[on behalf of Thomas Price]
The sixth SPLICE Project workshop will be held virtually on Wednesday,
August 12, 2020 from 9AM to 12PM in conjunction with ACM Learning at Scale
conference L@S 2020.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together the existing community of
researchers working on the Infrastructure Design for Data-Intensive
Research in Computer Science Education and a community of L@S researchers
focused on CS Education. While both communities share many similar goals
and could greatly benefit from each other work, the interaction between the
communities is small. We hope that the workshop will be instrumental in
bringing together like-minded researchers from different communities,
establishing collaboration, and expanding the scope of the infrastructure
project to address critical scaling issues.
The workshop is organized by the SPLICE community (Standards, Protocols,
and Learning Infrastructure for Computing Education) in association with
NSF-supported project Community-Building and Infrastructure Design for
Data-Intensive Research in Computer Science Education. It follows a
sequence of the previous SPLICE and CSEDM workshops organized at SIGCSE,
EDM, AIED, ICER, and LAK conferences. More information about SPLICE and
past workshops can be found at https://cssplice.github.io
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: July 24, 2020 (extended!)
- Acceptance notification: August 3, 2020
- Final versions of accepted papers August 7, 2020
- The workshop: August 12, 2020
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L@S 2020 Conference: August 12-14, 2020
Call for Papers and Lightning Presentations:
We are inviting prospective participants to submit 4-6-page short papers
and 2-page “lightning” papers about their past and ongoing work related to
CS Education Infrastructure. We are especially interested in papers focused
on collaborations, integrations, and re-use in the spirit of the SPLICE
project. So if you have a working collaboration where you are re-using and
bringing together various software tools and/or smart content, or are
sharing data sets or learner analytics data analysis tools, then we would
like to hear about it. Most valuable in the context of the workshop would
be papers focusing on the following topics, although all work related to
the SPLICE goals will be considered.
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Descriptions of "smart" learning tools or programming environments,
which interact with students and collect interaction/performance data
- Case studies of collaboration where reproducible practices were used
to integrate two or more data-producing learning tools from different
institutions
- Descriptions of infrastructures that could collect and integrate data
from multiple learning tools (e.g. forum posts, LMS activity, and
programming data)
- Descriptions of shareable Computer Science education datasets
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Descriptions of data mining/analytics approaches applied to specifically
Computer Science datasets
The authors of accepted papers will be able to present their work in at the
workshop as Short talks of 15-20 minutes and Lightning Talks of 10 minutes.
The papers will be published online as a part of the Workshop Proceedings
and will be publicized on the SPLICE project site.
If you have a contribution accepted to the mainstream L@K conference, which
also matches the topic of the workshop, you are welcome to submit a 2-pages
lightning paper for the workshop consideration. It will help to publicize
and discuss your work within a broader community.
Submissions should follow the ACM CHI format used by L@S. See
https://chi2020.acm.org/authors/chi-proceedings-format/ for details.
Submission should be made in pdf through the EasyChair system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=splice2020ls
Organizers
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Ken Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University
David A. Joyner, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thomas W. Price, North Carolina State University