Held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED2021.
June 14th – June 18th 2021, Online from Utrecht (Netherlands).

To achieve the theme of AIED 2021 “Mind the Gap: AIED for Equity and Inclusion“,  advanced learning technology research needs to support lifelong learners with the  knowledge and skills needed to succeed in a rapidly changing world. The proliferation  of social media and the recent need for everyone to transit to online learning due to the  pandemic have made millions of lifelong learners turn to online learning communities  (OLCs). With the availability of big data about learners from the OLCs and the  availability of the enabling technologies, opportunities arise to provide personalized  support to learners. During the first international workshop on supporting lifelong  learning (SLL) co-located with the 20th international conference on Artificial  intelligence in education (AIED 2019) some emerging themes were discussed in the  areas of learner models, learner feedback, privacy and sustainability of lifelong learning  systems. 

The goal of the second workshop on supporting lifelong learning is to build on the  first workshop by fostering further discussions around optimizing the learner models of  lifelong learners to achieve their learning goals. SLL 2021 workshop aims at providing  a forum for researchers to critically discuss ways to advance research in supporting  lifelong learning beyond the walls of traditional educational systems. The second  workshop will cover areas that address the application of advanced technologies like  social recommendation, adaptive technologies, collaborative tools, persuasive  strategies, learning analytics and educational data mining to support lifelong learners.  This workshop aims at enhancing lifelong learning through collaboration, educational  games, personalized recommendation, self-motivated learning and educational  diagnosis of lifelong learners; and also, to review studies addressing lifelong learning. 

Based on the category of papers, time will be allotted for presentation and questions.  At the end of the workshop, there will be a discussion on workshop presentations,  challenges and the ways forward, and we will develop a co-authored document to  summarize the workshop papers. In summary, SLL 2021 will serve to expand the  frontiers of knowledge within the advanced learning technology community, by  providing opportunities for researchers to establish long term collaborations that can  help to expand on studies that support lifelong learning. In addition, we look forward to the possibility of publishing a Special Issue in a relevant journal with extended  versions of the accepted papers in the workshop from SLL 2019 and SLL 2021.

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