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Hendrik Drachsler
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Special track on “Tools and resources for Lifelong Learning” (TORELL)
Personal Environments, Widgets and Connectors to support lifelong learning and open education
At the International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning, Hasselt, Belgium, 15 September – 17 September 2010
1. Organisers
- Hendrik Drachsler, Open Universiteit Nederlands, Netherlands
(Hendrik.Drachsler@ou.nl)
- Marco Kalz, Open Universiteit Nederlands, Netherlands
(marco.kalz@ou.nl)
- Wolfgang Greller, Open Universiteit Nederlands, 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)
2. Description
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” in Hasselt, Belgium.
For the interdisciplinary TORELL we ask for contributions on web services, connectors and other techniques that can be used as widgets to support lifelong learning and open education.
Nowadays, Internet users take advantage of personal environments where they can integrate various web services such as YouTube, Delicious, 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 are often based on technologies like text mining, semantic web, ontologies, natural language processing, and other data mining techniques. They support the exchange of ideas, exploration of content, the annotation and connection of learners and open educational resources (OER). They are suitable to train certain competences, visualize certain domain knowledge, or combine information from different information providers in a single widget.
3. Topics of interest
We ask for contributions that focus on, but are not limited to, one of the following 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 technology 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
4. Important dates
- Submission deadline (8 pages): 30 June 201
- Notification of acceptance: 21 July 2010
- Camera-ready paper submission: 30 August 2010
- ICL 2009 conference: 15-17 September 2010
Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues.
Submission will be available through ICL submission system:
http://www.icl-conference.org/icl2010/
5. Publication
All accepted submissions will be published in the ICL2010 proceedings (with ISBN).
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 International Journal of Emerging Technology (iJET).
6. Steering Commitee
to be announced soon.
7. 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)
8. 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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