*The 800 word abstract submission deadline has been extended to MAY 6th, 2021*

The Challenges and Advances in Team Tutoring Workshop has been accepted as a half-day VIRTUAL workshop during the Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) 2021 conference. The workshop will take place on June 15th, 2021 from 9am - 1pm Eastern.

This workshop is seeking paper submissions for presentation and discussion during the half-day virtual workshop session.

The workshop covers the topic areas of approaches and challenges during team tutoring and collaborative learning in intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). The development of team ITSs is a time-intensive and difficult task that includes technological, instructional, and design based challenges.

Topics of Interest Include but are not limited to the following as they apply to ITSs for Teams:

• Natural Language Processing
• Distinguishing Taskwork vs. Teamwork
• Scaffolding and Pedagogical Modeling
• Team Tutoring in Distributed Environments
• Data Strategies
• Assessment Approaches and Ontologies ( e.g., automated scoring individuals to teams)
• Modeling Team Affect
• Modeling Team Behaviors and Group Problem Solving
• Data Visualization
• Working with Virtual Teammates

Researchers who are accepted for presentation during the workshop will have an opportunity to give a brief demonstration of their team tutoring systems if applicable. Presentations are encouraged to highlight approaches that were successful and approaches that were less successful when addressing the topics.

The goals of this workshop include providing a forum for researchers to discuss the progress that they have made in team or collaborative tutoring, discuss the approaches that they have taken, the challenges that they have encountered, and/or present theoretical models on innovative methodologies to address future work on team or collaborative tutoring. 

To begin the discussion, the workshop will include an introduction and description of the approaches to team tutoring that the co-chairs and colleagues have used in the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT). 

There will then be the presentation of accepted work in three topic areas:

1. Towards ITSs for teams in distributed environments
2. Challenges and lessons learned in creating ITSs for teams
3. ITS based collaborative problem solving and learning

The presentations will be followed by an open discussion to identify commonalities in the previously executed approaches, and critique future theoretical work. Through the open discussion, the current challenges of team tutoring and gaps in the team tutoring research will be identified, and next steps/approaches that AIED researchers can use for their own team tutor development will be discussed.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper category is welcome:

• Full papers (between 5 to 10 pages in Springer LNCS format) on topics in the following theme areas, or related areas:
  • • Towards ITSs for Teams in Distributed Environments
    • Challenges and Lessons Learned in Creating ITSs for Teams
    • ITS based Collaborative Problem Solving and Learning
• Accepted full papers will be presented during the workshop, and if applicable can include a demonstration of the team tutoring system (Please indicate it in your abstract if you would like to include a demonstration).
• Both empirical and theoretical papers with topics related to team tutoring and computer-based collaborative learning are welcome.
• Extended Abstracts (at least 800 words) should be submitted by MAY 6th, 2021 (extended date).
• Notifications of Acceptance will be sent out by May 13th, 2021.
• Full camera-ready papers are due by June 4th, 2021.
• The workshop will be held on June 15^th, 2021 from 9am - 1pm Eastern.

List of Topics

• Team tutoring
• Lessons learned from developing intelligent tutoring systems for teams
• Team tutoring in a distributed environment
• Team assessment strategies and approaches in an intelligent tutoring system
• Collaborative problem solving and learning
• Theoretical models proposing innovative methodologies to address future work on team or collaborative tutoring 
• Discussion of steps forward in establishing team intelligent tutoring systems
• Challenges and solutions for intelligent tutoring systems for teams including areas noted early in the description of this Call for Papers (e.g., Natural Language Processing, Data Strategies, Data Visualization, etc.)

Committees

Program Committee

• Anne M. Sinatra, U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center - STTC (Workshop co-chair)
• Benjamin Goldberg, U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center – STTC (Workshop co-chair)
• Jeanine A. DeFalco, U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center - STTC (Workshop co-chair)
• Gregory Goodwin, U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center – STTC
• Keith Brawner, U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center - STTC

Publication

Proceedings papers accepted for the "Challenges and Advances in Team Tutoring" Workshop are planned to be published online at http://ceur-ws.org/

Venue

This VIRTUAL workshop is part of the Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) 2021 conference and will be held VIRTUALLY.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to anne.m.sinatra.civ@mail.mil, benjamin.s.goldberg.civ@mil, and jeanine.a.defalco.civ@mail.mil