SIRTEL'09: 3rd Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology-Enhanced Learning

Paper Submission by June 14, 2009
in the International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL) 2009
Aachen, Germany, August 21, 2009
http://celstec.org/sirtel

IMPORTANT DATES

Contribution Submission: June 14, 2009
Results Notification: July 13, 2009
Camera Ready Submission: July 31, 2009
Workshop date: August 21, 2009

CALL FOR WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS

We are delighted to welcome exciting new contributions for the 3rd SIRTEL workshop
- Research papers
- System Demos
- Hands-On proposals
- Abstracts for "Pecha Kucha"


RATIONALE

Learning and teaching resource are available on the Web - both in terms of digital learning content and people resources (e.g. other learners, experts, tutors). They can be used to facilitate teaching and learning tasks. The remaining challenge is to develop, deploy and evaluate Social information retrieval (SIR) methods, techniques and systems that provide learners and teachers with guidance in potentially overwhelming variety of choices.

The aim of the SIRTEL’09 workshop is to look onward beyond recent achievements to discuss specific topics, emerging research issues, new trends and endeavors in SIR for TEL. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to present, and more importantly, to discuss the current status of research in SIR and TEL and its implications for science and teaching.

The proceedings from the last years:
· SIRTEL'07 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-307
· SIRTEL'08 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-382


TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to):

• Recommender systems and collaborative filtering in educational settings
• Defining the scope, purpose and objects of social information retrieval in TEL
• Novel ways of generating input for recommenders (explicit and implicit methods)
• Ranking of search results to support individualised learning needs
• Integrating SIR services in existing educational platforms
• Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based information retrieval systems
• Social navigation processes and metaphors for searching information related to teaching and learning
• Social networks and interactions in learning communities to facilitate information sharing and retrieval
• Approaches to TEL metadata reflecting social ties and collaborative experiences in the field of education
• Pedagogic decisions, recommender systems and how to contextualise recommender system to support learning processes.
• Interoperability of SIR systems for TEL
• Visualisation techniques 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 SUBMISSIONS

The workshop invites several types of contributions which allow a wide level of participation:
· Research papers (upto 8 pages)
· System Demos (upto 2 pages)
· Hands-On proposals (1-pager)
· Abstract for Pecha Kucha (1-pager)

The workshop proceedings will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings online at http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/. Copy rights will be reserved.

Please use the same template as the one for the main conference with details at http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2009/submission.html. Workshop paper length is not limited.

All questions and submissions should be sent to: sirtelworkshop@gmail.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Brandon Muramatsu, MIT, USA
• Frans van Assche, European Schoolnet, Belgium
• John Dron, Athabasca University, Canada
• Lloyd Rutledge, OUNL, The Netherlands
• Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Markus Weimer, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
• Martin Wolpers, Fraonhofer-Institut, Germany
• Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain
• Olga Santos, UNED, Spain
• Rick D. Hangartner, MyStrands,USA
• Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Styliani Kleanthous, University of Leeds, UK
• Tiffany Tang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Wolfgang Reinhardt, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador
• Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Zinayida Petrushyna, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

ORGANISERS

* Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium and CELSTEC, OUNL, Netherland
* Hendrik Drachsler, CELSTEC, OUNL,The Netherlands
* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network
* Rob Koper, CELSTEC, OUNL, The Netherlands


ABOUT ICWL 2009

ICWL is an annual international conference on web-based learning. Since the first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002, it has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004), Hong Kong (2005), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), and China (2008). The 8th ICWL 2009 will be held in Aachen, Germany, a city with rich culture, high-tech research, and a truly European spirit. ICWL 2009 will be jointly organized by Hong Kong Web Society, RWTH Aachen University, and Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science.
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