Program

isla 2019 Program

Monday, March 25
Time	Session/Lecture info
09:00-09:30	Registration and Gathering
09:00-09:30
09:30-10:00	Opening Session
09:30-09:40	Michal Neeman, Vice President, Weizmann Institute of Science Greetings
09:40-09:50	Anat Yarden, Head of the Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science Greetings
09:50-09:55	Giora Alexandron, Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science Opening Remarks
09:55-10:00	Arnon Hershkovitz, School of Education, Tel Aviv Institute Opening Remarks
10:00-11:00	Session I: A Current View on Learning Analytics - Where we are and where are we going to? Chair: Kobi Gal
10:00-10:30	Carolyn Penstein Rose, Language Technologies Institute and HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Mining Web Scale Interaction Data in Support of Collaborative Learning
10:30-11:00	Carlos Delgado-Kloos, Department of Telematic Engineering, University Carlos III de Madrid The Exciting but Dangerous Transition from the Atom-based to the Bit-based Society
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:00-11:30
11:30-13:00	Session II: The State-of-the-Art in Identifying, Predicting, and Personalizing Learning Chair: Yoav Bergner
11:30-11:55	Kobi Gal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev AI meets LAK: New Arenas and New Challenges
11:55-12:20	Claudia Hauff, Delft University of Technology Enriching large-scale online learning through external data sources and adaptations to the edX platform
12:20-12:45	Zach Pardos, University of California, Berkeley Adaptive Personalized Guidance On Campus
12:45-12:55	Ronen Tal-Botzer, Sense Education Open-ended assignments as core data for learning analytics and how AI can analyze them
13:00-14:00	Lunch
13:00-14:00
14:00-15:15	Session III: Viewpoints of Stakeholders Chair: Ron Blonder
14:00-14:10	Alona Forkosh-Baruch, Levinsky College of Education and Tel Aviv University Lecture
14:10-14:20	Asaf Bar-Yosef, Weizmann Institute of Science Designing a collaborative platform in order to respond to different use profiles of educators
14:20-14:30	Ruthy Raveh, Ministry of Education Designing a collaborative platform in order to respond to different use profiles of educators
14:30-14:40	Sara Hershkovitz, Center for Educational Technologies Educational Data Mining: the Case of Adaptive learning in Mathematics
14:40-15:15	Discussion
15:15-15:45	Coffee Break
15:15-15:45
15:45-16:45	Session IV: Educating the Next Generation of Learning Analytics Researchers/Practitioners Moderator: Neil Heffernan
15:45-16:45	Panel: Neil Heffernan,Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Jihad El-Sana,Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Cecilia Weisman,MindCET Alina A. von Davier,ACTNext Daniel Sitton, Microsoft

Tuesday, March 26
Time	Session/Lecture info
09:00-09:30	Registration and Gathering
09:00-09:30
09:30-10:30	Session V: Learning Analytics: Privacy & Ethics Moderator: Michael Birnhak
09:30-09:50	Michael Birnhak, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University An Online Class about the Right to Privacy: The Social Network and the School
09:50-10:10	Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar, Faculty of Law, Haifa University Learning analytics and educational equality: discrimination, biases and stereotype threat
10:10-10:30	Limor Shmerling Magazanik, Israel Tech Policy Institute Responsible Data Governance in Learning Analytics
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
10:30-11:00
11:00-12:45	Session VI: Next-Generation Assessment @ Scale Chair: Anat Ben-Simon
11:00-11:25	Yoav Bergner, Administration, Leadership, and Technology, NYU Steinhardt Expert Systems for Real-time Assessment in the Classroom
11:25-11:50	Alina A. von Davier, ACTNext Computational Psychometrics and a Big Data Governance Framework
11:50-12:15	Tzur Karelitz, National Institute for Testing and Evaluation (NITE) Automated Writing Evaluation
12:15-12:45	Joanna Gorin, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Addressing the challenges of large-scale international learning analytics: What have we learned from international assessment programs about cognition, computation and fairness?
12:45-13:45	Lunch
12:45-13:45
13:45-15:15	Session VII: Learning Analytics in the Domain: The examples of Math and Physics Chair: Shai Olsher
13:45-14:00	Neil Heffernan, Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Beyond Prediction: The Need to Demonstrate our Learning Analytic Methods can be used to take Actions that cause more Learning
14:00-14:15	Michal Yerushalmy, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa Domain Driven Design Discourse: terms and focus
14:15-14:30	Dave Pritchard, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Students Bring Medieval Physics Beliefs into Introductory Mechanics
14:30-14:45	Bat-Sheva Eylon, Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science Promoting learner-centered practices of physics teachers: The challenges and opportunities of using data analytics
14:45-15:15	Discussion Discussion
15:15-15:45	Coffee Break
15:15-15:45
15:45-16:45	Session VIII: A `Glocal' View on Learning Analytics Chair: Carlos Delgado-Kloos
15:45-16:00	Cristobal Cobo, Ceibal Foundation Does the volume of data really matter in learning analytics?
16:00-16:15	Agathe Merceron, Media Informatics Department, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Learning Analytics seen from a Global / Local Perspective
16:15-16:30	Shimon Schocken, IDC Herzliya and Matific Game-Based Mathematics Education on a Global Scale: A View from the Field
16:30-16:45	Discussion
16:45-17:00	Closing Notes
16:45-17:00

Organizers

Giora Alexandron, Ph.D., Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science
Arnon Hershkovitz, Ph.D., School of Education, Tel Aviv University

Sponsor:

The Chorafas Institute for Scientific Exchange

Coordinator & Accessibility Issues

Inbal Azoulay
inbal.azoulay@weizmann.ac.il

Program

isla 2019 Program

Monday, March 25

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