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 CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
 Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008

 Educational Social Software for Context-Aware Learning:
 Collaborative Methods and Human Interaction

 A book edited by:
 Niki Lambropoulos
 London South Bank University, London, UK
 Margarida Romero
 Université de Toulouse II, CNRS UMR-5263, FR

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 Introduction
 The emergence of Web 2.0 triggered a general trend towards global
 online social interactions and hence, has brought sociology into the
 global interactive picture. From an educational viewpoint, this
 phenomenon created issues relating to individual and social learning
 for the internalisation and externalisation of information and
 knowledge in both formal and informal educational settings. Studies on
 social relationships, interactions and engagement between the
 e-learning participants, as well as practices and activities with the
 use of tools for the purpose of learning appear to present
 contradictive results.

 Some answers to these issues and concerns lie in the principles of
 computing and, in particular, social computing. Social computing is
 concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computational
 systems. In interactive educational technology, this intersection is
 related to context awareness. Specifically, context awareness includes
 determining if the context is organisational or cultural and the
 context surrounds learning activities on the interface. In other
 words, methods, learning activities, tools, and evaluation are highly
 interconnected.

 Overall Objectives of the Book
 The main objective of this book is to bring together, in one book,
 contributions on the topic of Educational Social Software for
 Context-Aware Learning. The key objective is to look into the
 socio-cultural elements in educational social computing focused on
 design and theory where learning and setting are intertwined. A
 significant portion of the book will also focus on real life case
 studies where such evaluations have been applied and validated. The
 book not only will report first experiences and debates, but also aims
 to go beyond the current state of the art by looking at future
 prospects and emerging applications.
 As such, the book will be of great use to those who study, design,
 construct, moderate, evaluate and maintain educational social software
 in organizations, e-learning, eBusiness, e-government and other
 related domains.
 The Target Audience
 Since the ultimate goal of the suggested methodologies is the use of
 the results of successful interventions, the target audience is
 everyone who owns, develops, evaluates and moderates educational
 social software - including individuals, universities, other
 organizations or companies.


 RECOMMENDED TOPICS
 Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
 • Introduction: Introduction to Educational Social Software and its
 application to Context Aware Learning; state-of-the-art in existing
 social software educational uses; Educational Social Software needs
 and opportunities
 • Collaborative Methods and Human Interaction: collaborative learning
 methodologies and techniques; guides for theory to practice.
 • Learner-Computer Interaction: users as learners and learners as
 users, issues on user/learner dual identity.
 • Analysis: multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches as in
 query-based techniques (interviews, focus groups, surveys); content
 and discourse analysis; ethnographic methodologies and fieldwork;
 ethnotechnology; social network analysis.
 • Design: Conceptual and detailed educational social software design;
 ontologies; human-human and human-computer interaction in social
 networks; collaborative learning design; design to enhance ideas
 sharing and co-creativity; participatory design; prototyping
 (paper/electronic); screen design; learning architecture; design of
 collaborative learner/user-friendly schemes and features; learners
 with special needs; other innovative design approaches.
 • Educational Social Software Technologies: social networks and
 infrastructures for learning and knowledge sharing; innovative
 learning systems; intelligent tutoring systems; educational software
 applications and games; simulations; educational devices and
 interfaces; personalized and adaptive learning systems; tools for
 peer-to-peer formative and summative assessment; computer support for
 peer tutoring.
 • Evaluation: Tools and evaluation techniques;
 usability-learnability-utility evaluation; multidisciplinary
 evaluation; frameworks to apply results into practice
 • Educational Social Software Applicability: primary and secondary
 education, higher education, lifelong learning and research.
 • Case studies
 • Special Topics: future trends

 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
 Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April
 30, 2008, a 2 page (maximum) chapter proposal clearly explaining the
 mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
 proposals will be notified by May 31, 2008 about the status of their
 proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters
 are expected to be submitted by August 31, 2008. All submitted
 chapters will be reviewed on a double blind review basis. The book is
 scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.),
 www.igi-global.com, publisher of the Information Science Reference
 (formerly Idea Group Reference) and Medical Information Science
 Reference imprints in 2010.
 Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word
 document) or by mail to:


 Niki Lambropoulos
 eLearning & Online Communities Architect, Researcher London South Bank
 University London, UK
 e-mail: [log in to unmask]
 homepage: http://nikilambropoulos.org

 Margarida Romero
 eLearning & Lifelong Learning
 Specialist, Researcher
 Université de Toulouse II
 CNRS UMR-5263
 France
 e-mail: [log in to unmask]
 homepage: http://www.margarida-romero.com/
 Fax: +33 488 049 414

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