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Overview
Who
should attend
How
to Attend
Deadlines
Program
Organizing
Committee
Questions
Journal
Publication
Submitted
Papers
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In
order to bring together a coomunity of ideas, identify resources,
and facilitate a discussion on this topic, we are organizing
a workshop at the Seventeenth International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2001).
This
workshop will discuss ways of producing an effective interactive,
AI resource --- one which can be run by a student, without a
human teacher. As such, thus workshop will be relevant to:
- teachers
who are planning to teach an AI course,
- researchers
who have been asked to explain AI (or some sub-area) by either
a colleague or an anonymous email
- scholars
who are eager to get more people (students, funders, ...) interested
in AI
- publishers
who want to hear new ideas related to effective dissemination
of ideas in general
- researchers
involved with student modelling, tutoring systems, adaptive agents,
... as this medium can be a superb testbed to try out relevant
ideas.
If
you are interested in participating in this workshop, please
send
- a short
"position statement", addressing many of these questions.
- short
synopsis of relevant interests and experience (in your courses,
or research projects)
- as well
as your contact information: name, phone, email, homepage
to the
principle organizer (Russell
Greiner), by 15/Apr/01. This can be short (1-2 pages should
be sufficient). Electronic submissions (here)
are preferred (raw text is ideal); if that is not possible, send
4 hard-copies of your response to
Russell
Greiner
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8 Canada
Related
Journal Publication
Authors
of a selection of the workshop papers will be invited to submit
expanded and revised versions for possible inclusion in
as appropriate.
Submission
schedule
| Call
for papers: |
15
November 2000 |
| Submission
deadline: |
15
March 2001 |
| Notification
of acceptance: |
15
April 2001 |
| Camera
(Web)-ready (authors) |
April
20, 2001 |
| Camera
(Web)-ready (organizers) |
April
30, 2001 |
| Workshop: |
August
4-6, 2001 |
Program
Our tentative
schedule involves a series of short presentations and demos by
reseachers who have already begun to explore these issues, including
followed
by extensive round-table discussions by all participants ---
which we hope will include people known as effective educators
and/or authors, publishers, and people working in Intelligent
Tutoring systems. If time permits, we hope to also include
- examples
of intearctive/nifty AI modules
- examples
that illustrate research software/AI artifacts in teaching AI
(creative interactive learning materials)
Organizing/Programme
committee
Relevant
Questions
- Can a
single resource to accomodate a variety of different audiences
(high school
students, undergraduates, graduates, teachers, researchers, industry,
media, funders, ...),
perhaps
by using "drill down" facilities, or other uses of
dynamic links? Or should different resources be targetted to
each of these audiences?
- Can a
single resource simultaneously serve as a
- PRIMER: to introduce
and explain the fundamental ideas
- ENCYCLOPEDIA: to store a comprehensive
set of results, as a set of stand-alone articles
- ARCHIVAL
REFERENCE:
storing the known results in a field, in "original form"
- TEXTBOOK: with exercises,
and frequent summary statements, which students will read sequentially:
Eg, where we can assume readers in Chapter6 already know the
material in Chapters 1 through 5 ...
Should
the resource be "coherent", as opposed a collection
of AI-related pages with no cohesion between them? If so, how
do we obtain that coherence?
- How complete
does this resource have to be, before it is useful (in whatever
role)? Does it need to be comprehensive?
- How should
it be kept current? Should it keep only the most recent updated
descriptions, or should it also preserve the earlier obsolete
versions as well?
- How should
a web-site be reviewed and appraised? Eg, how can we determine
if a given applet-&-text does an adequate job of presenting
a topic (eg, "decision trees")?
In general, how do we establish and enforce standards? Do we
want to turn away contributions just because they don't meet
some standards?
- Should
the overall resource dynamically adapt to each individual using
it --- perhaps by determining his/her skills and interests, and
presenting information at the appropriate level?
- How should
this resource(s) be funded? By selling CDroms? By advertising
on websites? By linking it to a comprehensive textbook --- perhaps
the website is free, but it is better if the learner has (read
"buys") the associated book.
(Note that we see these systems as augmenting textbooks,
rather than competing with them.)
- How can
this resource best serve the AI community? By helping recruit
new students to the field? By enlightening (potential) funders?
By helping instructors, by including questions that can be used
for IntroAI courses? ...
- How can
we make it attractive for people to work on this project? After
all, the GNU project is successful at attracting a lot of volunteer
help. Can we do the same?
Submitted
Papers
Click here for accessing
the current set of submitted papers. In time, we will provide
a more web friendly and comprehensive access to these.
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LINKS
IJCAI
IJCAI
2001
IJCAI
2001 Workshop Program
AAAI
International
Journal of Human Computer Studies
Computational Intelligence
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