[edm-announce] LAK13: Third International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge
- From: Dan Suthers <suthers@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:53:21 -1000
First call for contributions: a conference of particular interest to the EDM
community! -- Dan Suthers
LAK13: Third International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge
8-12 April, Leuven, Belgium
http://lakconference.org
Papers and Workshop/Tutorial Proposals due November 1, 2012
Doctoral Consortium, Poster and Workshop Participation Submissions due January
31, 2013
The International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, now in its third
year, is a venue for reporting and advancing research at the nexus of two
emerging societal phenomena. First we are witnessing the rapid expansion of the
use of technologies in supporting learning, not only in established
institutional contexts and platforms, but also in the emerging landscape of
free, open, social learning online. Second, the unprecedented availability of
data that learners generate in the process of accessing learning materials,
interacting with educators and peers, and creating new content in these
technological settings, coupled with advances in analytics and data mining,
knowledge modeling and representation and open data offer great potential for
research into how learning takes place in socio-technical settings and the
development of new forms of analytics that can inform learners and educators.
Learning Analytics research brings these technical, pedagogical, and social
domains into dialogue with each other to ensure that interventions and
organizational systems serve the needs of all stakeholders.
THEME: Dialectics in Learning Analytics
The first two conferences have established the range of issues and approaches
of concern in leveraging the availability of data about learning with powerful
computational, representational and visualization techniques. This third
conference will be designed to consolidate the field by bringing these many
voices into dialogue in a "middle space" under the overarching theme of
"Dialectics in Learning Analytics", which has these facets:
The Middle Space: The conference will explore the middle space within which
Learning and Analytics intersect, and seeks proposals for papers and events
that explicitly connect analytic tools to theoretical and practical aspects of
understanding and managing learning.
Productive Multivocality: Learning analytics is multidisciplinary, drawing on
theories and methods from diverse research traditions. Our community includes
educators, learning scientists, computer scientists, administrators, and policy
makers, among others. The middle space serves as a topical "boundary object",
enabling productive discourse between these many voices.
The Old and the New: We are facing a centuries old problem: to improve
learning, but we are trying to solve it using a new set of tools, not available
before. We address these problems in the city of Leuven: centuries old, lively
new.
TOPICS
We invite submissions on topics including but not limited to the following:
* Conceptual
-- New models of learning enabled by analytics
-- Personalization and adaptation in the learning process through analytics
-- Learner modeling
-- The analysis of emotion, flow, and affective data in learning environments
-- Ethical considerations (e.g., privacy and ownership)
-- Learning analytics for accreditation
-- The influence of analytics on designing for learning
-- Learning analytics patterns
-- Organizational dynamics and adoption strategies
-- Educational research methods and learning analytics
-- Learning analytics in relationship to other fields (e.g., educational
research, educational data mining, web science, etc.)
* Technical Innovations for Sensemaking
-- Network analysis methods for understanding learning
-- Visualization techniques
-- Attention metadata for learning
-- Data mining and machine learning techniques in learning analytics
-- Natural language processing and text mining in learning analytics
-- The role of knowledge representation and ontologies in learning analytics
-- The semantic web and linked data applied to learning analytics
-- Analytic tools that could be used for learning
-- "Big Data" applications and opportunities in learning and education
-- Learning environments enhanced with analytics
-- Architecture of learning environments and implications for learning analytics
-- Recommendation Engines
-- Interfaces for learning analytics
-- Decision-support systems for learning
* Applications and Use Cases
-- Interventions based on analytics
-- Visualizations to support awareness and reflection
-- Social and technical systems to manage information abundance
-- Personalization and adaptation of the learning process
-- Corporate and higher education case studies of learning analytics
-- Learning analytics for intelligent tutoring systems
-- Open data and data access for learners
-- Harmonizing individual learning with organizational learning
-- Organizational learning and knowledge sharing models
-- Use of learning analytics in centralized (learning management systems) and
decentralized (personal learning environments) settings
-- Planning, deploying, and evaluating enterprise-wide learning analytics
SUBMISSION TYPES
Primary Participation
Full and Short Papers, Design Briefings, and the abstracts for Panels,
Workshops and Tutorials will be published in the main proceedings. Submissions
in these categories are due November 1, 2012.
-- Full Papers
Use a full paper to share substantial conceptual, technical and empirical
contributions, following the advice to authors given above. Submit up to 10
pages in the conference paper format.
-- Short Papers, Design Briefings, and Formal Demonstrations
Use a short paper to share preliminary conceptual, technical and empirical
contributions, or substantial contributions that can be reported briefly. Short
papers can also share a design concept or tool that addresses a challenge of
interest to interface designers, system architects and programmers. A formal
demonstration of interactive software or tools may also be proposed: such
submissions should include at least one link to a current demo movie. Submit up
to 5 pages in the conference paper format.
-- Panels
Panels provide the chance for delegates to hear a range of speakers address a
topical issue, e.g. diverse approaches to a problem, or a debate a hot topic.
Submit up to 4 pages in the conference paper format suitable for publication in
the proceedings, including an introduction to the nature and importance of the
issue to be addressed and panelists' position statements. Submit 2 additional
pages (not to be published in the proceedings) with the names and
qualifications of confirmed panelists and discussants and a summary of how your
panel format will ensure that there is interaction between panelists rather
than consisting of a collection of disconnected talks.
-- Workshops
Workshops (8-9 April, 2013) provide the opportunity to explore learning theory,
analytics, methods and tools in depth. Workshops should be designed to take
advantage of the interactivity afforded by this format, and should not consist
merely of a day of talks. They may include for example, experience sharing and
brainstorming, interactive demonstrations, data analysis by multiple analysts,
problem solving sessions, and a few short and/or enlightening presentations.
The length of the workshop sessions can range from a half to a full day
(consisting of two to four 1.5 hour blocks between breaks). See web site for
submission format.
-- Tutorials
Tutorials (also 8-9 April, 2013) provide the chance to take participants deep
into a specific tool or technique in which you are experienced, or an
introduction to a topic/class of tools. The time could range from a 1.5 hour
session to a full day (consisting of two to four 1.5 hour blocks between
breaks). Please use the workshop/tutorial template for submissions.
Secondary Participation
Submissions for the following forms of participation are due January 31, 2013.
-- Doctoral Consortium
A one-day consortium will be organized for doctoral students who are about to
defend or have recently defended their proposals. Participating students will
have the opportunity to present their proposed research to reputable faculty in
learning analytics and obtain valuable advice. Other professional development
and social networking activities will be included. Details for submission
requirements will be forthcoming in a future call.
-- Informal Demonstrations
A space (table top surface) and designated times for informal demonstrations of
relevant software will be provided at the conference. Submit one page that
includes a 1-line title, name of presenter, and an abstract limited to 100
words suitable for printing in the conference guide. Demonstrators should be
prepared to interact with several conference participants at a time in an
interactive and not excessively scripted manner.
-- Posters
Posters are suitable for describing late-breaking results or for engaging
conference participants in discussion of preliminary ideas or findings. Submit
a 1-line title, the name(s) of the presenter(s), and an abstract limited to 100
words suitable for printing in the conference guide. This should be followed
with up to two pages describing the concept or results to be presented, the
expected interactions with conference participants, and the poster format that
will support these interactions. (If available, a high-resolution image of the
poster provided as the second page can fulfill this requirement, and is
preferred. Easily visible graphics and large brief texts are encouraged rather
than small text.)
-- Workshop Participation
LAK workshops will provide conference participants with opportunities to
interact intensively on a topic of shared interest. Workshop calls for
participation will be distributed shortly after the December 14th workshop
acceptance notification date. January 31st will be the uniform date for
priority submissions for participation in workshops, although we encourage
workshops to accept later submissions on a space-available basis. Workshop
organizers will specify submission requirements.
SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PUBLICATION
LAK 2011 and LAK2012 were published in the ACM Digital Library International
Conference Proceedings Series. We plan to do the same following the granting of
ACM In-Cooperation status to the conference. Author guidelines are available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (option 1).
RELEVANT DATES
November 1: Paper, Workshop, and Tutorial Proposals Due
December 14: Notification for Papers, Workshops, and Tutorials
January 31: Workshop Participation, Poster, and Informal Demonstration
Submissions Due
February 15: Workshop, Poster, and Demonstration Notification
February 15: Final Papers Due
March 1: Early Registration Deadline
April 8-12: Conference
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
General Chairs
-- Erik Duval, Belgium
-- Xavier Ochoa, Ecuador
Program Chairs
-- Dan Suthers, USA
-- Katrien Verbert, Belgium
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Daniel D. Suthers
Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawaii at Manoa
1680 East West Road, POST 309
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
(808) 956-3890 voice <-- When requiring action within few days
(808) 741-5686 mobile <-- For issues requiring immediate action
(808) 956-3548 fax
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~suthers/
Professor, Department of Information and Computer Sciences
http://www.ics.hawaii.edu/
PI, Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies
http://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu/
Assoc. Editor, Int. J. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
http://ijcscl.org/
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