Announcements

A LAK of Direction? Call for commentaries

2023-03-23

In order to promote cross-community dialogue on matters of significance within the field of learning analytics, the Journal of Learning Analytics has introduced a section for papers that are open to peer commentary. The first of these papers, A LAK of Direction: Misalignment Between the Goals of Learning Analytics and its Research Scholarship, is now available in the journal’s early access section.

If you would like to submit a commentary on that paper for publication in the journal, contact the editors by Friday 14 April 2023. Full details below.
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Special Section on Applications of Learning Analytics in Latin America

2023-02-23

Learning Analytics is seen as a promising strategy to tackle persisting educational challenges in Latin America, such as quality disparities and high dropout rates . Over the past five years, there have been sustained efforts to build capacities for learning analytics adoption. Although there is a growing understanding of the potential benefits of LA solutions in the region, there are still many barriers that need to be addressed for LA to contribute to educational challenges in the region. This special section welcomes papers that deal with applications of learning analytics in Latin America, including their use to improve equity, inclusion and educational quality.
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New editors-in-chief

2022-06-27

Hassan Khosravi and Olga Viberg will be joining the JLA as editors-in-chief.
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Special Section on Fairness, Equity, and Responsibility in Learning Analytics

2022-02-24

Fairness, equity and responsibility have been part and parcel of discourses in and outside of the learning analytics community since its emergence. This special issue intends to bring diverse and critical perspectives as well as approaches pertaining to fairness, equity and responsibility of learning analytics to highlight emerging and current conceptual and empirical research, and inform the broader research agenda in learning analytics.
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Call for Editor - Journal of Learning Analytics

2021-11-18

Members of SoLAR are invited to apply for the position of Editor-in-Chief, to join Professor Rebecca Ferguson (Open University, UK), and Dr Vitomir Kovanovic (University of South Australia, Australia), in leading the Journal of the Learning Analytics.

Expressions of interest should be submitted following the instructions (See Detail) by April 29th, 2022. The start of the term will be August - December 2022 (by negotiation).
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Special Section on Analytics for Game-based Learning

2021-05-14

The educational benefits of games have been well documented over the past decade. While ample evidence shows that games, in general, have a great potential to support learning, the vast and rapid data generation from learners’ interactions with the game can be overwhelming for the educators and learners to manually process, thus possible new insights about the learners can remain unavailable. Learning analytics holds the potential to transform the game data into meaningful information that can be used by the teacher and learners to improve learning, modify strategies, provide formative feedback, or to redesign the curriculum around the game. This special issue intends to bring diverse perspectives and approaches for the topic of learning analytics for game-based learning and assessment to highlight the current state of the field.

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Call for Editors - Journal of Learning Analytics

2021-02-16

The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), the publisher of the Journal of Learning Analytics (JLA), is searching for a new team of three co-Editors-in-Chief to lead the journal in the next editorial period (2021/2 - 2024/5).

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Special Section on Learning Analytics in the Age of Remote, Online and Hybrid Instruction- Call for Papers

2020-11-24

This Special Section will showcase the ways in which learning analytics can help the educational community navigate transitions to remote, online and hybrid instruction. It welcomes empirical work which (a) shows ways learning analytics has helped the transition to remote, online, and hybrid modes of instruction (b) could be leveraged to support such transitions; and (c) has implications for how we should engage in these modes of instruction. In addition, articles that analyse gaps or ‘failures’ to impact as expected, identifying reasons for lack of awareness, uptake, and impact, either through research focusing on these issues or case studies demonstrating their implications are invited.
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Special Section on Networks in Learning Analytics- Call for Papers

2020-06-26

Network science is the study of networks models for data characterised by dependence between and within variables (Brandes et al. 2013). From a rich history of social science research, network science has evolved in its use of mathematical, computational, and physical principles for the study of systems, particularly in the domain of complex networks. Network analysis and modelling in LA has been limited. To advance network perspectives in LA, this special section will bring together a set of papers that break new ground, bridge research communities, and collectively shape strategies of future work in this important sub-field of LA.
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Special Section on Learning Analytics for Primary and Secondary Schools-Call for Papers

2020-03-31

The goal of this special issue is to build upon the current momentum around learning analytics use within schools and provide a place for researchers to report their current efforts in this domain. We invite research studies, practitioner reports, and data and tool reports that focus on the use of learning analytics for supporting primary and secondary school learning. The aim is to showcase the latest developments in learning analytics use within schools, and empirical evidence on the effectiveness of its use for supporting learning and teaching in the school context.
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Special Section on Collaboration Analytics- Call for Papers

2019-12-10

We invite contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics (JLA) on Collaboration Analytics. The goal of this special issue is to build upon promising multimodal sensing technologies, collaborative tools and emerging data analytics techniques to provide researchers with a new lens for understanding human collaboration in a variety of settings.
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Learning Design and Learning Analytics - Call for Papers

2019-02-28

How might learning analytics actually inform learning design decisions? How should learning design influence learning analytics integration and use? Are there frameworks or principles that best illuminate connections between learning analytics and learning design?
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Beyond Cognitive Ability: Enabling Assessment of 21st Century Skills Through Learning Analytics - Call for Papers

2018-06-27

In this special section, we invite studies that provide objective, unobtrusive, and innovative measures (e.g., indirect measures, content analysis, or analysis of trace data) of 21^st century skills, relying primarily on learning analytics methods and approaches that would potentially allow for expanding the assessment of 21^st century skills and competencies at scale. We also seek studies that go beyond examining one particular factor, skill, or behavior in isolation, using traditional approaches to data collection (e.g., self-reports, teacher report, or parent report).
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Human-Centred Learning Analytics: Design Frameworks, Tools and Techniques - Call for Papers

2018-04-04

The theme of the 2018 Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference (LAK18) Towards User-Centred Design — how stakeholders can, or must, be engaged in the design, deployment and assessment of learning analytics. LAK18 also held its first Participatory Design workshop. We invite contributions to this special section that explore these issues in more depth.
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An Embarrassment of Riches: Special Section on Methodological Choices in Learning Analytics - Call for Papers

2017-07-04

This special section calls on researchers to focus critical attention on the methods they choose to use, on how they use them, and on how they interrogate these uses in learning analytics.
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It’s About Time: Special Section on Temporal Analyses of Learning Data - Call for Papers

2016-08-07

The aim of this Special Section is to highlight conceptual, methodological, and implementation-based concerns in dealing with temporal analyses of learning data.
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Special Section on Hot Spots in Learning Analytics from Latin America - Call for Papers

2015-11-24

The aim of this Special Section is twofold: 1) to widespread the best papers presented at the First Latin American Workshop on Learning Analytics (LALA’15), and 2) to enable other Learning Analytics groups from Latin America to present their research work to the international community.
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Special section on ethics and privacy in learning analytics - Call for Papers

2015-04-25

The special section is dedicated to the themes of ethics and privacy in higher education.
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Special section on dataset descriptions for learning analytics - Call for Papers

2015-02-26

The special section seeks to collect desciptions of such datasets containing data that arises from actual learning processes in any domain (kindergarten, K12, HE, or workplace) that is used within LA research and practice. S
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Special section on learning analytics for 21st century competencies - Call for Papers

2015-01-10

The special section is dedicated to understanding of the potential of Learning Analytics approaches for the formative (and possibly summative) assessment of 21^st century competencies, which are important precisely because they need to be displayed in interpersonal, societally and culturally valid contexts.
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Special section on multimodal learning analytics - Call for Papers

2014-11-20

The special section on multimodal learning analytics is focused on research that discusses the salience of using data from a combination of modalities (or data streams) to enhance the field’s ability to support, understand and improve student learning. Papers can come from a variety of learning contexts, and are free to utilize any number of data sources. Additionally, papers in this special issue should feature both an in-depth presentation of any analytic approaches utilized, as well as theoretical justification for the analytic techniques and the reported findings. Finally, authors are encourage to explore new metrics and analytic techniques, and should consider reporting their findings even if they do not garner the expected results.
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Special Section on learning analytics and learning theory - Call for Papers

2014-06-21

This special section focuses on the intersection of learning theory and analytics. Specifically it will present a collection of papers demonstrating the ways in which learning theories are being used to craft analytics, how analytics have helped us advance learning theories, and the initial development of theories of learning with analytics.
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Special Section on self regulated learning and analytics - Call for Papers

2014-05-08

Self Regulated Learning and Analytics - What can analytics tell us about how learners regulate their learning? - How can analytics help learners to better regulate their learning? Read more about Special Section on self regulated learning and analytics - Call for Papers
Inaugural Issue - Call for Papers

2013-02-21

The Journal of Learning Analytics invites paper submissions that will be included in the journal inaugural issue.
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