September 19, 2007
Six word TEL SF story contribution
This is my contribution. Being biased, I do not take part in the competition, yet.
This story is a little bit older. It was a comment on a blog entry Mathias Lux has written. He inspired me to start this competition for the EC-TEL.
Magic? Technology? Who knows the difference?
Impressions from the Doctoral Consortium at EC-TEL 2007
Here are some impressions from the Doctoral Consortium at EC-TEL 2007 which took place yesterday.
September 18, 2007
Doctoral Consortium 2007 has started!
The doctoral consortium at EC-TEL 2007 has just started. Katherine Maillet opened the first sessions with presentations by Luis and Lasse.
September 17, 2007
EC-TEL 2007 Poster Session Proceedings available
Finally, and with some delay, we finally managed to make the poster session proceedings available. You’ll find them at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-280. For more information on CEUR-WS.org, please see their readme.html. In order to cite your paper, please use the following text:
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-280
Best regards,
Martin
Digital image sharing at EC-TEL 2007
If you upload any digital images concerning the EC-TEL 2007 in Crete, Greece on flickr.com or other image sharing services it would be great if you could tag it with ectel07. You can also propose other tags like gcoe (greatest conference on earth 🙂
Nevertheless, we will syndicate the images in this blog and in the EC-TEL website www.ectel07.org
September 14, 2007
Upload your presentation materials to the ECTEL wiki!
The ECTEL wiki is live: you can upload your presentation materials, the recording of your presentation, a link to your web site, … This is the age of UGC, so I am very much looking forward to your contributions here.
No more waiting for presentations authors promised they would send you, or no more searching in vain for the demo of the system you forgot to write down the name of, etc! Ask people to upload the stuff you ant to the wiki…
(Only three days left for the first workshops!)
September 12, 2007
Final Call For Participation EC-TEL 2007
EC-TEL 2007 – Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
“Creating new learning experiences on a global scale”
17-20 September 2007, Crete, Greece
http://www.ectel07.org/
FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Come join us for the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, from 17 to 20 September in Crete, Greece: four days of Serious Fun!
In one week almost 200 professionals, researchers and visionaries in the field of technology enhanced learning will meet in an unique atmosphere. To facilitate discussions and debate about creating new learning experiences on a global scale the conference has created exciting opportunities to communicate and contribute.
ONLINE PROCEEDINGS
– The conference proceedings are available to registered participants for four weeks around the conference week. Thanks to Springer for this opportunity.
– The workshop proceedings are online on http://www.ectel07.org
– The doctoral consortium proceedings are online on http://www.ectel07.org
WEB 2.0
– The EC-TEL 2007 blog is available at https://ectel07.wordpress.com
– The EC-TEL 2007 wiki is available at http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/ec-tel07/index.php/Main_Page
– Following Wired Magazine we are announcing a 6 word short story competition about the future of technology enhanced learning in a science fiction manner. A special price for the best story will be awarded by Bruce Sterling and Hermann Maurer. Please post your stories on https://ectel07.wordpress.com
KEYNOTES
– Bruce Sterling, professor at the European Graduate School and “visionary in residence” at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/
– Hermann Maurer is professor of computer science at the Technical University Graz in Austria.
http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/maurer
This year’s exciting program includes the following highlights:
– RESEARCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Several high ranking officials from the European Commission will present their views on technology enhanced learning, with a specific focus on research funding, the Framework Program 7 calls and other funding instruments.
– GLOBE
The GLOBE consortium of learning repository networks (http://globe-info.org/) will use its panel session to hold a public dialogue about your requirements for share and reuse and how it can address these. This will be a unique opportunity to learn more about this global community of repositories.
– INDUSTRY MEETS RESEARCH
There will be almost a full day of industrial sessions, where participants from IMC, BT, EADS, IDS, Synergetics and Giunti will present their experiences and lessons learned.
– TEL WORKSHOPS
Two days of workshops will precede the actual conference days: with topics ranging from social information retrieval to collaborative open environments for project-centered learning these workshops provide excellent opportunities for more in-depth presentations and discussion of specific TEL topics. Additionally a couple of project meetings will take place around EC-TEL 2007, e.g. the EducaNext Steering Committee Meeting and the PROLEARN Academy Meeting. If you are interested in ask for further arrangements.
– DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
The 2nd doctoral consortium will take place at Tuesday and offers an overview about innovative research approaches in Europe. The consortium is open and free of cost for all EC-TEL 2007 participants.
NOW IT IS UP TO YOU
If you have any comments or questions, then please do not hesitate to contact us!
Wolfgang Nejdl
General Chair
Erik Duval, Ralf Klamma
Programme Chairs
Konstantin Makropoulos
Local Organisation Chair
Martin Wolpers
Organizing Chair
Barbara Kieslinger
Publicity Chair
Frans van Assche
Workshop Chair
Volker Zimmermann
Industrial Session Chair
Katherine Maillet, Denis Gillet, Tomaz Klobucar, Ralf Klamma
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
September 11, 2007
Schedule for Doctoral Consortium at EC-TEL 2007
Katherine Maillet, Tomaz Klobucar, Denis Gillet and me have created now a schedule for the 2nd Doctoral Consortium in Technology Enhanced Learning at EC-TEL 2007. The Doctoral Consortium will take place on September 18, in Crete, Greece. The draft proceedings are available also.
9:00 – 9:30 OPENING SESSION
Welcome and Introduction to the Doctoral Consortium, Doctoral Consortium Chairs
9:30 – 10:30 TOOL DESIGN AND REPOSITORIES FOR TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING
- Integration in Generic Tool Learning Design to Support Complex Learning Methodologies, Luis de la Fuente Valentín
- Lifecycle Information Management for Learning Resources and Knowledge Documents, Lasse Lehmann
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 TECHNOLOGY FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
- Mobile Social Software with Context Awareness and Data Uncertainty for Technology-Enhanced Learning, Yiwei Cao
- A methodological proposal to analyse interactions in online collaborative learning environments, Manuela Repetto
- Organizational Collaborative Model of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Extended Enterprise Era, Lessons to Learn from a Large Automotive Company and its dealers’s network, Nouha Taifi
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30 PLATFORM ARCHITECTURES FOR TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING
- Model Driven E-learning Platform Integration, Zuzana Bizonova
- Service-oriented Knowledge Architectures –Integrating Learning and Business Information Systems, Katrina Leyking
- Knowledge Repositories for Rural Communities of Learning, Argiris Tzikopoulos
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 17:30 OPEN PhD FORUM
- Future research trends in TEPL
- Cross-domain research in TEPL
- PROLEARN Roadmap
- Evaluation
September 10, 2007
Call for Participation: Workshop LOKMOL 2007
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Call for Participation
3rd International Workshop on
Learner-Oriented Knowledge Management
&
KM-Oriented E-Learning
(LOKMOL 2007)
"Using Context and Web2.0 Approaches to Bridge the Gap"
Workshop affiliated to the European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning
(EC-TEL 2007)
18 September 2007, Crete, Greece. 9am-12.30am
(three invited talks and three paper presentations)
http://www.dfki.de/~memmel/lokmol2007
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MOTIVATION AND BACKGROUND
In spite of the close relationship between learning and knowledge, there is still a lack of cooperation between the fields of e-Learning and Knowledge Management (KM). Accordingly, LOKMOL 2005 brought together researchers and developers to discuss about the perceived connections between KM and e-Learning that are not yet sufficiently operationalised, i.e., the integration-ideas are rarely implemented in practice. The discussions showed that KM addresses learning mostly as part of knowledge sharing processes and focuses on specific forms of informal learning (e.g., learning in a community of practice) or on providing access to learning resources or experts. Last year, the focus lied on the use of techniques and applications arising in the Web2.0 context:
e.g., social software that enables individuals to tag content and act both as producers and consumers of content. So far, these technologies seem to have a positive impact in terms of community building, knowledge sharing, and content creation - even if their success hasn't been empirically proven. First questions arose during the workshop, to what degree these systems (e.g., Weblogs, Wikis, XML/RSS based content syndication and aggregation) support certain learning processes.
Technology-enhanced learning approaches develop more and more towards responsive environments that are embedded into the working process of individuals and existing organizational structures. Research has shown so far, that we have to cope with the challenge of gathering, describing, and using resources as well as context (information) about their creation and (re)use in order to drive the integration of KM and e-Learning technologies. Research has already been tackling the domain of context, for example related to context description, context matching, or context-based information delivery, but still needs a better integration into KM and e-Learning.
The aim of this year's workshop is to bring together experts who are willing to share their experience about their work about the (re-)use and repurposing of arbitrary types of existing resources and who provide insights about how context could help to develop forthcoming technology-enhanced approaches that integrate KM and e-Learning solutions for strategic as well as individual and (in-)formal competence development.
The workshop is based on the insight that KM technologies need to take into account findings from social sciences such as pedagogy or psychology, to be effective in terms of learning and that learning can profit from KM technologies. In fact, there is a gap between well organised, but monolithic and inert e-Learning material such as courseware on the one hand and dynamic and flexible knowledge bases that are often not able to activate learning processes on the other hand. An integration of KM and e-Learning, especially by using context-based technologies, could dramatically change today's understanding of further education towards lifelong learning fed by dynamically changing public and organizational knowledge repositories.
This workshop will continue the series of LOKMOL workshops and will build upon the results of the previous ones.
GOALS AND WORKSHOP QUESTIONS
The LOKMOL workshops is organised around three main types of questions, which have shown up as a good motivation and structure for discussion in the previous workshops.
* Methods: Which pedagogical approaches are suitable to facilitate learning from (heterogeneous) knowledge repositories? How can KM systems be enhanced to suit the learners' needs as well as pedagogical principles such as informal and self-directed learning? What kind of pedagogical theories, principles, and methods can be applied to compose learning material (semi-) automatically from knowledge chunks? In which way can context and Web2.0 approaches support current learning methods?
* Standards and technologies: Up to what extend do current KM and e-Learning technologies and standards (e.g., IMS Learning Design, SCORM reference model, LOM, Semantic Web standards) support an integration of learning and KM? What are the requirements of KM technologies in order to support personalisation by addressing the learners' needs and individual learning processes? What kind of technologies exist that combine stored knowledge (e.g., resources existing in the World Wide
Web) to learning material based on, e.g., instructional design models or didactic concepts? Which KM technologies, especially the ones focusing on the support of technical and organizational components, are useful to support professional e-Learning? How did context-based technologies influence e-Learning so far? How do Web2.0 technologies such as lightweight APIs enabling Mashups of existing services support the integration of KM and e-Learning?
* Empirical results and studies: Which empirical findings demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of learning material created in accordance with these methods and technologies? Are there any studies that describe the success or failures of the application of context and Web2.0 approaches in e-Learning?
TOPIC AREAS
* incorporating arbitrary types of resources for KM and e-Learning:
metadata concepts to represent resources and different views; (re-)using resources from heterogeneous repositories; frameworks and techniques to repurpose resources;
* context of creation, (re-)use and repurposing of resources:
representing and visualizing content; tracking context; contextual attention metadata; matching contexts; exploiting context information (e.g., for adaptation and personalisation);
* connecting content and components:
using (lightweight) semantic descriptions such as micro-formats to enable data exchange and interoperability; services and service-oriented architectures; mashups;
* users as content consumers and producers:
collaborative knowledge building and sharing; tools and architectures for authoring, annotating, storing and retrieving of user generated content; aspects of quality assurance; use of Wikis, Blogs, social bookmarking tools and folksonomies; encouraging user participation; establishing self-sustained communities;
TARGET GROUPS
The workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from relevant communities (technology enhanced learning, knowledge management, knowledge representation, information systems, personalisation, user modeling, psychology and pedagogy, etc.) to share their knowledge, results and expertise about their research on cross-disciplinary research approaches for e-Learning. In more detail, the workshop aims to discuss how suitable technologies (e.g., Web2.0, context-based methods) and designs can be used to integrate e-Learning with KM more efficiently and effectively.
The workshop language will be English.
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
Martin Memmel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI), Trippstader Straße 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany martin.memmel[at]dfki.uni-kl.de
Eric Ras, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany eric.ras[at]iese.fraunhofer.de
Martin Wolpers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Leuven, Belgium martin.wolpers[at]cs.kuleuven.be
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Andrea Back, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Nicola Henze, L3S, Hannover, Germany
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aaachen, Germany
Katrina Leyking, IWI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center, Graz, Austria
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, Hannover, Germany
Gabi Reinmann, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Andreas Schmidt, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany
Klaus Tochtermann, Know-Center Graz, Austria
Stephan Weibelzahl, National College of Ireland, Ireland
David Wiley, Utah State University, USA
Volker Zimmermann, IMC AG, Germany Best regards, Martin Memmel, Martin Wolpers, Eric Ras workshop organisers
Call for Participation
3rd International Workshop on
Learner-Oriented Knowledge Management
&
KM-Oriented E-Learning
(LOKMOL 2007)
“Using Context and Web2.0 Approaches to Bridge the Gap”
Workshop affiliated to the European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning
(EC-TEL 2007)
18 September 2007, Crete, Greece. 9am-12.30am
(three invited talks and three paper presentations)
http://www.ectel07.org/Workshops
MOTIVATION AND BACKGROUND
In spite of the close relationship between learning and knowledge, there is still a lack of cooperation between the fields of e-Learning and Knowledge Management (KM). Accordingly, LOKMOL 2005 brought together researchers and developers to discuss about the perceived connections between KM and e-Learning that are not yet sufficiently operationalised, i.e., the integration-ideas are rarely implemented in practice. The discussions showed that KM addresses learning mostly as part of knowledge sharing processes and focuses on specific forms of informal learning (e.g., learning in a community of practice) or on providing access to learning resources or experts. Last year, the focus lied on the use of techniques and applications arising in the Web2.0 context:
e.g., social software that enables individuals to tag content and act both as producers and consumers of content. So far, these technologies seem to have a positive impact in terms of community building, knowledge sharing, and content creation – even if their success hasn’t been empirically proven. First questions arose during the workshop, to what degree these systems (e.g., Weblogs, Wikis, XML/RSS based content syndication and aggregation) support certain learning processes.
Technology-enhanced learning approaches develop more and more towards responsive environments that are embedded into the working process of individuals and existing organizational structures. Research has shown so far, that we have to cope with the challenge of gathering, describing, and using resources as well as context (information) about their creation and (re)use in order to drive the integration of KM and e-Learning technologies. Research has already been tackling the domain of context, for example related to context description, context matching, or context-based information delivery, but still needs a better integration into KM and e-Learning.
The aim of this year’s workshop is to bring together experts who are willing to share their experience about their work about the (re-)use and repurposing of arbitrary types of existing resources and who provide insights about how context could help to develop forthcoming technology-enhanced approaches that integrate KM and e-Learning solutions for strategic as well as individual and (in-)formal competence development.
The workshop is based on the insight that KM technologies need to take into account findings from social sciences such as pedagogy or psychology, to be effective in terms of learning and that learning can profit from KM technologies. In fact, there is a gap between well organised, but monolithic and inert e-Learning material such as courseware on the one hand and dynamic and flexible knowledge bases that are often not able to activate learning processes on the other hand. An integration of KM and e-Learning, especially by using context-based technologies, could dramatically change today’s understanding of further education towards lifelong learning fed by dynamically changing public and organizational knowledge repositories.
This workshop will continue the series of LOKMOL workshops and will build upon the results of the previous ones.
GOALS AND WORKSHOP QUESTIONS
The LOKMOL workshops is organised around three main types of questions, which have shown up as a good motivation and structure for discussion in the previous workshops.
* Methods: Which pedagogical approaches are suitable to facilitate learning from (heterogeneous) knowledge repositories? How can KM systems be enhanced to suit the learners’ needs as well as pedagogical principles such as informal and self-directed learning? What kind of pedagogical theories, principles, and methods can be applied to compose learning material (semi-) automatically from knowledge chunks? In which way can context and Web2.0 approaches support current learning methods?
* Standards and technologies: Up to what extend do current KM and e-Learning technologies and standards (e.g., IMS Learning Design, SCORM reference model, LOM, Semantic Web standards) support an integration of learning and KM? What are the requirements of KM technologies in order to support personalisation by addressing the learners’ needs and individual learning processes? What kind of technologies exist that combine stored knowledge (e.g., resources existing in the World Wide
Web) to learning material based on, e.g., instructional design models or didactic concepts? Which KM technologies, especially the ones focusing on the support of technical and organizational components, are useful to support professional e-Learning? How did context-based technologies influence e-Learning so far? How do Web2.0 technologies such as lightweight APIs enabling Mashups of existing services support the integration of KM and e-Learning?
* Empirical results and studies: Which empirical findings demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of learning material created in accordance with these methods and technologies? Are there any studies that describe the success or failures of the application of context and Web2.0 approaches in e-Learning?
TOPIC AREAS
* incorporating arbitrary types of resources for KM and e-Learning:
metadata concepts to represent resources and different views; (re-)using resources from heterogeneous repositories; frameworks and techniques to repurpose resources;
* context of creation, (re-)use and repurposing of resources:
representing and visualizing content; tracking context; contextual attention metadata; matching contexts; exploiting context information (e.g., for adaptation and personalisation);
* connecting content and components:
using (lightweight) semantic descriptions such as micro-formats to enable data exchange and interoperability; services and service-oriented architectures; mashups;
* users as content consumers and producers:
collaborative knowledge building and sharing; tools and architectures for authoring, annotating, storing and retrieving of user generated content; aspects of quality assurance; use of Wikis, Blogs, social bookmarking tools and folksonomies; encouraging user participation; establishing self-sustained communities;
TARGET GROUPS
The workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from relevant communities (technology enhanced learning, knowledge management, knowledge representation, information systems, personalisation, user modeling, psychology and pedagogy, etc.) to share their knowledge, results and expertise about their research on cross-disciplinary research approaches for e-Learning. In more detail, the workshop aims to discuss how suitable technologies (e.g., Web2.0, context-based methods) and designs can be used to integrate e-Learning with KM more efficiently and effectively.
The workshop language will be English.
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
Martin Memmel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI), Trippstader Straße 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany martin.memmel[at]dfki.uni-kl.de
Eric Ras, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany eric.ras[at]iese.fraunhofer.de
Martin Wolpers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Leuven, Belgium martin.wolpers[at]cs.kuleuven.be
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Andrea Back, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Nicola Henze, L3S, Hannover, Germany (tbc)
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aaachen, Germany
Katrina Leyking, IWI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center, Graz, Austria
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, Hannover, Germany (tbc)
Gabi Reinmann, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Andreas Schmidt, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany
Klaus Tochtermann, Know-Center Graz, Austria (tbc)
Stephan Weibelzahl, National College of Ireland, Ireland
David Wiley, Utah State University, USA (tbc)
Volker Zimmermann, IMC AG, Germany
EC-TEL 2007 - Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 