Companion Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK21) - Program Chairs’ Welcome

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Companion Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK21) presents the program chairs’ welcome addressing the conference theme and the field’s impact on learning. It explains learning analytics as an interdisciplinary research domain linking questions from contributing human-behavior fields and its own maturation. The welcome summarizes submission outcomes across research, practitioner, posters, demos, doctoral consortium, and workshops, and notes the move to a virtual format due to COVID-19 while expressing community gratitude.

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LAK21 Program Chairs’ Welcome

Conference theme and intended dialogue

Submission highlights and proceedings publication

Program organization roles and chair list

Photo credit: Compare Fibre Companion Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge LAK20 The impact we make: The contributions of learning analytics to learning April 12-16, 2021 Online, Everywhere Organized by: This work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia Licence. Under this Licence you are free to: Share—copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Attribution—You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Non-Commercial—You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives—If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions—You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. LAK 2021 Program Chairs’Welcome We are very pleased to welcome you to the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK21), organized by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) . This year’s conference, while originally planned to be hosted by University of California, Irvine at the Newport Beach Marriott, is held virtually April 12-16, 2021 in an effort to protect the LAK community from COVID-19. The theme for the 11th annual LAK conference is “The impact we make: The contributions of learning analytics to learning”. As academic fields concerned with human behavior develop and mature, their impact on advancing scientific understanding and practical application becomes an important marker of success. As an integrated, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field, learning analytics is presented with questions regarding its contributions in two areas: (i) the respective fields from which it draws, and (ii) its own development as a research domain. The LAK21 conference is intended for both researchers and practitioners, and we have invited them to come and join a proactive dialogue around the impact of learning analytics and its practical adoption. We have further extended our invite to educators, leaders, administrators, and government and industry professionals interested in the field of learning analytics and related disciplines. We received large numbers of high-quality submissions. The research track received 228 submissions (129 full paper submissions and 99 short paper submissions), which represents a slight decrease of about 13% in total number of submissions compared to last year which was to be expected due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It does, however, represent a 7% increase compared to 2019. As usual, the research papers are published as Proceedings by the ACM. In addition to the full and short papers of the research track, we have accepted 10 practitioner reports, 36 posters, 4 demos, 8 doctoral consortium submissions, and 18 workshop proposals. Some of these workshops had their own call for papers and their accepted submissions are included in these Companion Proceedings as well. We are most grateful for all the hard work by the practitioner, workshop, poster & demo and doctoral consortium chairs as well as by the program committee and their insightful and constructive comments and reviews. These Companion Proceedings could not have been done without their generous help and support. We would like to stress our gratitude for the hard effort during COVID times by researchers and all involved in our community. We recognize that as we moved through the past year of the coronavirus pandemic all students, researchers and staff in this community faced new physical and emotional challenges, particularly with feelings of stress, uncertainty and f

FAQs

What is the theme of the LAK21 conference as described in the proceedings?

The theme is “The impact we make: The contributions of learning analytics to learning.” It frames learning analytics’ impact on both scientific understanding and practical adoption.

Why was LAK21 held virtually in April 12–16, 2021?

The proceedings state the conference was held virtually in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to help protect the LAK community.

What types of contributions were included besides full and short papers?

In addition to research track full and short papers, the proceedings include accepted practitioner reports, posters, demos, doctoral consortium submissions, and workshop proposals.

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