The Workshop on Intelligent and Innovative Support for Collaborative Learning Activities (WIISCOLA) aims at bringing together researchers from AI, semantic web and CSCL communities to think and share the vision of the next generation of systems that can support collaboration in educational settings.
WIISCOLA will be held on June 9th, in conjunction with the CSCL conference from June 8-13, 2009, at the University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece. See http://chocolato.org/wiiscola/

Topics of Interest
We are especially interested in topics that enhance current CSCL support systems in architectural, technological and philosophical levels, such as:
.    Architectures, frameworks and systems to design CSCL environments
.    Tools and languages to support CSCL scripts
.    Web 2.0 technologies applied to CSCL
.    Innovative ways to analyze students' interactions
.    New approaches for group/individual assessment
.    User modeling for CSCL
.    Semantic Web technologies to support CL
.    Leveraging Social Semantic Web in CL
.    AI in CSCL

o    Intelligent systems for CSCL
o    Data mining
o    Distributed systems
o    User interface
o    Ontologies
o    Agent technology
o    etc .

Submission
We invited authors to submit papers related to the topics of this workshop presenting novel ideas, critiques of existing works, practical studies and experiments. We especially encourage papers that stimulate discussion and facilitate exploration for the new directions of AI, Semantic Web, Web 2.0 in the context of CSCL research.
The papers should follow the same format of the conference papers available at: http://www.chocolato.org/camera-ready/wiiscola.doc
.    Paper length: 6 to 10 pages.
All papers must be submitted electronically to the e-mail: wiiscola@gmail.com (After submission, a confirmation message must be received).

Reviewing Process
This workshop aims to innovate the way how peer reviewing process is organized and foster collaboration among participants before and during the event. To promote active participation of authors, PC members and the interested community, the reviewing process will be organized as follows:

1.    All papers submitted to this workshop will be evaluated by members of the program committee.
2.    Then, to use the power of Web 2.0 tools, all papers will be opened to the public together with the comments of the reviewers.
3.    Participants, authors and other people interested in the topic will be invited to comment on the evaluation of the papers and make their own evaluation.
4.    Finally, the papers with the best evaluation from the committee and from the community will be invited to present their papers.

Important Dates
.    February 25: Paper Submission.
.    March 15: Program Committee Review.
.    March 30: Community review.
.    April 15: Notification of acceptance.
.    June 9: Presentations and Discussion at the conference site.