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Report on theLearning at Scale (L@S)
Conference
Mehran Sahami
Stanford University
ACM Education Council – November 2013
Outline
• Focus of the conference
• Organization
– Program Chairs
– Program Committee
– Technical Program
• Important dates
• Coordination with SIGCSE-14
• Industrial support
Focus of the Conference
“This conference is intended to promote scientific exchange of interdisciplinary research at the intersection
of the learning sciences and computer science.”
• Inspired by:
– Massive Open Online courses (MOOCs)
– Large in-person courses
• Bringing together researchers from Computer Science and Education
– Usability and effectiveness
– Learning Sciences and Educational Data Mining
– New tools and techniques
– Improvements to pedagogy, learning, and community
Organization
• Website: http://learningatscale.acm.org/
• March 4-5, 2014 in Atlanta, GA
– Co-located with SIGCSE-14
• Program Chairs:
– Armando Fox (UC Berkeley)
– Michelene T.H. Chi (Arizona State University)
– Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley)
• General Chair:
– Mehran Sahami (Stanford)
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for…”“He can go about his business…”
“You will chair the Learning at Scale conference…”
Program Committee
Technical Program
• Invited Talks
• Full papers (8-10 pages)
– Rigorous research on methodologies, studies, analyses, tools, or technologies for learning at scale
• Work-in-Progress Posters and Demos (1-2 pages)
– Concise report of recent findings or other types of innovative or thought-provoking work that has not reach a level of completion that would warrant submission of a full paper
• Tutorials (1, 2, or 4 hours long)
– Tutorial of a relevant tool, technology, or methodology related to learning at scale
• ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction special issue on topics related to learning at scale
Important Dates
• Nov. 8: Full paper and tutorial submissions due
– Submission site opened Oct. 21
• Dec. 23: Author notification for full-papers and tutorials
– Includes conditional acceptance
• Jan. 2: Works-in-progress (poster) submissions due
– Must be camera ready
• Jan. 14: Author notification for works-in-progress
• Jan. 17: All camera-ready materials due
• Mar. 4-5: Conference
– Mar. 6: Much rejoicing!
• Jun. 20: ACM TOCHI special issue deadline
Coordination with SIGCSE-14
• Learning at Scale created by ACM Education Board
– This is novel. Traditionally, ACM conferences created by SIGs
• Co-location with SIGCSE-14 to jump-start community
– Same conference venue
– Same hotel reservation block
– Discount for joint registration at both conferences
– Thanks to ACM, SIGCSE Board, and SIGCSE-14 chairs who have all worked to make this possible
• Potentially co-locate with other conferences (e.g., education, HCI, etc.) in the future
Industrial Support
• Project: $60K in support needed for breakeven
• Google committed to sponsoring for $25K
– Has employees on PC
• Microsoft strongly considering sponsoring at similar level
– Has employees on PC
• Oracle also considering supporting at a lower level
– No employees on PC, but education outreach group has interest
• Approached well-known MOOC providers
– P(sponsorship | lack of profitability) 0
Conclusions
• Organization proceeding well
• Sponsorship looks promising, but not fully committed
• Community seems interested in this conference
– Will have better idea of interest after Nov. 8 (paper deadline)
• Real need for this
– Understanding efficacy of MOOCs
– Better scaling in-person education in face of rising enrollments
– Large numbers are great, but we need to understand how that impacts educational outcomes
• Questions?