Final Call for Participation: TLIR 2007

                     ** Final Call for Participation **
 
    TLIR 2007 First International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of
                            Information Retrieval 

                              10th January 2007

First Floor The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA

                       ** Apologies for cross postings **

Location
The workshop will be held in the BCS HQ building, First Floor The Davidson
Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Directions can be found
on the BCS web site: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5843. The
workshop will be held on Wednesday 10th January 2007. 

Registration Details
The registration form can be downloaded from:
http://tlir07.soi.city.ac.uk/. All registrations are handled by BCS in
Swindon, please contact Phil Dyson on +44 (0)1793-417656, or
[email protected] if you have any enquires. Fees for the workshop
are £80 for BCS or IRSG members, and £100 for non members 

Workshop Program

Session 1: E-learning and Learning Environments for teaching IR
  - Design experiment on two information retrieval learning environments,
Kai Halttunen.
 - IR-BASE: An Integrated Framework for the Research and Teaching of
Information Retrieval Technologies, Pável Calado, Ana Cardoso-Cachopo,
Arlindo L. Olivera. 
 - Information Retrieval as eLearning Course in German  Lessons Learned
after 5 Years of Experience, Andreas Henrich and Karlheinz Morgenroth.  
- A Software Tool to Teach the Performance of Fuzzy IR Systems based on
Weighted Queries, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Sergio Alonso, Francisco J.
Cabrerizo, Antonio G. Lopez-Herrera, and Carlos Porcel.  
- A flexible object-oriented system for teaching and learning structured
IR, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete and Alfonso
E. Romero.  

Session 2: Strategies and Mathematics for Teaching IR 
- Pedagogic challenges in Information Retrieval: teaching mathematics to
Postgraduate Information Science students, Andrew MacFarlane. 
- Using Research Questions to Encourage Creativity and Assess
Understanding in Teaching of Information Retrieval, Gareth F. J. Jones. 
- Teaching of Web IR: Web first or IR first? Stefano Mizzaro.

Session 3: Circula and evaluation 

- Information retrieval curricula; contexts and perspectives, David
Bawden, Polona Vilar, Jessica Bates, Jela Steinerov, Pertti Vakkari. 
- Integrating standard test collections in interactive IR instruction,
Eija Airio, Eero Sormunen, Kai Halttunen, Heikki Keskustalo. 


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!     Dr. A. MacFarlane, Senior Lecturer, Room A525,      !
!       Centre for Interactive Systems Research           !
! Dept. Of Information Science,  City University London   !
!         Northampton Square, LONDON EC1V 0HB             !
!   Tel:+44 (0)20 7040 8386   Fax:+44 (0)20 7040 8584     !
!       URL: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/            !
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