EWFE 2012 - Emerging Web Technologies, Facing the Future of Education

Emerging Web Technologies, Facing the Future of Education
http://eductice.ens-lyon.fr/EducTice/ressources/jo...
half day 16th april 2012, afternoon, Lyon, France
Workshop in conjunction with www2012 conference
This workshop will be held in connection with LiLe 2012
Download the CFP
Workshop topic and themes
The Net Generation, Y Generation, C Generation, digital natives... there are
many terms ? several controversial - used to name youth who were born into a
world where the Internet is of great importance. These terms issue from a huge
body of studies that focus on youth and digital culture (CEFRIO, 2011; Ito et
al., 2008; Lenhart et al., 2008), on the emerging knowledge society (UNESCO
2005) and that illustrate a wide consensus on how new media are altering the
way youth learn and socialize. They demonstrate that teachers face a new
audience engaged in tagging, searching, gaming, multitasking, social
networking and collaborating through Web 2.0-related activities. Indeed, youth
appear more engaged in digital networks where they can create content, share
knowledge and expertise, access cultural artefacts or remix existing material,
realizing the Papert’s prophecy (1980).
Emerging Web technologies clearly offer new opportunities to learners but
there are surprisingly few examples of such uses at school and little evidence
of their impact in education. Although teachers are not entirely out of this
movement as a growing number of them are engaged in online networks that
foster professional development and where they share “living” teaching
resources (Gueudet et al. 2011) and best practices, most schools are still
focused on training autonomous problem-solvers whereas there is a growing need
for creativity, teamwork and collaboration skills within multidisciplinary
networks in order to solve the kind of problems faced by an increasingly
complex world. Thus, there is a growing gap separating youth digital culture
from mainstream academic school culture.
In line with the www2012 conference, this workshop aims at understanding the
real impact of emerging Web technologies in transforming education. It will
offer researchers and practicioners the opportunity to share their knowledge
and expertise in putting forward new models of teaching and learning in the
Internet Age. The aim is to bridge the gap between youth digital culture and
school culture in order to face the new and complex challenges being addressed
by educators in the knowledge society. The workshop will be complementary to
LiLe 2012.
Papers focusing on concrete applications of emerging Web technologies are
particularly welcome, as well as more theoretical and position position papers
with a special focus on introducing social media in education.
References
CEFRIO. (2011). Les "C" en tant que citoyens. Génération C, 1(1).
Gueudet, G., Pepin, B., & Trouche, L. (eds.) (2011). From Textbooks to ‘Lived’
Resources: Mathematics Curriculum Materials and Teacher Documentation, New
York, Springer.
Ito, M., Horst, H., Bittanti, M., Boyd, D., Herr-Stephenson, B., Lange, P., &
Robinson, L. (2008). Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings
from the Digital Youth Project. Chicago: MacArthur Foundation.
Lenhart, A., Kahne, J., Middaugh, E., Rankin Macgill, A., Evans, C., & Vitak,
J. (2008). Teens, Video Games and Civics Pew Internet and American Life
Project. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center.
Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas. NY:
Basic Books.
UNESCO (2005). Towards knowledge societies (UNESCO World Report). Retrieved
June, 26th, 2011, from http://www.unesco.org/en/worldreport
Chairs
Vladan Devedzic, FOS - School of Business Administration, University of
Belgrade, Serbia
Vladan Devedzic is a Professor of Computer Science with the Department of
Software Engineering, FON - School of Business Administration, University of
Belgrade. His current professional and research interests include knowledge
modeling, software engineering, and application of artificial intelligence to
education. He is a member of the International Society for Artificial
Intelligence in Education (AIED). So far, he has published about 320 research
papers, both at prestigeous research journals and at international
conferences, and 3 monographs for Springer. He has organized and chaired one
workshop at an international conference himself (Workshop on Intelligence and
Technology in Educational Applications, ITEA 2002, Innsbruck, Austria,
February 2002), ad has been a program co-chair at three other international
conferences/workshops (International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring
Systems, ITS 2004 (30 August-03 September 2004, Maceió-Alagoas, Brazil),
Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for Web-based ITS,
SW-EL'04: Semantic Web for E-Learning, August 30, 2004; Intelligence and
Technology in Educational Applications 2004, Special Session at the Eighth
International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information &
Engineering Systems (KES2004), Wellington, New Zealand, September 2004; 3rd
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2003),
Athens, Greece, July 9-11, 2003).
Publications: http://devedzic.fon.rs/Publications.html
Denis Gillet, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Denis Gillet leads the React interdisciplinary research Group at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). His research interests
include Technologies Enhanced Learning (TEL), Human-Computer Interaction
(HCI), Engineering Education, as well as Coordination of Distributed Systems.
His current research focus is on personal learning environments and contextual
recommender systems, with applications to on-line engineering education and
knowledge management. Dr. Gillet is an Executive of the STELLAR European
Network of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning. He has also a leading
position in the ROLE European Integrated Project on Responsive Open Learning
Environments. Dr. Gillet is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Learning Technoloigies (TLT) and of the International Journal of Technology
Enhanced Learning. He was Programme Chair of the last European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL'11).
Publications: http://people.epfl.ch/Denis.Gillet
Eric Sanchez, EducTice-S2HEP, Institut français de l'Education, Ecole
Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Eric Sanchez is Associate Professor, head of EducTice, a research team of the
French Institute for Education (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon). He is also
adjunct Professor at the University of Sherbrooke (Canada). His research
relates to the use of ICT for educational purposes (simulation, serious games
and elearning). He teaches the educational uses of ICT in teachers training
programs (Universities of Lyon, Montpellier and Sherbrooke). He is member of
different researchers associations (IFIP, ATIEF, ACFAS) and expert for the
European Commission (KA3 ICT LLP).
He has published many papers in research journals and international
conferences and has been involved in many conference program and organization
committees (IIGWE 2011 Monbasa,Kenya, EIAH 2011, Mons, Belgium, ESERA 2011,
Lyon, Serious Game Worshop ACFAS 2011 for the last year)
Publications: http://comenius.blogspirit.com/communications-et-p...
Program committee
Christophe Batier, Université Lyon 1, France
Eric Bruillard, STEF, ENS de Cachan, IFé, France
Peter Brusilovsky, School of Information Sciences, University of
Pittsburgh, USA
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Valérie Emin, EducTice-S2HEP, IFE (ENSL), France
Jean Gabin Ntebutse, Université de Sherbrooke, Qc, Canada
Monique Grandbastien, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy1, France
Jelena Jovanovic, FOS - University of Belgrade, Serbia
Elise Lavoué, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
Agathe Merceron, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Christine Michel, INSA-Lyon, France
Michael Power, Université Laval à Québec, Qc, Canada
Milan Stankovic, hypios.com & Universite Paris-Sorbonne IV, Paris, France.
Luc Trouche, EducTice, IFE (ENSL), France
Steeve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, UK
Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik
FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Call for Papers
Submission format: short papers (up to 3 pages) or full papers (up to 6 pages)
All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to
the ACM format.
Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format via the EWFE2012
submission system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ewfe20....
Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality,
technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one
author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.
Contact email : ewfe2012-AT-easychair.org
Important dates
19 February 2012: Full & short research paper submission deadline
05 March 2012: Notification of acceptance
20 March 2012: Camera-ready paper
16 April 2012: Emerging Web 2012 workshop day
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Prof. Dr. Merceron, Agathe
Studiengangsleiterin Medieninformatik Online
Laborleiterin Online-Learning
Fachbereich VI (Computer Science Department)
Beuth Hochschule fuer Technik Berlin
http://public.beuth-hochschule.de/~merceron/