Schedule

The main goal of this workshop is to compile all discussion topics regarding user modeling and personalization in the educational domain following a well-established methodology called the Learning Cafe to involve the participation of relevant actors. This workshop format aims to foster interactive presentations and constructive work. It combines presentations of original achievements with creative group work around specific topics.

Thus, following the experience in previous editions of this and related workshops, PALE combines the classic 'mini-conferences' approach with working group meetings around a specific problem to promote discussions on open issues related to personalization in learning environments.

July 11th, 2014

In this ocasion, 4 Learning Cafes are set up, as scheduled below. Each one consists in brief presentations of the key questions posed and small group discussions with participants randomly grouped at 2 tables. Each table will be moderated by one expert in the topic under discussion (mostly the presenter of the paper who has addressed the issue) and participants will change tables during the discussion with the aim to share ideas among the groups.

08:00 - 09:00 Registration at UMAP.
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome to PALE workshop [slides].
09:10 - 10:40 Session 1: 2 presentations, Learning Café, Summary.
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
11:00 - 12:30 Session 2: 2 presentations, Learning Café, Summary.
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break.
14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: 2 presentations, Learning Café, Summary.
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break.
16:00 - 17:30 Session 4: 2 presentations, Learning Café, Summary.
17:30 - 18:00 Closing PALE workshop.

The papers presented in each session are the following:

Session 1: Modeling issues
Modelling issues: student's performance, user's profile management in a standardize way:

09:10 - 09:20 Integrating Knowledge Tracing and Item Response Theory: A Tale of Two Frameworks (Khajah et al.) [N/A; poster 1; poster 2]
09:20 - 09:30 User profile modelling for researcher digital resource management systems (Sawadogo et al.) [slides; poster 1; poster 2]
09:30 - 10:00 Learning Café 1 - round 1. [Table 1; Table 2]
10:00 - 10:30 Learning Café 1 - round 2. [Table 1; Table 2]
10:30 - 10:40 Summary of the Learning Café 1.

Session 2: Learner's attributes_1
Learner's attributes: reputation and mind wandering to improve the personalized support

11:00 - 11:10 Towards a transferable and domain-independent reputation indicator to group students in the Collaborative Logical Framework approach (Lobo et al.) [slides; poster]
11:10 - 11:20 Evaluation of a Personalized Method for Proactive Mind Wandering Reduction (Bixler et al.) [slides; poster]
11:20 - 11:50 Learning Café 2 - round 1. [Table 1; Table 2]
11:50 - 12:20 Learning Café 2 - round 2. [Table 1; Table 2]
12:20 - 12:30 Summary of the Learning Café 2.

Session 3: Extension of Learner's attributes_2
Learner's attributes: detecting affective states to improve the personalized support

14:00 - 14:10 Providing Personalized Guidance in Arithmetic Problem Solving (Arevalillo-Herráez et al.) [slides; poster]
14:10 - 14:20 Modifying Field Observation Methods on the Fly: Metanarrative and Disgust in an Environmental MUVE (Ocumpaugh et al.) [slides; poster]
14:20 - 14:50 Learning Café 3 - round 1. [Table 1; Table 2]
14:50 - 15:20 Learning Café 3 - round 2. [Table 1; Table 2]
15:20 - 15:30 Summary of the Learning Café 3.

Session 4: User modeling in new contexts
Applying user modeling in new contexts, such as MOOCs and gamified environments

16:00 - 16:10 Personalized Web Learning: Merging Open Educational Resources into Adaptive Courses for Higher Education (Henning et al.) [slides; poster]
16:10 - 16:20 Gamification: metacognitive scaffolding towards long term goals? (Tang et al.) [slides; poster]
16:20 - 16:50 Learning Café 4 - round 1. [Table 1; Table 2]
16:50 - 17:20 Learning Café 4 - round 2. [Table 1; Table 2]
17:20 - 17:30 Summary of the Learning Café 4.

Materials from the event (e.g. presentations and photos) are being linked.

PALE Schedule is included on CN3 (Conference Navigator).