[edm-announce] 3rd CFP: RS4VLC - Recommender Systems to support the dynamics of Virtual Learning Communities
- From: Olga Santos <ocsantos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Olga Santos <ocsantos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:08:50 +0100
CALL FOR PAPERS (with apologies for cross-posting)
Special Issue on Recommender Systems to support the dynamics of Virtual
Learning Communities (RS4VLC)
International Journal of Web Based Communities
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*CFP details: https://adenu.ia.uned.es/web/en/rs4vlc
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SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:
This special issue aims to gather a collection of high quality contributions
that reflect the support that can be provided by Recommender Systems in
Virtual Learning Communities (VLC). It focuses on the e-learning domain and
the VLC that grow around it.
This special issue calls for papers in the community of researchers for
recommender systems in the educational domain that analyse the needs and
propose solutions from a user-centred point of view. Papers are expected to
focus on how users (learners and tutors) are impacted by the adaptations
during their interactions within the virtual learning communities, where
these adaptations are offered in terms of recommendations.
Contributions are expected to answer some of the following questions (among
others):
- How recommendations can impact on the participants in VLC?
- What type of activities within the VLC could be improved or made more
productive with recommendations?
- What types of situations in VLC are meaningful for providing
recommendations?
- How can the utility of a recommender system be measured in a VLC?
- What types of recommendations are of special interest for the educational
domain?
- How can users be modelled to facilitate the recommendations process in
VLC?
- What is the most appropriate design for a tool to manage the
recommendations?
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- Recommender systems for educational domain
- Inclusive recommendations in virtual learning communities (i.e. take into
account the diversity of the users, including the accessibility preferences)
- User-centred design methods
- User-centred evaluation
- User modelling to support recommender systems for educational domain
- Personalisation and user needs in educational domain
- Design of the user interface for recommenders in virtual learning
communities
- Authoring/administration tools to manage/supervise the recommendations
process
- Evaluating recommendation interfaces through user studies and other
human-computer interaction approaches
- Recommenders to support social networking in virtual learning communities
- Case studies of recommenders in virtual learning communities
- Evaluation of recommender systems in educational scenarios
- Impact of adaptations in virtual learning communities
- Educational data mining to improve the usability of virtual learning
communities
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Notification of Intent to Submit: as soon as possible
- Submission of Title and Extended Abstract deadline: 28 February, 2010
(recommended, but not mandatory)
- Full paper submission deadline: 30 March, 2010
HOW TO SUBMIT
- Notification of intent to submit should be done directly to Olga C. Santos
(ocsantos@xxxxxxxxxxx).
- Paper proposal should be submitted through Easychair, as described in
http://adenu.ia.uned.es/web/es/rs4vlc.
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