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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Special track on 'Tools and resources for Lifelong Learning' (TORELL)
Personal Environments, Widgets and Connectors to support lifelong
learning and open education
http://bit.ly/caNevJ

At the International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning,
Hasselt, Belgium, 15 September - 17 September 2010
http://www.icl-conference.org/icl2010/

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SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL TRACK

The special track 'Tools and resources for Lifelong Learning (TORELL) - Personal Environments, Widgets and Connectors to support learning and open education' takes place at the 'International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning 2010 (ICL)' in Hasselt, Belgium.

For the interdisciplinary workshop TORELL we ask for contributions on web services, connectors and other techniques that can be offered through widgets to support lifelong learning and open education. Internet users increasingly take advantage of personal environments where they can integrate various web services such as YouTube, Delicious, or RSS feeds. Personal environments like iGoogle, Netvibes or Pageflakes act like a container where users can add their most favorite Web2.0 services, rather than browsing to each of them separately. A personal environment presents the Web2.0 services in a condensed view so that the users do not have to browse to each of the services separately. Web services can easily be plugged into the personal environment by using a widget standard. A widget - also called gadget, badge, module, webjit, capsule, snippet, app, portlet, mini or flake - can have many shapes and sizes and runs on different platforms as web or desktop widgets. Especially, web widgets have a broad application area; they can be applied in social networking software like Facebook and LinkedIn but also in Elgg, Content Management Systems like Drupal, and blogging software like Wordpress. Widgets often utilize technologies form areas like text mining, semantic web, ontologies, natural language processing, and other data mining techniques. They support the exchange of ideas, exploration and search of content, annotation or connection of learners and open educational resources (OER). They are suitable to train specific competences, visualize  domain knowledge, or combine information from different information providers in a single widget.

TOPICS

* Widgets that are based on text mining, semantic web, ontologies, natural language processing or other data mining techniques
* Widgets or web services that support communities of learners (e.g. OER communities)
* Best practices and working examples with educational widgets
* Conceptual studies on developing educational widgets
* Widgets for formal or non-formal learning
* Widgets for knowledge sharing in cooperate environments
* Social Media applications and OER
* Educational Mashups with OER
* New technologies and tools for widget development
* Recommender systems for widgets
* Widgets for mobile devices
* Current and future developments concerning technology and pedagogy for widgets
* Remote authoring scenarios
* Folksonomies and Social Metadata
* Demonstration of prototypes

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 30 June 2010
Notification of acceptance: 21 July 2010
Camera-ready paper submission: 30 August 2010
ICL 2010 conference: 15-17 September 2010

SUBMISSIONS

The Workshop accepts a variety of submission types:

* Full papers: 8 pages
* Short papers: 4 pages
* System/service demos: 2 pages

Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. Submission is available through the submission system of the ICL conference https://www.conftool.com/icl-conference/.

PUBLICATION

All accepted submissions will be published in the ICL2010 proceedings (with ISBN). Outstanding contributions have the opportunity to be published in a Special Issue in an international journal such as the International Journal of Emerging Technology (iJET).

CO-CHAIRS

* Hendrik Drachsler, Open Universiteit Nederland, The Netherlands (Hendrik.Drachsler@ou.nl)
* Marco Kalz, Open Universiteit Nederland, The Netherlands (marco.kalz@ou.nl)
* Wolfgang Greller, Open Universiteit Nederland, The Netherlands (wolfgang.greller@ou.nl)
* Fridolin Wild, The Open University, UK (f.wild@open.ac.uk)
* Uta Schwertel, IMC AG, Germany (uta.schwertel@im-c.de)
* Jan Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finnland (jan.pawlowski@jyu.fi)

STEERING COMMITTEE

* Elisabetta Parodi (Giunti Labs)
* Katja Niemann (Fraunhofer FIT)
* Alexander Mikroyannidis (OUUK)
* Philippe Dessus (Université Pierre Mendès)
* Bernhard Hoisl (Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration)
* Katrina Maxwell (Insead)
* Stefan Trausan-Matu (Politechnica University of Bucharest)
* Rob Nadolski (OUNL)

ABOUT ICL 2010

The 13th International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning has a special focus on Academic and Corporate E-Learning in a Global Context It will take place in Hasselt, Belgium, September 15 - 17, 2010. (www.icl-conference.org)

This interdisciplinary conference aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in interactive computer aided learning, in higher education and in corporate context, and seen in a global context.

The conference will be organized by the University of Hasselt, Belgium in cooperation with:
* IEEE Education Society
* International E-Learning Association (IELA)
* European Learning Industry Group (ELIG)
* European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN)
* International Society of Engineering Education (IGIP)
* International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)
* European Institute of E-Learning (EifEL)
* European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)

Topics of Interest

* Web based learning (WBL)
* Adaptive and intuitive environments
* Responsive environments
* Semantic metadata for e-learning
* Mobile learning environments and applications
* Computer aided language learning incorporating AI techniques (ICALL)
* Platforms and authoring tools
* Educational MashUps
* Knowledge management and learning
* Educational Virtual Environments
* Collaborative learning
* Applications of the Semantic Web
* E-Portfolios
* Standards and styleguides
* Remote and virtual laboratories
* Multimedia applications and virtual reality
* Pedagogical and psychological issues
* Evaluation and outcomes assessment
* New learning models and applications
* Cost-effectiveness and others

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