Education Informatics:  Steps Toward the International Internet Classroom


http://www.isi.edu/~cohen/ECAI08-workshop/education-informatics.html

                           July 21,22, 2008 
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence,  Patras, Greece

Could an international group provide free access to primary and secondary school curricula, aligned with national, state and local standards, delivered by our best AI tutoring technologies, in several languages, over the Internet?  The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the feasibility of an International Internet Classroom Project.  

We seek papers, including position papers, from all sectors --- academia, industry and government --- on available sources of content, tools, platforms, student modeling methods, educational data mining techniques, pedagogical strategies, modes of content delivery, data and content markup and standards, and concrete experiences deploying technology-based education.   Authors are encouraged to present their research, systems, tools, evaluations and  deployment experiences in terms of and as contributions to what we hope will become the International Internet Classroom Project.  

Enquiries are welcome.  Please contact Paul Cohen at [log in to unmask]

Deadline for papers:  April 14, 2008

Organizing Committee:
Paul Cohen, USC Information Sciences Institute
Carole Beal, USC Information Sciences Institute
Niall Adams, Imperial College London

Program Committee:
Ivon Arroyo University of Massachusetts, Amherst 
Ryan Baker Carnegie-Mellon University 
Avron Barr Aldo Ventures 
Joe Beck Worcester Polytechnic University 
Bert Bredeweg University of Amsterdam 
Paul Brna University of Edinburgh 
Susan Bull University of Birmingham 
Weiqin Chen University of Bergen 
Pierre Dillenbourg École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 
Jim Greer University of Saskatchewan  
Gord McCalla University of Saskatchewan  
James Lester North Carolina State University 
Rose Luckin University of Sussex 
Erica Melis German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) 
Jean-François Nicaud Grenoble 1 University 
Helen Pain University of Edinburgh 
Ron Stevens UCLA 
Giasemi Vavoula University of Leicester 
Beverly Woolf University of Massachusetts, Amherst