TaPTA 2012 - TaPTA Workshop at EC-TEL 2012 Towards Theory and Practice of Teaching Analytics

TaPTA Workshop at EC-TEL 2012
Towards Theory and Practice of Teaching Analytics Saarbrücken, Germany
18 September 2012


Introduction

High-performance classrooms are characterized by 1:1 computing, high
cognitive density, and big data. However, in comparison with most
other professionals from whom clients expect rapid decisions in a
dynamically changing environment, presently teachers often do not get
the information they need for decision making in a timely fashion and
in a meaningful and actionable format. Building on the NEXT-TELL
project, the TaPTA workshop explores methods and tools to support
teachers' professional vision in 21st century classrooms. This
workshop's ambitious objective is to jumpstart a new learning sciences
research stream on teaching analytics by bringing together learning
scientists in different sub-fields such as CSCL, ITS, EDM, researchers
in Visual Analytics, and data scientists working with "Big Data" in
public institutions and private enterprises. In addition to
researchers, we are also targeting teachers at primary, secondary, and
tertiary levels of education to be involved a!

s co-designers and discussants.

Topics Of Interest

TaPTA 2012 workshop topics include but are not limited to the following:

* Historical and contemporary practices in notations, representations,
and visualizations of classroom activities and student learning
* Theories and methods for designing and evaluating new notations,
representations, and visualizations for teaching analytics
* Cognitive dimensions of notations for learning and teaching purposes
* Visual analytics for activity tracking
* Visual analytics for knowledge tracking
* Visual analytics for formative vs. summative evaluations
* Visual analytics for technology enhanced formative assessment
* Engendering teachers' professional vision in high-performance classrooms
* Synthesis of visual analytics oriented theory and practice in the
Learning Sciences, e-Learning, Computer Supported Collaborative
Learning (CSCL), Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Educational Data
Mining, and Learning Analytics.
* Technical architectures and technological infrastructure for
teaching analytics
* Linked Data for teaching analytics
* Instrumentation of classrooms and ecosystems for learning and teaching
* Critical perspectives on teaching analytics


To Participate

Author Guidelines:

Length & Format: A position paper of maximum six pages formatted using
the Springer LNCS template.
Relevance and Substance: Ideally, the position paper should address
one or more of the topics outlined above or a topic relevant to the
workshop theme on teaching analytics.

Submission

Please submit your position paper no later than 15 July 2012 by email
to tapta-AT-next-tell.eu

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 15 July 2012
Notification of acceptance: 06 August 2012 Camera-ready version of
accepted papers: 26 August 2012 Workshop date: Tuesday, 18 September,
2012

Venue

The TaPTA workshop is held at EC-TEL2012 in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be made available to all via
http://www.next-tell.eu/tapta/ and published online as a volume of the
CEUR series of workshop proceedings.

Organizing Committee

Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Wolfgang Halb,
JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria Susan Bull, University of Birmingham, UK

Programme Committee

Peter Reimann, University of Sydney, Australia Barbara Wasson,
University of Bergen, Norway Brock Craft, London Knowledge Lab, United
Kingdom Chris Teplovs, University of Windsor, Canada (We are currently
finalizing the PC.)

Further Information

For further information about the workshop, please consult
http://www.next-tell.eu/tapta/