CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Social Computing in Education 2009 (WSCE2009)
in conjunction with SocialComp'09, August 29-31, 2009, Vancouver, Canada
http://groups.google.com/group/WSCE2009
Submission Deadline: May 8, 2009
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wsce2009
With the advent of Web 2.0 and related technologies, Social Computing has become a new paradigm in ways we communicate, learn, and educate. Social platforms such as wikis, blogs, twitters, forums, groups, podcasts, mashups, virtual worlds, and sites for social networking, recommender systems, social bookmarking, social news, knowledge sharing, etc. are generating novel ways we acquire, access, manipulate, process, retrieve, present, and visualize information in the teaching and learning space. The social media for education has become dynamic, ubiquitous, distributed, real-time, collaborative, bottom-up, many-to-many, value-based, and personalized. This workshop solicits contributions on using Social Computing and related technologies for education, the emerging applications of Web 2.0 as an educational platform, as well as privacy, risk, security, and policy issues associated in Social Computing for Education 2.0.
***** Workshop Topics *****
The one-day workshop will provide a forum for researchers from all over the world to share information on their latest investigations in theory and modeling of social computing, platforms, softwares, technologies, experiments and development trend analysis, in particular for education.
The workshop plans to have a keynote, invited talks, oral presentations, poster presentations, and demos. Interested topics include but not limited to:
- Theory and modeling of social computing in education
- Technology and software of social computing for education
- Social educational system design and architectures
- Case studies, best practices, and demos of social media in education
- Assessment and evaluation of social computing in education
- Benchmark and experiments on social computing in education
- Quality and reliability of information and resources in social media
- Software for social learning and collaborative learning
- Mobile learning applications for social computing
- Semantic web for d-learning, e-learning, and m-learning
- Virtual space for leaning communities
- Ubiquitous, distributed, and collaborative learning
- Integration of social learning spaces
- Social gaming/human computation for education
- Privacy, risk, security, and policy issues in education using social media
- Web 2.0 and social computing for learning (media sharing, media manipulation, conversational arenas, online games, virtual worlds, social networking, blogging, social bookmarking, recommender systems, collaborative editing, wikis, syndication, QA, etc.)
***** Important Dates *****
- Submission Deadline May 8, 2009
- Authors Notification June 5, 2009
- Final Manuscript Due June 15, 2009
***** Submission Information *****
- Prepare your manuscripts with IEEE conference paper styles not more than 8 pages in PDF file (see conference website at鈥?http://cse.stfx.ca/~socialcom09/ for more information).
- Submit your paper(s) to https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wsce2009
- Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the IEEE Digital Library.
- Proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE CS Press.
***** Workshop Co-Chairs *****
- Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Bebo White, SLAC Stanford University
- Jennie Si, Arizona State University
***** Program Committee *****
- Nathan Bailey, Monash University
- Mike Brzozowski, HP Lab
- Eric Chang, Microsoft Research Asia
- Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica
- Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick
- Haiguang Fang, Capital Normal University
- Kinshuk, Athabasca University
- Vive Kumar, Simon Fraser University
- Greg Lee, National Taiwan Normal University
- Cathy Lewin, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Chi-Syan Lin, National University of Tainan
- Fuhua Lin, Athabasca University
- Alessandro Longheu, University of Catania
- Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania
- Qian Mo, Beijing Technology and Business University
- Philip Tsang, Open University of Hong Kong
- Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan
- Qiong Wang, Peking University
***** Contact Information *****
Irwin King
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
+(852) 2609 8398 voice
+(852) 2603 5024 fax