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            Proceedings of the
1st International Workshop on
eLearning Approaches for the
       Linked Data Age
    (Linked Learning 2011)

            collocated with the
  8th Extended Semantic Web Conference
               (ESWC2011)


      29 May 2011, Heraklion, Greece
Preface
While sharing of educational resources on the Web became common practice throughout
the last years, a large amount of research was dedicated to interoperable eLearning
repositories based on semantic technologies. Data interoperability is even more crucial,
since sharing of online resources at Web-scale is widely facilitated by established APIs,
such as OAI-PMH or SQI. Moreover, adoption of social computing aspects within
personal learning environments has become a dominant paradigm building on principles
such as user-centred identity management, service-orientation, and social participation.
However, it remains an unresolved challenge to provide a meaningful, automated and
personalized integration of diverse learning resources, e.g., formal and informal ones as
found on the Web.
Though the eLearning area has brought up a number of comprehensive metadata
standards (e.g., ADL SCORM, IEEE LOM, IMS LD) aiming at interoperability across
eLearning environments, actual take-up is still fragmented. This can be attributed to their
merely XML-driven approaches, the lack of established controlled vocabularies and the
incompatibility of individual schemas. Several research efforts tried to address these
issues by using Semantic Web technologies and ontology-based approaches. However,
these efforts often failed to attract a critical mass of adopters. This is due to reasons such
as inherent complexity, the lack of scalable and high-performance tool support when
following complex reasoning-based approaches and the inavailibility of vocabularies
when following proprietary representation schemes. In the meantime, the Semantic Web
has redefined itself throughout the last years as a Web of “Linked Data” by establishing
principles which support sharing of large datasets on the Web together with a technology
stack (use of URIs, RDF, and SPARQL) aimed at their realisation. The huge success and
widespread adoption of the Linked Data approach has lead to the availability of vast
amounts of public data such as DBPedia, WordNet RDF or the data.gov.uk initiative.
Although the Linked Data approach is not yet adopted widely within the eLearning
domain, this workshop has emerged on the fundamental belief that the Linked Data
approach has the potential to fulfill the eLearning vision of Web-scale interoperability of
eLearning resources and highly personalised and adaptive eLearning applications. The
workshop has been established to become a highly interactive research forum for
exploring the promises of the Web of Linked Data in technology-enhanced learning by
gathering researchers from the areas of the Semantic Web and technology-enhanced
learning.
The response to the call for papers was overwhelming for the first edition of this
workshop. Therefore, after extensive peer review (each submission was reviewed by at
least two independent reviewers) we were able to select 13 papers for presentation in the
program of the workshop. In addition, the workshop program also had an excellent
keynote speaker – Vania Dimitrova of the University of Leeds – a well-known researcher
in the areas of technology enhanced learning and Semantic Web.
The workshop would not be possible without contributions of many persons and
institutions. We are very thankful to the organisers of the ESWC 2011 conference for
providing us with an opportunity to organize the workshop, for their excellent
collaboration, and for looking after many important logistic issues. We are also very
grateful to the members of the program committee for their commitment in reviewing the
papers and assuring the good quality of the workshop program. We also thank the authors
for their invaluable contributions to the workshop by writing, revising and presenting their
papers. Of course, great appreciation of her time and expertise goes to our keynote
speaker Vania Dimitrova. We also want to express our strong gratitude to the publishers
of CEUR for publishing the Linked Learning 2011 workshop proceedings, to the
European Commission (EC) and the EC-funded research project mEducator for
sponsoring the best paper award and to the EasyChair developers for supporting the
submission and review process.
May 2011,

Stefan Dietze, Mathieu d'Aquin, Dragan Gasevic, Miguel-Angel Sicilia
Organisers
   
   Stefan Dietze, The Open University, UK
   
   Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University, UK
   
   Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada,
   
   Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
Program Committee
   
   Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
   
   Soeren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
   
   Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
   
   Charalampos Bratsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
   
   Dan Brickley, W3C & Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
   
   Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
   
   John Domingue, The Open University, UK & Semantic Technologies Insitute
       International, Austria.
   
   Nikolas Dovrolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
   
   Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada
   
   Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
   
   Eleni Kaldoudi,Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
   
   Tomi Kauppinen, University of Münster, Germany
   
   Carsten Keßler, University of Münster, Germany
   
   Effie Lai-Chong Law, Leicester University, UK & ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
   
   Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research and Technology Network, Greece
   
   Dave Millard, University of Southampton, UK
   
   Evangelia Mitsopoulou, St George's University London, UK
   
   Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Germany
   
   Mikael Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
   
   Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, UK
   
   Davide Taibi, Institute for Educational Technologies, Italian National Research
       Council, Italy.
   
   Vlad Tanasescu, University of Edinburgh, UK
   
   Fridolin Wild, The Open University, UK
   
   Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT.ICON, Germany
   
   Hong Qing Yu, The Open University, UK

Reviewers
   
   Dhaval Thakker, University of Leeds, UK

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