Exploring Emerging Technologies and the Future of of Technology Enhanced Learning. In conjunction with ICALT 2012. Rome, Italy 4-6 July 2012
3rd Workshop on Design Centered and Personalized Learning in Liquid and Ubiquitous Learning Places
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5th International Workshop on Social and Personalized Computing for Web Supported Learning Communities http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/dulpspel/index.php
Background
The proposed workshop is the result of merging the experience and background of two workshops centered on ubiquitous personalization and future visions in TEL: DULP and SPeL. Both workshops have as core topic the personalization of learning experiences as well as the future development of personalized learning environments. DULP stands for D -> Design Inspired Learning; U -> Ubiquitous Learning; L -> Liquid Learning Places; P -> Person in Place Centered Design, thus summarizing and bringing together a number of current trends and researchers. DULP started as a national effort in Rome, Italy, in 2009; after the first steps, an international community has been built, and a series of workshops started at ICALT 2010 and continued at ICALT 2011. The SPeL workshop has as general topic the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities, leading towards the creation of a truly social and adaptive learning environment. The workshop has been held during the last 4 years in conjunction with the SAINT 2008, WI/IAT 2009, DEXA 2010 and ICWL 2011 conferences respectively.
Topics of Interest
The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of emerging technologies and future of TEL, especially in the areas of personalized, social and ubiquitous learning, particularly related to:
* Social learning environments
* Theory and modeling of social computing in education
* Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning
* Lifelong learning networks
* Social- and group- learning theory
* Knowledge community formation and support
* Virtual spaces for learning communities
* Social networks analysis and mining
* Computer-supported collaborative learning
* Personalized and adaptive learning
* Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners
* Intelligent learner and group modeling
* Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios
* Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
* Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
* Social information retrieval
* Mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive e-learning applications
* Context modeling
* Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
* Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects
* Practice and experience sharing
* Future visions and models for ubiquitous learning in liquid learning places
* New generation of virtual and physical learning places
Paper submission and publication
All accepted workshop papers will be included in the IEEE Conference Proceedings of ICALT, published by IEEE Computer Society.
The length of the workshop papers should not exceed 2 pages and should be formatted according to the IEEE Conference Publishing Services Formatting
All papers will go through a double-blind reviewing process and will be reviewed by three program committee members. Therefore, please make sure that your paper does not include your name/affiliation when you submit it for review.
Important dates
February 15, 2012 Workshop paper submission
March 5, 2012 Workshop paper notification
March 15, 2012 Author registration
April 1, 2012 Camera-Ready paper submission
Workshop Chairs
Alke Martens, PH Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education, Germany
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Ming-Puu Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Ben Chang, National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Tsung-Yen Chuang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan