International Workshop on Educational Data Mining (EDM@ICALT'07)

CALL FOR PAPERS (in pdf)

Recently, the increase in dissemination of interactive learning environments has allowed the collection of huge amounts of data. A popular and effective way of discovering new knowledge from large and complex data sets is data mining. As such, the EDM workshop invites papers that study how to apply data mining to analyze data generated by learning systems or experiments, as well as how discovered information can be used to improve adaptation and personalization. Interesting problems data mining can help to solve are: what are common types of learning behavior (e.g. in online systems), predict the knowledge and interests of a user based on past behavior, partition a heterogeneous group of users into homogeneous clusters, etc.

Typically, educational data sources are quite heterogeneous (e.g., web log files, interaction logs, source code, text and dialogue data, etc.), and have variety of different scales, grain-sizes, and spatial and temporal resolution. Though the many types of educational data often differ considerably from one another, they provide multiple types of insight on a single domain or context and, above all, share the potential to reveal unexpected and useful knowledge concerning learners and/or the process of learning - if correctly and coherently analyzed. Applying methods to mine the complex data that we can collect on educational situations requires the development of new approaches that build upon techniques from a combination of areas, including statistics, psychometrics, machine learning, and scientific computing.

• Methods and approached for EDM
• Characteristics of educational data and how to deal with them
• Learning browsing behavior; e.g., searching for patterns in log-data from (time-series) experiments
• Data mining for user modeling
• Data mining for predicting user (potentially changing) interests
• Mining differences in user's learning behavior (e.g. between two systems)
• Mining data from A/B tests
• Application of discovered patterns for personalization and adaptation
• Description of applications
• Description of case studies and experiences

The workshop invites papers reporting experiences, case studies, surveys, reflections and comparisons. The submission format is: either a full paper of up to 10 pages, a short paper of up to 5 pages, or an abstract of up to 3 pages for a poster.

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

All submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit your contribution (up to 10 pages) before the submission deadline (February 28 March 14, 2007) to the EDM'07 workshop chairs by e-mail: edm.icalt07@gmail.com. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the workshop programme committee members.

All accepted workshop papers (up to 10 pages for full papers) will be published in the online workshop proceedings edited by the general workshop chairs. Beside this a short version of each accepted paper (2 pages long, IEEE 2-column format) will be published in the main IEEE proceedings. Therefore, authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare an additional short-version camera-ready paper to be included in the main IEEE proceedings.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE