The SE@M workshop is held in conjunction with the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL’09 - http://www.ectel09.org/), Nice, France, September 29 – October 2, 2009.



CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION



Creating good, pedagogically sound and effective learning resources incurs substantial costs, so avoiding duplication of development efforts is important. The TEL community has been and is still dedicating a lot of energy to the creation of better and more reusable learning resources. Some of these efforts in the sphere of reusability have matured enough to lead to the creation of standards such as the IEEE Learning Object Metadata, the IMS Content Package, or the IMS Common Cartridge. Nowadays, the number of reusable educational resources available online, for free or by subscription, is huge but most of these resources are “hidden” in repositories and cannot be easily found, hampering their potential use and reuse.



Over the past few years, researchers and practitioners have started to address these issues. Several initiatives worldwide (such as the EUN Learning Resource Exchange, GLOBE) are developing solutions for federating e-learning systems and unlocking the educational content hidden in repositories. Started last year, the work of the IMS Group on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange aims at supporting these initiatives by developing a set of specifications that facilitate the discovery and retrieval of distributed learning resources.



The main goals of the international workshop on search and exchange of e-learning materials are to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the field of learning resource retrieval, facilitate the exchange between them and foster future collaborations. It aims at offering a forum where these researchers and practitioners can discuss theoretical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches and share the latest advances in the state of the art and practices for discovering and exchanging learning content.



The dominant focus of this year’s workshop will be on the presentation of both long and short refereed papers. The workshop will be organized in conjunction with the ASPECT project workshop (http://aspect-project.org).



TOPICS OF INTEREST (include, but are not limited to)

* Infrastructures for learning resource discovery and exchange
o Interoperable content and metadata repositories

o Protocols for exposing content

o Federations of learning resources

o Service registries

* Rich description of resources

o Metadata

o Standards and application profiles
o Automatic metadata generation versus human indexing
o Intellectual property and metadata

o Controlled vocabularies and their management

o Mapping and crosswalks between metadata standards

* Discovering content

o User profiling for more accurate resource discovery

o Retrieval of learning resources (searching, browsing)

o Content aggregation
o Interoperable query languages
o Harvesting versus federated searching
o Enhanced search mechanism (sorting, ranking)
o Inclusion of other type of content (library, cultural heritage)
o Recommendation systems
o Quality aspects
* Exchanging content
o Resource identification
o Open content and reusable resource licensing
o Reliable auditing (tracking, reporting)
o DRM, licensing and content protection
* WEB-2.0 approaches (folksonomies, content syndication)
* Semantic web approaches




SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (max. 10 pages) or work-in-progress as short papers (max. 5 pages). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality.



All papers should be submitted via the workshop's Web site at easychair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem09



Accepted papers will be published online as EC-TEL workshop proceedings as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073.



Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs). For camera-ready format instructions, please see “For Authors“ instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Questions can be addressed to: seam @ eun . org



IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper Submission: June 30, 2009
* Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2009
* Camera Ready Submission: August 17, 2009
* Workshop date: September 29 or 30, 2009



ORGANISERS



David Massart, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium

Jean-Noël Colin, FUNDP, Belgium

Frans Van Assche, EUN, Belgium







PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Vladimir Batagelj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
* Erik Duval, KUL, Belgium
* Manuel Kolp, UCL, Belgium
* Robert Kristofl, BMUKK, Austria
* Eugenijus Kurilovas, SMM, Lithuania
* Tien-Dung Le, European Schoolnet, Belgium
* Jon Mason, InterCog, Australia
* Fredrik Paulsson, Umeå University, Sweden
* Tomasz Orzechowski, AGH, Poland
* Alain Pirotte, UCL, Belgium
* Daniel Rehak, Learning Systems Architecture Lab and Daniel Rehak Consulting LLC, USA
* Griff Richards, SFU, Canada
* Stefaan Ternier, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands
* Tsuneo Yamada, Open University, Japan