Considering the multitude of views on awareness and reflection distributed over a wide range of disciplines (among them CSCW, psychology, educational sciences, and computer science), the Workshop's theme is encapsulated in the following question: "What do awareness and reflection mean in the context of TEL, and how can technologies support either?"

The objective of this workshop is primarily to provide a forum for presenting and discussing research on awareness and reflection in TEL. Secondly, it offers an interactive experience that connects participants' research - the co-organizing projects' latest prototypes and models - with real end users' learning experiences and needs regarding reflection technology. The target audience of ARTEL2012 is researchers and practitioners in the field of TEL.

The Workshop format will thus be a mixture of paper and demo presentations. The sessions will offer venues in which participants will work to link theory and existing prototypes, both from the involved projects and from the presented papers and demos, to practical needs in educational and professional settings.

This link is expected to be of value to both practitioners and researchers. For the former, research insights will become more tangible, and for the latter, insights and research prototypes will become grounded in practice. There will be an overall narrative trajectory throughout the day moving from theory at the beginning of the Workshop to pragmatic implementations at the close.