AIED’03 workshop on
Learner Modelling for Reflection20 July 2003, Sydney, AustraliaAIED’03 website: http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~aied/ Susan Bull, Paul Brna & Vania Dimitrova The Learner Modelling for Reflection workshop will run in conjunction with the 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. The AIED community has always been interested in the general issues surrounding learner modelling, and the approach of opening learner models is becoming increasingly important. This is partly due to privacy issues, which have recently become a much-discussed topic in user modelling, and where open learner models raise interesting problems. Open learner models also offer an alternative path to inferential diagnosis (c.f. interactive diagnosis). Particularly important from the student's perspective is the recognition that the learner model can be a useful source of information for the learner, as it can be used to support reflection on his/her own knowledge, misconceptions and learning process. During recent years, the number of researchers interested in the use of open learner models to encourage learner reflection has been growing. This is evidenced by the increased number of papers on open learner modelling in the main conferences of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) and User Modelling (UM). A forum for collaboration on the topic was created in 2002: a small research network called Learner Modelling for Reflection - LeMoRe. The workshop is organised by LeMoRe members and has the goal of developing the community of those studying open learner models both in terms of learning about each other's work, and setting a broad research agenda for future work.
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