CfP MUPPLE Workshop at EC-TEL 2010

3rd Workshop on Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE-10)

Held at the 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
(EC-TEL10) in Barcelona, Spain, September 28 - October 1, 2010

https://sites.google.com/site/muppleworkshop/
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RATIONALE

A change in perspective can be certified in the recent years to
technology-enhanced learning research and development: More and
more learning applications on the web are putting the learner centre
stage, not the organisation. They empower learners with capabilities
to customize and even construct their own personal learning environments
(PLEs).

These PLEs typically consist of distributed web-applications and services
that support system-spanning collaborative and individual learning
activities in formal as well as informal settings. These PLEs typically
complement Learning Management Systems (LMS) with additional widgets,
services, and data integrated from and with organization-external
learning tools. Technologically speaking, this shift manifests in a
learning web where information is distributed across sites and activities
can easily encompass the use of a greater number of pages and services
offered through web-based learning applications. Mash-ups, the
'frankensteining' of software artefacts and data, have emerged to be the
software development approach for these long-tail and perpetual-beta niche
markets. Core technologies facilitating this paradigm shift are Ajax,
javascript-based widget-collections, and microformats that help to glue
together public web APIs in individual applications. Interoperability is
the enabler to allow these different components to be worked together
facilitating the achievement of the underlying learning task.

In a wide range of European IST-funded research projects such as Stellar,
ROLE, LTfLL, Mature, and OpenScout a rising passion for these technologies
can be identified.

This workshop therefore serves as a forum to bring together researchers and
developers from these projects and an open public that have an interest in
understanding and engineering mash-up personal learning environments (MUPPLEs).

The workshop is supported with donations to the Open University of the UK:
travel grants will be available.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to):

* Visions: Architectures, Frameworks, Strategies, Models
* (Collaborative) Authoring Tools
* Data Interoperability: with e.g. Microformats, streaming data,
mixed media data
* User Interfaces: Concepts, Metaphors, Workflows
* Development Methodologies
* Innovative Widgets and Services: e.g. for instruction, game-based learning,
self-reflection, personal information
* Interoperability Standards for widgets, content recombination, configuration
* User Studies & Evaluation Methods: evaluating e.g. performance, usability,
specific design features, training methods
* Educational theories for PLE

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WORKSHOP FORMAT

The aim of this workshop is to bring together the various research and
development groups in technology-enhanced learning that currently focus
on the development of the next generation learning environments that
put the individuum centre stage and empower learners with design
capabilities by deploying modern mash-up principles to establish
system-spanning interoperability.

As this approach is rather young, the workshop seeks to attract both
research results and work in progress in order to chart out the current
state-of-the-art of MUPPLEs in TEL and to define main enablers and future
challenges. Naturally, it will serve as a forum for establishing new
collaborations.

Using the presentations as impulses and continuing post-talk debates,
the workshop will conclude the day with an open discussion exchanging
ideas, summing up, and defining a medium- to long-term research agenda.

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SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as position
statements (max. 2 pages) and extended abstracts (max. 4 pages). Those
extended abstracts that are accepted will be given the option to be
extended into full papers (8 pages). All submitted position statements
and extended abstracts will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of
the program committee for originality, significance, clarity, and quality.
The workshop proceedings will be published online as part of the CEUR
Workshop proceedings series. http://CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN
publication series, with ISSN 1613-0073.

We are additionally preparing a MUPPLE book, which will draft contributions
from this and the previous workshops.

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: mupple @ googlegroups.com

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IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper Submission: June 26th, 2010
* Results Notification: July 7th, 2010
* Camera Ready Submission: September 15th, 2010
* Workshop Date: September 28th or 29th, 2010

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)

* Abelardo Pardo (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
* Dai Griffith (University of Bolton, UK)
* Denis Gillet (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Effie Law (University of Leicester, United Kingdom)
* Felix Moedritscher (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
* Graham Atwell (Pontydysgu, United Kingdom)
* Gytis Cibulskis (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania)
* Mart Laanpere (Tallinn University, Estonia)
* Martin Wolpers (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
* Mohamed Amine Chatti (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
* Nikos Karacapilidis (University of Patras, Greece)
* Scott Wilson (University of Bolton, United Kingdom)
* Stephane Sire (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Tony Hirst (Open University, UK)
* Zuzana Bizonova (INT Paris, France)
* Jan M. Pawlowski (University of Jyvaeskylae, Finland)
* Stefan Trausan-Matu (University "Politehnica" Bucharest, Romania)

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ORGANISERS

* Marco Kalz (Open University, The Netherlands)
* Matthias Palmer (University of Upsala, Sweden)
* Fridolin Wild (The Open University, UK)

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ABOUT EC-TEL10

After four successful EC-TEL conferences in the year from 2006 to 2009,
the Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides
a unique forum for all research related to TEL, among them education,
psychology, and computer science. The contributions will cover the design
of innovative environments, the implementation of new technological
solutions, results of empirical studies on socio-cognitive processes in
learning, and field studies regarding the use of technologies in context.

EC-TEL is a competitive and broad forum for TEL research in Europe and
beyond. In its specialised accompanying workshops and the highlighting
main conference programme, EC-TEL10 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.ectel2010.org/ for details.