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International Workshop on
Cognitive Aspects in Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems (CIAWES 2008)
http://kinshuk.athabascau.ca/ciawes2008/index.php

in conjunction with International Conference on Computers in Education
October 27-31, 2008
Taipei, Taiwan

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MOTIVATION
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Typically used web-based educational systems such as learning management systems provide a variety of features to support teachers and course developers to create and manage their online courses. However, at current stage, such environments provide very little, or in most cases, neither intelligent support nor adaptivity at all. The need for smart learning environments arise that offer personal services in the whole cycle of education, from counselling, to academic advising, to program planning, to collaborative learning, to tutoring, and to testing.

Considering cognitive aspects such as learning styles and cognitive traits in web-based educational systems has become a promising area with high potential to support students in learning. By providing students with environments that incorporate their cognitive abilities and their individual preferences about how they like to learn, learning materials and courses can be adapted and more accurate intelligent support can be provided, aiming at making learning easier for learners.

This workshop deals with innovative research in the area of intelligent and adaptive web-based educational systems, focussing on the incorporation of cognitive aspects. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting and discussing high-quality research about how cognitive aspects can be considered in intelligent and adaptive web-based educational systems, including the detection of cognitive aspects, the development of systems that provide adaptive and intelligent support based on cognitive aspects as well as analyses about the effectiveness of considering cognitive aspects in technology enhanced learning.

The overall goal of the workshop is to bring people from the same area together and encourage discussion about how to support learners and educators, increase learning opportunities, and improve the efficiency and quality of service by considering cognitive aspects.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest for the workshop include cognitive aspects related to (but are not limited to):
Adaptive collaboration support
Adaptive curriculum sequencing
Adaptive presentation and navigation support
Adaptive testing
Agent technology
Architectures and frameworks of AIED systems
Authoring tools for developing AIED systems
Cognition and collaborative learning
Cognitive aspects in mobile learning
Data mining, log mining, and web mining for education intelligence
Educational robots and the consideration of cognition
Empirical studies of adaptive and intelligent systems
E-tutor, E-secretary, E-advisor, E-counsellor
Game-based leanring and cognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Integration and interoperability issues
Instructional design and pedagogy
Intelligent and adaptive assessment
Language learning and the consideration of cognition
Problem solving methods and problem-based learning
Semantic web and education
Student modelling
Web 2.0 and social computing for learning


IMPORTANT DATES
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August 15, 2008 Submission deadline for workshop papers
August 31, 2008 Notification of workshop papers
September 15, 2008 Final version deadline for workshop papers
October 27-31, 2008 International Conference on Computers and Education


SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION
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Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:
Full papers (8 pages)
Short papers (4 pages)
The page length includes figures, tables, references, and so on.
The format of workshop papers should follow the format of conference papers at ICCE. Please use the guidelines at: http://www.apsce.net/icce2008/cfp_author_guid.html

Please submit your paper via email to Sabine Graf at sabine.graf@ieee.org and copy to Kinshuk kinshuk@ieee.org as doc- or rtf-file.

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by 2-3 reviewers from the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of ICCE (with ISBN number).

Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of a journal.


REGISTRATION
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The workshop is held in conjunction with ICCE. All participants of the workshop are required to register for the main conference, but there will be no additional workshop fee. Further information regarding the registration, accommodation, and the workshop/conference venue can be found at the website of ICCE 2008.


WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Sabine Graf, National Central University, Taiwan
Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (not yet completed)
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Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Ingo Brunkhorst, L3S Research Center, Germany
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Liliane Esnault, EM Lyon, France
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Bob Heller, Athabasca University, Canada
Chung Hsien Lan, Nanya Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Hong Lin, University of Houston, USA
Tzu Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan
Vincenzo Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy
Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Demetrios G. Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece
Jirarat Sitthiworachart, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand
Manolis Wallace, University of Indianapolis Athens, Greece
Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan