- Cadres of bibliographies
- Suites of project inventories
- Component exchange communities
- Global networks of test beds for intelligent learning environments
We would add the need for improved tools for sharing research methods and data. More effective bibliographies and bibliographic tools will support both new researchers and outsiders exploring key AIED themes and could facilitate access to the ideas and approaches developed within the many specialised disciplines that make up AIED. Suites of project inventories can support the identification of synergies and opportunities for collaboration. The development of integrated systems can be facilitated by improving support for re-use of designs and software and the integration of specialist components (e.g. language technologies, user modelling, gesture recognition, etc). Component exchange communities, design patterns and environments for developing AIED 'mash-ups' are amongst the resources that might facilitate such integration. Global test beds, coupled with improved research tools for data sharing and analysis, will facilitate large-scale evaluations and data collection
We also need improved outward facing resources with which to promote and demonstrate the value of AIED research. Such resources will facilitate communication with educational practitioners and policy makers and the uptake of AIED technologies by other end users, such as publishers and developers of educational media.
This workshop will build and share knowledge about the resources for integration, synthesis and uptake already available to the AIED community and discuss and identify requirements for future resources and strategies for promoting the use of these within the community.
We invite submissions describing the use of existing or new resources that support re-use, integration, synthesis or uptake of AIED research and position papers that address the following, or related, questions:
- To what extent do the resources Woolf suggests we need, already exist? Where are they, what are they, who is using them and how are they being used? How might they improved?
- What bibliographies and bibliographic tools are we using? How are we sharing these? How might we improve on these? Who are the potential users of these tools, both within and outside the AIED community? What are their characteristics and requirements?
- What AIED project inventories exist? What kinds of project inventories do we require? What would the uses of these project inventories be? How might these be organised?
- How should AIED component exchange communities be organised? What examples of good practice for exchange and re-use do we have?
- How else can re-use of AIED system designs and/or integration of system components, for example in Technology Enhanced Learning ‘mash-ups’, be supported?
- What are the requirements for intelligent learning environment test beds? How can these be organised? How can these be accessed and shared? What are the ethical issues?
- How can data sharing and shared data analysis be better supported? In what other ways can technology enhance AIED research and particularly evaluation?
- What is the role for existing social media and networking tools within AIED? How are these already being used? How might these be better exploited?
- What roles are there for AI in AIED community resources (e.g. recommender systems for bibliographies, automated summarisation of research themes and trends, guided collaboration)?
- What are the requirements for outward facing resources? Who are the audiences and users of AIED research? How can we better communicate and demonstrate what AI has to do with learning and why Education needs AIED? How can we better support uptake and use of AIED tools, system components, models and theory outside the AIED community?
