Reminder: [JETDE] Special Issue on Emerging Trends of Learning Analytics in the Era of Transparency

Greetings all, please see below a call for articles for a Special Issue of Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE) on Emerging Trends of Learning Analytics in the Era of Transparency. The detailed Call for Proposal can be found at:  

http://sicet.org/journals/jetde/specialissue/cfp_la_jetde.pdf

Questions should be directed to the co-editors:

Jui-Long Hung

Boise State University
andyhung@boisestate.edu

Chih-Hsiung Tu

Northern Arizona University
chih.tu@nau.edu

Please submit an article related to these possible topic areas:

• Initiatives or analytics in Open Education Data
• Emerging trends of big data and text mining in education
• Learning analytics in formal, non-formal, and informal learning environments
• Data standards and feature extractions in learning analytics and data visualization
• Emerging trends of academic analytics, game-based analytics, and mobile learning analytics
• Systematic review of learning analytics and educational data mining in practice
• Emerging trends of social media interactions and social analytics in teaching and learning
• Case study of learning analytics adoption for supporting educational decisions

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: May 31, 2015
• Reviews Completed: July 15, 2015
• Revisions Due: August 15, 2015
• Reviews of Revisions Completed: September 15, 2015
• Notification of Final Acceptance: October 1, 2015
• Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: November 1, 2015
• Publication date: December 2015

AECT-ICEM-2015: Call Presentation: Graduate Students Panel in Emerging Technologies: Learning Analytics & Wearable Technology

Call for Presentations

ICEM Graduate Students Panel Presentations in Emerging Technologies: Learning Analytics & Wearable Technology: Why should I care?

An active professional community should observe and facilitate the contributions of graduate students.  ICEM-USA has long history of support for graduate students' professional and personal growth. ICEM-USA is committed to build and support a learning community for ICEM graduate students.

Goals

1. This panel discussion is a collaborative session that provides a forum for graduate students from all over the world to share their research and practices in emerging technologies at AECT 2015 conference, Indianapolis, IN., U.S.A.

2. Up to six panelists will be selected.  Each student would have 5-10 minutes (vary from the numbers of participants)  to present their current research or practices on the annual emerging technology theme.  

3. An ICEM-USA professional member will facilitate this panel discussion while ICEM-USA professional members will serve as commentators at the end of the discussions to support graduate students panelists to continue and improving their professional growth in the theme topics.  

Theme for 2015: Learning Analytics & Wearable Technology: Why should I care?

• Any topics on Learning Analytics & Wearable Technology, particularly the combinations of both areas, but not limited to.

• The topics can be research based, practices, technology demonstration, case study etc.

Eligibility:

• Any graduate students who study anywhere on earth at the time of submitting the proposals.

• If the proposal is accepted, the participants are required:

  • to agree to present at the AECT annual conference

  • to register for the AECT annual conference.

  • to join as an AECT student member

Submission

• Proposal Due Date: June 30, 2015

• Author Notification: July 30, 2015

• Proposal: One-page in length.  E-mail to Chih-Hsiung Tu at: Chih.Tu@nau.edu

For more information see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JF7ZS512D1berW1Lb54_xZoWDhXNJjxkFaTqfOlT1sk/edit?usp=sharingl

Please forward any correspondence to Chih-Hsiung Tu Ph.D., ICEM-U.S.A. Deputy, at Chih.Tu@Nau.edu.

Anyone knows mobile apps for Geotagging for students to record data in the field. Free ones the best.

Any suggestion appreciated.