[AISWorld] Last CfPs *Two Days to Deadline* LC at HyperText 2015

[Ilknur Celik]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on Learning in the (Semantic) Cloud - LC 2015 
(http://lc2015.dibris.unige.it/) in conjunction with the ACM HyperText 
Conference(http://ht.acm.org/ht2015), September 1-4, 2015, Middle East 
Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of papers: 19 June 2015 - 23:59 Hawaii Standard Time 
(Extended Deadline)
Notification of authors: 10 July 2015
Delivery of camera-ready copy: 20  July 2015
Workshop day: 01 September 2015

PROCEEDINGS
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Accepted papers will appear in the Hypertext 2015 Companion Proceedings 
that will be published by the ACM.


MOTIVATIONS
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The evolution of hypermedia content on the Web and the growing 
popularity of mobile devices are leading to a paradigm shift in the way 
educational services are provided. Emerging approaches such as cloud 
technology, semantic web and MOOC are fostering this change, and opening 
unprecedented possibilities for education. The Learning in the Cloud 
workshop aims to bring together researchers from industry and academia 
to address the challenges of the cloud era for learning.


DESCRIPTION
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The evolution of hypermedia content on the Web and the spread of handled 
devices deeply changed the way people are using the Web for learning and 
pushed education providers to offer a new wave of learning services. 
Learners are now accustomed to mobile devices and require applications 
that fit this modality of interaction. They want to be free to access 
learning contents as they prefer, any time and anywhere, according to 
their personal needs. In fact, we are moving towards a model where 
people build their competences and skills individually, such as in 
massive open online courses. Learners use and require online services to 
explore, to interact, to share and to practice; search engines to 
discover qualitative learning content that fit their needs, social 
platforms to share contents and experiences.
Therefore, education providers of hypermedia content are becoming 
providers of services. The increasing availability of cloud-based and 
semantic-based technologies offers powerful capabilities to this aim and 
have the potential to introduce a paradigm shift in the way educational 
services are provided, substantially improving educational processes and 
lowering the costs of providing higher and professional education.
Cloud technology refers to the set of technologies that enable hardware, 
software and educational platforms to be provided as a service, so as to 
increase efficiency and reduce costs. Semantic technologies, on the 
other hand, can be deployed to enhance several features of educational 
services: improving the search of resources and of learning services, 
discovering relationships and patterns, personalizing the hypermedia 
content and the service. In the last few years, the Web has become more 
semantic, thanks to the growing adoption of Linked Data best practices. 
However, while many education institutions started to publish huge 
amount of LOD (Linked Open Data), these are not often interconnected 
together or easy to process. Some initiatives such as the LinkedUp 
competitions promote the development of tools and applications that 
exploit Open Web data and the LOD cloud for educational purposes. This 
workshop follows the same direction, but focuses also on the potential 
synergy with cloud-based technologies. It aims to provide a forum for 
addressing the challenges regarding the new trends for educational 
hypermedia contents and services.

TOPICS
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We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are not 
limited to:
- semantic LMS services
- learning as a service
- adaptive learning
- mobile learning
- social learning
- learning on demand
- continuous learning
- ubiquitous learning
- cloud learning environments
- sharing of linked data and services in the cloud
- discovering relations
- exploiting analytics of educational open data
- linked-data enhanced learning
- semantically-enhanced cloud services
- technology-enhanced learning in developing countries

The workshop will consist of a part of accepted papers presentation and 
a part of a discussion among participants. At least one of the authors 
should register and take part at the conference to make the presentation.


STUDENT SUPPORT
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ACM SIGWEB is kindly offering a total of US$7000 in funding for Student 
Travel Awards for student authors at HT 2015. Please refer to 
http://ht.acm.org/ht2015/support.html for details.


SUBMISSIONS:
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We encourage the submission of original contributions investigating and 
studying learning in the cloud:
- Full research papers (6 pp. in PDF or 5400 words in RASH);
- Short papers (4 pp. in PDF or 3600 words in RASH) for position papers 
and research-in-progress papers.
In the RASH format, figures and tables count 300 words each.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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İlknur Çelik, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus, 
Cyprus
Francesco Osborne, Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University, UK
Ilaria Torre, Department of Computer Science, Bio-engineering, Robotics 
and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, IT


CONTACT
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e-mail: lc2015ws at gmail.com
Web page: http://lc2015.dibris.unige.it/

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