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We are very pleased to welcome you to the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK22), organized by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR). This year’s conference, while originally planned to be hosted by University of California, Irvine at the Newport Beach Marriott, is held virtually March 21-25, 2022 in an effortContinue reading →

We are very pleased to welcome you to the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK21), organized by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR). This year’s conference, while originally planned to be hosted by University of California, Irvine at the Newport Beach Marriott, is held virtually April 12-16, 2021 in an effortContinue reading →

Learning is a complex process that involves rich interactions between people, politics, places, and increasingly, technology. Using clickstream data to provide deep insights into learning requires care and a system wide approach. We need learning analytics ecosystems.

We are pleased to welcome you to the Tenth International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK20), organized by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR). This year’s conference is hosted by Goethe University in the beautiful city of Frankfurt, Germany on March 23–27, 2020, a place of tremendous importance and rich history of science,Continue reading →

Episode Summary AI holds enormous potential for transforming the way we teach, says education technology expert Simon Buckingham Shum, but first we need to define what kind of education system we want. Also, the head of the UK’s new Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation warns democratic governments that they urgently need an ethics andContinue reading →

This dataset contains JSON files with bibliographic information about all published LAK papers. The dataset contains nine files, one for each of the nine LAK conferences (LAK11-LAK19). While this data is already publicly available at ACM Digital Library, this dataset is much more suitable for automated bibliographic analysis of LAK publications. The dataset is generouslyContinue reading →

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to Tempe, Arizona, for the 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK19). The Conference is organized annually by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) and is hosted this year by Arizona State University (ASU). We are delighted to welcome our Keynote Speakers: ProfessorContinue reading →

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to Sydney, Australia, for the 8th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK18). The Conference is organised annually by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) and is hosted this year by The University of Sydney. The aim of the conference is to provide aContinue reading →

Practitioners spearhead a significant portion of learning analytics, relying on implementation and experimentation rather than on traditional academic research. Both approaches help to improve the state of the art. The LAK conference has created a practitioner track for submissions, which first ran in 2015 as an alternative to the researcher track. Papers accepted in 2017Continue reading →

ABSTRACT. As algorithms pervade societal life, they are moving from the preserve of computer science to becoming the object of far wider academic and media attention. Many are now asking how the behaviour of algorithms can be made “accountable”. But why are they “opaque” and to whom? As this vital discussion unfolds in relation toContinue reading →