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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">[apologies for multiple copies]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">It is my pleasure to invite you to SoLAR Webinar
<b><i>"Running an Online Conference: Insights from LAK20"</i></b> presented by </span>
<a href="http://people.unisa.edu.au/Vitomir.Kovanovic"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Vitomir Kovanovic</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> from the University of South
Australia, Australia, and </span><a href="https://research.ou.nl/en/persons/maren-scheffel-2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Maren Scheffel</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
from the Open Universiteit, The Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">To register, go to
</span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/running-an-online-conference-insights-from-lak20-registration-103140377646" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4472C4;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/running-an-online-conference-insights-from-lak20-registration-103140377646</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Time and date:
<b><span style="letter-spacing:.4pt">Mon April 27, 2020</span></b><span style="letter-spacing:.4pt">,
<b>11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern US time </b>(5:00 PM – 6:00 PM London, UK time)</span><br>
Location: <b><span style="letter-spacing:.4pt">Zoom</span></b><span style="letter-spacing:.4pt"> (meeting URL provided in the registration email<b>)</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">We are looking forward to seeing you at the webinar!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Vitomir<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Running an Online Conference: Best Practices from Organising LAK20<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Besides a major shift towards online learning and teaching, the recent COVID-19 pandemic also had a massive impact on the organisation of academic conferences. Most events got cancelled,
postponed, and few brave ones moved to cyberspace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">As Program Co-chairs for
</span><a href="http://lak20.solaresearch.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">The Tenth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK20)</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">,
we were faced with the significant challenge of adjusting the whole conference program to online mode in less than two weeks. The conference was a huge success, and we wanted to share some of our experience and some guidance on how to transfer your conference
to an online format. We will cover issues around conference program and technical aspects of conference organisation, including website and live stream setup. We hope that this information will be useful for conference organisers who are in a similar situation
as we were.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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