[on behalf of Roberto Martinez-Maldonado] Apologies for any cross-posting 4th Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups at the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015) June 22-26, 2015 Madrid, Spain https://sites.google.com/site/aied2015islg/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce that the Fourth International Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups (ISLG) will be held as a part of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015) in Madrid, Spain. The goal of this series of workshops is to bring together Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) researchers with learning sciences and computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) researchers to share approaches and exchange information about adaptive intelligent collaborative learning support. Technological advances in the use of AIED and intelligent tutoring technologies over the past two decades have enabled the development of highly effective, deployable learning environments that support learners across a wide range of domains and age groups. Alongside, mass access to and adoption of modern communication technologies have made it possible to bridge learners and educators across spatiotemporal divides. It is of high relevance to the AIED community to explore how AI techniques can be brought to bear to support collaborative learning. We aim to explore ways that the current state of the art in intelligent support for learning in groups can be informed by learning sciences research on collaborative learning principles. We will ground our discussions on the following topics: >>>Adaptive support for Groups Affect processing Multi-party dialog Scaffolding Automatic content extraction Collaborative authoring Crowdsourcing User-generated content >>>Instructional strategies for the social web Argumentation Peer mentoring and peer review Recommendation systems Intelligent support for massive open online courses (MOOC) Problem- and project-based learning >>>Interactive collaboration systems Asynchronous vs. real-time interaction Multi-participant educational games Learning environment: platforms, devices, modalities, mobility Peer web interactions Pedagogical agents >>>Modeling groups/learners Educational Data Mining Making effective ad-hoc/long term groups Online/integrated/automatic assessment Predicting student skills Techniques for sensing and processing collaborative learning activity >>>Motivational, cognitive, social factors in Intelligent Support for Learning Groups >>>Tools for educators Actionable insights Content administration Report generation -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome papers under two categories: >>>Short papers (6 pages). Short papers consist of authors describing their research in the area of intelligent support for learning in groups. Authors of successful submissions will give a brief firehose presentation and present a poster at the poster session during the workshop. >>>Panel papers (2-4 pages). Panel papers explain a unique perspective on the field that the author would like to contribute. Authors of successful submissions will participate in one of panels held during the workshop. Participation Requirements: All workshop participants are encouraged to submit at least one paper under any of these two categories. There is no restriction on the number of papers submitted by the same author. The submission of a paper is not compulsory. Formatting: All submissions should be formatted as per ITS formatting guidelines (LNCS template). Please use the formatting instructions and templates provide at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=3D0-164-7-72376-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Important Dates* March 20, 2015 Abstracts only - Short Paper and Panel Submissions Due March 27, 2015 Short Paper and Panel Submissions Due April 20, 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection May 20, 2015 Camera Ready Papers Due June 22 or June 26 Pre-Conference Workshop held in Madrid, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Organizers* >>>Jihie Kim KT and Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, jihie@xxxxxxx >>>Roberto Martinez-Maldonado Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>Ilya Goldin Center for Digital Data, Analytics, and Adaptive Learning, Pearson, ilya.goldin@xxxxxxxxxxx >>>Erin Walker School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, erin.a.walker@xxxxxxx >>>Rohit Kumar Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA , rkumar@xxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For up to date information about the workshop, visit https://sites.google.com/site/aied2015islg Thanks! Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, PhD Centre for Research on Computer-Supported Learning and Cognition The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia