excellence on learning technologies (http://www.stellarnet.eu/). The

ARV is not a standard conference, but a set of independent workshops

located at the same time in the same hotel. Four workshops run in

parallel during the first part of the week and four during the second

part. It's called "Rendez-Vous" because shared events are organized in

the middle of the week (Tuesday evening) and because we set up breaks

and meals in a way that promotes informal encounters between

participants from the different workshops. Finally, it is called

"Alpine" because it gathers scientists in the Alps, away from their

workplace routines, in a place where snow is used as “social

facilitator."