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Tutorial 2: Intelligent Web-based Computer Supported Collaborative Learning [Tutorial Files]
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| Abstract: | Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is one of the hottest
topics in computer-based learning technology. It encompasses a range of pedagogical,
instructional, and technological issues with the common goal of enabling
effective learning for a group of learners, as opposed to individual learning.
Recent years have brought a number of successful applications of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) techniques to the field of CSCL, especially in the context
of Web-based learning environments.
The objective of this tutorial is to present important theoretical and practical issues of introducing AI techniques into CSCL and to show their effects on Web-based learning efficiency and Web-based educational technology development. The tutorial starts with a brief introduction to the basic concepts and ideas of CSCL and recent relevant AI techniques. Then it discusses extensively how specific AI concepts, models, techniques and tools for are used today to improve the learning efficiency on the Web in the context of CSCL. A number of CSCL tools, applications, systems and development environments are then analyzed in order to show how the ideas and techniques originating from AI change the way we develop CSCL applications in practice. Specifically, the topics covered are:
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| Target audience: | The tutorial is intended for all those who are engaged either in research, development or implementation of intelligent Web-based educational environments and are interested in deepening their understanding of educational applications in which CSCL plays predominant role. This includes researchers and developers working in commercial or otherwise funded Web-based educational software development projects, and academics of applied domains that make assessment and decisions about what educational software to be used within their courses and/or organisations.
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| Proposed schedule: | 00.00 - 00.15 Introduction, Terminology, Tutorial Objectives 00.15 - 01.00 Architectural issues of intelligent Web-based CSCL 01.00 - 01.30 Technological issues of intelligent Web-based CSCL 01.30 - 02.00 (Break and informal discussion) 02.00 - 02.20 CSCL and the Semantic Web 02.20 - 02.40 Agent support for CSCL 02.40 - 03.10 CSCL and Web mining 03.10 - 03.25 Evaluation issues 03.25 - 03.30 References and Web resources
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| How the tutorial will be conducted: | The style of presentation is based on the assumption that the main need
of participants is to gain a coherent overview of material that is largely
unfamiliar. Accordingly, the main method is lecture presentation with PowerPoint
slides and brief system demonstrations.
Interactive style is assumed throughout the presentations. The participants
are welcome to discuss all the ideas to be presented, to suggest their
own ideas, and to share their own experiences related to the tutorial topics.
The amount of material to be presented will be adjusted so that an average
of 5 minutes of discussion and debate can take place within each of the
longer sections of the tutorial, where the need arises.
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| Biography: | Vladan Devedzic is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Belgrade, School of Business Administration, Department of Information Systems and Technologies. His major long-term professional goal is a continuous effort to bring close together the ideas from the broad fields of intelligent systems and software engineering. In that sense, his current efforts and research interests are oriented towards practical engineering aspects of developing intelligent educational systems on the Web. He has written more than 200 papers (24 of them have been published in internationally recognized journals by publishers such as ACM, IEEE, Pergamon Press, etc.), three books on intelligent systems, and several chapters in books on intelligent systems and software engineering edited by distinguished scientists. He has also developed several practical intelligent systems and tools, and actively participates as a consultant to several ongoing projects in industry. He was the Program Co-Chair of two international conferences, and has given invited talks at three international conferences. So far, he has also given fifteen different tutorials on intelligent systems and software engineering at international conferences.
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