ISLS News

Coming up next: ICLS 2008 We are proud to announce that the 8th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) will be hosted by Utrecht University in the Netherlands in conjunction with the Open University of the Netherlands and Twente University. The conference will take place from June 24th to 28th, 2008. The ICLS is a bi-annual conference of the International Society of the Learning Sciences.

The theme for the conference is International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences: Cre8ing a Learning World. All who are interested in the study of learning in context and the design of learning environments are invited to participate in ICLS 2008. The first call for submissions will be after the summer holidays.

For more information on the conference, please go to http://www.isls.org/icls2008. We look forward to your participation and to welcoming you in Utrecht in June 2008.

Annual Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Summerschool - Free!
Monday, July 7, 2008 - Friday, July 11, 2008 at Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.learnlab.org/opportunities/summer/

Now accepting applications on-line (through Midnight, April 2)
http://www.learnlab.org/opportunities/summer/application.php

The PSLC Summer School will be an intensive 1-week course on technology-enhanced learning experiments and building intelligent tutoring systems. The summer school will provide a conceptual background and considerable hands-on experience in designing, setting up, and running technology-enhanced learning experiments, as well as analyzing the data from those experiments in a technology supported manner.

The summer school will last five days. Each day will include lectures, discussion sessions, and laboratory sessions where the participants will work on developing a small prototype experiment in an area of math, science, or language learning. The participants will use state-of-the-art tools including but not limited to the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools and other tools for course development, TuTalk tools for authoring natural language dialog, TagHelper tools for semi-automated coding of verbal data, and storing and mining of student interaction data. On the last day, student teams will present their accomplishments to the rest of the participants, followed by a "graduation" party. Participants will be expected to do some preparation before the summer schools starts.

Video course on Learning Patterns--London Knowledge Lab, Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence. The Learning Patterns project is offering a video course on using Learning Patterns to design and deploy games for learning. This course is based on a series of workshops conducted during 2006. Each section of the course includes a video segment from one of our workshops, along with links to the relevant resources and tools and a list of readings.

For more information, go to http://lp.noe-kaleidoscope.org/outcomes/videos/ or contact Yishay Mor at yishaym@gmail.com

Call for papers for the fourth special issue in the series Cognition and Technology--Learning Technologies and Cognition The interaction of learning technologies with human cognition is the focus of this special Issue. Of interest is how such technologies may facilitate and enhance (as well as hinder) learning, and also how they affect the way we learn and acquire information, and the nature of cognition itself. Original and high quality papers that examine these issues either from an academic or from a practical perspective will be considered for publication.

For more information and the full Call For Papers, please see: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technology.html or contact the editor, Itiel Dror (id@ecs.soton.ac.uk), Psychology, Southampton University, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.

Call For Papers: International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
The International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (http://ijCSCL.org) is a new professional journal founded by the International Society of the Learning Sciences. Members of ISLS will have their choice of this journal or JLS as part of their membership in 2006 and will be able to get the second journal at a reduced price. The primary aim of the journal is to promote a deeper understanding of the nature, theory and practice of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. A main focus is on how people learn in the context of collaborative activity and how to design the technological settings for collaboration.