 |
 |
Call for papers =============================================================== Awareness and Reflection in Personal Learning Environments (#ARPLE11) Workshop at the PLE conference 2011 (http://www.pleconf.com/) Date 11th of July 2011 Venue: University of Southampton, UK Website: http://teleurope.eu/arple11 Submission deadline: 20.06.2011 =============================================================== Background and Motivation The workshop is intended to discuss and build an interdisciplinary understanding for the role of awareness and reflection in Personal Learning Environments. While different researchers have stressed the importance of awareness and reflection support in PLEs there is no agreed set of such functionalities in existence yet. Also we lack a structured overview of awareness and reflections issues that learners are facing in their daily learning activities. As both researchers and developers interested in the PLE domain seem to be in need of such information in order to best tailor their R&D activities, this workshop aims at collecting requirements and open issues in the domain. The workshop aims to attract participants from educational science, psychology, social science, computer science, and design to challenge the understanding of the research fields of awareness and reflection in Personal Learning Environments. We also aim to attract developers from academia and economy that implement personalizable learning environments. Goal of the workshop The concept of the workshop is target to collaboratively develop an integrated roadmap for future research and development in the domain. Therefore we designed the workshop as a highly interactive session. Starting with a short introduction of the work of the participants and their statements about the future challenges of their research we will work towards a roadmap of research in awareness and reflection with focus on Personal Learning Environments. For more information please visit the workshop website at TELeurope. Submission People interested in the workshop are required to submit discussion papers (min 5; max. 6 pages) that will be used to structure the hand-on activities and discussions in the workshop. The discussion papers can elaborate existing issues with awareness and reflection in PLEs, sketch ideas for supporting functionalities or discuss the results of ongoing research in the domain. The participants in the workshop will shortly (5 minutes) present the content of their papers and then work together on the following topics: 1. Requirements on awareness and reflection support in PLEs 2. Awareness and reflection widgets (implementations, visions) 3. Awareness and reflection Mash-Ups 4. Awareness and reflection scenarios for formal or informal learning 5. Awareness and reflection support for researchers 6. Theory on awareness and reflection 7. Methods researching awareness and reflection Important dates Submission deadline: 20.06.2011 Notification of acceptance: 27.06.2011 Camera-ready version: 04.07.2011 Submission system and format Please submit your paper via the ginkgo event management system: http://gkgo.me/arple11 Submissions should use the Springer LCNS template (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). We encourage you to produce your submission using LaTeX as typesetting tool and the respective LaTeX template. Organizers Wolfgang Reinhardt (University of Paderborn, Germany, @wollepb) Thomas Daniel Ullmann (Open University of the UK, @thomasullmann)