Detailed Agenda
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
| Time | Session |
| 08:00 AM | Registration |
| 08:30 AM | Welcome |
| 09:00 AM | Keynote: Learning Engineering: The Art of Applying Learning Science At Scale [slides] Bror Saxberg, Chief Learning Officer, Kaplan, Inc. Session Chair: Claudia Urrea (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 10:00 AM | Tea |
| 10:30 AM | Session 1: Engineering Learning Environments Session Chair: Mary Ellen Wiltrout (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| Robust Evaluation Matrix: Towards a More Principled Offline Exploration of Instructional Policies [slides] Shayan Doroudi (Carnegie Mellon University); Vincent Alevan (Carnegie Mellon University); Emma Brunskill (Carnegie Mellon University) |
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| A visual approach towards knowledge engineering and understanding how students learn in complex environments [slides] Lauren Fratamico (University of British Columbia); Sarah Perez (University of British Columbia); Ido Roll (University of British Columbia) |
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| Enabling Real-Time Adaptivity in MOOCs with A Personalized Next-Step Recommendation Framework Zachary Pardos (University of California, Berkeley); Steven Tang (University of California, Berkeley); Dan Davis (Delft University); Christopher Vu Le (University of California, Berkeley) |
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| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 01:00 PM | Session 2: Learn to Code Session Chair: Susan Singer (Rollins University) |
| Learning to Code in Localized Programming Languages Sayamindu Dasgupta (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington) |
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| Teaching Students to Recognize and Implement Good Coding Style Eliane Wiese (University of California, Berkeley); Michael Yen (University of California, Berkeley); Antares Chen (University of California, Berkeley); Lucas Augusto Dos Santos (University of California, Berkeley); Armando Fox (University of California, Berkeley) |
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| 02:00 PM | Session 3: Predicting and Explaining Learning Session Chair: Nia Dowell (University of Memphis) |
| Detecting Diligence with Online Behaviors on Intelligent Tutoring Systems [slides] Steven Dang (Carnegie Mellon University); Michael Yudelson (Carnegie Mellon University); Kenneth Koedinger (Carnegie Mellon University) |
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| Epistemic cognition: A promising and necessary construct for enriching large-scale online learning analysis [slides] Petr Johanes (Stanford University) |
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| 03:00 PM | Tea |
| 03:30 PM | Community Conversations: Experimentation at Scale Knowledge Modeling |
| 04:30 PM | Posters & Demos |
| 06:30 PM | Close |
Friday, April 21, 2017
| Time | Session |
| 08:00 AM | Registration |
| 08:30 AM | Welcome |
| 09:00 AM | Session 4: Feedback for Improving Learning Session Chair: Amy Ogan (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Scaling Expert Feedback: Two Case Studies [slides] David Joyner (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
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| Gradescope: a fast, flexible, and fair system for scalable assessment of handwritten work Arjun Singh (Gradescope); Sergey Karayev (Gradescope); Kevin Gutowski (Gradescope); Pieter Abbeel (University of California, Berkeley) |
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| Writing Reusable Code Feedback at Scale with Mixed-Initiative Program Synthesis [slides] Andrew Head (University of California, Berkeley); Elena Glassman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Gustavo Soares (Federal University of Campina Grande); Ryo Suzuki (Colorado University, Boulder); Lucas Figuered (Federal University of Campina Grande); Loris D'Antoni (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Bjoern Hartman (University of California, Berkeley) |
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| 10:30 AM | Tea |
| 11:00 AM | Session 5: Integrity of Courses and Learners Session Chair: Eileen Scanlon (Open University) |
| Preventing Keystroke Based Identification in Open Data Sets [slides] Juho Leinonen (University of Helsinki); Petri Ihantola (Tampere University of Technology); Arto Hellas (University of Helsinki) |
Do performance trends suggest wide-spread collaborative cheating on asynchronous exams? Binglin Chen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Matthew West (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Craig Zilles (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 01:00 PM | Panel: Creative Learning @ Scale [slides] Mitch Resnick, MIT Media Lab (Moderator); Karen Brennan, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Cristóbal Cobo, Ceibal Foundation; and J. Philipp Schmidt, MIT Media Lab Session Chair: Claudia Urrea (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 02:00 PM | Session 6: Experimentation Session Chair: Elena Glassman (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Towards equal opportunities in MOOCs: Reducing gender & social-class achievement gaps in China with a value relevance affirmation Rene F. Kizilcec (Stanford University); Glenn M. Davis (Stanford University); Geoffrey L. Cohen (Stanford University) |
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| Learning about Learning at Scale: Methodological Challenges and Recommendations Frans Van Der Sluis (Leiden University); Tim Van der Zee (Leiden University); Jasper Ginn (Leiden University) |
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| 03:00 PM | Final Remarks with Best Paper Award by Oracle Academy |
| 03:30 PM | Post-Conference Community Conversation: Formats and Priorities for Future Learning@Scale Conferences. Location: Room 37-212 |