Main Conference Schedule
Wednesday 6 March
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| 07:30 – 08:30 | Student Pavilion Lobby | Registration | |
| Arizona Ballroom | Breakfast | ||
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Senita A | Welcome & Introductions (Slide) | |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Senita A | Keynote: Prof. Ryan Baker (University of Pennsylvania, USA) | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Senita B&C | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Parallel Sessions 1 | ||
| Senita A | Keynote Q&A and Panel Session 1A | ||
| 1A-01. 30 minutes | Q&A Keynote; Session Chair: Chris Brooks | ||
| Prof. Ryan Baker (University of Pennsylvania, USA) | |||
| 1A-02. 60 minutes | Panel 1: Learning Sciences: Design and analysis strategies that promote inclusion and increase access. (Moderator: Bodong Chen, Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies, University of Minnesota, USA); Session Chair: Phil Winne | ||
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| Murdock 101 | Novel Devices. Session 1B; Session Chair: Sharon Slade | ||
| 1B-01. 30 minutes | [Best Full Research Paper Nomination] On multi-device use: using technological modality profiles to explain differences in students’ learning; Varshita Sher, Marek Hatala and Dragan Gasevic. | ||
| 1B-02. 30 minutes | Technologies for automated analysis of co-located, real-life, physical learning spaces: Where are we now?; Yi Han Victoria Chua, Justin Dauwels and Seng Chee Tan. | ||
| 1B-03. 20 minutes | “I spent more time with that team”: Making spatial pedagogy visible using positioning sensors; Roberto Martinez-Maldonado. | ||
| Murdock 201 | Curriculum. Session 1C; Session Chair: Leah Macfadyen | ||
| 1C-01. 30 minutes | A study on curriculum planning and its relationship with academic performance in undergraduate Institutions; Sara Morsy and George Karypis. | ||
| 1C-02. 30 minutes | Goal-based course recommendation; Weijie Jiang, Zach Pardos and Qiang Wei. | ||
| 1C-03. 20 minutes | [Best Short Research Paper Nomination] Semi-automatic generation of intelligent curricula to facilitate learning analytics; Angel Fiallos and Xavier Ochoa. | ||
| Memorial Union 230 – Pima | Multimodal Analytics. Session 1D; Session Chair: Bruce McLaren | ||
| 1D-01. 30 minutes | Read between the lines: an annotation tool for multimodal data for learning; Daniele Di Mitri, Jan Schneider, Roland Klemke, Marcus Specht and Hendrik Drachsler. | ||
| 1D-02. 30 minutes | Multichannel data for understanding cognitive affordances during complex problem solving; Charlotte Larmuseau, Pieter Vanneste, Piet Desmet and Fien Depaepe. | ||
| 1D-03. 20 minutes | Cross-platform analytics: a step towards personalization and adaptation in education; Katerina Mangaroska, Boban Vesin and Michail Giannakos. | ||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Arizona Ballroom & Additional Seating in Turquoise Ballroom | Lunch | |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Parallel Sessions 2 | ||
| Murdock 101 | Machine Learning I. Session 2A; Session Chair: Agathe Merceron | ||
| 2A-01. 30 minutes | Grade prediction with uncertainty estimation using Bayesian deep learning; Qian Hu and Huzefa Rangwala. | ||
| 2A-02. 30 minutes | user2code2vec: embeddings for profiling students based on distributional representations of source code; David Azcona, Piyush Arora, Sharon Hsiao and Alan Smeaton. | ||
| 2A-03. 20 minutes | Clustering analysis reveals authentic science inquiry trajectories among undergraduates; Melanie Peffer, David Quigley and Mehrgan Mostowfi. | ||
| Murdock 201 | Reading Analytics. Session 2B; Session Chair: Simon Buckingham Shum | ||
| 2B-01. 20 minutes | Can background music facilitate learning? Preliminary results on reading comprehension; Xiao Hu, Fanjie Li and Runzhi Kong. | ||
| 2B-02. 20 minutes | Would you? Could you? On a tablet? Analytics of children’s ebook reading; Beata Beigman Klebanov, Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, John Sabatini and Jennifer Lentini. | ||
| 2B-03. 20 minutes | Comprehension factor analysis: modeling student’s reading behaviour; Khushboo Thaker, Paulo Carvalho and Ken Koedinger. | ||
| 2B-04. 20 minutes | Are you talking to me? Multi-dimensional language analysis of explanations during reading; Laura Allen, Caitlin Mills, Cecile Perret and Danielle McNamara. | ||
| Memorial Union 230 – Pima | Games and Learning. Session 2C; Session Chair: Alyssa Wise | ||
| 2C-01. 30 minutes | [Best Full Research Paper Nomination] Exploring the subtleties of agency and indirect control in digital learning games; Erik Harpstead, Huy Nguyen, J Elizabeth Richey and Bruce Mclaren. | ||
| 2C-02. 30 minutes | Identification of sample comparability issues during the iterative design of game-based cognitive assessments; Rebecca Kantar, David Laing, Matthew Emery, Sonia Doshi, Yao Xiong and Erica Snow. | ||
| 2C-03. 20 minutes | Differences in student trajectories via filtered time series analysis in an immersive virtual world; Joseph Reilly and Chris Dede. | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Senita B&C | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Parallel Sessions 3 | ||
| Murdock 101 | Machine Learning II. Session 3A; Session Chair: David Azcona | ||
| 3A-01. 30 minutes | Effective feature learning with unsupervised learning for improving the predictive models in massive open online courses; Mucong Ding, Kai Yang, Dit-Yan Yeung and Ting-Chuen Pong. | ||
| 3A-02. 30 minutes | Transfer learning using representation learning in massive open online courses; Mucong Ding, Yanbang Wang, Erik Hemberg and Una-May O’Reilly. | ||
| 3A-03. 20 minutes | Exploring programming semantic analytics with deep learning models; Yihan Lu and Sharon Hsiao | ||
| Murdock 201 | Dialogue & Engagement. Session 3B; Session Chair: Sasha Poquet | ||
| 3B-01. 30 minutes | Social comparison in MOOCs: perceived SES, opinion, and message formality; Heeryung Choi, Nia Dowell, Christopher Brooks and Stephanie Teasley. | ||
| 3B-02. 30 minutes | Analysing discussion forum data: a replication study avoiding data contamination; Elaine Farrow, Johanna Moore and Dragan Gasevic. | ||
| 3B-03. 20 minutes | Exploring learner engagement patterns in teach-outs: using topic, sentiment and on-topicness to reflect on pedagogy; Wenfei Yan, Nia Dowell, Caitlin Holman, Steve Welsh, Heeryung Choi and Christopher Brooks. | ||
| Memorial Union 230 – Pima | Computational Methods. Session 3C; Session Chair: Abelardo Pardo | ||
| 3C-01. 30 minutes | DiAd: domain adaptation for learning at scale; Ziheng Zeng, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Suma Bhat and Dan Roth. | ||
| 3C-02. 30 minutes | The timeliness deviation: a novel approach to evaluate educational recommender systems in closed-course environments; Christopher Krauss, Agathe Merceron and Stefan Arbanowski. | ||
| 3C-03. 20 minutes | Comparison of ranking and ratings scales in online peer assessment: simulation approach; Dmytro Babik, Scott Stevens and Andrew Waters. | ||
| 16:30 – 17:15 | Arizona Ballroom | Speed Mentoring & Networking Session | |
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First Bus Departs for Desert Botanical Garden Pickup Location: 10 Business Administration C-Wing (BAC) on Lemon St (400 East Lemon Street, Tempe, AZ 85281) |
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| 18:00 – 21:00 | Conference Dinner at the Dorrance Hall at the Desert Botanical Garden | ||
Thursday 7 March
Thursday |
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| 07:30 – 08:30 | Student Pavilion Lobby | Registration | |
| Arizona Ballroom | Breakfast | ||
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Senita A | Introductions and housekeeping | |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Senita A | Keynote: Professor Lise Getoor (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Senita B&C | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Parallel Sessions 4 | ||
| Senita A | Keynote Q&A and Panel. Session 4A | ||
| 4A-01. 30 minutes | Q&A Keynote; Session Chair: Abelardo Pardo | ||
| Professor Lise Getoor (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) | |||
| 4A-02. 60 minutes | Panel 2: The future of AI in education: From knowledge-based systems to data-driven approaches (Moderator: Dragan Gasevic, Professor of Learning Analytics, Monash University, Australia); Session Chair: Dragan Gasevic | ||
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| Murdock 101 | Text Analytics I. Session 4B; Session Chair: Roberto Martinez-Maldonado | ||
| 4B-01. 30 minutes | Contextualizable learning analytics design: a generic model, and writing analytics evaluations; Antonette Shibani, Simon Knight and Simon Buckingham Shum. | ||
| 4B-02. 30 minutes | [Best Practitioner Paper Nomination] Evaluating remedial writing and writing placement in a large public university; Sattik Ghosh and Meryl Motika | ||
| 4B-03. 20 minutes | Topic development to support revision feedback; Jovita Vytasek, Alexandra Patzak and Philip Winne. | ||
| Murdock 201 | Predictive and Privacy. Session 4C; Session Chair: Bodong Chen | ||
| 4C-01. 30 minutes | [Best Full Research Paper Nomination] Evaluating the fairness of predictive student models through slicing analysis; Josh Gardner, Christopher Brooks and Ryan Baker. | ||
| 4C-02. 30 minutes | Learning analytics at the intersections of student trust, disclosure and benefit; Sharon Slade, Paul Prinsloo and Mohammad Khalil. | ||
| 4C-03. 20 minutes | Predicting the well-functioning of learning groups under privacy restrictions; Tobias Hecking, Dorian Doberstein and H. Ulrich Hoppe. | ||
| Memorial Union 230 – Pima | Dashboards I. Session 4D; Session Chair: Hiroaki Ogata | ||
| 4D-01. 30 minutes | Exploring students’ sensemaking of learning analytics dashboards: does frame of reference make a difference?; Lisa Lim, Shane Dawson, Srecko Joksimovic and Dragan Gasevic. | ||
| 4D-02. 30 minutes | Improving dashboard usability case study; Bradley Coverdale and Matthew Hendrickson | ||
| 4D-03. 20 minutes | Top concept networks of professional education reflections; Alyssa Wise and Yi Cui. | ||
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Arizona Ballroom & Additional Seating in Turquoise Ballroom | Lunch and SoLAR Annual General Meeting | |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Parallel Sessions 5 | ||
| Senita A | Feedback and Measurement. Session 5A; Session Chair: Elle Wang | ||
| 5A-01. 20 minutes | Different response-based reedback in Mathematics: the case of symbolic and textual messages; Tomer Gal and Arnon Hershkovitz. | ||
| 5A-02. 20 minutes | Validating the use of LMS-derived rubric structural features to facilitate automated measurement of rubric quality; Philip Arcuria, William Morgan and Thomas Fikes. | ||
| 5A-03. 20 minutes | Measuring knowledge gaps in student responses by mining networked representations of texts; Chen Qiao and Xiao Hu. | ||
| Murdock 101 | Dashboards II. Session 5B; Session Chair: Dragan Gasevic | ||
| 5B-01. 30 minutes | Motivated information seeking and graph comprehension in relation to help-seeking and comparison among college students; Stephen Aguilar and Clare Baek. | ||
| 5B-02. 30 minutes | LAView: Learning Analytics Dashboard Towards Evidence-based Education; Rwitajit Majumdar, Arzu Akçapınar, Gökhan Akçapınar, Brendan Flanagan and Hiroaki Ogata | ||
| Murdock 201 | Logging Activity. Session 5C; Session Chair: John Stamper | ||
| 5C-01. 30 minutes | Using detailed access trajectories for learning behavior analysis; Yanbang Wang, Nancy Law, Erik Hemberg and Una-May O’Reilly. | ||
| 5C-02. 30 minutes | The validity and utility of activity logs as a measure of student engagement; Benjamin Motz, Joshua Quick, Noah Schroeder, Jordon Zook and Matthew Gunkel. | ||
| Memorial Union 230 – Pima | Text Analytics II. Session 5D; Session Chair: Stephanie Teasley | ||
| 5D-01. 30 minutes | [Best Full Research Paper Nomination] Towards enabling feedback on rhetorical structure with neural sequence models; James Fiacco, Elena Cotos and Carolyn Rose. | ||
| 5D-02. 30 minutes | Language as thought: using Natural Language Processing to model noncognitive traits that predict college success; Cathlyn Stone, Abigail Quirk, Margo Gardener, Stephen Hutt, Angela Duckworth and Sidney D’Mello. | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Senita B&C | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Parallel Sessions 6 | ||
| Senita A | Intelligent Tutoring Systems I. Session 6A; Session Chair: Ryan Baker | ||
| 6A-01. 30 minutes | Student learning benefits of a mixed-reality teacher awareness tool in AI-enhanced classrooms [AIED Best Paper] | ||
| 6A-02. 20 minutes | Square it up! How to model step duration when predicting student performance; Irene-Angelica Chounta and Paulo Carvalho. | ||
| 6A-03. 20 minutes | Fairer but not fair enough: on the equitability of knowledge tracing; Shayan Doroudi and Emma Brunskill. | ||
| 6A-04. 20 minutes | Deep knowledge tracing and engagement with MOOCs; David Lang, Klint Kanopka and Kritphong Mongkhonvanit. | ||
| Murdock 101 | Design. Session 6B; Session Chair: Vitomir Kovanovic | ||
| 6B-01. 30 minutes | Towards value-sensitive learning analytics design; Bodong Chen and Haiyi Zhu. | ||
| 6B-02. 30 minutes | Student centred design of a learning analytics system; Ed de Quincey, Chris Briggs, Theocharis Kyriacou and Richard Waller. | ||
| 6B-03. 30 minutes | Implementing Learning Analytics: Instructor Perspectives; Julie Wei, Fred Cutler, Leah Macfadyen and Sanam Shirazi | ||
| Murdock 201 | Sequences. Session 6C; Session Chair: Srecko Joksimovic | ||
| 6C-01. 30 minutes | The impact of an online tutoring program for algebra readiness on mathematics achievements: results of a randomized experiment; Sahba Akhavan Niaki, Clint Pazhayidam George, George Michailidis and Carole Beal. | ||
| 6C-02. 30 minutes | UPM: Discovering course enrollment sequences associated with success; Asmaa Elbadrawy and George Karypis. | ||
| 6C-03. 30 minutes | Affect sequences and learning in Betty’s Brain; Alexandra Andres, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Ryan Baker, Stefan Slater, Luc Paquette, Yang Jiang, Nigel Bosch, Anabil Munshi, Allison Moore and Gautam Biswas. | ||
| Memorial Union 230 – Pima | Machine Learning III. Session 6D; Session Chair: Zachary Pardos | ||
| 6D-01. 30 minutes | Refusing to try: characterizing early stopout on student assignments; Anthony F. Botelho, Ashvini Varatharaj, Eric Vaninwegen and Neil Heffernan. | ||
| 6D-02. 30 minutes | An analysis of student representation, representative features and classification algorithms to predict degree dropout.; Rubén Francisco Manrique, Bernardo Pereira Nunes, Olga Marino, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller and Marco Antonio Casanova. | ||
| 6D-03. 30 minutes | The impact of student opt-out on educational predictive models; Warren Li, Christopher Brooks and Florian Schaub. | ||
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Arizona Ballroom | Networking Sessions | |
| 18:00 – 19:30 | Old Main Lawn | Poster & Demo and Outdoor Reception | |
Friday 8 March
Friday |
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| 07:30 – 08:30 | Student Pavilion Lobby | Registration | |
| Arizona Ballroom | Breakfast | ||
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Senita A | Introduction | |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Senita A | Keynote: Professor Shirley Alexander (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Senita B&C | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Parallel Sessions 7 | ||
| Senita A | Keynote Q&A and Panel. Session 7A | ||
| 7A-01. 30 minutes | Q&A Keynote; Session Chair: Rebecca Ferguson | ||
| Professor Shirley Alexander (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) | |||
| 7A-02. 60 minutes | Panel 3: Institutional principles for handling data responsibly. (Moderator: Grace Lynch, Professor and Interim Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor Education, RMIT, Australia); Session Chair: Shane Dawson | ||
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| Murdock 101 | Classroom & Collaboration. Session 7B; Session Chair: Laura Allen | ||
| 7B-01. 20 minutes | [Best Short Research Paper Nomination] Where you are, not what you see: the impact of learning environment on mind wandering and material retention; Trish Varao Sousa, Caitlin Mills and Alan Kingstone. | ||
| 7B-02. 20 minutes | DEBE feedback for large lecture classroom analytics; Ritayan Mitra and Pankaj Chavan | ||
| 7B-03. 20 minutes | Modeling gender in intra and interpersonal dynamics during online learning collaborative interactions; Yiwen Lin, Nia Dowell, Andrew Godfrey, Heeryung Choi and Christopher Brooks. | ||
| 7B-04. 20 minutes | Predicting student success in communication skills learning scenarios with virtual humans; Stephanie Carnell, Benjamin Lok, Melva James and Jonathan Su. | ||
| Murdock 201 | Implementation. Session 7C; Session Chair: Shenita Ray | ||
| 7C-01. 20 minutes | Challenges on implementing learning analytics over countrywide K-12 data; Luiz Antonio Macarini, Cristian Cechinel, Henrique Lemos dos Santos, Xavier Ochoa, Virgínia Rodés, Guillermo Ettlin Alonso, Alén Pérez Casas and Patricia Díaz. | ||
| 7C-02. 30 minutes | Increasing the impact of learning analytics; Shane Dawson, Srecko Joksimovic, Sasha Poquet and George Siemens. | ||
| 7C-03. 30 minutes | Evaluating a learning analytics research community: a framework to advance cultural change; Linda Shepard, George Rehrey, Dennis Groth and Amberly Reynolds | ||
| Memorial Union 230 – Pima | Self-Regulated Learning. Session 7D; Session Chair: Danielle McNamara | ||
| 7C-01. 20 minutes | Utilizing learning analytics to map students’ self-reported study strategies to click behaviors in STEM Courses; Fernando Rodriguez, Renzhe Yu, Jihyun Park, Mariela Janet Rivas, Mark Warschauer and Brian K. Sato. | ||
| 7D-02. 30 minutes | [Best Full Research Paper Nomination] Analytics of learning strategies: associations with academic performance and feedback; Wannisa Matcha, Dragan Gasevic, Nora’Ayu Ahmad Uzir, Jelena Jovanovic and Abelarado Pardo. | ||
| 7D-03. 30 minutes | Towards hybrid human-system regulation: understanding children’s SRL support needs in blended classrooms; Inge Molenaar, Anne Horvers and Ryan Baker. | ||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Arizona Ballroom & Additional Seating in Turquoise Ballroom | Lunch | |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Parallel Sessions 8 | ||
| Senita A | Intelligent Tutoring Systems II. Session 8A; Session Chair: Craig Thompson | ||
| 8A-01. 30 minutes | Investigating the usage patterns of an online tutoring platform; Sahba Akhavan Niaki, Clint Pazhayidam George, George Michailidis and Carole Beal. | ||
| 8A-02. 30 minutes | Knowledge query network for knowledge tracing: how knowledge interacts with skills; Jinseok Lee and Dit-Yan Yeung. | ||
| 8A-03. 30 minutes | Understanding teaching and learning practices of an online adaptive mathematics tutoring platform; Jean Yin Chiun Phua, Evan Min-Yang Yeo and Shannalyn Jia Yun Ng | ||
| Murdock 101 | Educational Theory. Session 8B; Session Chair: Rebecca Ferguson | ||
| 8B-01. 30 minutes | Counting clicks is not enough: validating a theorized model of engagement in learning analytics; Ed Fincham, Alexander Whitelock-Wainwright, Vitomir Kovanovic, Srecko Joksimovic, Jan-Paul van Staalduinen and Dragan Gasevic. | ||
| 8B-02. 30 minutes | Introducing meaning to clicks: towards traced-measures of self-efficacy and cognitive load; Jelena Jovanovic, Dragan Gasevic, Abelardo Pardo, Shane Dawson and Alexander Whitelock-Wainwright. | ||
| 8B-03. 30 minutes | [Best Practitioner Paper Nomination] Reflections of visual form learning analytics spaced retrieval practice activity; Kelly Mckenna and James Folkestad | ||
| Murdock 201 | Campus Experience. Session 8C; Session Chair: Hendrik Drachsler | ||
| 8C-01. 30 minutes | Integrated closed-loop learning analytics scheme in a first year experience Course; Munira Syed, Trunojoyo Anggara, Alison Lanski, Xiaojing Duan, G. Alex Ambrose and Nitesh V. Chawla. | ||
| 8C-02. 30 minutes | Descriptive and predictive modeling of student achievement, satisfaction, and mental health for data-driven smart connected campus life service; Joon Heo, Hyoungjoon Lim, Sung Bum Yun, Sungha Ju and Sangyoon Park. | ||
| 30 minutes | Empowering tutors with big data learning analytics; Uma Vijh, Josine Verhagen, Webb Phillips and Ji An | ||
| Memorial Union 230 – Pima | Design and Development. Session 8D; Session Chair: Nia Dowell | ||
| 8D-01. 30 minutes | Beyond A/B testing: sequential randomization for developing interventions in scaled digital learning environments; Timothy Necamp, Joshua Gardner and Christopher Brooks. | ||
| 8D-02. 30 minutes | Developing an English learner corpus for materials creation and evaluation; Amanda Hilliard | ||
| 8D-03. 30 minutes | Designing a digital jigsaw game based measurement of collaborative problem-solving skills; Pravin Chopade, David Edwards and Saad Khan | ||
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Senita A | Closing Session | |
Important Dates
All deadlines are 23:59 GMT-11
| Submission deadline for main track categories (Research, Practitioners, Workshops, Tutorials and Doctoral Consortium) | 1 October 2018 |
| Notification of acceptance for Workshops and Tutorials | 15 October 2018 |
| Accepted Workshop Open for Submission | 29 October 2018 |
| Notification of acceptance for Research, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium | 19 November 2018 |
| Submission deadline for Posters/Demos and Workshop Papers | 3 December 2018 |
| Camera-ready papers for ACM Proceedings: Full Research Papers and Short Research Papers | 17 December 2018 |
| Notification of Acceptance for Posters/Demos and Workshop Papers | 4 January 2019 |
| Early-bird registration closes | 8 January 2019 |
| Camera-ready papers for Companion Proceedings | 4 February 2019 |
| LAK19, Tempe, Arizona | 4-8 March 2019 |