[edm-announce] SoLAR Webinar: Analyzing Learning and Teaching through the Lens of Networks with Dr Sasha Poquet and Dr Bodong Chen

From: Stephen Fancsali <sfancsali@xxxxxxxxx>
To: edm-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 13:52:27 -0400

[on behalf of Vitomir Kovanovic]

Hi all,

It is my pleasure to invite you to our April SoLAR Webinar *"Analyzing
Learning and Teaching through the Lens of Networks"* presented by Dr Sasha
Poquet from the University of South Australia, Australia, and Dr Bodong
Chen from the University of Minnesota, USA.

*To register, go to
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/analyzing-learning-and-teaching-through-the-lens-of-networks-registration-102270329308
<https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/analyzing-learning-and-teaching-through-the-lens-of-networks-registration-102270329308>*

Time and date: *Mon April 20, 2020*, *4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Eastern US time *(1:30
PM - 2:30 PM Pacific US time, 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM London, UK time)
Location: *Zoom* (meeting URL provided in the registration email*)*

(Also, make sure you follow *SoLAR's Eventbrite page*
<https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/society-for-learning-analytics-research-solar-21953992681>
to get updates for the future events).

We are looking forward to seeing you at the webinar!

Kind regards,

Vitomir

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*Analyzing Learning and Teaching through the Lens of Networks*

Networks is a popular metaphor we use to make sense of the world. Networks
provide a powerful way to think about a variety of phenomena from economic
and political interdependencies among countries, interactions between
humans in local communities, and to protein interactions in drug
development. In education, networks give ways to describe human
relationships, neural activities in brains, technology-mediated
interactions, language development, discourse patterns, etc. The common use
of networks to depict these phenomena is unsurprising given the variety of
educational theories and approaches that are deeply committed to a
networked view of learning. Compatible with this view, network analysis is
applied as a method for understanding learning and connections involved in
learning.

This webinar will explore the conceptual, methodological, and practical use
of networks in learning analytics by presenting examples from real-world
learning and teaching scenarios that cover the following areas. First, in
learning analytics networks are a powerful tool to visually represent
connections of all sorts in ways that are straightforward for humans to act
upon. Second, network analysis offers a set of metrics that are useful for
characterising and assessing various dimensions of learning. Third, the
modelling of networks can help to develop explanatory theories about
complex learning processes. We will present case studies in each area to
demonstrate the utility of networks in learning analytics. By doing so, we
argue for a wider conception of learning as a networked phenomenon and call
for future learning analytics work in this area.

*Dr Sasha Poquet*

Sasha Poquet is a researcher at the Centre for Change and Complexity in
Learning (C3L), University of South Australia. Sasha uses learning
analytics to understand learner networks form and how peers influence each
other in digitally-mediated communication.

*Associate Professor Bodong Chen*

Bodong Chen is an associate professor and Bonnie Westby Huebner Chair in
Education and Technology at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. His
research is focused on the design of digital environments and analytics for
collaborative learning. At the University of Minnesota, he co-directs a
newly formed Learning Informatics Lab and teaches Applied Network Analysis
in Education and Learning Analytics.

[edm-announce] SoLAR Webinar: Analyzing Learning and Teaching through the Lens of Networks with Dr Sasha Poquet and Dr Bodong Chen

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