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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (RecSysTEL)
Barcelona, Spain, 29-30 September 2010

Organised jointly by
- 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010)
- 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010)

http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/recsystel2010/

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AIM & TOPICS

Technology enhanced learning (TEL) aims to design, develop and test socio-technical innovations
that will support and enhance learning practices of both individuals and organisations.
It is an application domain that generally addresses all types of technology research & development
aiming to support of teaching and learning activities. Information retrieval is a pivotal activity in TEL,
and the deployment of recommender systems has attracted increased interest during the past years.

Recommendation methods, techniques and systems open an interesting new approach
to facilitate and support learning and teaching. There are plenty a resource available on the Web,
both in terms of digital learning content and people resources (e.g. other learners, experts, tutors)
that can be used to facilitate teaching and learning tasks. The challenge is to develop, deploy
and evaluate systems that provide learners and teachers with meaningful guidance in order to
help identify suitable learning resources from a potentially overwhelming variety of choices.

The aim of the Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on
topics related to the design, development and testing of recommender systems in educational settings
as well as present the current status of research in this area and create cross-disciplinary liaisons
between the RecSys and EC-TEL communities. Overall, it aims to outline the rich potential of TEL
as an application area for recommender systems, as well as expose participants to the challenges
of developing such systems in a TEL context.

Topics include but are not limited to:

* User tasks to be supported by recommender systems in TEL
* Focus of recommendation in TEL
* Requirements for the deployment of TEL recommender systems
* Publicly available data sets for TEL recommender systems
* Recommendation algorithms and systems for TEL
* Transfer of successful algorithms and systems from other application areas
* Evaluation criteria and methods for TEL recommender systems
* Development of TEL related data sets

IMPORTANT DATES

20 June 2010: Submissions
16 July 2010: Notifications
1 August 2010: Camera-ready of accepted papers
29-30 September 2010: RecSysTEL Workshop in Barcelona

SUBMISSIONS

The Workshop accepts a variety of submission types:
* Full papers: 12 pages
* Short papers: 6 pages
* System/service demos: 2 pages
* TEL Data sets: 2 pages and data set file (specs/format to be announced soon)

PUBLICATION

Workshop proceedings will be published in a seperate volume by a publisher
that will be announced soon.

In addition, authors of best full papers will be invited to submit a revised version
of their manuscripts for a Special Issue in a prestigious international journal  such as the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

CO-CHAIRS
* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network (Greece)
* Hendrik Drachsler, Open Universiteit Nederlands (The Netherlands)
* Katrien Verbert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
* Olga C. Santos, aDeNu - Spanish National University for Distance Education (Spain)

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