IAIED 2013 - Special Issue on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups

The new Editors of IJAIED are pleased to announce the CFP for our first Special Issue:
http://ijaied.org/journal/cfp/
Special Issue on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups
Manuscripts describing archival-quality, novel research are invited for the upcoming IJAIED Special Issue on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups (ISLG).
Special Issue Associate Editors
Jihie Kim jihie-AT-isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Rohit Kumar rkumar-AT-bbn.com Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA
Motivation & Scope
Advances in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) over the past two decades have enabled the development and deployment of highly effective learning technologies that support learners across a wide-range of domains and age-groups. On the other hand, research in collaborative learning has informed instructional approaches that leverage the pedagogical benefits of learning in groups (including dyads, small groups and teams) while transferring the use of these approaches to computer mediated environments is being actively studied in the field of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL).
In addition to the increased use of computing devices in traditional classrooms, technological advancements such as mass access to revolutionary communication technologies have prompted the adoption web-based tools (including discussion forums, wikis, social networks, chat, blogs and virtual worlds) for educational purposes. Educational service providers are deploying web-based platforms that allow students to access materials the supplement classroom instruction and allow students to share their learning experience with their peers. Hundreds of hours of high quality learning content and thousands of educational games accessible on mobile/tablet devices enrich learning interactions everyday.
Harmonious employment of these resources and scientific developments offer opportunities for breaking new ground in the use of advanced technologies for educational applications. Techniques developed for ITS (student/tutor/domain modeling, integrated assessment, tutorial dialog, automated scaffolding, data mining, pedagogical agents) can further improve the effectiveness of collaborative learning on the web as well as in the classrooms. On the other hand, multi-party interaction and web-based learning platforms presents AIEd researchers with exciting next generation challenges. The goal of this special issue is to aggregate high-quality scientific literature at the intersection of these learning technologies.
Important Dates
Notification of Intent(Abstracts due) January 15, 2013
Submission of Complete Manuscripts February 15, 2013
Notification of Acceptance April 15, 2013
Submission of Camera Ready Manuscript May 15, 2013
Publication of Special Issue May 31, 2013
Topics of interest
Key topics include those listed below. However, this is not an exhaustive list. Please contact the Special Issue Associate Editors for advice and clarification.
Adaptive support for Groups
Affect processing
Multi-party dialog
Scaffolding
Content creation
Automatic content extraction
Collaborative authoring on the web
Crowdsourcing
User-generated content
Instructional strategies
Argumentation
Peer mentoring
Recommendation systems
Interactive Collaboration systems
Interactions in single display groupware systems
Asynchronous vs. Real-time interaction
Collaborative learning in classrooms
Multi-participant educational games
Learning Environment: Platforms, devices, modalities, mobility …
Online communities
Peer web interactions
Pedagogical Agents
Team Training/Learning
Modeling groups/learners
Educational Data Mining
Making effective ad-hoc/long term groups
Online/Integrated/Automatic Assessment
Predicting student skills
Techniques for sensing and processing collaborative learning activity
Tools for Educators
Actionable Insights
Content administration
Report generation
Instructions for Submission
Authors are welcomed to submit unpublished manuscripts to this special issue of IJAIED. Papers that include previously published material (e.g. conference proceedings) should contain significant extension of the original material. These papers must cite that work and explain how this paper makes significant contributions beyond the previous work of the authors.
Submissions should follow IJAIED formatting guidelines (http://iaied.org/journal/authors/) and should use the provided Word and LaTex templates.
Authors interested in submitting papers to this special issue are encouraged to notify their intent by emailing the associate editors, jihie-AT-isi.edu and rkumar-AT-bbn.com as this will facilitate planning expedite the reviewing process.