Call for Proposal hackathon

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.

Topics

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 finished 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

Submission

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, provide 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:

1. Abstract
2. Introduction: Setting context  and a brief literature review and Research Question(s)
3. Impact: Including the targets and potential effect on Learning Analytics practices
4. Acknowledgements
5. References

The timing of events is as follows:

• Submission deadline hackathon: 1 September 2018
• Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hacklsac18
• Notification of acceptance to hackathon: 15 September 2018
• Registration starts: May 15th, 2018   
• Conference: October 22-23, 2018
• Hackathon: October 24-25, 2018
• Hackathon website: lsac2018.org

Publication

HACK@LSAC18 proceedings will be published as part of the conference proceedings by the Amsterdam Business School – University of Amsterdam

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to a.m.berg AT uva.nl