Last week 6th Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference 2016 (LAK16) took place in the beautiful city Edinburgh, Scotland.
The conference has seen a record-breaking number of attendees and submissions which are collected in the proceedings.
I took part in the pre-conference and the conference sessions with the delegation of the Open University in The Netherlands.
In this post the highlights of my participation to the conference by selecting 10 tweets.
Warm welcome in Edinburgh University
A very warm welcome to #lak16 @lak16ed conference delegates! Beautiful morning for a bagpiper to serenade you! pic.twitter.com/w1dl2eWvzE
— Edinburgh First (@EdinburghFirst) 27 aprile 2016
Visual Learning Pulse presentation
My paper and poster presentation in the pre-conference workshop CrossLAK Learning Analytics across Digitial and Physical spaces
Flash presentation of Visual Learning Pulse for @crosslak16 at #LAK16 @Welteninstituut pic.twitter.com/CE4hZxkfQh
— Daniele Di Mitri (@dimstudi0) 25 aprile 2016
Daniele Di Mitri presenting his Learning Pulse...self regulation in ubiquitous learning @crosslak16 #LAK16 pic.twitter.com/QjJtohQ3ja
— Roberto Martinez (@RobertoResearch) 25 aprile 2016
OUnl wins best-paper and best-poster award
The DELICATE checklist written by Greller and Drachsler was awarded as best conference paper.
the #delicate checklist being presented by @HDrachsler and @wgreller #LAK16 https://t.co/V5xvQBQNkZ pic.twitter.com/y9HRhKtCaL
— m_a_s_c (@m_a_s_c) 27 aprile 2016
Similarly the xAPI recipe poster created by Berg and Scheffel was awarded as the best.
Loved this xAPI recipe! #lak16 pic.twitter.com/sbYgtI373o
— Shirin Mojarad (@ShirinMojarad) 27 aprile 2016
Educational Data Mining with Python and Spark
On Tuesday took place an hands on tutorial for doing machine learning and data mining with educational datasets using Python, Pandas and Spark.
Today my favourite session: Educational Data Mining with #Python and Apache #Spark: A Hands-on Tutorial https://t.co/JhWDPaO5Kc #LAK16 #EDM
— Daniele Di Mitri (@dimstudi0) 26 aprile 2016
Inspirational presentations
Generally LAK16 was an inspiration hub. It was extremely useful to take inspiration from the presentations, such the visualization below.
A visual to benchmark student activity over time. Calling it the "Activity Pulse" ! #lak16 #hackathon #xAPI #apereo pic.twitter.com/vIwiar6rcy
— sandeep jayaprakash (@sandeep_jay1) April 27, 2016
Learning Analytics Hackaton
In the two pre-conference days the LAK hackaton take place focunsing on visualizations on xAPI data and on interoperability between data standards.
Just run into the #LAK16 Hackaton where a bunch of #xAPI enthusiasts is playing around to get cool visuaziations pic.twitter.com/By1DSuaiQb
— Daniele Di Mitri (@dimstudi0) 26 aprile 2016
Prof. Kirschner's keynote
Paul Kirschner, distinguished professor at the OUnl, was the second keynote of the conference and presented the risks and the challenges of Learning Analytics.
Here my #LAK16 keynote as a PDF "Learning Analytics: Utopia or Dystopia" https://t.co/XkMDAmlvB1
— Paul Kirschner (@P_A_Kirschner) 28 aprile 2016
8 Visions for Learning Analytics
LAK16 was a place to envision the direction of future Learning Analytics.
The Eight Visions of #lakfuture https://t.co/zlvqaxEwYh #LAK16 pic.twitter.com/qmG6UDyY52
— Alisa Acosta (@OhMissAcosta) 28 aprile 2016
