Category: Performance Analytics
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EC-TEL 2017 paper presentation in 360
Last week in Tallinn Alla Vovk presented a paper at the 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2017) “Affordances for Capturing and Re-enacting Expert Performance with Wearables” written by Will Guest, Fridolin Wild, Alla Vovk, Mikhail Fominykh, Bibeg Limbu , Roland Klemke, Puneet Sharma, Carl H Smith,…
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Keynote on TEL for Industry 4.0
The director of PAL, Dr Fridolin Wild, presented a keynote to the audience of the 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL’17, Tallinn, Estonia). Industry 4.0 is on the rise and this coordinated push for automation, big data, and internet-of-things in the smart factory is already causing (and will…
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CfP: 12th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning
The 12th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning 12-15 September 2017, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia http://www.ec-tel.eu The European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) engages researchers, practitioners, educational developers, entrepreneurs and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. This year’s theme of ‘Data Driven Approaches in Digital Education’…
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Free new R packages for Natural Language Processing
We’ve given the CRAN task view on Natural Language Processing an overhaul and added the following packages to the list: gutenbergr allows downloading and processing public domain works in the Project Gutenberg collection. Includes metadata for all Project Gutenberg works, so that they can be searched and retrieved. hunspell is…
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Grand Challenges in Research in e-Education
Dr Fridolin Wild will be giving a keynote at the Orphee Rendezvous in Font Romeu, France, to help shape the future research agenda of the French technology-enhanced learning R&D community. Orphee is a network of networks with over 30 partner organisations. The retreat takes place January 31 and February 1,…
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40k downloads of ‘Towards Ubiquitous Learning’
The lecture notes in computer science (LNCS 6964) of the 6th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning, co-edited by Dr. Fridolin Wild, reached a total of over 41,166 chapter downloads (thereof more than 11k in 2015) for the eBook on SpringerLink. This means, the book was one of the top 25%…
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CfP: Workshop on Applied and Practical Learning Analytics (WAPLA 2016)
The WAPLA workshop aims at analyzing with an applied and practical perspective different issues and challenges related to learning analytics. Learning analytics can be broadly defined as the methods and techniques to reach conclusions about the learning process in order to improve it. First of all, there is a need…
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New Monograph: Learning Analytics in R
“Learning Analytics in R with SNA, LSA, and MPIA” by Fridolin Wild published by Springer. Summary: This book introduces Meaningful Purposive Interaction Analysis (MPIA) theory, which combines social network analysis (SNA) with latent semantic analysis (LSA) to help create and analyse a meaningful learning landscape from the digital traces left…
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Research Centre presentation: WEKIT
Dr. Fridolin Wild (Senior Research Fellow and Scientific Director of WEKIT) spoke about Wearables Enhanced Knowledge Intensive Training (WEKIT). Augmented reality and wearables are potential game changers, re-inventing the way we perceive and work with information. In the publicly-funded WEKIT project (Horizon 2020), we explore experience capturing with AR and…
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Reflection Detection in Action with reflectR
ReflectR is a tool for researchers who are interested in analysing text on its reflective capabilities. Traditionally, such coding is done using human experts – a work intense and hence costly process. ReflectR can help do this more efficiently, with almost the same accuracy (see upcoming publication of thesis of…