Participate in the LAK Data Challenge 2013

The LAK Dataset provides access to structured metadata from research publications in the field of learning analytics.

Beyond merely publishing the data, we are actively encouraging its innovative use and exploitation as part of a public LAK Data Challenge sponsored by the European Project LinkedUp, co-located with the ACM
LAK13 Conference, Leuven, Belgium (April 2013).

Challenge submission deadline: February 8, 2013

More info: http://www.solaresearch.org/events/lak/lak-data-challenge/

CHALLENGE OBJECTIVES

What do analytics on learning analytics tell us? How can we make sense of
this emerging field's historical roots, current state, and future trends,
based on how its members report and debate their research?

Challenge submissions should exploit the LAK Dataset for a meaningful
purpose. This may include submissions which cover one or more of the
following, non-exclusive list of topics:
- Analysis & assessment of the emerging LAK community in terms of topics,
people, citations or connections with other fields
- Innovative applications to explore, navigate and visualise the dataset
(and/or its correlation with other datasets)
- Usage of the dataset as part of recommender systems

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Each submission should be accompanied by a 2-4 page paper (ACM format) that
contains at least:
- an abstract of the submission
- motivation: which purposes does your system or dataset serve?
- description of your dataset (e.g. if the LAK data is combined with other
datasets), system or demo
- a link to your dataset and/or system or demo

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lakdatachallenge2013

EVALUATION

There will be a light review by members of the challenge committee to
pre-select submissions for presentation. During the LAK conference and based
on the presentations, the challenge winner(s) will be identified based on
votes by the audience and the committee.

PUBLICATION, PRESENTATION AND AWARDS

Accepted submissions will be published in online proceedings and presented
during an interactive session at the LAK 2013 conference in Leuven, Belgium.
In addition, it is intended to feed successful submissions into additional
challenges related to the LinkedUp project to support entries to further
expand their work as part of the LinkedUp activities. This will also provide
opportunities to present your work to a wider audience in the context of
LinkedUp. There will be awards for the winning submissions with very cool
prizes!…

1st prize: Apple iPad 4 64GB Wi-Fi
2nd prize: Apple iPad 2 16GB Wi-Fi
3rd prize: Apple iPod touch 4 16 GB

IMPORTANT DATES

February 8, 2013: Challenge submission deadline February 25, 2013:
Notification of acceptance April 8-12, 2013: LAK 2013 conference

CHALLENGE COMMITTEE

Simon Buckingham Shum (The Open University, United Kingdom) Mathieu D'Aquin
(The Open University, United Kingdom) Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center,
Germany) Hendrik Drachsler (Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands) Eelco
Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany) Davide Taibi (Institute for
Educational Technologies CNR, Italy)

CONTACT

http://www.solaresearch.org/events/lak/lak-data-challenge/
lakdatachallenge2013@easychair.org