[Air-L] HICSS minitrack on Learning Analytics

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

HICSS -- the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences -- takes 
place each January in Hawaii. This coming year, the conference is January 4-
7, at the Grand Wailea hotel, on the island of Maui. 

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/

This is a call for papers for a new minitrack on Learning Analytics and 
Networked Learning. 

Papers are due **June 15, 2011** submitted through the conference system. 
Please feel free to contact me or either of my co-organizers for feedback on 
suitability for the minitrack. 

Other minitracks will be of interest to members of this list, including 'Social 
Networking and Communities' co-chaired by Karine Nahon and Caroline 
Haythornthwaite. (See: http://haythorn.wordpress.com/hicss-minitracks-
cfp/).

CALL FOR PAPERS

LEARNING ANALYTICS & NETWORKED LEARNING

This minitrack calls for papers that address leading edge use of technology 
or system design to analyze, support, and/or create learning and learning 
environments. The remit is wide and calls for papers that use technology to 
examine how social learning happens, use data from learning environments 
to support learning processes, and examine new practices of formal and 
informal learning on and through the Internet. Papers that fit this minitrack 
fall under new and ongoing areas of learning research that may be referred 
to as learning analytics, networked learning, technology enhanced learning, 
computer-supported collaborative learning, ubiquitous learning, and mobile 
learning. Of particular interest are papers that capture, analyze and show 
novel use of data produced from online learning environments, develop 
and/or test methodologies for analyzing online learning, address automated 
data collection and analysis in support of learning, professional development 
and knowledge creation, and discuss issues and opportunities relating to 
information literacy, literacy and new media, ubiquitous learning, 
entrepreneurial learning and/or mobile learning.
We envision papers that

	• address the use of automated data capture to follow and analyze 
learning processes
	• develop methodologies for analyzing online learning
	• develop metrics for characterizing and following learning trends 
online
	• test the validity of automated data for capturing a true representation 
of learning and knowledge creation
	• analyze and/or support the role of social networks in learning
	• report on the development and maintenance of innovative online 
environments for learning
	• discuss trends in learning on and through the Internet, including 
issues and opportunities relating to information literacy, literacy and new 
media, ubiquitous learning and entrepreneurial learning
	• examine economic models, trends and markets for online learning, 
including open source and open access models
	• examine the foundations for learning in online networks, crowds and 
communities
	• examine the design and facilitation of learning in online networks, 
crowds and communities
	• examine the validity of information and learning processes online, and 
trust in online information sources for learning
	• address the role of particular devices: laptops, mobiles, OLPC  in 
learning
	• examine trends in how we learn with and through technology in 
secondary and higher education, workplaces, society, developed and 
underdeveloped nations
	• discuss ethical issues relating to learning online, including issues 
relating to data capture, analysis and display, and learning about 
controversial subjects or anti-social activities.

SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:

Caroline Haythornthwaite (Primary Contact)
University of British Columbia
haythorn at interchange.ubc.ca

Maarten de Laat
Open University of the Netherlands
maarten.delaat at ou.nl

Shane Dawson
University of British Columbia
shane.dawson at ubc.ca
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
haythorn at interchange.ubc.ca