Here’s an organising summary of stuff from the Second International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK12, held 29th April to 2nd May 2012 in Vancouver, BC.
Official resources
- LAK12 conference website
- Pre-conference workshops
- Main programme – includes abstracts, and full papers (password protected)
- LAK12 conference feedback
- Society of Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)
Doug Clow’s blog
Sunday
- Pre-conference workshop: Ethical Perspectives
- Pre-conference workshop: Where Learning Analytics meets Learning Design
Monday
- Keynote: Barry Wellman, The Triple Revolution and Networked Individualism
- Session 1A: Social Learning Analytics
- Session 2B: Institutional Perspectives
- Plenary: Building Organizational Capacity in Analytics
Tuesday
- Keynote: Katy Börner, Visual Analytics in Support of Education
- Session 4A: Visual Analytics
- Session 5B: Empirical Studies (1)
- Session 6A: Empirical Studies (2)
- Plenary: Educational Data Mining
- Conference dinner: Learning from dolphin learning
Wednesday
- Keynote: George Siemens, Envisioning a research discipline and a domain of practice
- Session 8B: Predictive Modeling
- Plenary: Data Governance (no liveblog, I was presenting)
- SoLAR Annual General Meeting
Myles Danson’s blog
- Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK12)
- Demonstration sessions
- Institutional experiences session
- Session 3 Building organisational capacity for Analytics
- Day 2 morning sessions
- Day 2 afternoon sessions
- Day 3
Twitter #lak12
- Tony Hirst‘s (@psychemedia) analysis of #lak12 tweets [PDF]
- #lak12 Twitter archive, set up by Sheila MacNeill (not tested by me)
- TweetLevel visualisations for #lak12
- Official conference Twitter account @LAKconf
Photos
- Cyprien’s #lak12 Flickr set – many photos of #lak12 attenders
- mnlambert’s Flickr set – stunning shots of the dolphin tricks at the Aquarium
LAK13 – in Leuven, Belgium, 8-12 April 2013
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Hi Doug, thank you for very useful information and links. Is there a wiki where people who are not currently connected to the conferences are posting what they are doing?
Hi Nicola
You’re welcome, glad it was useful.
There isn’t a wiki, so far as I know, but the conference Twitter account @LAKconf has posted links to a few summaries, and the hashtag #lak12 is still seeing occasional updates. If you want to let the general conference audience know of something that’s probably the best and easiest route.
There’s an open conference feedback Google Doc at bit.ly/lak12feedback which captures some pointers to future activities, and might be somewhere you could suggest a mechanism to keep a broader community in touch. A wiki could be cool – I don’t have the time to set one up, but in the spirit of community engagement and empowerment I expect people would be delighted if you wanted to get one started!
While I’m listing contact opportunities, there’s also the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR, http://www.solaresearch.org/) mailing list for updates (http://www.solaresearch.org/stay-in-touch/).
Thanks so much, have done as you suggested,