[agents] Call: Emerging Web 3.0/Semantic Web Applications in Higher Education: Growing Personalization and Wider Interconnections in Learning

[Charles Wankel]

Emerging Web 3.0/Semantic Web Applications in Higher Education: 

Growing Personalization and Wider Interconnections in Learning
(Charlotte, North Carolina: IAP Information Age Publishing, 2015)

 

Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York, and Agata
Stachowicz-Stanusch, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Editors

 

Call for Chapter proposals

 

The Web is evolving from a place where a prodigious amount of text and
images are stored to a place where educational and other needs are serviced.
The Web is becoming increasingly automated with functions that previously
required human action undertaken automatically moving learners and other
users more quickly to useful support. More and more such services
interoperate with each other through computer programs and agents. This is
the territory of semantic Web services and Web 3.0. Just as shop bots and
auction bots abound in handling a particular task on the Web currently, in
higher education of the future such related bots and agents will interact
with the heterogeneous information that is the stuff of higher education.
The scale of such agent-based mediation and linked data will grow over time.
Increasingly, intelligent agents and bots will undertake tasks on behalf of
their faculty, administrator, and student owners. Collaborations among
faculty and students around the world will be increasingly supported by
semantic social networks capable of providing crucial functions. Students
can be engaged in participating in the design and development of semantic
Web applications in such areas as structuring and representing knowledge.
The increasing availability of interactive educational tools and
collaborative community-resources, such as wikis, can be the foundation for
deploying semantically marked-up and social-connected educational spaces
where students construct their own learning pathways in explorations of
knowledge and creating new content integration. 

 

This volume will share visions and partial realizations of the impact of the
semantic Web and associated Web 3.0 features on higher education. This
volume will provide accounts of cutting-edge pedagogic applications of the
semantic Web with its extremely extensive use of interconnecting information
technologies. New vistas of the personalization of learning objects in
virtual learning environments (virtual worlds, for example) is a
particularly exciting topic. Students' learning styles, preferred learning
activities, and germane teaching approaches in Web 3.0 environments are
welcome topics. Another invited topic for this volume will be how learners
can be enabled to be aware of the characteristics and dimensions of
organizationally embedded learning in university courses and contexts, or
such learning in their workplaces or homes. Another topic, cloud
technologies, presents new ways of gathering information that can be
exploited for learning by individuals. For example, cloud technologies can
facilitate semantic tagging and the recognition and acknowledgement of
informal learning activities. Finally, we are open to articles on the
post-Web-3.0 world, the Web 4.0 epoch where people will be able to upgrade
themselves mightily in ways appropriate to bolster the tasks at hand through
technology extensions. Similarly, we welcome articles with overviews and
models of semantic Web/Web 3.0 educational applications.

 

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE: 

 

Book chapter proposals received: March 20, 2014

Notification of peer-review decisions: March 26, 2014

Receipt of full book chapters: May 23, 2014

Chapter authors receive peer reviews with editorial feedback: June 6, 2014

Final revisions due: July 6, 2014

Book publication with 2015 copyright: December 1, 2014

  

Submit a one-page or so chapter proposal.  Also, include for each of the
coauthors a brief biography including terminal degree, current institutional
affiliation and position, and a listing of any related publications. For
each coauthor include contact information, so we can readily contact you
ideally including: email address, mobile phone, work phone, home phone, and
Skype (if you do not mind us contacting you through these). We realize that
this is a very fast schedule.  However, we believe that moving agilely to a
first draft during the spring term will work best for getting our book done
in a timely and robust way.  

 

Send proposals and inquiries to both:

 

Charles Wankel  <mailto:wankelc at verizon.net> wankelc at verizon.net and Agata
Stachowicz-Stanusch  <mailto:agata.stachowicz at polsl.pl>
agata.stachowicz at polsl.pl