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Preface from the Workshop Chairs


Session 1: E-learning and Learning Environments for Teaching IR
Session 2: Strategies and Mathematics for Teaching IR
Session 3: Curricula, Evaluation and Performance

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. Oliveira

Information Retrieval as eLearning Course in German - Lessons Learned after 5 Years of Experience
Andreas Henrich & 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 & Carlos Porcel

A flexible object-oriented system for teaching and learning structured IR
Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete & 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

Teaching information retrieval using research questions to encourage creativity and assess understanding
Gareth J. F. Jones

Teaching of Web Information Retrieval: Web first or IR first?
Stefano Mizzaro

Session 3: Curricula, Evaluation and Performance

Information Retrieval Curricula: Contexts and Perspectives
David Bawden, Jessica Bates, Jela Steinerov, Pertti Vakkari & Polona Vilar

Integrating Standard Test Collections in Interactive IR Instruction
Eija Airio, Eero Sormunen, Kai Halttunen & Heikki Keskustalo