We are pleased to announce the publication of Journal of Educational Data Mining Special Issue on Motivation, Meta-cognition, and Self-regulated Learning Volume 5, Issue 1 http://www.educationaldatamining.org/JEDM/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=54&Itemid=81 Including the following articles, all permanently freely available online to anyone in the world: Considering Alternate Futures to Classify Off-Task Behavior as Emotion Self-Regulation: A Supervised Learning Approach Jennifer L. Sabourin, Jonathan P. Rowe, Bradford W. Mott, & James C. Lester http://www.educationaldatamining.org/JEDM/images/articles/vol5/issue1/SabourinEtAlVol5Issue1P9_38.pdf Mining the Dynamics of Student Utility and Strategy Use during Vocabulary Learning Philip I. Pavlik Jr. http://www.educationaldatamining.org/JEDM/images/articles/vol5/issue1/PavlikVol5Issue1P39_71.pdf Mining Data From Interactions With a Motivational-aware Tutoring System Using Data Visualization Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez, Benedict Du Boulay, Rosemary Luckin, & Edgard Ivan Benitez-Guerrero http://www.educationaldatamining.org/JEDM/images/articles/vol5/issue1/Rebolledo_MendezEtAlVol5Issue1P72_103.pdf Clustering and Profiling Students According to their Interactions with an Intelligent Tutoring System Fostering Self-Regulated Learning François Bouchet, Jason M. Harley, Gregory J. Trevors, & Roger Azevedo http://www.educationaldatamining.org/JEDM/images/articles/vol5/issue1/BouchetEtAlVol5Issue1P104_146.pdf Operation ARIES!: Methods, Mystery, and Mixed Models: Discourse Features Predict Affect in a Serious Game Carol M. Forsyth, Arthur C. Graesser, Philip Pavlik Jr., Zhiqiang Cai, Heather Butler, Diane Halpern, & Keith Millis http://www.educationaldatamining.org/JEDM/images/articles/vol5/issue1/ForsythEtAlVol5Issue1P147_189.pdf A Contextualized, Differential Sequence Mining Method to Derive Students' Learning Behavior Patterns John Kinnebrew, Kirk M. Loretz, & Gautam Biswas http://www.educationaldatamining.org/JEDM/images/articles/vol5/issue1/KinnebrewEtAlVol5Issue1P190_219.pdf The Potentials of Educational Data Mining for Researching Metacognition, Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning Philip H. Winne & Ryan S.J.d. Baker http://www.educationaldatamining.org/JEDM/images/articles/vol5/issue1/IntroVol5Issue1P1_8.pdf For more information on the journal, see http://www.educationaldatamining.org/JEDM/ Sincerely, Special Issue Editors Ryan S.J.d. Baker and Philip H. Winne On Behalf of JEDM Editor Kalina Yacef