Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Mash-UP Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE-09) "Interoperable Widgets, Services, and Microformats to facilitate Competence Development".
Held at the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL09), Nice, France, September 29 - October 2, 2009
RATIONALE
A change in perspective can be certified in the recent years to technology-enhanced learning research and development: More and more learning applications on the web are putting the learner centre stage, not the organisation. They empower learners with capabilities to customize and even construct their own personal learning environments (PLEs).
These PLEs typically consist of distributed webapplications and services that support system-spanning collaborative and individual learning activities in formal as well as informal settings. These PLEs typically complement Learning Management Systems (LMS) with additional widgets, services, and data integrated from and with organization-external learning tools.
Consequently, the aim of this workshop is not to discuss the concepts 'PLE vs. LMS', but to focus more generally on how learning experiences can be enriched using mash-ups of widgets and services with microformats and how technology can help to respond automatically to competence level, need, or context. Moreover, the investigation of necessary competencies to deploy mash-up technologies, is dedicated special attention in this workshop.
Technologically speaking, this shift manifests in a learning web where information is distributed across sites and activities can easily encompass the use of a greater number of pages and services offered through web-based learning applications. Mash-ups, the 'frankensteining' of software artefacts and data, have emerged to be the software development approach for these long-tail and perpetual-beta niche markets. Core technologies facilitating this paradigm shift are Ajax, javascript-based widget-collections, and microformats that help to glue together public web APIs in individual applications. Interoperability is the enabler to allow these different components to be worked together facilitating the achievement of the underlying learning task.
In a wide range of European IST-funded research projects such as ROLE, iCoper, Stellar, LTfLL, Mature, Palette, OpenScout, and TENcompetence a rising passion for these technologies can be identified.
This workshop therefore serves as a forum to bring together researchers and developers from these projects and an open public that have an interest in understanding and engineering mash-up personal learning environments (MUPPLEs).
TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to):
* Visions: Architectures, Frameworks, Strategies, Models
* (Collaborative) Authoring Tools
* Data Interoperability: with e.g. Microformats, streaming data, mixed media data
* User Interfaces: Concepts, Metaphors, Workflows
* Development Methodologies
* Innovative Widgets and Services: e.g. for instruction, game-based learning, self-reflection, personal information
* Interoperability Standards for widgets, content recombination, configuration
* User Studies & Evaluation Methods: evaluating e.g. performance, usability, specific design features, training methods
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The aim of this workshop is to bring together the various research and development groups in technology-enhanced learning that currently focus on the development of the next generation learning environments - learning environments that put the individuum centre stage and empower learners with design capabilities by deploying modern mash-up principles to establish system-spanning interoperability.
As this approach is rather young, the workshop seeks to attract both research results and work in progress in order to chart out the current state-of-the-art of MUPPLEs in TEL and to define main enablers and future challenges. Naturally, it will serve as a forum for establishing new collaborations.
Using the presentations as impulses and continuing post-talk debates, the workshop will conclude the day with an open discussion exchanging ideas, summing up, and defining a medium- to long-term research agenda.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (8 pages), work-in-progress as short papers (max. 4 pages) or position statements (max. 2 pages). All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity, and quality.
The workshop proceedings will be published online as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. http://CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, with ISSN 1613-0073.
Furthermore, the workshop serves as stage for presenting a snapshot of the work on contributions planned to be submitted to the upcoming special issue on mash-up personal learning environments in the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtel).
All questions and submissions should be sent to: f.wild @ open.ac.uk
IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper Submission: July 31st, 2009
* Results Notification: August 15th, 2009
* Camera Ready Submission: September 15th, 2009
* Workshop Date: September 29th, 2009
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
* Abelardo Pardo (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
* Dai Griffith (University of Bolton, UK)
* Denis Gillet (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Effie Law (University of Leicester, United Kingdom)
* Felix Mödritscher (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
* Graham Atwell (Pontydysgu, United Kingdom)
* Gytis Cibulskis (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania)
* Mart Laanpere (Tallinn University, Estonia)
* Martin Wolpers (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
* Mohamed Amine Chatti (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
* Nikos Karacapilidis (University of Patras, Greece)
* Scott Wilson (University of Bolton, United Kingdom)
* Stephane Sire (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Tony Hirst (Open University, UK)
* Bernd Simon (Knowledge Markets)
* Jad Najjar (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
* Kai Hoever (IMC AG)
* Zuzana Bizonova (INT Paris)
* Jan M. Pawlowski (University of Jyväskylä)
ORGANISERS
* Marco Kalz (Open University, The Netherlands)
* Daniel Müller (IMC AG, Germany)
* Matthias Palmer (University of Upsala, Sweden)
* Fridolin Wild (The Open University, UK)
ABOUT EC-TEL09
After three successful EC-TEL conferences in 2006, 2007, and 2008, the Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to TEL, among them education, psychology, and computer science. The contributions will cover the design of innovative environments, the implementation of new technological solutions, results of empirical studies on socio-cognitive processes in learning, and field studies regarding the use of technologies in context.
EC-TEL is a competitive and broad forum for TEL research in Europe and beyond. In its specialised accompanying workshops and the highlighting main conference programme, EC-TEL09 provides unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and includes project meetings and discussions for ongoing and new research activities supported by the European Commission.
See http://www.ectel09.org/ for details.
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