ISEE'10 2010 - The 3rd Workshop on?Intelligent Support in Exploratory Environments ISEE 2010

The 3rd Workshop on?Intelligent Support in Exploratory Environments
In the International?Conference of the Learning Sciences (ISEE-AT-ICLS’10)

Striking a Balance Between Free and Guided?Exploration

https://sites.google.com/a/lkl.ac.uk/isee/isee-10

Deadline?for extended abstracts: March 15

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OBJECTIVES
Exploratory Learning?Environments (ELE) are virtual environments that
adhere to constructivist?theories of learning emphasizing learner
control. However, research suggests?that lack of sufficient explicit
support may undermine their effectiveness.?Advanced technologies
provide opportunities to supply learners with the right?information at
the right time. This workshop, 3rd in a series, focuses on?striking a
balance between free and guided exploration and provides a forum for
conceptualizing and raising requirements for intelligent support in
ELE.
The workshop is expected to lead to a special IJLS issue.
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TOPICS
While all relevant submissions are welcome, authors are?encouraged to
discuss the following aspects regarding intelligent support in
exploratory environments:
1.?Type of task:?What?tasks are best suitable for ELE? How should
these tasks be structured and?scaffolded?
2.?Learning?in ELE:?How do students learn in ELE? How do students
learn from?failed attempts? What makes productive vs. unproductive
learning trajectories??That is, what "floundering" or errors at the
domain level are useful,?vs. what errors waste students' time or cause
unnecessary confusion? How can we?tell these apart?
3.?Type?of support:?What support can aid students' learning without
reducing?critical features of constructivist learning?
4.?Timing?of support:?When should feedback be given? What type of
errors?requires intervention? How can a system identify these errors?
5.?Collaboration?scenarios:?What learning tasks can most benefit from
collaboration??How can collaborative work be supported?
6.?Support?for teachers:?What support do teachers need to attend to
the needs of?their students?
7.?Research?methods:?How can we assess different learning trajectories
in ELE??What techniques can be used to analyze students' learning
processes and?outcomes in real time and after the fact? How can we
best apply cognitive task?analysis, data mining, and other techniques,
to?answer the previous?questions?

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IMPORTANT?DATES:
??? ? ??Extended Abstract deadline:?March 15, 2010, midnight Hawaii time
??? ? ??Notification of acceptance:?March 30, 2010
??? ? ??Online Discussions start:?June 15, 2009
??? ? ??Workshop: half-day, Tuesday,?June 29, 2010 9:00AM ? 12:30PM

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WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop will be discussion-oriented, framed around?specific
questions. The aim therefore is to have fruitful discussion prior and
during?the workshop rather than a mini-conference format.
In particular, the methodology used will be based on an adaptation?of
the 'learning discussion forum' (aka Learning Cafe Methodology) which
involves?experts' introductions and group discussions ensuring that
all participants can?have a direct impact in addressing the workshop
questions. This methodology has?been successfully implemented in
previous conferences and editions of this workshop.

The workshop will conclude with plans for the future, one of?which
being a special IJLS issue on the topic based on the body of work
presented in this and previous workshops.

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SUBMISSION
Authors should submit extended abstracts that clearly?address one or
more of the questions to be explored at the workshop. We?especially
encourage submissions of work based on empirical data. All submissions
will be refereed in order to decide on acceptance.

Submissions should be 1-2 pages long and should include?title,
authors, and a summary of the authors’ contribution to the workshop in
relation?to one or more of the topics above. References and figures
can take up?to one additional page.??Papers?should be A4 or letter
size, with at?least 1” margins on each side, font size?12 points, and
space of 1.5 lines between lines. Accepted formats are pdf, doc,?rtf,
or odt.

The accepted abstracts will be discussed online prior to the?workshop
and form the basis for the discussions on the day of the workshop.

Submit your papers to?isee.icls10-AT-idoroll.org.

Thank you,
Workshop co-chairs:
??? ??Ido Roll (Carl Wieman Science Education?Initiative, University
of British Columbia, Canada)
??? ??Manolis Mavrikis (Institute of Education -?University of London, UK)
??? ??Sergio Gutiérrez Santos (Birkbeck College -?University of London, UK)

Advisory board:
??? ??Vincent Aleven (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
??? ??Ryan Baker (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
??? ??Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)
??? ??Wouter van Joolingen (University of Twente, The?Netherlands)
??? ??Ken Koedinger (Carnegie Mellon University)
??? ??Rose Luckin (London Knowledge Lab, UK)
??? ??Richard Noss (Institute of Education, UK)