2nd European Workshop on ICOPER Best Practice @ ICALT2010
Last year the ICOPER workshop got the award for "oustanding performance" at ICALT, the IEEE International conference of Advanced Learning Technologies. This years theme is "Best Practices in Outcome-based Online Learning – towards Models and Development for new Learning Technologies"
The workshop will find place during the ICALT conference, July 5-7, 2010, Sousse, Tunisia
Workshop Description
The European Qualification Framework (EQF) is proposed to act as a translation mechanism across the different National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) in the European countries. Its implementation is supposed to help higher educational institutions and workplace organizations across Europe to exchange and compare learning outcomes presented by individuals. The primary goal of the EQF is to improve mobility of learners across European countries and educational systems. However, currently, a limited number of higher education institutions have adopted standards for describing learning outcomes, units of learning or assessment. This results in inefficiencies for both outcome-based learning design, discovery, access and re-use of units of learning.
Knowledge, skills and competences to be achieved by learners are in the focal point of the learning process. All educational activities and resources need to be related to the intended learning outcomes of a learning module or course, in order to assist the learners in successfully achieving the intended learning outcomes at the end of the learning experience.
A very useful application of technology based on these models is matching people with opportunities, that is, trying to get people into situations to which they are suited. This requires enabling learners to have access to a portable of profile of their learning outcomes achieved after their successful completion of studies.
This workshop invites papers that cover issues related to online outcome based learning:
Design of outcome-based online learning opportunities and units of learning- Alignments of assessment process to intended learning outcomes of learning material
- Alignments of learning material to the intended learning outcomes of the module/course
- Conceptual and data models for describing learning outcomes, assessment and units of learning
- Services and storage of outcome based information
- Use cases and prototypes towards learning outcome aware learning management systems
The aim of the workshop will be to report on best practices identified by the ICOPER and other projects; and to give an overview of the findings concerning the suitability of specifications and standards in use in European higher education and lifelong learning institutions, as well as in schools. We would also like to invite interested parties to join the best practice network which is open to experts in the field.
We invite full papers and position papers on the themes outline above.
Organising Committee
- Tore Hoel, Oslo University College, Norway
- Jad Najjar, Institute for Information Systems and New Media
WU Vienna, Austria - Michael Derntl, Computer Science Didactics & Learning Research Center
University of Vienna
Workshop Organization
The workshop will last for 2.5 hours. Speakers will give a 10-15 min presentations (depending in the number of accepted papers). The last 30 min of the session will be devoted to a general debate about the presented approaches and the future perspectives.
Target audience
The workshop is not exclusive to, but is meant especially for:
- Developers, educators, pedagogical experts, and students interested in learning design and / or the impact of affect on learning.
- Researchers who are exploring or plan to explore the impact of affect in learning designs, and / or learning technologies.
Program Committee
- Petra Oberhuemer, University of Vienna, Austria
- Susanne Neumann, University of Vienna, Austria
- Simon Grant, JISC CETIS, UK
- Jan Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Bernd Simon, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria
- Katherine Maillet, Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications, France
- Daniel Müller, IMC, Germany
- Raquel M. Crespo and Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés (Madrid), Spain
- Erlend Øverby, Hypatia as, Norway
- Cleo Sgouropoulou, Department of Informatics, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
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Important dates
- March 8th, 2010: Authors' deadline – papers submitted to the ICOPER workshop chairs (Tore Hoel, Jad Najjar and Michael Derntl)
- March 18th: Final Individual Workshop papers (peer reviewed and selected by the ICOPER Workshop Chairs) to be sent to the ICALT Workshops Chair
- March 24th: Notification of Final Acceptance by the ICALT Workshops Chai
- April 6th: Workshops Authors’ Registration Deadlin
- April 12th, 2010: Final camera ready manuscript of position papers and IEEE Copyright form submission
Submission Procedures
All submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit your contribution before the submission deadline to the workshop chairs by e-mail: tore.hoel [@] hio.no and jnajjar [@] wu.ac.at or michael.derntl [@] univie.ac.at
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (8 pages), work-in-progress as short papers (max. 4 pages) or position statements (max. 2 pages). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality.
All accepted papers will be published in the online Workshop Proceedings edited by the general Workshop Chairs. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare an additional 2 pages long, IEEE 2-column format be included and published in the main IEEE proceedings.
For Authors guidelines, please look at the IEEE Computer Society guidelines. Authors can also use Word Template and Format guidelines. (See templates in ICALT page)
