5th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning (ARTEL 2015)

***Call for papers***
5th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology Enhanced Learning
(ARTEL 2015) to be held in the context of the EC-TEL 2015, Toledo,
Spain: 15 September 2015 (Tuesday).
Workshop webpage: http://teleurope.eu/artel15
Twitter hashtag: #artel15

*Rationale*
Awareness and reflection are viewed differently across the disciplines
informing Technology Enhanced Learning (CSCW, psychology, educational
sciences, computer science and others). The ARTEL workshop series brings
together researchers and professionals from different backgrounds to
provide a forum for discussing the multi-faceted area of awareness and
reflection. 2015 will be the 5th workshop in the series.

Through the last ARTEL workshops at EC-TEL the addressed topics are
converging towards the usage of awareness and reflection in practice,
its implementation in modern organisations, its impact on learners and
questions of feasibility and sustainability for awareness and reflection
in education and work. To reflect the growing maturity of research in
ARTEL over the years this year’s topic particularly invites
contributions that deal with the application of awareness and reflection
in practice.

The motto of the workshop this year is:
‘Awareness and Reflection in Practice: How can awareness and reflection
technology become common in work practice and how does it change work
practices?’

The workshop aims at:
– Providing a forum for presenting and discussing research on awareness
and reflection in TEL.
– Creating an interactive experience that connects participants’
research, current tools or latest prototypes and models with real end
users’ learning experiences and requirements regarding reflection
technology.
– Creating an agenda for future ARTEL research and development.

Proceedings of the predecessor workshops are available via
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-790/ (2011), http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-931/ (2012),
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1103/ (2013), and http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1238/
(2014).

*Topics of interest*
– Theoretical discussion of awareness and reflection in TEL and related
concepts (e.g., collaborative learning, creativity techniques,
experiential learning, etc.).
– Methodologies to identify, study and analyse awareness and reflection
in the context of (technology-enhanced) learning (quantitative and
qualitative methods, learning analytics, visualisations etc.).
– Empirical studies about technology support for awareness and reflection.
– Technology (design, application, evaluation) supporting awareness and
reflection.
– Designing awareness and reflection in TEL applications and processes.
– Using awareness and reflection support to enhance the learning experience.
– Awareness of social context, knowledge, artefacts and processes.
– Awareness and reflection in specific contexts, such as higher
education, work-integrated learning, learning networks, etc.

*Submission*
Full papers: Description of novel theoretical, empirical or development
work on awareness and reflection in TEL, including a substantial
contribution to the field (up to 15 pages).
Work in progress: Ongoing research and current approaches on
investigating the field, with initial insights for the community. This
especially includes papers to be submitted to the IJTEL special issue
(see below), which the authors want to discuss in a preliminary state at
the workshop (up to 7 pages).
Demos: Prototypes, design studies and tools for the support of awareness
and reflection in TEL, which can be demoed and discussed (up to 3 pages).

All contributions will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the
programme committee evaluating their originality, significance, and
rigour. The papers will be published in the CEUR workshop proceedings
(http://ceur-ws.org). Submissions should use the Springer LNCS template
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Please submit your paper via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=artel2015

*Special issue*
In 2015 the workshop will be accompanied by a special issue on Awareness
and Reflection in TEL published in IJTEL:
http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2965. We will
especially invite the authors of the best papers from ARTEL 2015 and
previous editions to submit to the special issue.

*Important dates*
30.06.2015 Submission Deadline
10.08.2015 Notification of Acceptance
30.08.2015 Camera-Ready Papers
15.09.2015 Workshop
30.10.2015 Publication of Workshop Proceedings

*Organisers*
Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Alexander Mikroyannidis, The Open University, United Kingdom
Viktoria Pammer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Michael Prilla, University of Bochum, Germany
Thomas Ullmann, The Open University, United Kingdom

*Supporting projects*
LEARNING LAYERS: Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME
Clusters: http://learning-layers.eu/
weSPOT: Propagating scientific inquiry for science learning and
teaching: http://wespot-project.eu
EmployID: Scalable & cost-effective facilitation of professional
identity transformation in public employment services: http://employid.eu
BOOST: Business perfOrmance imprOvement through individual employee
Skills Training: http://www.boost-project.eu/
FORGE: Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) is a project
bringing the FIRE and eLearning worlds together: http://ict-forge.eu/
LACE: The Learning Analytics Community Exchange: http://www.laceproject.eu/

*Social platform*
To stay tuned, consider joining the ARTEL social space on TELeurope:
http://teleurope.eu/artel
It is easy to join. First register an account on http://teleurope.eu and
then join the group on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced
Learning.

*EC-TEL*
The workshop will take place as part of the 10th European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL), will take place in Toledo, Spain,
September 15-18, 2015.
The overall theme of EC-TEL 2015 will be Design for Teaching and
Learning in a Networked World.
Developments in information and communication technology, for example
new communication patterns like in social applications, mobile devices
and ubiquitous network access, together with social and economical
changes lead to a networked world. The increasing networking in
different scales from global to local is having a profound effect on
learning and teaching. It makes new forms of collaborative and
personalized learning experiences reality. Learners shift between
formal, non-formal and informal learning. They come together in
different social settings and communities. Teachers roles are also
subject to change.
There is a pressing need to shape learning arrangements in such a way
that they exploit the potentials and meet the requirements of a
networked world. To address these challenges the theme of EC-TEL 2015 is
‘Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World’.
For more information visit http://www.ec-tel.eu