[Announcements] CFP: LMS-ALE WS at EC-TEL'09: 1st Workshop Learning Management Systems meet Adaptive Learning Environments

[Ekaterina Vasilyeva]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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1st Workshop "Learning Management Systems meet Adaptive Learning
Environments" (LMS-ALE'09)
at EC-TEL 2009 Nice, France
September 29 - October 2, 2009

Paper Submission Deadline - July 1, 2009

http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/lms-ale-09
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The research and development of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and
Adaptive Learning Environments (ALE) remained
disconnected for a long time. The most popular LMSs like Moodle, Sakai
or Blackboard still do not support
personalization as found in existing adaptive educational hypermedia
systems and applications. However, recently some
initiatives were started to bridge the gap between the worlds of LMSs
and ALEs. Researchers are extending user profiles of
existing LMSs and introducing personalization functionality into
different modules of LMSs. Likewise researchers of ALEs
are finding ways to integrate their ALE within existing LMSs.

Efforts in this direction are found mostly in European research
projects, including (but not limited to) the Socrates-Minerva
project "Adaptive Learning Spaces" and the FP7 project GRAPPLE.

The aim of this workshop is to bring researchers together who are
working on any aspect of the whole problem area of bringing
adaptation and personalization into LMSs, including adaptation to
individual goals, knowledge, learning styles and context of
use as well as adaptation to group characteristics and goals and tasks
of groups doing collaborative work.

The goal of the workshop is to move forward and join the efforts on
the integration of personalization and adaptive
technology into LMSs. The main objectives are:

- to share the experience of introducing personalization and
adaptation into existing LMS and to summarize the current
findings in this area, to foster interaction and exchange of ideas, and,
- to discuss the challenges and the important issues to be solved and
to provide an opportunity for information exchange
and possible future research collaboration.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The focus of the workshop will be on the design challenges to
introduce personalization into an LMS by means of integration
of or communication with an ALE. By bringing together designers of
LMSs and researchers in adaptive hypermedia and adaptive
learning systems this workshop aims to create a forum to share ideas
about how to introduce personalization and adaptation
into an LMS.

Topics likely to be discussed at this workshop include, but are
not limited to:

- Personalization in the LMS: What kind of personalization do the
existing LMSs support and how it can be improved? How can
the functionality of existing LMS be extended by additional
functionality of personalized systems?
- Sharing User Models: Both LMSs and ALEs maintain information about
users. How can they exchange information and how can they
understand each other's information?
- Adaptation based on shared User Models: How can, for instance, an
LMS offer feedback to tests based on the ALE's
user model, or how can an ALE use test results from the LMS in adaptation?
- Effectiveness of personalization in LMS: How to evaluate
effectiveness of personalization in the LMS+ALE combination?

The intended workshop especially welcomes submissions that report on
work in progress and demo-papers that report
developments and implementation of different types of adaptation in
LMS+ALE systems.

We realize that the topic of authoring adaptive learning applications
is equally interesting and especially challenging
when an LMS and ALE are combined. However, a separate workshop will be
organized at EC-TEL dealing with authoring as the sole
topic.

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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All submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit your
contribution (up to 10 pages in LNCS format) before the
submission deadline (July 1, 2009) to the workshop co-chairs by
e-mail: e.vasilyeva at tue.nl, debra at win.tue.nl.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the
workshop programme committee. All accepted workshop papers will
be published in the online workshop proceedings edited by the workshop chairs.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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July 1, 2009     Paper submission (LNCS format, 10-pages max.)

August 1, 2009   Notification of acceptance

September 1, 2009       Final camera-ready paper due

September 29 or 30, 2009 LMS-ALE'09 workshop day

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Worshop Chairs:
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Paul De Bra Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Ekaterina Vasilyeva Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

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Programme Committee: see Workshop website
http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/lms-ale-09
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For further questions please contact us at e.vasilyeva at tue.nl.