ISLG 2015 - 4th Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups

4th Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups
at the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in
Education (AIED 2015)
June 22-26, 2015
Madrid, Spain
https://sites.google.com/site/aied2015islg/
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We are pleased to announce that the Fourth International Workshop on
Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups (ISLG) will be held as a part of
the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
(AIED 2015) in Madrid, Spain. The goal of this series of workshops is to
bring together Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) researchers with
learning sciences and computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL)
researchers to share approaches and exchange information about adaptive
intelligent collaborative learning support.
Technological advances in the use of AIED and intelligent tutoring
technologies over the past two decades have enabled the development of
highly effective, deployable learning environments that support learners
across a wide range of domains and age groups. Alongside, mass access to
and adoption of modern communication technologies have made it possible to
bridge learners and educators across spatiotemporal divides.
It is of high relevance to the AIED community to explore how AI techniques
can be brought to bear to support collaborative learning. We aim to
explore ways that the current state of the art in intelligent support for
learning in groups can be informed by learning sciences research on
collaborative learning principles.
We will ground our discussions on the following topics:
>>>Adaptive support for Groups
Affect processing
Multi-party dialog
Scaffolding
Automatic content extraction
Collaborative authoring
Crowdsourcing
User-generated content
>>>Instructional strategies for the social web
Argumentation
Peer mentoring and peer review
Recommendation systems
Intelligent support for massive open online courses (MOOC)
Problem- and project-based learning
>>>Interactive collaboration systems
Asynchronous vs. real-time interaction
Multi-participant educational games
Learning environment: platforms, devices, modalities, mobility
Peer web interactions
Pedagogical agents
>>>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
>>>Motivational, cognitive, social factors in Intelligent Support for
Learning Groups
>>>Tools for educators
Actionable insights
Content administration
Report generation
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We welcome papers under two categories:
>>>Short papers (6 pages). Short papers consist of authors describing their
research in the area of intelligent support for learning in groups. Authors
of successful submissions will give a brief firehose presentation and
present a poster at the poster session during the workshop.
>>>Panel papers (2-4 pages). Panel papers explain a unique perspective on
the field that the author would like to contribute. Authors of successful
submissions will participate in one of panels held during the workshop.
Participation Requirements: All workshop participants are encouraged to
submit at least one paper under any of these two categories. There is no
restriction on the number of papers submitted by the same author. The
submission of a paper is not compulsory.
Formatting: All submissions should be formatted as per ITS formatting
guidelines (LNCS template). Please use the formatting instructions and
templates provide at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=3D0-16...
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*Important Dates*
March 20, 2015 Abstracts only - Short Paper and Panel Submissions Due
March 27, 2015 Short Paper and Panel Submissions Due
April 20, 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
May 20, 2015 Camera Ready Papers Due
June 22 or June 26 Pre-Conference Workshop held in Madrid, Spain
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*Organizers*
>>>Jihie Kim KT and Information Sciences Institute at the
University of Southern California, jihie-AT-isi.edu
>>>Roberto Martinez-Maldonado Faculty of Education and Social
Work, The University of Sydney, roberto-AT-it.usyd.edu.au
>>>Ilya Goldin Center for Digital Data, Analytics, and Adaptive
Learning, Pearson, ilya.goldin-AT-pearson.com
>>>Erin Walker School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision
Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, erin.a.walker-AT-asu.edu
>>>Rohit Kumar Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA , rkumar-AT-bbn.com