Special issue on IMS Learning Design and Adaptation

Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME)

Editors Josie Taylor and Patrick McAndrew
Open University of The United Kingdom

Guest Editor Daniel Burgos

Rationale

The aim of this special issue is to discuss how adaptive learning processes and IMS Learning Design (IMS LD) interact with each other to provide adaptive personalized experiences. IMS LD is a promising approach for the standard based integration of learning activities, resources and learning networks, which is activity centered. A strong research is needed to model such integration into affordable goals. Adaptation is needed in the several steps towards the actual learning of a user: Authoring, Modelling, Programming, Executing, Evaluating, et cetera. But this also implies any kind of user, meaning a single student, a group of students, a teacher, a group of teachers, and a set of rules defined by a learning designer and managed by a adaptive system. We aim to improve the connection between the basic of IMS LD on adaptation, the several resources and elements involved in the three Levels of implementation and the theoretical background and theories of adaptive eLearning processes. We look for findings to strengthen this relationship.
This special issue is mainly based, but not only, on some previous work carried out within the ADALE Workshops Series, at the conferences Adaptive Hypermedia and Icalt 2006. Likewise, this initiative is partially supported by the European projects ProLearn ProLearn and TENCompetence.

Major Themes

IMS Learning Design and:

• Personalized learning processes
• Professional Learning
• Social Relations in Workplace Learning and Adaptation
• Adaptive Knowledge Sharing
• Single and Multiuser Processes on Adaptive Learning
• Actual Modelling of Adaptation
• Educational eGames and Simulations and Adaptation
• Learner Assessment in Learning Processes
• Adaptive and Adaptable Learning
• Adaptive Authoring of Units of Learning
• Reusable Adaptive Patterns
• Adaptive Information Filtering and Personalized Information
• Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems

Important dates and submission

Submission deadline, March 1st, 2007
Notification of acceptance, April 1st, 2007
Camera-ready manuscript, May 1st, 2007
Expected publication, June, 2007
Paper length, 5000-7000 words
Contribution, on invitation

Editorial board

Arnaud, Michael, University Paris X Nanterre, FR
Bennet, Sue, Wollongong University, AU
Botturi, Luca, University of Lugano, CH
Brouns, Francis, Open University of The Netherlands, NL
Cristea, Alexandra, Warwick University, UK
Dietze, Stefan, Open University, UK
Dodero, Juan Manuel, Carlos III University, SP
Elferink, Raymond, Raycom, NL
Gasevick, Dragan, Simon Fraser University, CA
Glahn, Christian, Open University of The Netherlands, NL
Griffiths, Dai, University of Bolton, UK
Gugliotta, Alessio, Open University, UK
Herder, Eelco, L3S, GE
Hernández-Leo, Davinia, University of Valladolid, SP
Karampiperis, Pythagoras, Piraeus University, GR
Klama, Ralf, RWTH Aachen University, GE
Martel, Christian, University of Savoie, FR
Moreno-Ger, Pablo, Complutense University, SP
Naeve, Ambjörn, Royal Institute of Technology, SE
Neumann, Gustaf, Vienna University, AT
Nimwegen, Christof van, Utrecht University, NL
Olmedilla, Daniel, L3S, GE
Pardo, Abelardo, Carlos III University, SP
Sampson, Demetrios, Piraeus University, GR
Scott, Peter, Open University, UK
Shodi, Tim, Open University of The Netherlands, NL
Sierra-Rodríguez, José Luis, Complutense University, SP
Stefanov, Krassen, Sofia University, BG
Vignollet, Laurence, University of Savoie, FR
Weller, Martin, Open University, UK
Wild, Fridolin, Vienna University, AU