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          CALL FOR PAPERS

The 3rd Workshop on Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Educational Technology

in ITS 2008, June 23-27, Montreal

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~iroll/ITS08-metacognition

Submission deadline: April 20

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While educational technology has been shown to be effective at the domain, cognitive level, similar success has not been achieved yet with regard to tutoring better metacognitive and self regulation skills. A key question is whether instructional technology can be as effective in fostering metacognitive skills as it is in teaching domain-specific skills and knowledge. On the face of it, the answer is positive.  Novel means for interaction, better understanding of learning, mechanisms for tracing students' knowledge, and established domain-level tutoring principles are likely to be effective when applied at the metacognitive level. However, it is largely unknown exactly how educational technology can help students acquire better metacognitive and self-regulatory skills and use them more effectively.
 
The aim of the workshop is to improve our understanding of the design of goals, instruction, and assessment of tutoring metacognition and self-regulated learning using educational technology. We hope to spur in-depths discussion as well as foster a community built around these topics.

While all relevant submissions are welcome, authors are encouraged to discuss aspects of measurement of metacognition and SRL in educational technologies, as detailed under topics. 

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

We invite work at all stages of development. Papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions, and can tackle any aspect of metacognitive goals, instruction, and assessment.

All papers are expected to follow the general ITS 2008 submission guidelines for full papers. Papers must comply with the LNCS formatting instructions, and should not exceed 10 pages. A template for MS Word can be downloaded here.

Papers will be peer reviewed by the workshop organizing committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and will be published on the workshop webpage.  At least one author for every accepted paper is required to attend the workshop. Please send your paper via email (only .odt, .doc, .rtf or .pdf format, please) to Ido Roll

Thank you.