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Due to many requests we decided to extend the submission deadline to July 1st 2008.

Interactive Learning Environments

Special Issue on "Semantic Technologies for Multimedia-enhanced

Learning Environments"

Call for papers

The availability of metadata based on the Semantic Web technologies is

recognized as a key asset that enables aggregation, provisioning,

retrieval, reusability, adaptation, and personalization of

(educational) multimedia content. In learning environments, Semantic

Web technologies can integrate data about learning objects, learning

activities and learners captured from various e-learning systems and

tools. This inevitably brings multimedia-enhanced learning

environments to increased levels of interaction and collaboration.

Today, we are living in the era of the proliferating use of Web 2.0

approaches (e.g. collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups,

blogs, and Wikis) that are usually based on lightweight semantics and

represented in the form of folksonomies. Despite the initial

perception that Web 2.0 opposes to the Semantic Web, these two efforts

are being jointly used to create a common space of semantic

technologies. This special issue solicits papers focused on the use of

semantic technologies in multimedia-enhanced learning environments.

Submissions are invited on topics that include, but are not limited

to, the following:

• Ontologies and semantic annotations for multimedia learning objects

• Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects

• Semantic social networking in multimedia-based learning environments

• Semantic technologies for enabling pedagogical theories in

multimedia-enhanced learning environments

• Semantic-enhanced learning designs in multimedia-enhanced learning

• Semantic technologies for personalization and adaptation of

multimedia-enhanced learning

• Semantic-rich service-oriented architectures for multimedia

learning environments

• Semantic multimedia content for (collaborative) mobile learning

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2008

Reviews Completed: September 1st, 2008

Major Revisions Due: October 15th, 2008

Re-reviews Completed: December 1st, 2008

Final recommendations: February 1st, 2009

Final Manuscripts Due: March 1st, 2009

Publication Date: BD (2009)

Guest Editors:

• Marco Bertini, Univesita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

• Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade , Serbia

• Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada

• Carlo Torniai, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Submission Guidelines:

All manuscripts should be compliant with the submission guidelines and

policies of the Interactive Learning Environments journal

(http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10494820.asp). All manuscripts

will be subject to the high standards of peer review and each paper

will undergo double blind review. All the papers must be submitted via

online submission system at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stemule2008. Email

submissions will not be accepted.

More info: http://www.sfu.ca/~cta33/stemule08/

Contact: stemule2008@easychair.org