The
use of Information Technologies in Education has been extensively
researched in the past few years with a plethora of solutions already in
use by numerous organizations. However, user-adoption difficulties in
real situations has only demonstrated that the primary need is the
design of techniques and tools that have a real practical impact and
facilitate a paradigm shift in the educational model. This shift in the
Educational paradigm is focused on knowledge construction, which will
enhance, not replace, the classic information transfer paradigm. The
management of knowledge in Educational contexts enables social learning,
active collaboration among human peers and especially enhanced
presence. The next generation of Information technology tools in
Education will facilitate the transformation of information into
knowledge, by humans as well as - progressively - by software agents,
providing the electronic underpinning for a global society in business,
government, research, science and education.
Artificial
Intelligence can be a major enabling technology for this type of
Educational paradigm. AI's application in Education is one of the oldest
yet still promising and most exciting research topics with a
significant practical impact. Especially Knowledge Management has yet
much to offer in the way computing in education is used. The goal of the
Workshop is to assess the impact of Knowledge Management to current
Educational practices and more significantly, to identify opportunities,
benefits and drawbacks to current practices that will permit progress
beyond the state of the art.
The
Workshop aims at addressing theoretical and practical issues concerning
new trends in knowledge discovery, acquisition representation, sharing
and reuse. By accepting original contributions from platform and tool
providers, researchers and system developers from academia and industry
it seeks to be a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences, sharing of
best practices and fostering further development in the application of
AI in Education.
The workshop topics include but are not limited to the following applications of AI in Education:
· Knowledge discovery, modeling, visualization, sharing and reuse
· Knowledge Management and Social Learning
· Knowledge-based Learning Systems
· Knowledge Relationship Discovery and Statistical Relational Learning
· Learning theory and Knowledge Management
· Knowledge Management and Learning Content
· Knowledge management, sharing and reuse in Virtual Communities
· Data mining techniques for Knowledge discovery
· Ontology design, reuse and population
· Machine Learning and Probabilistic Theory for adaptation techniques
· Modeling user motivations and goals
· Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management in Education
Program Chairs Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece, kameas@eap.gr
Antonia Stefani, Hellenic Open University, Greece, stefani@eap.gr
Program Committee Andreas Andreou, Cyprus Yacine Bellik, France Stavros Demetriades, Greece Hani Hagras, UK Thanos Kakarountas, Greece Dimitris Kalles, Greece Wolfgang Minker, Germany Eleni Rossiou, Greece George Roussos, UK Spyros Sioutas, Greece Vassilis Vassileiades, Greece Michael Weber, Germany Ioannis Zaharakis, Greece (to be completed)
Submission All papers should be submitted via the link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aieia2012.
Papers should be submitted either in a doc or in a pdf format. They
will be peer reviewed by at least 2 referees. Papers should not exceed
10 pages formatted according to the LNCS Springer style.
Publication
Accepted
papers will be presented orally in the conference for 20 minutes and
they will be published in the Proceedings of the main event. They will
be also considered for potential selection for publication in the
Special Issues that will be edited.
Important Dates
Paper submission: April 29, 2012 (use the link https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aieia2012)
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 26, 2012
Camera-ready submission: June 4, 2012
Early registration: June 4, 2012
Workshop dates: To be announced
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