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Call for Papers: Workshop on Open Data for Education & Learning: The basics and more (OD4edu)

Part of EC-TEL 2014, the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 2014, Graz, Austria

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: New deadline is 7 July, 2014

LinkedUp is pleased to be hosting a workshop on Open Data for Education & Learning at the EC-TEL 2014. The conference is co-located with i-KNOW 2014 and will be on Tuesday, 16 September 2014.

Overview

The LinkedUp Project is a FP7 Support Action which pushes forward the exploitation and adoption of public, open data available on the Web, in particular by educational organisations and institutions.

This workshop will be directed at members of the education community seeking an introduction to open data and Linked Data and will provide some examples for how they can be used to enhance education and learning resources. The focus will be mostly on the non-functional aspects needed for planning and decision-making for open data projects for education such as: availability, discoverability and reliability of open data resources, as well as licensing and privacy and trust issues related to the re-use of open data. A significant portion of this workshop will be dedicated to assisting educators on how to identify projects and ideas that could take advantage of open data; how to find open data, and how best to evaluate Linked Data and open data that will meet the needs of a specific project-work or learning scenario.

The main research questions the workshop will address are:

· What are the opportunities for using open data and Linked Data in education?
· What are the challenges of using open data and Linked Data in education?
· What are the best selection criteria when evaluating open data?
· What are the legal and non-technical issues that need to be considered when incorporating open data from the web?
· What are issues related to trust when using third party data and content?
Workshop topics include but are not limited to:

· Open data and Linked Data for formal, informal and non-formal education
· Open data and Linked Data and formative assessment
· Open data and Linked Data and open learning
· Open data and Linked Data supporting education in developing countries
· Open data and Linked Data in cultural applications
Papers Submission

This workshop invites papers and demos (6 pages max. in Springer Format) that deal with the Workshop main topics. In particular, examples of novel and innovative educational applications and scenarios that make use of Linked Data, as well as best practices around the selection criteria for open data resources. Based on the submissions we receive, we will cluster them by themes. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. We aim for two or three paper presentations for each main theme we identify after reviewing the submissions. Demos, if available, may be shown during the related presentations.

Papers incorporating the following themes are encouraged:

· Distance & online learning
· Informal learning
· Knowledge management & organizational learning
· Lifelong learning
· Non-formal learning
· Open educational resources (OER)
· Semantic Web
· Vocabularies, ontologies & taxonomies for learning & education
Important Dates:

Submissions deadline: 30th June 2014
Deadline extended: 7th July 2014
Author notifications: 25th July 2014
Final versions due: 8th of August 2014
Workshop date: 16th September 2014

Paper submission and review will be managed on EasyChair

Accepted papers published in online proceedings (CEUR).

After the workshop the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to be included in a special issue to the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) by Inderscience.

Organisers

Michael Lauruhn (first contact), Elsevier, m.lauruhn@elsevier.com

Elisabetta Parodi, Lattanzio Learning Spa, parodi@lattanziogroup.eu

Ivana Marenzi, L3S Research Center, marenzi@L3S.de

Keerthi Thomas, Open University UK, Keerthi.Thomas@open.ac.uk

The CfP is available also at http://linkedup-project.eu/call-for-papers-workshop-on-open-data-for-education-learning-the-basics-and-more/

El “impact factor” como criterio de selección de profesores e investigadores

Debate enmarcado en el XI foro internacional sobre la evaluación de la calidad de la investigación y de la educación superior

Información: http://www.ugr.es/~aepc/XIFECIESWEB/sesionesdebate.html

Automated grammatical error correction in essays

Information from the Discussion thread from the Linked in Natural Language Processing Group

-Shared Task at CoNLL 2013 and 2014, both of them on grammatical error correction:

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~nlp/conll13st.htmlhttp://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~nlp/conll14st.html

-This year the task focused in all kind of errors. Here you can download the proceedings:

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~nlp/conll14st/conll14st-book.pdf

-Claudia Leacock et al’s survey, ‘Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners’.

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00275ED1V01Y201006HLT009

Frentes de investigación científica de la Región de Murcia a través de mapas heliocéntricos

CLAWS Tagset 7

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CFP Mobile technology for foreign language teaching.

Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS)
ISSN 0948-695x  Online Edition: ISSN 0948-6968

Special Issue on:

Mobile technology for foreign language teaching.

Building bridges between non-formal and formal scenarios

To be published in October 2015

Guest Editors:

Jesús García Laborda (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, jesus.garcialaborda@uah.es)
Elena Bárcena (UNED, Spain, mbarcena@flog.uned.es)
John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton, U.K., John.Traxler@wlv.ac.uk)

Background & Call for Manuscripts

Since the start of the new millennium, Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) has grown to become a significant paradigm that educators cannot ignore. The primary motivation comes from two factors. Firstly, the wide scale adoption of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Secondly, the importance of speaking other languages both in the international professional world, for access and career development, and also in increasingly plurilingual societies. The inherently flexible nature of MALL enables students to be targeted within formal education, lifelong learning, outside formal education and even in situations of professional and social exclusion.

Researchers and developers worldwide have made the connection between mobile devices and foreign languages on the basis that the relevant competences can be trained socially, rather autonomously and, to some extent, developed incidentally. Regional and national boards of education and social affairs are, therefore, designing and implementing programs based upon what is possible to learn when users are mobile and interconnected. Furthermore, context is also taken into consideration in MALL as a significant and versatile element, which can be incorporated as part of the learning process.
This special issue draws together research and experiences that illustrate the recent advances in this field, both from a theoretical and/or a practical perspective to mainstream implementation. The issue intends to provide a multidisciplinary view of MALL, emphasizing the integration of methodological and technological innovation in order to effectively attend the language learning needs of mobile individuals and social groups in the 21st century. To this end, the issue will contain original, pertinent and relevant contributions along topics which include but are not limited to the following:

• Creating interactive and collaborative MALL environments
• Design and development of educational materials for MALL
• Specially significant MALL pilot projects and applications to mainstream implementation
• Mobile technology for language teacher training
• MALL assessment techniques, practices and certification
• From mobile to ubiquitous language learning: future trends in MALL

Important Deadlines

Submission by: 31 December 2014
Notification of acceptance by: 31 March 2015
Revised submission by: 30 June 2015
Final version by: 31 August 2015

Submission and Evaluation Procedure

The Journal of Universal Computer Science is a high-quality electronic publication that deals with all aspects of theoretical and applied computing technology. J.UCS has been appearing monthly since 1995 and is one of the oldest electronic journals with uninterrupted publication since its foundation. A number of special issues as well as the printed archive editions of the volumes are also available in print and can be ordered directly from J.UCS office. The impact factor of J.UCS is 0.669, the 5-year impact factor 0.788 (2010). For further information, please refer to http://www.jucs.org/jucs_info/aims/unique_features.html.

Manuscripts should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages. Papers only prepared according to the JUCS’s guidelines for authors and submitted online (see procedure described below) will be included in the review process. Please refer to http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/special_issues/special_guidelines.html.

The guidelines for authors are available at http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/style_guide.html. Please submit your original and proof-read papers using the submission system to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=malljucs15. Each article will be blind-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. A selected set of reviewers with the appropriate expertise will be assigned to each article submitted according to its main subject.