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3rd International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning
Environments (PALE 2013) http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/pale2013/
June 10-14, 2013, Rome, Italy
in conjunction with UMAP Conference (http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~umap2013/)
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Personalization approaches in learning environments can be addressed
from different perspectives and also in various educational settings,
including formal, informal, workplace, lifelong, mobile, contextualized,
and self-regulated learning. PALE workshop offers an opportunity to
present and discuss a wide spectrum of issues and solutions, such as
pedagogic conversational agents, personal learning environments, and
learner modeling. Previous PALE workshops (i.e. PALE 2012 and PALE 2011)
have shown several important issues in this field, such as behavior and
embodiment of pedagogic agents, suitable support of self-regulated
learning, appropriate balance between learner control and expert
guidance, design of personal learning environments, contextual
recommendations at various levels of the learning process, tracking
affective states of learners, harmonization of educational and
technological standards, processing big data for learning purposes,
predicting student outcomes, adaptive learning assessment, and
evaluation of personalized learning solutions.
Workshop Format
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PALE format moves away from the classic 'mini-conferences' approach and
will follow the Learning Cafe methodology to promote discussions on some
of the open issues regarding personalization in learning environments.
Two Learning Cafes will be set up. Each one consists in brief
presentations of the key questions posed and small group discussions
with participants randomly grouped in tables. Each table will be
moderated by one expert in the topic under discussion and participants
will change tables during the discussion with the aim to share ideas
among the groups.
Workshop Topics
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The higher-level research question to be addressed in the workshop is:
ìWhat are suitable approaches to personalize learning environments?î It
will be considered in various contexts of interactive, personal, and
inclusive learning environments. The topics of the workshop include (but
are not limited to) the following:
ï Motivation, benefits, and issues of personalization in learning
environments
ï Approaches for personalization of inclusive, personal and interactive
learning environments
ï Successful methods and techniques for personalization of learning
environments
ï Results and metrics in personalized learning environments
ï Social and educational issues in personalized learning environments
ï Use of pedagogic conversational agents
ï Affective computing in personalized learning environments
ï Ambient intelligence in personalized learning environments
ï User and context awareness in personalized learning environments
Submissions
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Research papers must be prepared in 4-6 page LNCS format and submitted
through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pale2013)
in PDF format. All papers will be double-blind reviewed by at least
three independent reviewers with expertise in the area from the Program
Committee. Accepted papers will be included in a centralized CEUR-WS
(ISSN 1613-0073) volume of workshop papers and conference posters from
UMAP, which will also be available on-line at the workshop webpage.
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special
issue in the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
(details to be announced).
Important dates
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April 1, 2013: Submission of papers
May 1, 2013: Notification of acceptance
May 15, 2013: Camera-ready paper
June 10, 2013: PALE workshop
Workshop Organizing Committee
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Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
Olga C. Santos, aDeNu Research Group. Artificial Intelligence Dept. UNED
(Spain)
Jesus G. Boticario, aDeNu Research Group. Artificial Intelligence Dept.
UNED (Spain)
Diana PÈrez-MarÌn, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
Workshop Program Committee
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Miguel Arevalillo - University of Valencia, Spain
Maria Bielikova - Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Zoraida Callejas - Universidad de Granada, Spain
Cristina Conati - University of British Columbia, Canada
Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada
David Griol Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Judy Kay - University of Sydney, Australia
Kinshuk - Athabasca University, Canada
Ralf Klamma - RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Tobias Ley - Tallinn university, Estonia
RamÛn LÛpez-CÛzar - Universidad de Granada, Spain
Noboru Matsuda - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Beatriz MencÌa - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Alexander Nussbaumer - Graz University of Technology, Austria
Alexandros Paramythis - Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Dimitris Spiliotopoulos - University of Athens, Greece
Carsten Ullrich - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Martin Wolpers - Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
