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Jihie Kim : jihie@isi.edu

Rohit Kumar : rkumar@bbn.com

Workshop Proceedings

Notes from the workshop

Themes & Goals

Advances in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) over the past two decades have enabled the development of highly effective, deployable learning technologies that support learners across a wide-range of domains and age-groups. On the other hand, mass access to revolutionary communication technologies have prompted the adoption web-based social media tools (including discussion forums, wikis, social networks, messengers/chatrooms, blogs, virtual worlds, mobile applications) for educational purposes as visible in many instances today. Research in collaborative learning has informed instructional strategies that leverage the pedagogical benefits of learning in groups. Educational service providers are deploying web-based platforms that allow students to access supplementary materials and share their learning experience with their peers. Thousands of educational games accessible on mobile/tablet devices enrich learning interactions by bringing students together.

Techniques developed for ITS (student/tutor/domain modeling, integrated assessment, tutorial dialog, automated scaffolding, data mining, pedagogical agents, ...) can further improve the effectiveness of web-based collaborative learning tools. On the other hand, multi-party interaction and web-based learning platforms presents ITS researchers with exciting next generation challenges. In concurrence with the main conference theme, the goal of this workshop is to bring representatives from these two tracks of learning technologies together. We expect to identify a set of scientific questions and technical challenges that can direct the joint efforts of the research community at this intersection. In the current instantiation, the workshop will be organized around the theme of "Web-based Collaborative Learning Tools: Challenges & Opportunities for ITS".

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Topics of Interest

• Adaptive support for Groups
  • Affect processing
  • Multi-party dialog
  • Scaffolding
• Content creation on the Web
  • Automatic content extraction
  • Collaborative authoring
  • Crowdsourcing
  • User-generated content
• Instructional strategies for the social web
  • Argumentation
  • Peer mentoring
  • Recommendation systems
• Interactive Collaboration systems
  • Asynchronous vs. Real-time interaction
  • Multi-participant educational games
  • Learning Environment: Platforms, devices, modalities, mobility …
  • Online communities
  • Peer web interactions
  • Pedagogical Agents
• Modeling groups/learners
  • Educational Data Mining
  • Making effective ad-hoc/long term groups
  • Online/Integrated/Automatic Assessment
  • Predicting student skills
  • Techniques for sensing and processing collaborative learning activity
• Motivational, Cognitive, Social factors in Intelligent Support for Learning Groups
• Tools for Educators
  • Actionable Insights
  • Content administration
  • Report generation

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Important Dates

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Organizers

Program Committee

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Registration

Participants with papers in both the main conference as well as this workshop should register for the main conference by April 25. They will have the opportunity to register for workshops at the rate of 40€ (as a registered conference participant). Participants planning to attend only the workshops should register by May 15 to get the early registration rate (120€). Workshop registration at the late registration rate (150€) will be available after May 15. All registrations are through the ITS 2012 Registration webpage.

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