Third
International Workshop on
Search
and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@MÕ09)
CALL FOR PAPERS -- DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2009
The SE@M workshop is held in conjunction with the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TELÕ09 - http://www.ectel09.org/), Nice, France, September 29 – October 2, 2009.
CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION
Creating good, pedagogically
sound and effective learning resources incurs substantial costs, so avoiding
duplication of development efforts is important. The TEL community has been and
is still dedicating a lot of energy to the creation of better and more reusable
learning resources. Some of these efforts in the sphere of reusability have matured enough to lead
to the creation of standards such as the IEEE Learning Object Metadata, the IMS
Content Package, or the IMS Common Cartridge. Nowadays, the number of reusable educational resources available online, for free
or by subscription, is huge but most of these resources are ÒhiddenÓ in
repositories and cannot be easily found, hampering their potential use and
reuse.
Over the past few years,
researchers and practitioners have started to address these issues. Several
initiatives worldwide (such as the EUN Learning Resource Exchange, GLOBE) are
developing solutions for federating e-learning systems and
unlocking the educational content hidden in repositories. Started last
year, the work of the IMS Group on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange
aims at supporting these initiatives by developing a set of specifications that
facilitate the discovery and retrieval of distributed
learning resources.
The main goals of the international workshop on search and exchange of e-learning materials are to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the field of learning resource retrieval, facilitate the exchange between them and foster future collaborations. It aims at offering a forum where these 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 discovering and exchanging learning content.
The dominant focus of this yearÕs workshop will be on the presentation of both long and short refereed papers. The workshop will be organized in conjunction with the ASPECT project workshop (http://aspect-project.org).
TOPICS OF INTEREST (include, but are not limited to)
o
Protocols for exposing content
o
Federations of learning resources
o
Service registries
o
Metadata
o
Controlled vocabularies and their management
o
Mapping and crosswalks between metadata standards
o
User profiling for more accurate resource discovery
o
Retrieval of learning resources (searching, browsing)
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.
All
papers should be submitted via the workshop's Web site at easychair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem09
Accepted
papers will be published online as EC-TEL workshop proceedings 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
ÒFor AuthorsÒ instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Questions can be addressed to: seam @ eun . org
IMPORTANT DATES
ORGANISERS
David Massart, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
Jean-No‘l Colin, FUNDP, Belgium
Frans Van Assche, EUN, Belgium
PROGRAM COMMITTEE