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Fifth International Workshop on Search and Exchange Palermo, Italy SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS – Submission deadline extended to 15 July 2011
CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION Over the last fifteen years, considerable effort has been spent on the development of standards and specifications to improve the interoperability of e-learning systems, repositories, and content. These efforts have led to significant advances in the arena of technical interoperability. These advances have made possible the emergence and expansion of successful federations and alliances of learning object repositories such as the Learning Resource Exchange, ARIADNE, GLOBE, and more recently the Learning Registry. The evolution and adoption of standards such as the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM), the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), and the Simple Query Interface (SQI) provided the building blocks for these successes. More recent developments in this field include the definition of a Simple Publishing Interface (SPI) and the ongoing work within the IMS Global Learning Consortium on the Learning Object Discovery Exchange (LODE) specification to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection. The development of best practices (for example by projects like ASPECT and ICOPER), enabling more efficient use of these standards and specifications, has also proven instrumental for current learning content retrieval infrastructures. However, newly emerging practices emphasizing community driven learning necessitate that researchers and practitioners approach the concept of “learning resource” as a more expansive category that includes people, events and tools. Seen from this perspective, it is imperative to extend currently available tools, specifications and techniques to support the integration and interoperability of three components. The first of these components will remain content in learning object repositories. The second component can be people themselves who often play more than one role in learning and teaching (teachers, co-learners, coaches, tutors, subject experts, museum curators, community groups, etc.) and events relevant for teaching and learning. Tools and services are the third component. These may include authoring tools; synchronous and asynchronous communication and collaboration tools; learning planning and management tools; interactive learning and teaching devices including whiteboards, response systems and scientific input devices such as data loggers; resource discovery and information management services etc. To further developments in this field, the main goal of this international workshop is to offer a forum where researchers and practitioners can discuss theoretical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches and share the latest advances in the state of the art and practices for exchanging and describing learning content, roles, actors, tools and services. This year's workshop will include presentations of both long and short refereed papers as well as panel discussions and a keynote presentation. NB: SE@M 2011 is organized as a workshop of EC-TEL 2011 (http://www.ec-tel.eu) 20-23 September, 2011. THEMES (include, but are not limited to)
SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (max. 10 pages) or work-in-progress as short papers (max. 5 pages). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality. Accepted papers will be published online as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073. Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs). For camera-ready format instructions, please see “For Authors” instructions at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Submissions, and questions, should be sent to seam@eun.org Those interested in demonstrating their work during the workshop are also invited to contact the organizers at seam@eun.org. IMPORTANT DATES
LOCATION The workshop will take place at the same venue as EC-TEL 2011 http://www.ec-tel.eu/ ORGANISERS
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
The workshop is organised by European Schoolnet and supported by the European Community projects iTEC, eQNet and OpenScout. |
