AAAI Fall Symposium on Education Informatics:

Steps Toward the International Internet Classroom

7-9 November, 2008,  Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington VA



Objective

Could an international group provide free access to primary and secondary school curricula, aligned with national, state and local standards, delivered by our best AI tutoring technologies, in several languages, over the Internet?  The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the feasibility of an International Internet Classroom Project, specifically...

…to sketch the core requirements for such a project and the immediate needs to get the project started.  One critical requirement is that the core should be extensible, so researchers can incorporate and test the efficacy of their new technologies within the infrastructure – and with the participant pool – of the International Internet Classroom;

…to review the available sources of content, tools, platforms, student modeling methods, educational data mining techniques, pedagogical strategies, modes of content delivery, and concrete experiences deploying technology-based education; 

…to explore the feasibility of common standards for representing content and student data and to review previous standards efforts in academia, the private sector, and government;

…to build connections among people who work on related projects and sketch a plan to build the International Internet Classroom.


We seek papers, including position papers, from all sectors – academia, industry and government – on all these subjects.  Authors are encouraged to present their research, systems, tools, evaluations and  deployment experiences in terms of and as contributions to what we hope will become the International Internet Classroom Project.  


Submission Guidelines and Important Dates

Please submit extended abstracts of approximately 2-4 pages in any style, but please plan to submit final copy using the AAAI style guide.  Abstracts should be submitted directly to Paul Cohen (cohen@isi.edu). All submissions must be sent in PDF or PS format.  

Deadline for paper submission: 15 May 2008
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 6 June 2008
Deadline for camera-ready paper: 12 September 2008
Workshop Dates: 7-9 November 2008


Organizing Committee and Program Committee


Paul Cohen USC Information Sciences Institute
Carole Beal K12@USC, USC Information Sciences Institute
Niall Adams Imperial College London




Ivon Arroyo University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ryan Baker Carnegie-Mellon University
Avron Barr Aldo Ventures
Joe Beck Worcester Polytechnic University
Bert Bredeweg University of Amsterdam
Paul Brna University of Edinburgh
Susan Bull University of Birmingham
Weiqin Chen University of Bergen
Pierre Dillenbourg École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Judith Good University of Sussex
Jim Greer University of Saskatchewan
Gord McCalla University of Saskatchewan
Bruce McLaren German Research Institute for AI (DFKI) and CMU
Ulrich Hoppe University of Duisburg-Essen
James Lester North Carolina State University
Rose Luckin London Knowledge Lab
Erica Melis German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Jean-François Nicaud Grenoble 1 University
Helen Pain University of Edinburgh
Ron Stevens UCLA
Giasemi Vavoula University of Leicester
Beverly Woolf University of Massachusetts, Amherst