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Jihie Kim : jihie@isi.edu

Rohit Kumar : rkumar@bbn.com

Goals

Technological advances in the use of Artificial Intelligence for educational applications 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. Alongside, mass access and adoption of revolutionary communication technologies have made it possible to bridge learners and educators across spatio-temporal divides. On the other hand, research in collaborative learning has informed instructional principles that leverage the pedagogical benefits of learning in groups. Educational service providers including mainstream universities are deploying their courses to online learning platforms that allow students to share their learning experience with their peers. Large volumes of educational content including videos, presentations, books and games are accessible on mobile/tablet devices which enrich learning interactions by bringing students together.

Over the past few years, the AIEd research community has started investigating extension of fundamental techniques (such as student modeling, model-based tutors, integrated assessment, tutorial dialog, automated scaffolding, data mining, pedagogical agents) to support learning in groups. The goal of this series of workshops is to provide a focused forum for bringing this sub-community of AIEd researchers together to share recent advances in the field. Building on its first instantiation last year, this workshop will comprise of papers describing advances in the state of the art AIEd techniques to improve the effectiveness of learning in groups.

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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
  • Intelligent support for massive open online courses (MOOC)
• Interactive Collaboration systems
  • Asynchronous vs. Real-time interaction
  • Multi-participant educational games
  • Learning Environment: Platforms, devices, modalities, mobility …
  • 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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Call for Papers

We invite papers relevant to the topics and/or theme of this workshop under the following categories.

• Full Length Papers (upto 10 pages) describing technical work with results relating to one or more relevant topics. This includes descriptions of system implementation, user studies and other evaluations, analysis and reviews papers.
• Short Papers (upto 4 pages) describing early stage work that could benefit from discussion.
• Position Papers (upto 2 pages) including the author's interest, experience and outlook on the topics relevant to the workshop. [Template for Position Papers].

Participation Requirements: All workshop participants are encouraged to submit atleast one paper under any of these three categories. There is no restriction on the number of papers submitted by the same author.

Formatting: All submissions should be formatted as per AIED formatting guidelines. Please use the formatting instructions and templates provide at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Submission: Please submit your papers using the following EasyChair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=islg2013

Review Process: Acceptance decisions will be based only on the criteria of relevance of the paper to the workshop. Detailed reviews will be optional to enable reviewers to complete the reviews on time.

Proceedings: Accepted papers under all three categories will be included in workshop proceeding.

Presentation: Accepted full length & short papers will be presented during oral presentation sessions.

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Important Dates

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Organizers

Program Committee

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Registration

Registration is open now (AIED 2013 Registration).

In addition to basic registration, workshop participants must register for each workshop they plan to attend. This workshop will be held on Tuesday, July 9, 2013.

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