[on behalf of Peter Brusilovsky]
First Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks @ The 20th International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED’2019)
A full-day workshop at AIED 2019, June 25, 2019
AIED 2019 will be held in Chicago, IL, USA during June 25-29, 2019,
Co-located with ACM Learning at Scale, June 24-25, 2019
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https://learningatscale.acm.org/las2019/
** Workshop submission deadline extended to match the deadlines for other
AIED workshops **
————————— WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ————————-
Textbooks have evolved over the last several decades in many aspects. Most
textbooks can be accessed online, many of them freely. They often come with
libraries of supplementary educational resources or online educational
services built on top of them. As a result of these enrichments, new
research challenges and opportunities emerge that call for the application
of AIED methods to enhance digital textbooks and learners’ interaction with
them. Therefore, we ask: How to facilitate access to textbooks and improve
the reading process? What can be extracted from textbook content and
data-mined from the logs of students interacting with it? This workshop
seeks research contributions addressing these and other research questions
related to the idea of intelligent textbooks. It aims at bringing together
researchers working on different aspects of learning technologies to
establish intelligent textbooks as a new, interdisciplinary research field.
More information is available here: http://ml4ed.cc/2019-AIED-workshop/
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————————— TOPICS OF INTEREST —————————
The workshop themes include but are not limited to:
· Modeling and representation of textbooks: examining the
prerequisite and the semantic structure of textbooks to enhance their
readability;
· Analysis and mining of textbook usage logs: analyzing the patterns
of learners’ use of textbooks to obtain insights on learning and the
pedagogical value of textbook content;
· Generation, manipulation, and presentation: exploring and testing
different formats and forms of textbook content to find the most effective
means of presenting different knowledge;
· Assessment and personalization: developing methods that can
generate assessments and enhance textbooks with adaptive support to meet
the needs of every learner using the textbook;
· Knowledge visualization: augmenting textbooks with concept maps,
open learner models and other knowledge-rich extensions
· Collaborative technologies: building and deploying social
components of digital textbooks that enable learners to interact with not
only content but other learners;
· Smart interactive content: extending online textbooks with various
kinds of smart interactive content to improve learning, engagement, learner
modeling, and personalization
· Intelligent information retrieval and question-answering for
digital textbooks
· Content curation and enrichment: sorting through external
resources on the web and finding the relevant resources to augment the
textbook and provide additional information for learners.
————————— IMPORTANT DATES ——————————
Paper submission: May 10, 2019
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2019
Final version of accepted papers: June 10, 2019
————————— PAPER SUBMISSION —————————–
Accepted papers will be presented either orally or in a poster session and
included in the workshop proceedings. At this point, we invite full (up to
12 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) paper submissions.
Submissions should follow the Springer format. See
https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
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for details.
Submission should be made in pdf format through the EasyChair system (
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Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee.
————————— ORGANIZERS ———————————–
· Sergey Sosnovsky, Utrecht University
· Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh
· Richard G. Baraniuk, Rice University
· Rakesh Agrawal, Data Insights Laboratories
· Andrew S. Lan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor
School of Computing and Information
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~peterb
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