ELSM 2011 - The First International Workshop on Enhancing Learning with Social Media (ELSM 2011)

Social computing and multimedia networking infrastructure have changed human behaviour. One typical instance is Education. The impact of distance learning to traditional universities in particular allows educational professionals to rethink about how to efficiently and effectively apply up-to-date computing paradigm and technologies to improve instruction, as well as to encourage students to learn. The use of social media has recently become an emerging issue to be adopted in distance learning, various considerations should be carefully identified from both pedagogical and technological perspectives, to ensure the successful incorporation of these technologies in distance learning.

The First International workshop on Enhancing Learning with Social Media (ELSM 2011) will be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2011) in Beijing, China, during December 8-10, 2011. The workshop aims at providing a forum to discuss problems, current studies, and solutions on how the social media and corresponding computing technologies are applied to enhance learning paradigm. Researchers are encouraged to share achievements, experiments, and ideas with international participants, and furthermore, look forward to map out the research directions and collaboration in the future.

1. List of specific topics of interest
The workshop proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, as a separate volume, and will be indexed by Engineering Index (Ei Compendex). Topics of interests include but are not limited to the following:
! Knowledge Creation, Sharing, And Management Via Social Networking
! Validation And Verification Of User-Generated Learning Content! Location-Based Social Collaborative Learning
! Social Edutainment Technologies
! Media or Tools to Implement Social Learning Network
! Design of System and Server Infrastructure for Social Learning
! Pedagogical Issues Of Using Social Media In Distance Learning
! Usability Study Of Using Social Media In Distance Learning
! Context-Aware Learning Environments
! Social Computing in E-Learning
2) Important Dates
The tentative important dates of the workshop is listed below.
Paper Submission: 20 September, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: 30 September, 2011
Final Manuscript Due 15 October, 2011
3) Workshop URL
http://elsm2011.mine.tku.edu.tw/