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Call for Papers for a Young Researcher Special Issue (2012) on 

State-of-the-Art in TEL 

in the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL)

 

Guest Editors:

Peter Kraker, Know-Center / Graz University of Technology, Austria

Moshe Leiba, Tel Aviv University and Levinsky college of Education, Israel

Martina Rau, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Derick Leony, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Israel Gutiérrez Rojas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Dirk Börner, CELSTEC, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands

Antigoni Parmaxi, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Wolfgang Reinhardt, University of Paderborn, Germany

 

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The International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) invites paper submissions for a special issue targeting young researchers in the community of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). This call for papers encourages a review of state-of-the-art of TEL topics, topped with a description of the current and future work carried out by the authors doing research on these topics.

IJTEL fosters multidisciplinary discussion and research on TEL including learning at the individual, organisational, national, and global levels. The key objective of the IJTEL is to be the leading scholarly scientific journal for all those interested in researching and contributing to the technology enhanced learning landscape. For this reason, IJTEL delivers research articles, position papers, critical literature reviews, surveys, and case studies with the goal to:

● provide a holistic and multidisciplinary discussion on technology enhanced learning research issues;

● promote international research collaborations and exchange of ideas and know-how on technology enhanced learning;

● investigate strategies on how technology enhanced learning can promote sustainable development.

This special issue is directed to all young researchers such as post-graduate students, PhD. students and post-docs working in topics related to TEL both in academia and industry, and from different disciplines of the community (technologists, educationists, psychologists, etc.).

The purpose of this special issue is manifold: (a) to provide a better overview on TEL research lines; (b) to investigate and expand current TEL research themes; (c) to promote international and multidisciplinary collaboration and exchange of ideas among young researchers; (d) to encourage young researchers to formalise their research questions, topics, and methodologies.

Young researchers are invited to submit articles with reviews of the state-of-the-art research in any TEL-related area. Each focal area covered in this special issue shall provide an authoritative, timely, accessible, and critical overview on recent developments that are pertinent for TEL. The reviews should not only summarise existing literature, but analyse, synthesise, and interpret the state of the art in a novel framework for thought. For example this can be done:

● by identifying different theories and/or approaches;

● by classifying different research waves (see e.g. Lesk 1995);

● by elaborating different dimensions (see e.g. Sire et al. 2011);

● by developing a taxonomy;

● or by elaborating tensions, disagreements, etc. between the different works of the past.

It is furthermore expected that reviews are written from an interdisciplinary point of view. This means that every article is expected to provide references from at least three disciplines: education, psychology and technology. Furthermore, articles are required to include a section on research challenges that emerge from the state-of-the-art. These challenges must be substantiated by a concrete scenario. Articles that do not follow these basic guidelines will not be considered for publication.

Possible subjects include but are not restricted to the following:

● Effective learning strategies, models and methodologies

● Deployment of ICTs in educational practice

● Web 2.0 and TEL

● Semantic web and TEL

● Computer-supported collaborative learning

● TEL and knowledge management

● Emotional and motivational aspects of TEL

● Adaptive and personalised hypermedia for TEL

● Ubiquitous and pervasive technologies for TEL

● Intelligent Tutoring Systems and automated feedback

● TEL practices in different educational/learning contexts

● Policies for the promotion of TEL in education

● Educational Games

● 3D Virtual Environments

● Augmented Reality in TEL

● Connecting learners through TEL

● Orchestrating TEL

● Interoperability in TEL

● Learning analytics and educational data mining

● Formative assessment and feedback

● Ambient displays and wearable devices

● Visualization techniques for learning

● Awareness and reflection in TEL

All articles submitted for this special issue of the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) will be subject to a one-stage review process. Authors should submit a full article which will be subjected to a double blind peer review before publication. Articles must not exceed 15 pages, and in alignment with common standards for literature reviews, they are expected to include 50 or more references.

To submit a paper, authors have to register on TELeurope, login, and join the group “IJTEL Young Researcher Special Issue”. This call as well as the submission instructions can then be found on the group’s page “Call for Papers YRSI 2012″. Additionally, authors can use the group’s discussion section to outline, discuss, and get feedback on their initial ideas. Interested young researchers are explicitly encouraged to use alternative media (such as SlideShare, YouTube or Prezi) to express their ideas for a contribution in this Special Issue. This forum will be monitored and moderated by the guest editors of this special issue. Furthermore, the clinic provides a platform for furthering cross-fertilisation among authors. Authors who would like to invite co-authors to submit a joint paper can indicate that fact when discussing their ideas. People who are interested in a collaboration, can then express their interest and leave their contact information, so that the proposal’s responsible authors can contact them.

Important Dates:

● Submission deadline for full paper: 28/02/2012 extended to 15/03/2012

● Authors notification for full paper: 16/04/2012

● Final papers submission: 05/06/2012

References:

Lesk, M. 1996. The seven ages of information retrieval. UDT Occasional Papers, 5.

Sire, S., Bogdanov, E., Gillet, D., Palmer, M., et al. 2011. Introducing qualitative dimensions to analyse the usefulness of Web 2.0 platforms as PLEs. International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 3(1).

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1st International Workshop on Enhancing Learning with Ambient Displays and Visualization Techniques (ADVTEL-2011)

http://sites.google.com/site/advtel2011/

Held at the 6th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL11) in Palermo, Italy, September 20, 2011

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RATIONALE

Visualization techniques have been researched as a way to help people deal with the abundance of information. It makes use of the principles in Gestalt Theory that explains the human visual capacity, such as proximity, similarity, continuity, symmetry, closure and relative size. They rely on the design of effective and efficient interactive visual representations that users can manipulate to solve specific tasks themselves. This approach is especially useful when a person does not know what questions to ask about the data or when (s)he wants to ask better, more meaningful questions. At the same time displays have become a pervasive part of our environment in various manifestations. While they were traditionally used to (mainly visually) present information they also become more and more important as interfaces to access and interact with digital information. Following these developments, researchers have recently started to exploit the potential of ambient displays for learning purposes, research cognitive effects, and promote the interaction of learners with their environment.

In this workshop, we are looking for contributions in the intersection of Technology Enhanced Learning and

# Information visualization; that concentrates on the use of interactive visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition.

# Visual analytics; that aims to support analytical reasoning by interactive visual interfaces.

# Knowledge visualization; that uses visual representations to improve the transfer and creation of knowledge between people.

# Ambient Display Design; that supports individual and collaborative learning processes, problem solving and sense making.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST:

We believe that the intersection of both fields – i.e. visualization and Technology Enhanced Learning – can provoke exploration, insight and understanding. Therefore, suggested topics for contributions to our workshop include the use of existing and novel visualization techniques to the following, not limited list of application domains in TEL:

# Personalization, user modeling and adaptation,

# Science 2.0,

# Learning analytics,

# Self-reflected learning,

# Recommendation techniques,

# Mobile technologies,

# Tabletop technologies,

# Learning Object Repositories and its federations,

# Evaluation methods for visualization techniques,

# Social awareness,

# Practices of diverse Technology Enhanced Learning disciplines, and how visualization techniques can influence them,

# Exploration and exploratory search

# Design dimensions and patterns

# Theoretical approaches for embedding ambient learning displays in educational environments

# Evaluation methodologies

# Prototypical Implementations

# Experimental validations of ambient learning displays

# Sense making scenarios

# Problem Solving scenarios

# Information Awareness

# Personalization and Contextualization

# Feedback and changes in behavior

# Distributed Interaction

# Embodiment (into the physical environment)

# Ambient Intelligence

# Design guidelines

# Ambient Information Channel

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WORKSHOP FORMAT

Prior to the workshop, a dedicated group on TEL Europe (http://teleurope.eu/) will be opened to: facilitate discussions among participants before and after the conference; post submitted papers for an open peer review; post access to prototypes and applications; publish information and news about the workshop; collect reactions through social media on the workshop; create a special interest group that can be used after the workshop to collect ideas, evaluation subjects, etc.

Each presenter will be linked to related papers from other presenters and will be asked to compare how the works of others relate to their own work. We encourage the presentation of the work by giving a live demo to provoke true interactions within the workshop in an attempt to get away from the mini-conference format.

The results and discussions from the workshop will be summarized and analyzed in a short paper. Podcasts of the presentations will be disseminated through STELLAR.

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SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work. The following types of contributions will be possible:

# Short papers (3-5 pages) that state the position of the authors within the scope of the workshop and describe solution concepts, prototypes and work in progress, even when in very early and not yet mature state.

# Full papers: (8-12 pages) that describe problems, needs, novel approaches and frameworks within the scope of the workshop. In this category, empirical evaluation papers and industrial experience reports are welcome for submission.

The presentation of unfinished ideas, tools under development and especially failures is explicitly encouraged. This includes the presentation and discussion of tools and their real-world usability.

The recommended format for the contributions is Springer LNCS. Contributions should be submitted through EASY-CHAIR: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=advtel2011

We aim to publish workshop proceedings through CEUR-WS.org

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IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper Submission: July 20th, 2011

* Results Notification: August 17th, 2011

* Camera Ready Submission: September 1st, 2011

* Workshop Date: September 20th, 2011

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)

# Katrien Verbert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

# Andrew Vande Moere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

# Boris Müller, FH Potsdam, Germany

# Moritz Stefaner, Germany

# Wolfgang Reinhardt, Universität Paderborn, Germany

# Nikos Manouselis, AgroKnow, Greece

# Xavier Ochoa, ESPOL, Ecuador

# Martin Wolpers, FIT, Germany

# Dan Suthers, University of Hawaii, USA

# Mark van t’ Hooft, Kent State University, USA

# Chee-Kit Looi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

# Albrecht Schmidt, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany (tbc)

# Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan

# Tom Gross, University of Bamberg, Germany

# Ulrich Hoppe, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

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ORGANISERS

# Joris Klerkx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

# Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

# Eelco Herder, L3S

# Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen

# Fridolin Wild, KMi, The Open University

# Till Nagel, FH Potsdam

# Marcus Specht, Open Universiteit Nederland

# Marco Kalz, Open Universiteit Nederland

# Dirk Börner, Open Universiteit Nederland

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ABOUT EC-TEL 11

EC-TEL is a unique setting for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in Technology Enhanced Learning from Europe and other continents to meet together and exchange on the current challenges and advances in the field. At EC-TEL, experts and young researchers in Computer Science, Education, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Social Science, as well as entrepreneurs have the opportunity to establish collaborations, strengthen their links and cross-fertilize their core disciplines.

EC-TEL 2011 will push further the Ubiquitous Learning paradigm by not only tackling the challenges of exploiting new trendy devices in various contexts, but also by investigating ways to meet and support formally and informally the learners in their learning playgrounds and social environments thanks to innovative scenarios. See http://www.ec-tel.eu/ for details.

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MORE INFORMATION

http://sites.google.com/site/advtel2011/

Contact: joris.klerkx@cs.kuleuven.be