CIAWES 2008



International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects in Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems (CIAWES 2008) http://kinshuk.athabascau.ca/ciawes2008/index.php

in conjunction with International Conference on Computers in Education October 27-31, 2008 Taipei, Taiwan



MOTIVATION

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Typically used web-based educational systems such as learning management systems provide a variety of features to support teachers and course developers to create and manage their online courses. However, at current stage, such environments provide very little, or in most cases, neither intelligent support nor adaptivity at all. The need for smart learning environments arise that offer personal services in the whole cycle of education, from counselling, to academic advising, to program planning, to collaborative learning, to tutoring, and to testing.

Considering cognitive aspects such as learning styles and cognitive traits in web-based educational systems has become a promising area with high potential to support students in learning. By providing students with environments that incorporate their cognitive abilities and their individual preferences about how they like to learn, learning materials and courses can be adapted and more accurate intelligent support can be provided, aiming at making learning easier for learners.

This workshop deals with innovative research in the area of intelligent and adaptive web-based educational systems, focussing on the incorporation of cognitive aspects. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting and discussing high-quality research about how cognitive aspects can be considered in intelligent and adaptive web-based educational systems, including the detection of cognitive aspects, the development of systems that provide adaptive and intelligent support based on cognitive aspects as well as analyses about the effectiveness of considering cognitive aspects in technology enhanced learning.

The overall goal of the workshop is to bring people from the same area together and encourage discussion about how to support learners and educators, increase learning opportunities, and improve the efficiency and quality of service by considering cognitive aspects.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Topics of interest for the workshop include cognitive aspects related to (but are not limited to): Adaptive collaboration support Adaptive curriculum sequencing Adaptive presentation and navigation support Adaptive testing Agent technology Architectures and frameworks of AIED systems Authoring tools for developing AIED systems Cognition and collaborative learning Cognitive aspects in mobile learning Data mining, log mining, and web mining for education intelligence Educational robots and the consideration of cognition Empirical studies of adaptive and intelligent systems E-tutor, E-secretary, E-advisor, E-counsellor Game-based leanring and cognition Human-Computer Interaction Integration and interoperability issues Instructional design and pedagogy Intelligent and adaptive assessment Language learning and the consideration of cognition Problem solving methods and problem-based learning Semantic web and education Student modelling Web 2.0 and social computing for learning

IMPORTANT DATES

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August 15, 2008	Submission deadline for workshop papers August 31, 2008	Notification of workshop papers September 15, 2008	Final version deadline for workshop papers October 27-31, 2008	International Conference on Computers and Education

SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION

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Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: Full papers (8 pages) Short papers (4 pages) The page length includes figures, tables, references, and so on. The format of workshop papers should follow the format of conference papers at ICCE. Please use the guidelines at: http://www.apsce.net/icce2008/cfp_author_guid.html

Please submit your paper via email to Sabine Graf at sabine.graf@ieee.org and copy to Kinshuk kinshuk@ieee.org as doc- or rtf-file.

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by 2-3 reviewers from the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of ICCE (with ISBN number).

Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of a journal.

REGISTRATION

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The workshop is held in conjunction with ICCE. All participants of the workshop are required to register for the main conference, but there will be no additional workshop fee. Further information regarding the registration, accommodation, and the workshop/conference venue can be found at the website of ICCE 2008.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

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Sabine Graf, National Central University, Taiwan Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (not yet completed)

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Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Ingo Brunkhorst, L3S Research Center, Germany Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Liliane Esnault, EM Lyon, France Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Bob Heller, Athabasca University, Canada Chung Hsien Lan, Nanya Institute of Technology, Taiwan Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia Hong Lin, University of Houston, USA Tzu Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan Vincenzo Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania Demetrios G. Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece Jirarat Sitthiworachart, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand Manolis Wallace, University of Indianapolis Athens, Greece Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP