A3EH: Third
International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Educational
Hypermedia
July 19, 2005 at AIED’05
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Program, Tuesday, July 19th 2005 (Room A-306)
09.00 - 10.30
session:
Theme models,
design and authoring
09.00-09.15 Welcome
10.15-10.30: Poster 9. The Cost of Authoring with a Knowledge Layer, authors: Lichao Li, Judy Kay
10.30 - 11.00 coffee/tea break
11.00 - 12.30 session:
Theme
adaptive assessment authoring
Theme
authoring and converting
12.00-12.30: Paper 5. Writing MOT, Reading AHA! - converting between an authoring and a delivery system for adaptive educational hypermedia -, authors: Alexandra Cristea, David Smits and Paul de Bra
12.30 - 14.00 lunch
14.00 - 15.30 session:
Theme
authoring evaluation
14.00-14.30: Paper 6. Evaluation of
Adaptive Course Construction Toolkit (ACCT), authors: Declan Dagger, Vincent
Wade
Theme
authoring systems
15.00-15.15: Poster 8. Authoring and delivering adaptable
learning objects in SINTEC, authors: Valentin Cristea, Stefan Trausan-Matu
15.15-15.30: Poster 10.
Telemedicine ontology for AIED, authors: O. Ferrer-Roca, A. Figueredo, K.
Franco, A. Diaz-Cardama
15.30 - 16.00 coffee/tea break
16.00 - 17.30 session
Theme
authoring language
16.15-16.30 short break
16.30-17.30:
Panel with Invited Speakers: one per each full paper
Accepted Paper
List: click here
Description
This workshop follows a successful series of workshops on the same
topic. The workshop contains paper presentations, posters, a panel and
discussion, so don’t miss the opportunity to join us!
The current workshop focuses on the issues of design, implementation and
evaluation of general Adaptive and Adaptable (Educational) Hypermedia, with
special emphasis on the connection to user modelling and pedagogy. Authoring of
Adaptive Hypermedia has been long considered as secondary to adaptive
hypermedia delivery. This task is not trivial at all. There exist some
approaches to help authors to build adaptive-hypermedia-based systems, yet
there is a strong need of high-level approaches, formalisms and tools that
support and facilitate the description of reusable adaptive websites. Only
recently have we noticed a shift in interest, as it became clearer that the
implementation-oriented approach would forever keep adaptive hypermedia away
from the ‘layman’ author. The creator of adaptive hypermedia cannot be expected
to know all facets of this process, but can be reasonably trusted to be an
expert in one of them. It is therefore necessary to research and establish the
components of an adaptive hypermedia system from an authoring perspective, catering
for the different author personas that are required. This type of research has
proven to lead to a modular view on the adaptive hypermedia. One of these
modules, which is most frequently used, is the User Model, also called Learner
Model in the Educational field (or Student Model in ITS). Less frequent, but
also emerging as an important module is the Pedagogical Model (this model has
also different names in different implementations, too various to name
here). It becomes more and more clear
that for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia it is necessary to consider not only
the learner’s characteristics, but also the pedagogical knowledge to deal with
these characteristics. This workshop will cover all aspects of the authoring
process of adaptive educational hypermedia, from design to evaluation, with
special attention to Learner and Pedagogical models.
Therefore, important issues to discuss are, among others:
* What are the main characteristics (that should be) modelled of
learners?
* How can the pedagogical knowledge be formulated in a reusable manner?
* How to support pedagogic scenarios?
* How can we consider user
cognitive styles in adaptive hypermedia?
* How can we consider user learning styles in adaptive hypermedia?
* Are there any recurring patterns that can be detected in the authoring
process generally speaking, and in the authoring of user or pedagogic model in
particular?
The workshop will also lead to a better understanding and
cross-dissemination of user-specific patterns extracted from existing design
and authoring processes in AH, especially focused around user modelling and
pedagogic modelling.
The workshop aims to attract the interest of the related research
communities to the important issues of design and authoring, with special focus
on user and pedagogic models in adaptive hypermedia; to discuss the current
state of the art in this field; and to identify new challenges in the field.
Moreover, the workshop should be seen as a platform that enables the
cooperation and exchange of information between European and non-European
projects.
Major Themes
* Design patterns for adaptive educational hypermedia
* Authoring user models for adaptive/adaptable educational hypermedia
* Authoring pedagogic models for adaptive/adaptable educational
hypermedia
* Generic authoring for adaptive/adaptable educational hypermedia
* Authoring patterns for user models and pedagogic models in
adaptive/adaptable educational hypermedia
* Authoring Tools for user models and pedagogic models in
adaptive/adaptable educational hypermedia
* Generic authoring tools in adaptive/adaptable educational hypermedia
* Reusable user models and pedagogic models
* Connecting adaptive educational hypermedia with cognitive/learning
styles
* Evaluation of authoring tools for adaptive educational hypermedia
* Evaluation of adaptive educational hypermedia design patterns
* Evaluation of adaptive educational hypermedia authoring patterns
Organization
There will be paper presentation and discussions.
These discussions will be open to all; not only those who have papers
accepted at the workshop but also any other interested parties are welcome.
After the paper presentations, the discussion based on these questions
will begin. Both the presenters and the audience will be asked to contribute to
the answering of these questions.
Target Audience and Workshop Interest
The workshop is targeted at all people working towards the discovery and use of patterns, formalisms, and
mechanisms that can help them to develop adaptive hypermedia, with a special
focus on the domain of education. The richer the adaptation of a
hypermedia-based system is, the more complex its specification uses to be.
Therefore, there is a clear need of discovering patterns and developing formalisms,
mechanisms or tools to facilitate and support the task of authoring adaptive
hypermedia, by performing it, in some cases, semi-automatically. The necessity of these patterns can be as a result of
authoring push or AH system interfacing or ultimately open (adaptive)
hypermedia or pull. This means that patterns can emerge from repetitive
structures used by AH authors; alternatively, patterns can emerge from
interface programs or interface languages between different adaptive hypermedia
systems, or from trying to interface to the open adaptive hypermedia.
This includes researchers that are active in all these fields, as well
as representatives of larger projects or networks dealing with these issues. We
encourage these researchers to submit papers to the workshop on their latest
results and ideas.
Moreover, the workshop is also targeted at people who are interested to
hear and discuss the state of the art and the future of this important domain
of adaptive hypermedia patterns and pattern-based authoring. We encourage these
researchers to participate actively in the discussions for which time will be
especially allocated, as well as in the other interactive parts, such as
questionnaires and, if time allows it, demos.
The workshop’s main aim is to bring together researchers working or
interested in the emerging fields of adaptive patterns for adaptive educational
hypermedia authoring. We expect to extract and discuss these emerging patterns,
as well as see their implementations and evaluations, smoothening the
transition towards standard proposals in the field.
Participants are expected to leave with a better knowledge of the state
of the art of the field, as well as to have a fruitful brain-storming session
generating new ideas and opening new paths.
As this is a new field, we do not expect final results, but pointers
towards some existing solutions and better approaches.
Results of the discussions and questionnaire processing will be posted
after the workshop on-line on the workshop site, as is the case with the first
two editions of this workshop.
Workshop Co-Chairs
Dr.
Alexandra Cristea -
Dr. Rosa M. Carro
- University Autonoma of Madrid, Spain
Prof. Dr. Franca Garzotto - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Biographies
Dr. Alexandra Cristea is assistant professor of Information Systems
at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the
Dr. Rosa M. Carro has worked in the area of adaptive hypermedia since
1997. She got her doctoral degree in Computer Science Engineering in the University
Autónoma of Madrid in 2001. Her research focuses on adaptive hypermedia,
adaptive e-learning systems, collaborative learning, authoring of adaptive and
collaborative hypermedia, ubiquitous training and evaluation. She was a member
of the research unit Mathematics and Applications of the Mathematics Department
of the
Prof. Dr. Franca Garzotto has a Degree in Mathematics from
Program Committee:
Helen Ashman, University of Nottingham (UK)
Paul De Bra,
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Tim Brailsford, University of Nottingham (UK)
Licia Calvi,
University of Pavia (Italy)
Hugh Davis,
Southampton University (UK)
Serge
Garlatti, GET-ENST Bretagne (France)
Nicola
Henze, University of Hannover (Germany)
Judy Kay,
University of Sydney (Australia)
Kinshuk,
Massey University (New Zealand)
Wolfgang
Nejdl, University of Hannover (Germany)
Toshio
Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications (Japan)
Helen Pain,
University of Edinburgh (UK)
Simos
Retalis, University of Piraeus (Greece)
Pilar Rodríguez,
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)
Johann
Schlichter, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Marcus
Specht, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (Germany)
Daniel
Schwabe, PUC - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Carlo Strapparava,
IRST (Italy)
Lorna Uden,
Staffordshire University (UK)
Vincent
Wade, Trinity College (Ireland)
Gerhard
Weber, Freiburg University of Education (Germany)
Wolfgang
Woerndl, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Paper submission (closed)
Discussion proposals
as well as research papers. Papers accepted for the workshop are published in
the workshop proceedings. Selected papers might also be invited for a Special
Issue for a Journal (bid ongoing).
Submit your
paper to: a.i.cristea@tue.nl; and CC it
to: rosa.carro@uam.es; garzotto@elet.polimi.it
Important Dates
Submission
deadline: April 22, 2005
Notification
of acceptance or rejection: May 13, 2005
Final
versions due:
Workshop:
Main
conference:
Submission Categories:
Full papers:
original mature research results as well
as discussion papers
Poster
papers:
on-going work