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DULP & SPeL @ ICALT 2012: Exploring Emerging Technologies and the Future of Technology Enhanced Learning

3rd Workshop on Design Centered and Personalized Learning in Liquid and Ubiquitous Learning Places &
5th International Workshop on Social and Personalized Computing for Web Supported Learning Communities
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/dulpspel/index.php

in conjunction with ICALT 2012
The 12th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
http://www.scuolaiad.it/ICALT2012/

Rome, Italy
4-6 July 2012

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Background
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The proposed workshop is the result of merging the experience and background of two workshops centered on ubiquitous personalization and future visions in TEL: DULP and SPeL. Both workshops have as core topic the personalization of learning experiences as well as the future development of personalized learning environments. DULP stands for D -) Design Inspired Learning; U -) Ubiquitous Learning; L -) Liquid Learning Places; P -) Person in Place Centered Design, thus summarizing and bringing together a number of current trends and researchers. DULP started as a national effort in Rome, Italy, in 2009; after the first steps, an international community has been built, and a series of workshops started at ICALT 2010 and continued at ICALT 2011. The SPeL workshop has as general topic the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities, leading towards the creation of a truly social and adaptive learning environment. The workshop has been held during the last 4 years in conjunction with the SAINT 2008, WI/IAT 2009, DEXA 2010 and ICWL 2011 conferences respectively.


Topics of Interest
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The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of emerging technologies and future of TEL, especially in the areas of personalized, social and ubiquitous learning, particularly related to:

* Social learning environments
* Theory and modeling of social computing in education
* Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning
* Lifelong learning networks
* Social- and group- learning theory
* Knowledge community formation and support
* Virtual spaces for learning communities
* Social networks analysis and mining
* Computer-supported collaborative learning
* Personalized and adaptive learning
* Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners
* Intelligent learner and group modeling
* Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios
* Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
* Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
* Social information retrieval
* Mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive e-learning applications
* Context modeling
* Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
* Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects
* Practice and experience sharing
* Future visions and models for ubiquitous learning in liquid learning places
* New generation of virtual and physical learning places


Paper submission and publication
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All accepted workshop papers will be included in the IEEE Conference Proceedings of ICALT, published by IEEE Computer Society.

The length of the workshop papers should not exceed 2 pages and should be formatted according to the IEEE Conference Publishing Services Formatting Guidelines (http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/icalt2012/index.php?s=113&a=125).

Please submit your paper at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dulpspelicalt2012

All papers will go through a double-blind reviewing process and will be reviewed by three program committee members. Therefore, please make sure that your paper does not include your name/affiliation when you submit it for review.


Important dates
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February 15, 2012 Workshop paper submission
March 5, 2012 Workshop paper notification
March 15, 2012 Author registration
April 1, 2012 Camera-Ready paper submission


Workshop Chairs
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Alke Martens, PH Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education, Germany
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Ming-Puu Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Ben Chang, National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Tsung-Yen Chuang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan


Program Committee
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Please see: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/dulpspel/index.php?s=147&a=238


Contact
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Please refer to the workshop website (http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/dulpspel/index.php) for more information. If you have any questions or inquiries, please contact Dr. Elvira Popescu at popescu_elvira@software.ucv.ro.