CFP: First Int. Workshop on Learning Object Discovery (LODE’07)
Posted on | May 18, 2007 | Comments Off
Below is the call for a workshop with an interesting theme (at least if you find Learning Objects and repositories interesting 
) that will be held at the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07).
***We apologize for cross-postings***
First International Workshop on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE 2007)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The LODE workshop is held in conjunction with the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07), Crete, Greece, September 17-20, 2007
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES
Although the use of learning (content) management systems is becoming common in most educational organizations and the number of educational resources available online, for free or by subscription, is huge, most of these resources are hidden in repositories and cannot be easily found, which hampers their potential use and reuse.
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working at unlocking the educational content hidden in repositories and facilitating the retrieval and exchange of this content. The workshop aims at providing an international forum to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and innovative approaches in the field. Therefore, the workshop welcomes original/position/work-in-progress/experience papers on all aspects related to the discovery and retrieval of distributed learning resources. Submissions that identify new issues and focused directions for future work in the area are also welcome.
The workshop will be strongly discussion-oriented. To that effect, all accepted papers and posters will be made available online before the workshop at http://fire.eun.org/lode2007/.
TOPICS OF INTEREST (include, but are not limited to)
* Reusable resources
o Resource identification
o Open content and reusable resource licensing
* Metadata
o Standards and application profiles
o Automatic metadata generation vs human indexing
o Intellectual property and metadata
o Mapping and crosswalks between metadata standards
* Repositories
o Interoperable content and metadata repositories
o Protocols for exposing content
* Discovering content
o User profiling for more accurate resource discovery
o Content aggregation
o Service Registries
o Interoperable query languages
o Harvesting vs federated searching
o Enhanced search mechanism
o Inclusion of other type of content (library, cultural heritage)
o Recommendation systems
o Quality aspects
* Exchanging content
o Reliable auditing (tracking, reporting)
o DRM, licensing and content protection
* WEB-2.0 approaches (folksonomies, content syndication)
* Semantic web approachesSUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (8 pages), work-in-progress as short papers (max. 4 pages) or position statements (max. 2 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 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 "For Authors" instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.All questions and submissions should be sent to: lode2007 @ eun . org
IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper Submission: June 20, 2007
* Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2007
* Camera Ready Submission: August 15, 2007
* Workshop dates: September 17 or 18, 2007ORGANIZERS
* David Massart, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
* Jean-Noel Colin, Sun Microsystems, BelgiumPROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Kerry Blinco, DEST, Australia
* Erik Duval, KUL, Belgium
* Mike Halm, PennState University, USA
* Marek Hatala, SFU, Canada
* Robert Kristofl, BMBWK, Austria
* Franois Magnan, Teluq, Canada
* Jon Masson, InterCog, Australia
* Martin Morrey, Intrallect, UK
* Gilbert Paquette, Teluq, Canada
* Fredrik Paulsson, Ume University, Sweden
* Tomasz Orzechowski, AGH, Poland
* Alain Pirotte, UCL, Belgium
* Daniel Rehak, University of Memphis, USA
* Griff Richards, SFU, Canada
* Bernd Simon, Wirtschaftsuniversitt Wien, Austria
* James Simon, Sun Microsystems, USA
* Stefaan Ternier, KUL, Belgium
* Tsuneo Yamada, NIME, JapanABOUT EC-TEL07
After the success of EC-TEL06, the Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to TEL, including its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments.
This is a competitive and broad forum for TEL research in Europe and world-wide through specialized workshops and the main conference. EC-TEL07 provides unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and includes project meetings and discussions for ongoing and new research activities supported by the European Commission. See http://www.ectel07.org/ for details.
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