15 April 2024, 21:11

Hello everyone,

Are you interested in AI and portfolios? Do you want to share initial ideas and / or results? Are you going to be in Germany in September? Then you might be interested in submitting a proposal for the EPEPLA Workshop (and come along for it) at the DeLFI conference in Fulda, Germany, 9-11 September 2024.

View this call for proposals on the EPEPLA Workshop webpage.

About

For decades, digital portfolios have offered a strongly personalised way of assessing learning outcomes, be that in the artistic, technical, or even literary domains. They give the opportunity for learners to frame their knowledge close to their real world, thus reaching deep learning effects through reflection.

The growing availability of tools that can analyse texts has opened new possibilities to assess, navigate, and revisit e-portfolios which, nowadays, are mostly web-based: Students can receive feedback on where to deepen, on language to adjust, on degrees of appropriation or reflective generalisation to render in their portfolios.

Such automated feedback, which is based on readily available general chat systems, on external services, on self built text models, or on simple statistical evaluations can support educators assessing the competencies evidenced in portfolios. Such feedback can also invite students to continuously review their work and improve on it. The perspectives open brilliant avenues for students to become more confident in their writing and reflecting as they gain more practice through consistent feedback.

These new possibilities lead the way to more dynamic and more creative writing and reading processes, for both learners and educators.

Call for Submissions

We invite submissions that depict experiences, tools, expectations, or methodologies with analysis tools of e-portfolios and, broader, that sketch the evolution of this modern assessment tool.

The submissions should sketch the didactical settings employed, the type of portfolios obtained and analysed as well as the technology proposed to support the pedagogical process effectively.

Dates

• Paper submission: 10 June 2024
• Acceptance notifications: 10 July 2024
• Camera-ready version: 10 August 2024
• Workshop and DeLFI conference: 9-11 September 2024

Format, submission and publication

Please submit a PDF document describing your approach in 6-8 pages in length (excluding references) until June 10, 2024. Papers can be submitted in English or German.

Please follow the „GI-Edition: Lecture Notes in Informatics" LNI format when preparing your submission. Author guidelines and templates are available there.

Please submit your blinded paper via Easychair.

The workshop committee will evaluate the submissions using the following criteria:

• thematic relevance,
• innovative character,
• real world applicability of the didactical setting,
• soundness of the proposal 

Applicants will be notified of their workshop acceptance by 10 August 2024.

Committee

The committee is, currently, made of:

• Laura Farinetti (Politecnico Milano, Italy)
• Armin Grasnick (IU Internationale Hochschule, Germany)
• Thanasis Hadzilacos (The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus)
• Kristina Höppner (Catalyst IT, New Zealand) (organizer)
• Paul Libbrecht (MeVIS, PH Weingarten & IU Internationale Hochschule, Germany, Cabrilog SAS, France) (organizer)
• Anna Mavroudi (Institutt for pedagogikk, University of Oslo, Germany)
• Wolfgang Müller (MeVIS, PH Weingarten, Germany) (organizer)
• Simon Ostermann (Multisprachigkeit und Srpachtechnologien, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany)
• Elvira Popescu (Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova, Romania)
• Sandra Rebholz (MeVIS, PH Weingarten & OTH Amberg-Weiden, Germany) (organizer)
• Karsten Dieter Wolf (ZeMKI, Uni Bremen, Germany)