Revised programme

We have two types of time slots:

  • 30 min. slots with 20 min. talk + 10 min. discussion and
  • 45 min. slots with 30 min. talk + 15 min. discussion

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

13:00 — 13:30 Introduction to the workshop
  Session
“Virtual Worlds”
13:30 — 14:15 Michael Jacobson
“Theory and Research for Multi-user Virtual Environments for Learning: Collaborative Complexity and Fostering Transfer in Agent Augmented Artificial Worlds”
Acrobat PDFSlides
14:15 — 15:00 Anthony E. Kelly
“Examining a Social Network designed to promote Science and Science Learning”
Acrobat PDFSlides
15:00 — 15:30 Coffee Break
  Session
“The Social Psychology of Social Software”
15:30 — 16:00 Kai Sassenberg
“Social Ties as Key to Contributions and Loyalty of Social Software Users”
Acrobat PDFSlides
16:00 — 16:30 Katrin Wodzicki, Eva Schwämmlein, & Ulrike Cress
“Application of SIDE: Different Visual Representations of Group Members and their Effects on Information Exchange”
Acrobat PDFSlides
16:30 — 17:30 Workshop goals and methods

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

  Session
“Virtual Worlds” (cont‘d)
09:00 — 09:45 David Shaffer & David Hatfield
“Epistemic Network Analysis”
Acrobat PDFSlides
  Session
“User Modeling”
09:45 — 10:30 David Kirsh
“Making Instructions More Effective by Personalizing them”
10:30 — 11:00 Uwe Riss
“Knowledge Worker Support by Task Management”
Acrobat PDFSlides
11:00 — 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 — 12:15 Peter Dolog
“Personalization and User Modelling for Distributed Learning and Collaboration in Professional Context”
Acrobat PDFSlides
12:15 — 12:45 Stefanie Lindstaedt & Gisela Granitzer
“Getting to Know the User: User Profile Services for Work-Integrated Learning”
Acrobat PDFSlides
12:45 — 13:35 Lunch Break
  Session
“Communities”
13:35 — 14:20 Klaus Tochtermann & Gisela Granitzer
“User Behaviour in Online Communities”
Acrobat PDFSlides
14:20 — 14:50 Uwe Matzat
“Stimulating Members' Participation in Distributed Learning Environments: The Embeddedness of Online Learning Communities in Offline Social Networks”
  Visit to Mercedes Benz Museum

Friday, June 20th, 2008

08:30 — 10:00 Demo-Session
10:00 — 10:15 Coffee Break
  Session
“Participation”
10:15 — 11:00 Janet Fulk & Jessica Gould
“Social Dilemmas and Motivation to Participate in Social Software-based Communities: Lessons from Collective Action Theory in the Contemporary Online Environment”
Acrobat PDFSlides
11:00 — 11:30 Ulrike Cress & Joachim Kimmerle
“Limitations of Participation: Knowledge Exchange as a Social Dilemma”
Acrobat PDFSlides
11:30 — 12:00 Joachim Kimmerle & Ulrike Cress
“Unlimited Participation: Social Software and Knowledge Building”
Acrobat PDFSlides
12:00 — 12:50 Lunch Break
  Session
“Social Software for Formal and Informal Education”
12:50 — 13:20 Friedrich Hesse
“Knowledge Acquisition through Social Software: An Introduction”
Acrobat PDFSlides
13:20 — 14:05 Sasha Barab
“Pedagogically-Oriented Social Networking Tools”
14:05 — 14:50 Charles Crook
“Web2.0 Emergence in the UK Secondary School”
Acrobat PDFSlides
14:50 — 15:20 Eric Hamilton & Andrew Hurford
“The Role of Social Software in a Framework for Understanding Future Learning Environments”
15:20 — 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 — 16:30 Chee-Kit Looi & Wenli Chen
Rapid Distributed Learning and Collaboration
in a Singapore Primary School
16:30 — 17:15 Ruimin Shen
“A Mobile Learning System to Engage Students”
Acrobat PDFSlides
17:15 — 18:00 Peter Reimann
“Analysing Knowledge Construction and the Uptake of Learning Opportunities in Wiki-based Collaborative Learning”

Saturday, June 21th, 2008

  Session
“Recommender Systems and Awareness Tools”
08:30 — 09:15 Wolfgang Nejdl
“So how can I ask for it?”
09:15 — 10:00 Marc A. Smith
“Pictures of Traces of Places, People, and Groups: Recent Work from the Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group”
Acrobat PDFSlides
10:00 — 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 — 10:45 Peng Han
“Exposure and Support of Latent Social Networks Among Learning Object Repository Users”
Acrobat PDFSlides
10:45 — 11:15 Jürgen Buder & Daniel Bodemer
“Personalization and Participation via SCAN Tools”
Acrobat PDFSlides
11:15 — 13:00 Wrap-up