-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Special Issue CfP: Interoperability of Educational Systems Datum: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:15:42 +0200 Von: Bernd Simon bernd.simon@wu-wien.ac.at An: general-assembly-prolearn@agws.dit.upm.es

Dear colleagues,

Some of you might have used the summer period to carry out some research on interoperability of educational systems. the deadline for a special on this subject closes in 10 days ;-)

Best regards, Bernd

CALL FOR PAPERS

Educational Technology & Society Journal - Special Issue (April 2006) Interoperability of Educational Systems (http://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/events/interoperabilityETSissue.html)

Published by International Forum of Educational Technology & Society (http://www.ifets.info/)

Description -----------

Nowadays learning resources are increasingly available via web-based educational systems, such as learning (content) management systems, brokerage platforms for learning materials and courses, or knowledge repositories. With the dawn of various specialised e-learning tools, learning resources became more and more stored in closed environments, restricting accessibility to a closed user community. Due to the lack of interoperability quite often unwanted restrictions on the way knowledge is disseminated have been created. However, even in closed environments the demand for interoperability has reached a new level. Providers of learning management solutions are increasingly asked to interface with other systems, in order to exchange budget restrictions, learning resource descriptions, course bookings or report on newly acquired competency.

This special issue of the Educational Technology and Society Journal will deliver a state-of-the-art overview of successful interoperability cases and will provide guidelines for future research provided from researchers and interoperability experts from different communities (E-learning, Information Systems, Digital Libraries, Database, Semantic Web) interested in making educational systems interoperable.

Topics ------

The aim of this special issue is to explore topics related, but not limited to, the following:

* Repository interoperability (query, replication and access) * Distributed learner profile * Query languages interoperability * Cross-organizational learning-related workflows * Distributed access of learning objects * Interoperability interfaces * Metadata models for heterogeneous learning resources * Ontologies for interoperable educational systems * Metadata mapping * Federated search in educational systems * Peer-to-peer networks in Education * Interoperability use cases * Experience reports of interoperable educational systems * Design of application program interface * Standards for interoperability * Business models for interoperable systems * Adhoc networks for Education

Submissions -----------

Submissions must be in MS-Word or RTF format (4000 to 7000 words). PDF is not allowed to allow format editing, page numbering, etc. Please follow the author guidelines at http://www.ifets.info/rev.php?pub=true. To get familiarity with the style of the journal, please see a previous issue at http://www.ifets.info/

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual high standards of peer review at ETS Journal. Each paper will undergo double blind review.To submit your paper, please email a copy of your paper to interoperability@alice.wu-wien.ac.at. For papers with multiple authors, the sender of the email should be the contact person.Please forward the following details with each submission: Author(s) full name(s), Job title(s), Organization(s), Full contact details of ALL authors including email address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers.

* Submission deadline: September 30, 2005 * Notification for acceptance: December 15, 2005 * Camera ready due: February 15, 2006

Special Issue Guest Editors --------------------------- - Daniel Olmedilla Computer Science Department, Hanover University, and L3S Research Center Address: Deutscher Pavillon, Expo Plaza 1, 30539, Hanover, Germany Phone:+49. (0)511.762-9741 Fax: +49. (0)511.762-9779 E-Mail: olmedilla@l3s.de Url: http://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/

- Nobuo Saito Keio Research Institute at SFC Keio University - Shonan Fujisawa Campus 5322 Endo, Fujisawa, Japan Phone: +81.466.47.5049 E-Mail: nobuo.saito@w3.org Url: http://www.w3.org/People/Saito/

- Bernd Simon Department of Information Systems, New Media Working Group Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Phone: (+43-1) 31 336 x4328 Fax: (+43-1) 31 336 x746 E-Mail: Bernd.Simon@wu-wien.ac.at Url: http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/people/simon.html

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