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What is Learning Analytics? Just in time for the LAK20  online conference DIPF  eduserver compiled a dossier about learning anaylics

What is Learning Analytics? Just in time for the LAK20 online conference DIPF eduserver compiled a dossier about learning anaylics

Conference, Open access, Publication
Find out more about the definitions of learning analytics, the scientific societies, networks, projects, conferences, critical voices and learning analytics internationally in the dossier of the German eduserver: https://www.bildungsserver.de/Learning-Analytics-an-International-Overview-7514_eng.html
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Most significant international Learning Analytics conference will take place – fully online

Most significant international Learning Analytics conference will take place – fully online

Conference
On March 25, the “International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2020” (LAK20), will behold as a completely online format. The conference, joined by attendees across the world, is organised from Frankfurt am Main. Responding rapidly to the spread of the Coronavirus, the team of organisers has rescheduled and completely switched to a virtual conference. The event is the worldwide most significant forum for this discipline in digital education. Learning Analytics reflects the measurement and analysis of data from technology-based learning processes that are, for instance, gained in online courses or software tutorials. Learning is thus meant to be supported and optimized. “Especially at an international level, Learning Analytics has been shown to have a relevant impact on education“, says Professor Dr. Hendrik Drachsler from DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research…
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Teacher-Student-AI Co-Orchestration in Educational Settings

Teacher-Student-AI Co-Orchestration in Educational Settings

Workshop
On the 4th and 5th of March 2020 in Bochum the international workshop on Teacher-Student-AI co-orchestration in education took place. Participants in the workshop include Vincent Aleven, Ken Holstein and Bruce McLaren from Carnegie Mellon University, Manolis Mavrikis and Mutlu Cukurova from University College London, Anouschka van Leeuwen from Universiteit Utrecht, Jenny Olsen from École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL), Inge Molenaar from Radboud Universiteit, Nikol Rimmel from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Knut Neumann from the Leibniz Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und der Mathematik, and Jan Schneider from the DIPF. AI and Education Workshop Programm During the workshop, researchers presented their research with the purpose to identify common challenges and propose ideas and research directions to solve them. Most of the institutes are working on different learning scenarios and therefore trying…
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#Work from Home: AR4STE(A)M – EU Team keeping up the good spirits

#Work from Home: AR4STE(A)M – EU Team keeping up the good spirits

Project
Technology is a blessing in times of social distancing and quarantine due to the global pandemic of #COVID-19. The AR4STE(A)M - Team is keeping up the good spirits using this opportunity to promote eLearning technolgies such as augmented reality and gamification for students and teachers of STEM subjects all over Europe! Stay Safe and eLearn! #New Poster created to promote AR and Gamification in European Curricula https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTdsvTL9pnY&feature=youtu.be #Video Compilation of the AR4STE(A)M Kick Off Meeting in Florence
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Learning Analytics supported Learning Design Workshop

Learning Analytics supported Learning Design Workshop

Project, Workshop
In the context of the hessian project, Digital gestütztes Lehren und Lernen in Hessen (digLL) organized the Innovation forum Trusted Learning Analytics (TLA) on 4th of February a workshop on Learning Analytics supported Learning Design with Marcel Schmitz. Marcel Schmitz is working for more than 16 years in Higher Education at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in the South of the Netherlands. His career at Zuyd started as a Technical Support Engineer and Developer on the learning management system and soon he began to implement and develop several learning enhancing technologies. In 2007 Marcel started to combine his support job, with a job as technology-enhanced learning advisor for all faculties at Zuyd and a teaching role at Zuyd Faculty of Information and Communication Technology. In 2009 Marcel became a team coordinator…
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KickOff DiFA project

KickOff DiFA project

Project
Group picture of the DiFA Consortium consisting of representatives from the Goethe-University Frankfurt, the Leibniz Institute LifBI, and the DIPF. On 03.02.2020 the KickOff of the DiFA project – Digital Formative Assessment – Unfolding its full potential by combining psychometrics with learnings analytics, took place at the DIPF. The DiFA project integrates methodological perspectives from educational assessment and learning analytics to develop new kinds of non-invasive assessment by exploiting digital trace data. The findings of this research are highly relevant for a better understanding of learner’s behavior, learning outcomes and for providing individual feedback automatically to learners in digital environments. More details about the project can be found on our project page.
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Personalia

Personalia

Team
On 01.02.2020 Dana Kube started as European Project Coordinator at the EduTec group. Dana manages international scientific cooperation projects such as a strategic partnership in schools co-funded by the European Commission. She started her career as a social science researcher and project staff in 2016 working in several EU projects in the field of education in the Western Balkans and Northern Africa. She then supported the German Development cooperation agency in Frankfurt and joined the DIPF staff in 2019. More details about Dana can be found on her personal profile page.
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Vodcast for Digital Social

Vodcast for Digital Social

Publication
In January 2020 the Digital Society Initiative launched their own vodcast. In each episode of "Learning in a Digital Society" an expert delves into a topic in Technology Enhanced Learning and discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by technology and their vision for the near future. LDE CEL proudly collaborated on this series, here the vodcast with Prof. Dr. Hendrik Drachsler on Educational technologies | Learning in a Digital Society. The Digital Society Initiative on their vodcast: "The digital revolution is having a significant impact on the way we learn and the ways in which educational institutions operate and engage with their students. Learning in a Digital Society vodcast series gives a platform to leading experts in Technology-Enhanced-Learning (TEL) to discuss this digital transformation. In each episode an expert delves into…
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Learntec keynote

Learntec keynote

Conference, Keynote
From the 28th to the 30th of January the Learntec Europe’s #1 fair on digital learning took place. There Jan Schneider gave a presentation about Multimodal Learning Analytics. During the presentation, he gave a live demonstration of the Multimodal Learning applications developed by the EduTec team such as the Dancing Coach, Presentation Trainer, the Booth, LearningHub, and Visual Inspection Tool.
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Top cited paper Award

Top cited paper Award

Award, Publication
At the end of January 2020 the paper “From Signals to Knowledge. A Conceptual model for multimodal learning Analytics” received the recognition of being one of the top-cited articles published between January 2018 and December 2019 from the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.
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