The 8th Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning by Posing/Solving Problems/Questions

Solving problems/questions is one of the most indispensable and important components in the teaching and learning process. Problems/questions with adequate quality in various testing conditions are believed to enable teachers to assess individual students’ capability and readiness of transfer in specific domain knowledge. Despite this, there are still many areas in need of systematic investigation to promote knowledge and skills on problems/questions-centered learning approach, including learning by problem solving and/or generation. For instance: what criteria constitute as adequate test item quality (in addition to frequently cited psychometric index like item difficulty, discrimination index); how to best assess learner’s capability with appropriate quality level within constrains (e.g., an optimal number of items, time limitation, etc.); any feasible metadata heuristics and/or techniques for problems/questions selection; any promising alternative strategies for compiling a sufficient amount of number of problems/questions; any scaffolding techniques for question-generation implementation and instructional diffusion and so on.

In ICCE2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014, we held a series of workshops where we paid special attention to “questions/problems” in technology-enhanced learning. This year, we have established SIG of “Technology Enhanced Learning by Posing Problems/Questions”. This 8th workshop is the first workshop organized by the SIG. This continuous workshop will provide a good and timely opportunity to present and share the results and issues about "problems/questions" and grow the SIG community.

We cordially invite presenters and participants who are interested in "problems/questions" in computer-supported education/learning environment. We would like to discuss the many facets and potential uses of "problems/questions" from a technological, computational, pedagogical, psychometrics, theoretical, sociological and administrative point of views.

All workshop participants are required to register for the main conference, but there will not be additional workshop fee.

Style of Workshop:

Mini-conference with paper presentations

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• Problem/question generation/authoring/posing
• Learning by problem/question-posing
• Problem/question variation/changing
• Problem analysis and evaluation
• Structurization of domain knowledge
• Problem/question selection
• Metadata or Ontology of problems
• Metacognition in problem-solving or problem-posing
• Test theory
• Instructional intervention for problem/question-authoring in classrooms
• analytics of problem-solving/posing process

Workshop Program

09:00-09:20	Sign-In & Equipment Hook-up
09:20-09:30	Opening speech
09:30-10:30	Session (I)
Online Student-Constructed Tests with Citing Capability: Perceived Uses, Usage and Considerations (short paper)
Fu-Yun Yu
A Learning Environment for Externalizing Procedural Knowledge in Problem Solving: A Preliminary Trial for Tutoring Problem Posing Skills (short paper)
Kazuhisa Miwa, Kazuya Shibayama, Hitoshi Terai
Scoping Research with a Focus on Questioning (short paper)
Jon Mason
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:20	Session (II)
Using Problem-based Gaming Environment supported Conceptual Physics of Electric Current: A Result on Students' Perceptions (full paper)
Tawat Dontrisanor, Niwat Srisawasdi, Issara Kanjak
Analysis of Problem-Posing Activity Sequences toward Modeling Thinking Process and Detection of Trap States (full paper)
Ahmad Afif Supianto, Yusuke Hayashi, Tsukasa Hirashima
12:00-12:10	Closing speech

Presentation Instructions

• For full paper presentation, 20 minutes will be allocated for presentation and 8 minutes for discussion. 2 minutes will be used for switching presenters. Please keep the presentation within the time limit set.
• For short paper presentation, 15 minutes will be allocated for presentation and 3 minutes for discussion. 2 minutes will be used for switching presenters. Please keep the presentation within the time limit set.
• Please check in with your Session Chair before the session in which your presentation begins.
• Standard computer with Windows 7 and MS-Office will be set and connected to a projector in each session room. You can copy your presentation file (MS-PowerPoint or PDF) to this computer. You can also bring your own computer for presentation.
• Please set up and test your presentation in the designated room prior to your session.

Workshop Organizers

• Fu-Yun Yu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
• Tomoko Kojiri (Kansai University, Japan)
• Tanja Mitrovic (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
• Tsukasa Hirashima (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Kazuaki Kojima (Teikyo University, Japan)

PC Members

• Sergei Abramovich (State University of New York, USA)
• Toshihiro Hayashi (Kagawa University, Japan)
• Yusuke Hayashi (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Tatsuhiro Konishi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
• Hidenobu Kunichika (Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Hui-Chin Yeh (National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
• Nguyen-Thinh Le (Humboldt-Univeristat zu Berlin, German)
• Kazuhisa Seta (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• Takahito Tomoto (Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan)
• Tomoya Horiguchi (Kobe University, Japan)
• Chun-Ping Wu (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
• Maomi Ueno (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
• Jon Mason (Charles Darwin University, Australia)