Introduction
You have an opportunity to submit proposals for research questions to be addressed and explored at Hack@LSAC18 the first of a yearly hackathon event of the Learning & Student Analytics Conference (LSAC) conference. By linking to other Learning Analytics Hackathons we intend to amplify messages Around actionable research themes.
Call for paper
Important date
The purpose of submitting a paper proposal is to describe an open research question relevant to the conference and therefore to Hack@LSAC18. We are not looking for started work. We are not even looking for started work. We are looking for challenges that can be The starting points for tasks to be completed at the Hackathon. Each paper should therefore briefly provide some context for the proposed research question, refer to previous research, explain the objectives that the author(s) wish(es) to be achieved through exploring this Question and describe the potential impact on practices, tool support, and research in learning analytics. Examples of possible topics, taken from the outcomes of the LAK18 hackathon include :
- Personal analytics supporting self-directed learning
- Goal setting and analytics
- Playgrounds for data literacy
- Student facing Open APIs
- Infrastructure-integrated approaches for the joint exploitation of distributed data sources, including synthetic data
- Analytics beyond user-computer interaction data
- Risk mitigation during deployment
Guidlines
We are looking for short papers following this template with a length of 2 to 5 pages including references. The paper's purpose is to set a research question(s) that are relevant for the hackathon, providing context through the referencing of previous research and explaining the Targets you wished achieved and the potential impact on open source software, standards, best practices.
We expect the following structure for the short paper:
- Abstract
- Introduction: Setting context and a brief literature review and Research Question(s)
- Impact: Including the targets and potential effect on Learning Analytics practices
- Acknowledgements
- References
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Important Date
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Oct 25
2018
Conference Date
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Sep 03 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline
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Sep 03 2018
Draft paper submission deadline
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Oct 25 2018
Registration deadline
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