Workshop on Social Computing in Education 2009

The WSCE2009 Program is now available! (updated on August 13, 2009)

Here is a list of Accepted Papers (updated on June 16, 2009)!

Welcome to the Workshop on Social Computing in Education (WSCE2009). The workshop is held in conjunction with the SocialComp-09, Vancouver, Canada from August 29-31, 2009.

With the advent of Web 2.0 and related technologies, Social Computing has become a new paradigm in ways we communicate, learn, and educate. Social platforms such as wikis, blogs, twitters, forums, groups, podcasts, mashups, virtual worlds, and sites for social networking, recommender systems, social bookmarking, social news, knowledge sharing, etc. are generating novel ways we acquire, access, manipulate, process, retrieve, present, and visualize information in the teaching and learning space. The social media for education has become dynamic, ubiquitous, distributed, real-time, collaborative, bottom-up, many-to-many, value-based, and personalized. This workshop solicits contributions on using Social Computing and related technologies for education, the emerging applications of Web 2.0 as an educational platform, as well as privacy, risk, security, and policy issues associated in Social Computing for Education 2.0.

Workshop Topics

The one-day workshop will provide a forum for researchers from all over the world to share information on their latest investigations in theory and modeling of social computing, platforms, softwares, technologies, experiments and development trend analysis, in particular for education.

The workshop plans to have a keynote, invited talks, oral presentations, poster presentations, and demos. Interested topics include but not limited to:

Theory and modeling of social computing in education
Technology and software of social computing for education
Social educational system design and architectures
Case studies, best practices, and demos of social media in education
Assessment and evaluation of social computing in education
Benchmark and experiments on social computing in education
Quality and reliability of information and resources in social media
Software for social learning and collaborative learning
Mobile learning applications for social computing
Semantic web for d-learning, e-learning, and m-learning
Virtual space for leaning communities
Ubiquitous, distributed, and collaborative learning
Integration of social learning spaces
Social gaming/human computation for education
Privacy, risk, security, and policy issues in education using social media
Web 2.0 and social computing for learning (media sharing, media manipulation, conversational arenas, online games, virtual worlds, social networking, blogging, social bookmarking, recommender systems, collaborative editing, wikis, syndication, QA, etc.)

Important Dates

Submission Deadline May 15, 2009
Authors Notification June 15, 2009
Final Manuscript Due June 25, 2009

Submission Information

Prepare your manuscripts with IEEE conference paper styles not more than 8 pages in PDF file (see conference website at  http://cse.stfx.ca/~socialcom09/ for more information).
Submit your paper(s) to  https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wsce2009
Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the IEEE Digital Library.
Proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE CS Press.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Bebo White, SLAC Stanford University

Jennie Si, Arizona State University

Program Committee

Nathan Bailey, Monash University

Mike Brzozowski, HP Lab

Eric Chang, Microsoft Research Asia
Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica
Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick

Haiguang Fang, Capital Normal University

Kinshuk, Athabasca University

Vive Kumar, Simon Fraser University
Greg Lee, National Taiwan Normal University

Cathy Lewin, Manchester Metropolitan University
Chi-Syan Lin, National University of Tainan
Fuhua Lin, Athabasca University
Alessandro Longheu, University of Catania
Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania

Qian Mo, Beijing Technology and Business University

Philip Tsang, Open University of Hong Kong

Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan
Qiong Wang, Peking University

Contact Information

Irwin King
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
+(852) 2609 8398 voice
+(852) 2603 5024 fax

king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
wsce2009@easychair.org