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Featured Article from the January-March issue
Capture, Management, and Utilization of Lifecycle Information for Learning Resources
Lasse Lehmann, Tomas Hildebrandt, Christoph Rensing, Ralf Steinmetz
Abstract—Throughout their lifecycle, Learning Resources undergo a multitude of processes by being created, used, provided or re-used. However, in order to be reusable, a Learning Resource often has to be adapted for a new context of use. This in turn implies multiple Re-Authoring processes being performed on a Learning Resource. During each of these processes different types of information emerge. When retained, this information can be helpful for the retrieval, authoring, use or re-use of Learning Resources thereafter. In this paper, the lifecycle of Learning Resources along with the information generated herein is analyzed and a distributed architecture proposed that allows for the capture, processing, management and utilization of the information mentioned in a generic way. Three steps have been conducted to implement the proposed framework. First evaluation results are promising.
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PrePrints and RapidPosts are now being posted in the in the computer society digital library. PrePrints are papers accepted for publication in a future issue, but have not been fully edited. Their content may change prior to final publication. RapidPosts are articles that have been accepted for inclusion in a future issue. Content is final as presented, with the exception of pagination.
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl Announced as New Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl (born 1960) has been full professor of computer science at the University of Hannover since 1995. He received his M.Sc.(1984) and Ph.D. degree (1988) at the Technical University of Vienna, was assistant professor in Vienna from 1988 to 1992, and associate professor at the RWTH Aachen from 1992 to 1995. He worked as visiting researcher/professor at Xerox PARC, Stanford University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, EPFL Lausanne, and at PUC Rio.
Prof. Nejdl heads the Distributed Systems Institute/Knowledge Based Systems (http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/) as well as the L3S Research Center (http://www.l3s.de/), and does research in the areas of semantic web technologies, peer-to-peer information systems, search and information retrieval, databases and artificial intelligence. In the L3S he coordinates the Network of Excellence PROLEARN, as part of the 6th EU research program on technology enhanced learning, and participates as core partner in the KnowledgeWeb and REWERSE Networks of Excellence focusing on Semantic Web Technologies. Three new EU/IST Integrated Projects in these areas have started in 2006 at L3S (NEPOMUK, TENCompetence, PROLIX), another one focusing on audio-visual search (PHAROS) in 2007.
Wolfgang Nejdl published more than 160 scientific articles and has been programm committee and editorial board member of numerous international conferences and journals, see also http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~nejdl/
Peter Brusilovsky Announced as New Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
Peter Brusilovsky has been working in the area of E-Learning and adaptive systems since 1993. He was a codeveloper of several adaptive Web-based educational systems including ISIS-Tutor, the first adaptive educational hypermedia system, and ELM-ART, a winner of the 1998 European Academic Software Award.
He was also involved in developing practical E-Learning courses and systems as a Director of Computer Managed Instruction at Carnegie Technology Education (now iCarnegie), one of the first E-Learning companies in the USA. Dr. Brusilovsky is currently an Associate Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the Teaching and Learning Research (TALER) lab and the Personalized Adaptive Web Systems (PAWS) lab. He was also holding visiting faculty appointments at the Moscow State University (Russia), Sussex University (UK), Tokyo Denki University (Japan), University of Trier (Germany), Free University of Bolzano (Italy), National College of Ireland, and Carnegie Mellon University (USA).
He is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and a US National Science Foundation CAREER award. Dr. Brusilovsky has published numerous research papers and several books on adaptive systems and E-Learning. He is a board member of several journals. He is also the current president of User Modeling Inc., a professional association of user modeling.
Call for Papers
The Web revolution, the popularity of on-line learning, and the broad availability of computers in schools, colleges, universities, workplaces and in other social settings has caused a qualitative change in the field of learning technologies. Both the variety and the complexity of e-learning tools have increased dramatically over the last 10 years. A number of new conferences emerged to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of learning technologies to discuss their work. Yet, there are very few journals, which embrace the field as a whole and provide a space to publish archival quality papers. The goal of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT) is to bridge this gap.
The new title will cover all advances in learning technologies, including but not limited to the following topics:
- Innovative online learning systems
- Intelligent tutors
- Educational software applications and games
- Simulation systems for education and training
- Collaborative learning tools
- Devices and interfaces for learning
- Interactive techniques for learning
- Personalized and adaptive learning systems
- Tools for formative and summative assessment
- Ontologies for learning systems
- Standards and web services that support learning
- Authoring tools for learning materials
- Computer support for peer tutoring
- Learning via discovery, field, and lab work
- Learning with mobile devices
- Social learning techniques
- Social networks and infrastructures for learning and knowledge sharing
- Creation and management of learning objects
The IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies is slated to launch in 2008. In order to best serve the community, TLT will be published online, using a delayed open-access policy under which paying subscribers and per-article purchasers have access to newly published content, and then 12 months after the publication of each issue, all readers will have access to the content, free of charge.
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies is seeking papers, which either describe original research or offer a critical review of the state of the art in a particular area. Papers concerned with evaluation of technology are only appropriate if the technology itself is novel or if significant insights for advancing the technology are provided. The journal is now accepting submissions through Manuscript Central, https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tlt-cs
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Personalization
For this special issue, we are seeking papers which describe original research on personalization in learning technologies. The research should be properly validated. For example, if the main contribution is a technical innovation, the validation should demonstrate the soundness of the concepts and architecture. If the contribution is an improvement of the learning process or outcome, the paper should describe the empirical evaluation with learners.
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If you have any questions, please contact the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl, http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~nejdl/, or the Associate Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~peterb/
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies is a joint publication of the: IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Education Society
