PALE 2016:
Personalization Approaches
in Learning Environments

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 16th, 2016

In this ocasion, 3 Learning Cafe sessions 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 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.

  • 09:00 - 09:05 PALE 2016 Introduction [slides].
  • 09:05 - 10:30 Session 1: 4 presentations, Learning Café
  • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.
  • 11:00 - 12:30 Session 2: 4 presentations, Learning Café
  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break.
  • 13:30 - 15:00 Session 3: 4 presentations, Learning Café
  • 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break.
  • 15:30 - 17:00 Session 4: PALE 2016 discussion & conclusions

The papers presented and discussed in each session are the following:

Session 1: Modelling emotions and skills
  • 09:05 - 09:15 Addressing Affective States with Empathy and Growth Mindset (Arroyo et al.) [slides].
  • 09:15 - 09:25 Towards an emotional engagement model: Can affective states of a learner be automatically detected in a 1:1 learning scenario? (Alyuz et al.) [slides].
  • 09:25 - 09:35 Affective and Behavioral Assessment for Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Marco-Gimenez et al.) [slides] & [video].
  • 09:35 - 09:45 Modeling Skill Combination Patterns for Deeper Knowledge Tracing (Huang et al.) [slides].
  • 09:45 - 10:30 Learning Café 1.
Session 2: Understanding users' needs
  • 11:00 - 11:10 Exploring Requirements for an Adaptive Exercise Selection System (Okpo et al.) [slides].
  • 11:10 - 11:20 Exploring the Impact of Extroversion on the Selection of Learning Materials (Alhathli et al.) [slides].
  • 11:20 - 11:30 Combining Content Analytics and Activity Tracking to Identify User Interests and Enable Knowledge Discovery (Vozniuk et al.) [slides].
  • 11:30 - 11:40 Theory-driven Learning Analytics and Open Learner Modelling: The Teacher's Toolbox of Tomorrow? (Kickmeier-Rust & Albert) [slides] & [video].
  • 11:40 - 12:30 Learning Café 2.
Session 3: Delivering personalized support
  • 13:30 - 13:40 Detecting Cheaters in MOOCs Using Item Response Theory and Learning Analytics (Alexandron et al.) [slides].
  • 13:40 - 13:50 WiBAF into a CMS: Personalization in Learning Environments Made Easy (Montes Garcia et al.) [slides].
  • 13:50 - 14:00 Towards Personal infrastructure to manage long term open learner models (Gilliot et al.) [slides].
  • 14:00 - 14:10 Tracking and Reacting to the Evolving Knowledge Needs of Lifelong Professional Learners (Ishola & McCalla) [slides].
  • 14:10 - 15:00 Learning Café 3.
Session 4: PALE 2016 Discussion & Conclusions

Materials from the event have linked. Slides have been linked in the schdule. Here is a photo of the workshop day!