SIRTEL'09: Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology-Enhanced Learning

Learning and teaching resource are available on the Web - both in terms of
digital learning content and people resources (e.g. other learners, experts,
tutors). They can be used to facilitate teaching and learning tasks. The
remaining challenge is to develop, deploy and evaluate Social information
retrieval (SIR) methods, techniques and systems that provide learners and
teachers with guidance in potentially overwhelming variety of choices.

The aim of the SIRTELí09 workshop is to look onward beyond recent
achievements to discuss specific topics, emerging research issues, new
trends and endeavors in SIR for TEL. The workshop will bring together
researchers and practitioners to present, and more importantly, to discuss
the current status of research in SIR and TEL and its implications for
science and teaching.


TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to):

* Recommender systems and collaborative filtering in educational settings
* Defining the scope, purpose and objects of social information retrieval in
TEL
* Novel ways of generating input for recommenders (explicit and implicit
methods)
* Ranking of search results to support individualised learning needs
* Integrating SIR services in existing educational platforms
* Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based information retrieval
systems
* Social navigation processes and metaphors for searching information
related to teaching and learning
* Social networks and interactions in learning communities to facilitate
information sharing and retrieval
* Approaches to TEL metadata reflecting social ties and collaborative
experiences in the field of education
* Pedagogic decisions, recommender systems and how to contextualise
recommender system to support learning processes.
* Interoperability of SIR systems for TEL
* Visualisation techniques in learning and teaching
* Semantic annotation and tagging for social information retrieval purposes
* Evaluating the performance of SIR systems in educational applications
* Measuring the effectiveness of SIR systems in supporting learning and
teaching
* Evaluation the user satisfaction with SIR systems in supporting learning
and teaching

WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS

The workshop invites several types of contributions which allow a wide level
of participation:
* Research papers (up to 8 pages)
* System Demos (up to 2 pages)
* Hands-On proposals (1-pager)
* Abstract for Pecha Kucha (1-pager)

Submissions should be sent to: sirtelworkshop@gmail.com

Please use the template of the main conference:
http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2009/submission.html.

IMPORTANT DATES

Contribution Submission: June 14, 2009
Results Notification: July 13, 2009
Camera Ready Submission: July 31, 2009
Workshop date: August 21, 2009