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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It is our pleasure to invite contributions to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The NIPS 2013 Workshop on Data-Driven Education<br>
December 9 (or) 10, 2013<br>
Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA<br>
<a href="http://lytics.stanford.edu/datadriveneducation">http://lytics.stanford.edu/datadriveneducation</a>
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IMPORTANT DATES:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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+ Paper submission --- October 9th, 2013 (see submission details below)<br>
+ Author notification --- October 23rd, 2013<br>
+ Camera ready deadline for accepted submissions --- October 28th, 2013<br>
+ Finalized workshop schedule out --- October 30th, 2013<br>
+ Workshop --- December 9th or 10th, 2013 (TBA)<br>
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Given the incredible technological leaps that have changed so many aspects of our lives in the last hundred years, it's surprising that our approach to education today is much
the same as it was a century ago. While successful educational technologies have been developed and deployed in some areas, we have yet to see a widespread disruption in teaching methods at the primary, secondary, or post-secondary levels. However, as more
and more people gain access to broadband internet, and new technology-based learning opportunities are introduced, we may be witnessing the beginnings of a revolution in educational methods. In the realm of higher education, rising college tuition accompanied
with cuts in funding to schools and an ever increasing world population that desires high-quality education at low cost has spurred the need to use technology to transform how we deliver education.<br>
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With these technology-based learning opportunities, the rate at which educational data is being collected has also exploded in recent years as an increasing number of students have turned to online resources, both at traditional universities as well as massively
open-access online courses (MOOCs) for formal or informal learning. This change raises exciting challenges and possibilities particularly for the machine learning and data sciences communities.<br>
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These trends and changes are the inspiration for this workshop, and our first goal is to highlight some of the exciting and impactful ways that our community can bring tools from machine learning to bear on educational technology. Some examples include (but
are not limited to) the following:<br>
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+ Adaptive and personalized education<br>
+ Assessment: automated, semi-automated, and peer grading<br>
+ Gamification and crowdsourcing in learning<br>
+ Large scale analytics of MOOC data<br>
+ Multimodal sensing<br>
+ Optimization of pedagogical strategies and curriculum design<br>
+ Content recommendation for learners<br>
+ Interactive Tutoring Systems<br>
+ Intervention evaluations and causality modeling<br>
+ Supporting collaborative and social learning<br>
+ Data-driven models of human learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">+ Analysis of social networks of students and teachers
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> + Automated, semi-automated, and crowdsourced methods for formative and summative assessment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The second goal of the workshop is to accelerate the progress of research in these areas by addressing the challenges of data availability. At the moment, there are several barriers to entry including the lack of open and accessible datasets as well as unstandardized
formats for such datasets. We hope that by (1) surveying a number of the publicly available datasets, and (2) proposing ways to distribute other datasets such as MOOC data in a spirited panel discussion we can make real progress on this issue as a community,
thus lowering the barrier for researchers aspiring to make a big impact in this important area.<br>
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TARGET AUDIENCE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> + Researchers interested in analyzing and modeling educational data,<br>
+ Researchers interested in improving or developing new data-driven educational technologies,<br>
+ Others from the NIPS community curious about the trends in online education and the opportunities for machine learning research in this rapidly-developing area.<br>
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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> + Ken Koedinger, CMU<br>
+ Andrew Ng, Coursera<br>
+ Peter Norvig, Google<br>
+ Zoran Popovic, UW<br>
+ Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Stanford/Khan Academy<br>
+ Daniel Seaton, MIT/EdX<br>
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CONFIRMED PANELISTS <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> + Eliana Feasley, Khan Academy,<br>
+ Una-May O'Reilly, MIT,<br>
+ and well as the invited speakers.<br>
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ORGANIZERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> + Jonathan Huang, Stanford (</span><a href="mailto:jhuang11@stanford.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">jhuang11@stanford.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">)<br>
+ Sumit Basu, Microsoft Research (</span><a href="mailto:sumitb@microsoft.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">sumitb@microsoft.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">)<br>
+ Kalyan Veeramachaneni, CSAIL, MIT (</span><a href="mailto:kalyan@csail.mit.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">kalyan@csail.mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">)<br>
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SUBMISSION DETAILS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Submissions should follow the NIPS format and are encouraged to be up to six pages. Papers submitted for review do not need to be anonymized. There will be no official proceedings,
but the accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website. Accepted papers will be either presented (both) as a poster and a short spotlight presentation. We welcome submissions on novel research work as well as extended abstracts on work recently
published or under review in another conference or journal (please state the venue of publication in the latter case); we also encourage submission of visionary position papers on the emerging trends in data driven education. Please submit papers in PDF format
to </span><a href="mailto:nipsdde2013@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">nipsdde2013@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.<br>
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For more information, please visit <a href="http://lytics.stanford.edu/datadriveneducation">http://lytics.stanford.edu/datadriveneducation</a> or contact us at
<a href="mailto:nipsdde2013@gmail.com">nipsdde2013@gmail.com</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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