Special Issue on "Semantic Technologies for Multimedia-enhanced Learning Environments"

Interactive Learning Environments
Special Issue on "Semantic Technologies for Multimedia-enhanced Learning Environments"

Call for papers

The availability of metadata based on the Semantic Web technologies is recognized as a key asset that enables aggregation, provisioning, retrieval, reusability, adaptation, and personalization of
(educational) multimedia content. In learning environments, Semantic Web technologies can integrate data about learning objects, learning activities and learners captured from various e-learning systems and tools. This inevitably brings multimedia-enhanced learning environments to increased levels of interaction and collaboration.
Today, we are living in the era of the proliferating use of Web 2.0 approaches (e.g. collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, blogs, and Wikis) that are usually based on lightweight semantics and represented in the form of 'folksonomies'. Despite the initial perception that Web 2.0 opposes to the Semantic Web, these two efforts are being jointly used to create a common space of semantic technologies. This special issue solicits papers focused on the use of semantic technologies in multimedia-enhanced learning environments.
Submissions are invited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Ontologies and semantic annotations for multimedia learning objects
* Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects
* Semantic social networking in multimedia-based learning environments
* Semantic technologies for enabling pedagogical theories in multimedia-enhanced learning environments
* Semantic-enhanced learning designs in multimedia-enhanced learning
* Semantic technologies for personalization and adaptation of multimedia-enhanced learning
* Semantic-rich service-oriented architectures for multimedia learning environments
* Semantic multimedia content for (collaborative) mobile learning

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: May 1st, 2008
Reviews Completed: September 1st, 2008
Major Revisions Due: October 15th, 2008
Re-reviews Completed: December 1st, 2008
Final recommendations: February 1st, 2009
Final Manuscripts Due: March 1st, 2009
Publication Date: BD (2009)

Guest Editors:
- Marco Bertini, Univesita' degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
- Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade , Serbia
- Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
- Carlo Torniai, Simon Fraser University, Canada