EAAI 2011 - EAAI-11: The Second Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence

EAAI-11: The Second Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial
Intelligence

San Francisco, CA (Collocated with AAAI-11)
August 9-10, 2011

Symposium website: http://eaai.stanford.edu/

Paper submission deadline: February 22, 2011
Notifications of acceptance to authors: April 5, 2011
Camera-ready papers due to AAAI: April 26, 2011

EAAI-11: The Second Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial
Intelligence will be held August 9-10, 2011, in conjunction with AAAI-11
in San Francisco, CA.

EAAI-11 provides a venue for researchers and educators to discuss
pedagogical issues and share resources related to teaching AI and
using AI in education across a variety of curricular levels (K-12
through postgraduate training), with a natural emphasis on
undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning. The symposium seeks
contributions showing how to more effectively teach AI, as well as how
themes from AI may be used to enhance education more broadly (for
example, in introductory computing courses or as a means for teaching
computational thinking). We encourage the sharing of innovative
educational approaches that convey or leverage AI and its many
subfields: robotics, machine learning, natural language, computer
vision, etc.

The EAAI-11 proceedings will be published by AAAI.

EAAI-11 provides several of paths for participation, including:

* full-length papers (6 pages) and presentations for the symposium

* extended abstract/poster contributions (2 pages) highlighting

preliminary or ongoing work, or describing an educational

innovation proposed to be presented in a demonstration session

* a Model AI Assignments session highlighting innovative,

ready-to-adopt materials

* a workshop for mentoring new faculty, instructors, and graduate

students on teaching

* an Educational Video Track within the AAAI-11 Video program

* a Student/Educator Track within the AAAI-11 Robotics Exhibition

and Workshop

A limited number of travel scholarships are available to student and
faculty participants via application (see website for details).

EAAI-11 welcomes paper submissions on a variety of topics, including,
but not limited to:

* Educational resources, including syllabi, assignments, project

ideas, and pedagogical strategies, related to teaching AI

* Multi-disciplinary curricula highlighting the application of AI

in other contexts (computational biology, algorithmic game

theory, computational economics, etc.) and/or foundational

concepts of AI in other fields (philosophy, cognitive

science, linguistics, psychology)

* The use of robotics and other tangible media both in AI courses

and elsewhere in the curriculum

* Software that assists the teaching/learning process - everything

from software to help visualize search spaces and search

algorithms, to software substrates that can be used by students

to do projects

* Resources and strategies for teaching specific AI subareas or

topics: machine learning, robotics, computer vision, natural

language processing, game playing, and many others

* Strategies for appropriately situating AI within a wider CS

curriculum

* Ways to incorporate or address popular entertainment and media

portrayal of AI (in movies, news, advertisements, new products,

etc.)

* Real-world examples of successful AI deployments, described in

sufficient detail to provide case studies and/or serve as useful

springboards for other teachers

* Innovative means for integrating research as part of coursework

in AI

Ideally, full-length submissions to EAAI-11 should describe
well developed ideas and/or pedagogical examples, and should
include an evaluation of the work. Papers describing the use of
robotics in the classroom should focus on evaluable pedagogical
benefits of their use, and should be clearly differentiated
from papers in the AAAI Robotics program.

EAAI-11 Model AI Assignments Session


As mentioned above, EAAI-11 will feature a special session on Model AI
Assignments suitable for use in a variety of class settings. The Call
for Assignments for the Model AI Assignments special session is
available at http://modelai.gettysburg.edu/

EAAI-11 Organizing Committee

Organizing Committee:

Marie desJardins (chair), University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(mariedj-AT-cs.umbc.edu)

Zachary Dodds, Harvey Mudd College (dodds-AT-cs.hmc.edu)
Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University (hirsh-AT-cs.rutgers.edu)
Tom Lauwers, Carnegie Mellon University (tlauwers-AT-gmail.com)
Todd Neller, Gettysburg College (tneller-AT-gettysburg.edu)
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford (irussell-AT-hartford.edu)
Mehran Sahami, Stanford University (sahami-AT-cs.stanford.edu)
Kiri Wagstaff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (kiri.wagstaff-AT-jpl.nasa.gov)