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From: "Abelardo Pardo" <abelardo.pardo@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Aug 25, 2015 12:55 AM
Subject: Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute 26-27 Nov 2015 The
University of Sydney
To: "education_analytics" <education_analytics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dear colleague,
This email is to announce the first call for papers for the 2015 edition of
the Learning Analytics Summer Institute to be held 26 and 27 of November
2015 at The University of Sydney
<http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/analytics/alasi.htm>
The Learning Analytics Summer Institutes (LASIs) are international
community and discipline building events created by the Society for
Learning Analytics Research. ALASI is the main forum in Australia for the
exchange of knowledge, innovation, and experiences in the area of Learning
Analytics. The event offers a great opportunity to learn about analytics in
education, showcase your activities and benchmark results through exposure
to the thinking, experiences and feedback of other practitioners and
researchers in the field.
Learning analytics has been gaining momentum as a community and research
discipline. University leaders now consider analytics has high potential to
increase the quality of the student experience and outcomes. However,
realising this potential requires complex transdisciplinary relationships
within and between institutions.
The use of analytics can provide institutions with improvements in
admissions, the student learning experience, retention, curriculum design,
and overall teaching and learning quality. However, institutions are now
facing the challenge of bridging the gap between these desired improvements
and the current organisational structures and infrastructures. Some of the
pertinent questions at present are: How can data about student progress in
a unit of study be made easily available to instructors and to students?
What is the impact of using data in relation to a learning design? How can
students be better supported throughout their entire educational
experience? What type of tools and methods are being used within
institutions to bridge this gap?
So, come to ALASI 2015 and contribute to this collective intelligence event
to tackle the challenge!
Main highlights:
- Hightly interactive program.
- 2 keynote speakers: Prof Peter Reimann (Sydney Uni) and Dr Lyn
Alderman (QUT)
- Call for proposals for panels, workshops, tutorials, posters, demos
and product presentations (call open)
- Proposal submission deadline: 2 October 2015
- Early bird registration opens 28 Aug until 30 October.
All the details on the ALASI web page
<http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/analytics/alasi.htm>.
Kind Regards
