LinkedLearning 2011 - LinkedLearning2011 - International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age

LinkedLearning2011 -
International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age

In conjunction with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2011)
Heraklion, Greece, 29 May - 02 June 2011

http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/meducator/linkedlea... -
IMPORTANT DATES

4 March 2011: Full & short research paper submission deadline (11:59pm Hawaiian time)
1 April 2011: Notification of acceptance
15 April 2011: Camera-ready paper
22 April 2011: Poster & demo submission deadline
29/30 May 2011: LinkedLearning 2011 workshop day
OVERVIEW
While sharing of open learning and educational resources on the Web became common practice throughout the last years a large amount of research was dedicated to interoperable eLearning repositories based on semantic technologies. However, although the Semantic Web has seen large-scale success in its recent incarnation as a Web of Linked Data, there is still only little adoption of the successful Linked Data principles in the eLearning domain. This workshop builds on the fundamental belief that the Linked Data approach has the potential to fulfill the eLearning vision of Web-scale interoperability of eLearning resources as well as highly personalised and adaptive eLearning applications. The workshop aims to become a highly interactive research forum for exploring the promises of the Web of Linked Data in technology-enhanced learning by gathering researchers from the Semantic
Web area as well as the field of eLearning.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome papers describing current trends on research in (a) how eLearning approaches take advantage of Linked Data on the Web and (b) how Linked Data principles and semantic technologies are being applied in eLearning contexts. Both rather application-oriented as well as rather theoretical papers are welcome. Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following:

Linked data for informal learning
Personalisation and context-awareness in eLearning
Usability and advanced user interfaces in learning environments and linked data
Light-weight eLearning metadata schemas
Exposing learning object metadata via RDF/SPARQL & service-oriented approaches
Semantic & syntactic mappings between eLearning metadata schemas and standards
Controlled vocabularies, ontologies and terminologies for eLearning
Personal & mobile learning environments and linked data
Learning flows and designs and linked data
Linked data in (visual) learning analytics and educational data mining
Linked data in organizational learning and learning organizations
Linked data for harmonizing individual learning goals and organizational objectives
Competency management and linked data
Collaborative learning and linked data
Linked-data driven social networking collaborative learning
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
We welcome the following types of contributions.

Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 15 pages) research papers
Poster abstracts and system demonstrations should not exceed 2 pages.
All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted
according to the LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-...).

Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=linkedl...
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.

The main workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Further, we are considering a Journal special issue on the same topic which might provide opportunities to invite selected papers from the workshop.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Stefan Dietze, The Open University (UK)
Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University (UK)
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University & Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá (Spain)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Soeren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
Chara Balasubramaniam, St George's University London, UK
Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Charalampos Bratsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dan Brickley, W3C & Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
John Domingue, The Open University, UK & Semantic Technologies Insitute International, Austria.
Nikolas Dovrolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Eleni Kaldoudi,Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Tomi Kauppinen, University of Münster, Germany
Carsten Keßler, University of Münster, Germany
law/" class="p-link">Effie Lai-Chong Law, Leicester University, UK & ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research and Technology Network, Greece
Dave Millard, University of Southampton, UK
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Germany
Mikael Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, UK
Davide Taibi, Institute for Educational Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Italy.
Vlad Tanasescu, University of Edinburgh, UK
Fridolin Wild, The Open University, UK
Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT.ICON, Germany
Hong Qing Yu, The Open University, UK
For further questions please contact Stefan Dietze (s.dietze-AT-open.ac.uk)