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Welcome to the SW-EL'05 @ AIED'05 Workshop Session

 

Special Session
on
Semantic Web for Adaptive Learning Environments

Session co-chairs

Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia

 

Special Session
on
Semantic Web-based Educational Information Systems
Session co-chairs

Niels Pinkwart, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
 Danièle Hèrin, University of Montpellier II, France
Felisa Verdejo, National Distance Learning University, Spain

Cyrille Desmoulins, University of Grenoble, France

The AIED'05 session of the SW-EL'05 workshop will focus on Semantic Web-based knowledge representation and engineering approaches and methods for the needs of intelligent learning systems and discuss issues related to their use for content and knowledge components specification, effective intelligent courseware construction and modelling the learner.

Appropriate topics for the AIED'05 session of the SWEL’05 workshop are listed below however contributors are welcome to suggest additional ones. The topics can be approached from different perspectives: theoretical, systems engineering, application, case study and system evaluation. All contributions will be required to state explicitly in the abstract which topic they are addressing.

  • Using ontologies and/or Semantic Web technologies for:
    • knowledge representation in intelligent educational systems
    • modularised and standardized architectures (e.g. separation of domain models and application models)
    • achieving interoperability between intelligent learning applications, sharable user models and knowledge components
    • supporting authoring of intelligent educational systems
  • Semantic Web technologies for Adaptive Learning Systems
    • Personalization and adaptation in educational systems (flexible user models)
    • Ontology-based reasoning for personalising the educational Semantic Web
    • Techniques and methods to capture and employ learner semantics
  • Semantic Web technologies for Educational Information Systems
    • SW-based indexing/annotation of educational content (incl. individual and community based)
    • Ontology-based information browsing and retrieval
    • Semantic Web/ontology based recommender systems
  • SW-based Methods, Techniques, and Tools for:
    • Building and sharing educational content, models of users, and personalisation components.
    • Services in the context of intelligent educational systems (i.e. authoring service, user modelling service, etc.)
    • Ontology evolution, versioning and consistency
  • Empirical research for Intelligent Educational Systems:
    • Real-world systems and case studies
    • Community and individual support with Semantic Web-technologies and Ontologies

To answer the open questions posed by this workshop, we aim at bringing together researchers from Computer Science, Education, Information Systems, Communication studies, Sociology, AI and HCI, to share their experience by working with divergent communities of teachers and learners and, possibly, involving educational web industries.

The Special Session on Semantic Web-based Educational Information Systems is organized within the context of KALEIDOSCOPE network of excellence.