CfPs 3th IEETeL 2012

You are very welcome to participate in

3th International Workshop on
Interactive Environments and Emergent Technologies for eLearning (IEETeL 2012) that will be held in conjunction with The 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications
(IUCC-2012 - http://scim.brad.ac.uk/~hmibrahi/IUCC2012/),
Liverpool, UK, 25-27 June 2012

For further details, please see the workshop site:
https://sites.google.com/site/ieet4el/home

Rationale
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The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers, educators and technology experts to share and discuss the new solutions, trends and realizations of eLearning environments and the adoption of emergent technologies in a learning process.
New kind of learners requires suitable environments ensuring flexible, personalized, adaptable, in-demand learning. The dynamic, interactive and social aspects of Web 2.0 have great potential to support innovative teaching and meaningful learning. Semantic web enables computers and people to work in cooperation, 3D virtual worlds support new online experiences of research and learning, augmented reality helps deeper understanding of subject matter, mobile technologies play a role in increasing individual support and opportunities for personal development.
This forum invites research, technical papers, and work in progress investigating eLearning environments process development and practices of their implementation in education to support university students as well as to prepare them to become self-organized and life-long learners.
These include the technological aspect of environments building: “from scratch”, using open source software or mashup applications from a cloud as well as pedagogical strategies and solutions for utilizing such environments.

Topics of interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Web 2.0 Applications for Learning
• 3D Virtual Environments
• Semantic Web
• Educational MashUps
• Immersive technologies in ADL
• Networks/Grids for learning
• Adaptive and intuitive environments
• Personal Learning Environments
• Mobile learning environments and applications
• Augmented Reality Implementation

Program Committee
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Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Gabriela Grosseck, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Reggie Smith III, United States Distance Learning Association
Inge de Waard, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium
Ion Roceanu, "Carol l" National Defense University, Romania
Marco Temperini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Mohamed Amine Chatti, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dimiter Denev, Max Planck Instiut Informatik, Germany
Volin Karagiozov, American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria
Jennifer Richardson, Purdue University, USA Alev
Elci, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey
Javed Alam, Youngstown State University, USA
Palitha Edirisingha, University of Leicester, UK

Organizers
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Malinka Ivanova
Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Email: m_ivanova@tu-sofia.bg
Anguelina Popova
Open University of the Netherlands
Email: angie.popova@gmail.com

PLEM - User Scenario

Our student Simona Dakova has created a sample user scenario for PLEM. More information about PLEM can be found here.

Please feel free to use this service. Comments, feedback, suggestions for improvement etc. are welcome!

PELE: Personal Exploratory Learning Environments

Our proposal "PELE: Personal Exploratory Learning Environments" has been selected as an ETS-Project at RWTH Aachen University, funded by the "Exzellenzinitiative in der Lehre des Stifterverbands für die Deutsche Wissenschaft".
The list of accepted proposals can be found here. Also a short description of the projects is available here (internal RWTH area).

gRSShopper Overview [Video]

A video by Stephen Downes on how gRSShopper works.

The Internet of Things [Video]

Via Michele Martin.

Towards Sustainable Open Source Workshop

Following the success of OSCOMM 2009 and OSCOMM 2010, My dear friend Imed Hammouda is organizing the 'Towards Sustainable Open Source' workshop (SOS 2011). This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2011) in Salvador, BA, Brazil, October 5-8, 2011 . The workshop is also a warm-up event for OSS 2012 to be held in Tunisia. For more information please visit the workshop website.

Toward a Personal Learning Environment Framework

The paper "Toward a Personal Learning Environment Framework" was selected as the best article from the International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE) for the 2010 volume year. More important, the paper is now free and can be downloaded here.

Abstract:

Over the past decade, it has been argued that technology-enhanced learning (TEL) could respond to the needs of the new knowledge society and transform learning. However, despite isolated achievements, TEL has not succeeded in revolutionizing education and learning processes. Most current TEL initiatives still take a centralized technology-push approach in which learning content is pushed to a predefined group of learners in closed environments. A fundamental shift toward a more open and learner-pull model for learning is needed. Recently, the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) concept has emerged to open new doors for more effective learning and overcome many of the limitations of traditional TEL models. In this paper, the authors present theoretical, design, implementation, and evaluation details of PLEF, a framework for mashup personal learning environments. The primary aim of PLEF is to help learners create custom learning mashups using a wide variety of digital media and data.