LINKEDLEARNING 2011 - LinkedLearning2011 - International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age

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Deadline: March 04, 2011 | Date: May 29, 2011-June 02, 2011

Venue/Country: Heraklion, Greece

Updated: 2011-02-14 15:06:19 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age

In conjunction with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2011)

Heraklion, Greece, 29 May - 02 June 2011

http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/meducator/linkedlearning -

IMPORTANT DATES

4 March 2011: Full & short research paper submission deadline (11:59pm Hawaiian time)

1 April 2011: Notification of acceptance

15 April 2011: Camera-ready paper

22 April 2011: Poster & demo submission deadline

29/30 May 2011: LinkedLearning 2011 workshop day

OVERVIEW

While sharing of open learning and educational resources on the Web became common practice throughout the last years a large amount of research was dedicated to interoperable eLearning repositories based on semantic technologies. However, although the Semantic Web has seen large-scale success in its recent incarnation as a Web of Linked Data, there is still only little adoption of the successful Linked Data principles in the eLearning domain. This workshop builds on the fundamental belief that the Linked Data approach has the potential to fulfill the eLearning vision of Web-scale interoperability of eLearning resources as well as highly personalised and adaptive eLearning applications. The workshop aims to become a highly interactive research forum for exploring the promises of the Web of Linked Data in technology-enhanced learning by gathering researchers from the Semantic

Web area as well as the field of eLearning.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome papers describing current trends on research in (a) how eLearning approaches take advantage of Linked Data on the Web and (b) how Linked Data principles and semantic technologies are being applied in eLearning contexts. Both rather application-oriented as well as rather theoretical papers are welcome. Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following:

Linked data for informal learning

Personalisation and context-awareness in eLearning

Usability and advanced user interfaces in learning environments and linked data

Light-weight eLearning metadata schemas

Exposing learning object metadata via RDF/SPARQL & service-oriented approaches

Semantic & syntactic mappings between eLearning metadata schemas and standards

Controlled vocabularies, ontologies and terminologies for eLearning

Personal & mobile learning environments and linked data

Learning flows and designs and linked data

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 and linked data

Collaborative learning and linked data

Linked-data driven social networking collaborative 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=linkedlearning2011

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. Further, we are considering a Journal special issue on the same topic which might provide opportunities to invite selected papers from the workshop.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Stefan Dietze, The Open University (UK)

Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University (UK)

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

Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá (Spain)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Soeren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany

Chara Balasubramaniam, St George's University London, UK

Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Charalampos Bratsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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

Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK

John Domingue, The Open University, UK & Semantic Technologies Insitute International, Austria.

Nikolas Dovrolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Eleni Kaldoudi,Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Tomi Kauppinen, University of Münster, Germany

Carsten Keßler, University of Münster, Germany

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Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research and Technology Network, Greece

Dave Millard, University of Southampton, UK

Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Germany

Mikael Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, UK

Davide Taibi, Institute for Educational Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Italy.

Vlad Tanasescu, University of Edinburgh, UK

Fridolin Wild, The Open University, UK

Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT.ICON, Germany

Hong Qing Yu, The Open University, UK

For further questions please contact Stefan Dietze (s.dietzeopen.ac.uk)