-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Feb 10 2014 Submission Deadline - CfP: Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics @ ICALT 2014 Datum: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 19:50:23 +0100 Von: Jelena Jovanovic jeljov@gmail.com An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
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*Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics* in conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies - ICALT2014 Athens, Greece, July 7-10, 2014
URL:http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2014/node/29
Paper Submission Deadline: February 10, 2014 Paper Acceptance Notification: March 17, 2014
Track Description and Topics of Interest
The analysis and discovery of relations between human learning and contextual factors that influence these relations have been one of the contemporary and critical global challenges facing researchers in a number of areas, particularly in Education, Psychology, Sociology, Information Systems, and Computing. These relations typically concern learner performance and the effectiveness of the learning context. Be it the assessment marks distribution in a classroom context or the mined pattern of best practices in an apprenticeship context, analysis and discovery have always addressed the elusive causal question about the need to best serve learners' learning efficiency and the need to make informed choices on a learning context's instructional effectiveness. Significant advances have been made in a number of areas from educational psychology to artificial intelligence in education, which explored factors contributing to learning efficiency and instructional effectiveness. With the advent of new technologies such as eye-tracking, activities monitoring, video analysis, content analysis, sentiment analysis, social network analysis and interaction analysis, one could study these factors in a data-intensive fashion. This very notion is what is currently being explored under big data learning analytics, which includes related areas such as learning process analytics, institutional effectiveness, academic analytics, web analytics and information visualisation. BDELA@ICALT2014 will explore continuous monitoring of learner progress and traces of skills development among individual learners across programs and institutions. It will discuss issues concerning continuous mapping of institutional learning related achievements to gauge alignment with strategic plans and alignment of governmental strategies. It will examine assessment frameworks of academic productivity to continuously measure impact of teaching. It will discuss concerns such as how quality of instruction, attrition, and measurement of curricular outcomes using big data as the premise.
Track Chairs
Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Vive Kumar, Athabasca University, Canada (vive@athabascau.ca mailto:vive@athabascau.ca) [Co-ordinator] Riccardo Mazza, University of Lugano, Switzerland Abelardo Pardo, University of Sydney, Australia Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain
Members of Track Program Committee
Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Vive Kumar, Athabasca University, Canada, Riccardo Mazza, University of Lugano, Switzerland Abelardo Pardo, University of Sydney, Australia Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain Mark Brown, Massey University, New Zealand Shane Dawson , University of South Australia, Australia Michael Derntl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany Alfred Essa, McGraw-Hill Education, USA Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada (Invited) Alejandra Martinez, University of Valladolid, Spain Negin Mirriahi, University of New South Wales, Australia Mimi Recker, Utah State University, USA Katrien Verbert, Technische Universiteit Einhoven, Holand Lanqin Zheng, Beijing Normal University, China Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada Vanda Luengo, University Joseph Fourier, France Christos Doulkeridis, University of Piraeus, Greece Anastasios Economides, University of Macedonia, Greece