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                            CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
1st Workshop on Social Information Retrieval in Technology-Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL'07)
                     September 18 2007, Crete, Greece (whole day)
               http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/sirtel/

in conjuction with 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07)
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The aim of the SIRTEL'07 Workshop is to bring together researchers
and practitioners working on topics related to the application of
Social information retrieval (SIR) methods, techniques and systems
in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL).

The workshop will take stock of the current status of research in
this area, serve as a discussion forum and facilitate establishing
liaisons between different groups that are exploring related subjects.
In addition, it wishes to outline the rich potential of modern
SIR methods, techniques and systems in order to build TEL systems
and services.

SIRTEL'07 will include:

• 8 full paper presentations & 1 system demonstration
• Keynote by David Wiley, Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning
• Keynote by Francisco J. Martin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MyStrands
• "Facilitators and Enablers" discussion session chaired by Erik Duval, KULeuven & ARIADNE Foundation

The following papers have been accepted for presentation
(download: http://infolab-dev.aua.gr/sirtel2007/papers.htm):

• Hendrik Drachsler, Hans G. K. Hummel, Rob Koper

"Recommendations for learners are different: Applying memory-based recommender system techniques to lifelong learning"

• Preben Hansen, Claus-Peter Klas

"Knowledge Sharing in Information Seeking and Retrieval Situations" (system demo)

• Shelley Henson, Justin Ball, David Wiley, Brandon Muramatsu

"Tag, Annotate, Rate and Share: Activites of Daily Living on the Web"

• Pythagoras Karampiperis, Aristeidis Diplaros

"Exploiting Image Segmentation Techniques for Social Filtering of Educational Content"

• Joris Klerkx, Erik Duval

"Visualizing Social Bookmarks"

• Nikos Manouselis, Riina Vuorikari, Frans Van Assche

"Simulated Analysis of MAUT Collaborative Filtering for Learning Object Recommendation"

• Griff Richards

"Reward structures for participation and contribution in K-12 Open Educational Resources communities"

• Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Salvador Sanchez-Alonso, Leonardo Lezcano

"Exploring affiliation network models as a collaborative filtering mechanism in e-learning"

• Riina Vuorikari, Xavier Ochoa, Erik Duval

"Analysis of User Behavior on Multilingual Tagging of Learning Objects"

SIRTEL'07 ORGANISERS

• Riina Vuorikari, KULeuven & European Schoolnet, Belgium
• Nikos Manouselis, Informatics Laboratory, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
• Erik Duval, KULeuven, Belgium & ARIADNE Foundation

ABOUT EC-TEL07

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 specialised workshops and the main conference.

Workshop participants are expected to enroll to the conference and pay
the additional workshop fee (with the registration process) that
includes coffee breaks during the workshop.

See http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/sirtel/ and http://www.ectel07.org/ for details.