We are pleased to announce that the CFP is now available for the Second International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE20), which will take place 24-27 October 2020 at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, USA.

ICQE brings together scholars from any discipline interested in conducting rich qualitative analyses at scale. QE techniques have been used to understand human thought, behavior, and interaction in a variety of fields, including learning sciences, anthropology, psychology, digital humanities, and systems engineering. The goal of the conference is to support a vibrant community of researchers seeking to improve how we make meaning from big data.

The CFP is included below, and more information is available on the conference website http://www.icqe20.org.

We hope you will join us in Malibu to share ideas, methods, resources and inspiration as we continue to build the QE community!

Call for Proposals: ICQE20

24-27 October 2020, Malibu, California, USA

Submissions due 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7), 15 May 2020

The Second International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE20) will provide an international forum for researchers to present work, learn new methodological techniques, and network with other scholars working in the new and growing field of quantitative ethnography (QE).

Building on the tremendous success of ICQE19, we encourage work from any discipline, which can include (but is not limited to):

• New and innovative techniques for QE, including network analysis, automated coding, and approaches to reliability and validity of quantitative ethnographic analyses
• Studies of the relationship between different techniques or methods for conducting QE analyses
• Extension of QE techniques to new types of data, fields of study, or research questions
• Empirical QE results, whether preliminary, exploratory, or confirmatory
• New theoretical issues in QE or reexamination of existing theoretical frameworks
• Formative work that describes prospective thinking about planned QE studies

The primary criteria are that work being presented is theoretically and methodologically thoughtful and sound, and helps build the QE community by sharing ideas, methods, resources, and inspiration.

Submission Information

ICQE20 will accept the following types of submission:

Papers (12-15 pages): Papers are intended for mature work that requires in-depth explanations of conceptual background, methodology, data, argumentation, and/or findings. Accepted papers will be published in the official proceedings.

Posters (4 pages): Posters are intended for formative work. The four-page poster abstract should identify the aspects of the work that will likely lead to productive discussions with conference participants in a poster session, including figures exemplifying the visual support to be provided for these discussions in the poster. Poster abstracts will be published in the proceedings supplement.

Symposia (8 pages total): Symposia consisting of 3-6 scholars are intended for conveying larger ideas or findings about a specific issue in QE. Symposium proposals will be evaluated based on their capacity to address larger topics, controversies, or challenges of interest to the QE community. Symposium proposals should clearly articulate: (a) the overall focus of the symposium; (b) brief descriptions of the content and significance of each scholar’s contribution; and (c) how the collective contributions will enhance understanding of some larger issue in the QE community. Symposium descriptions will be published in the proceedings supplement.

Pre-Conference Workshops (4 pages): Half-day workshops are intended to help participants learn or improve QE theories, methods, or skills, and may also be structured as tutorials on particular QE tools or techniques. Workshop proposals will be evaluated based on their capacity to facilitate shared knowledge-building around issues of interest to the QE community. Workshop proposals should clearly articulate: (a) the overall focus of the workshop and why it will benefit members of the QE community; (b) the target audience for the workshop; (c) the schedule of activities accompanied by a brief description of each activity; and (d) the expected outcomes of the workshop, including any deliverables or follow-up activities that extend beyond the conference itself. Workshop descriptions will be published in the proceedings supplement.

Doctoral Consortium Applications (6 pages): To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, please visit http://www.icqe20.org/doctoral-consortium for detailed instructions. Doctoral Consortium research summaries will be published in the proceedings supplement.

Early Career Workshop (6 pages): To apply for the Early Career Workshop, please visit http://www.icqe20.org/early-career-workshop for detailed instructions. Early Career Workshop research summaries will be published in the proceedings supplement.

Submission Instructions

• To submit a paper or poster abstract, to propose a symposium or workshop, or to apply to the Doctoral Consortium or Early Career Workshop, visit https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icqe2020.
• All submissions should be written in English and must conform to the current version of the Springer author guidelines and paper templates. Instructions for authors and links to the paper templates can be found here: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
• Review of Paper and Poster submissions will be double blind. Paper and poster abstracts must be submitted with all identifying information about the author(s) removed.
• Review of Symposium, Workshop, Doctoral Consortium, and Early Career Workshop proposals will be single blind. These proposals should be submitted with all names included.
• Submission Deadline: 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7), 15 May 2020.

Pre-Conference Workshops

Attendance at workshops is complimentary for registered participants of the conference. Registration for workshops will be first come, first served, and additional information about workshops will be available on the conference website.

Submission Review and Notification

Submissions must follow the formatting and content instructions of their respective submission category.

Authors of submitted papers, poster abstracts, and symposia must agree to review at least two submissions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the QE community, and review of individual submissions will be overseen by a member of the Program Committee.

Papers may be accepted as is, accepted with suggestions for revisions, accepted as posters (in which case the authors will need to prepare a 4-page poster abstract), or rejected. Poster, symposium, and workshop submissions, as well as applications to the Doctoral Consortium and Early Career Workshop, will be accepted as is or rejected. All authors, regardless of submission type, will have the option to make edits before submission of the final version.

Accepted papers will be published in the official proceedings. Poster abstracts, symposium/workshop descriptions, and Doctoral Consortium/Early Career Workshop research summaries will be published in the proceedings supplement.

Acceptance notifications will be sent on or before 10 August 2020. Final papers will be due 31 August 2020 for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

We hope you will join us in Malibu, California, to share ideas, methods, resources and inspiration as we continue to build the QE community!

For more information, please visit http://www.icqe20.org or contact us at icqe20@gmail.com.

To increase the diversity of the Society’s membership, we are soliciting applications for a conference scholarship to be awarded to successful applicants in the amount of $500 - $1500.

Applicants are asked to submit a 2-page electronic document that fulfills the criteria listed below as well as a current CV.

The application process will open February 11, 2020 and close March 1, 2020. Applicants will be notified of the result of their application by March 22, 2020.

The 2-page application should include:

1. Proof that the applicant has submitted a conference proposal as an author or co-author, and/or show that they are a graduate student, faculty member, or professional in a learning sciences research organization who has not attended an ISLS conference in the past. Proof of proposal submission can be in the form of an email response appended to the 2-page application. Proof that the applicant is part of a learning sciences research organization who has not attended this conference in the past can be in the form of a short letter from the student’s advisor or from a faculty member’s department chair appended to the 2-page application.
2. A description of the applicant’s geographic location as being underrepresented in participation in ISLS conferences (e.g., South and Central America including Mexico, and Africa). Applicants who currently live and work in such a place will be given priority, but others in another circumstance described under #3 will also be considered.
3. Explanation of need for travel funds, e.g., few travel resources from the applicant’s underrepresented home institution, cost of travel, policy issue, etc.
4. Information about how the conference attendance will impact the applicant’s ongoing research and professional work. For example:
   1. The applicant’s research focus and how it is related to the learning sciences
   2. Interest in meeting other learning scientists to network and grow academically
5. A plan for the applicant to disseminate what they learned at the conference in their local community. How will what is learned at the conference be disseminated, e.g., with local course participants, informal seminars, or reports to their research group?

Please submit your application package to joshima@inf.shizuoka.ac.jp no later than midnight (applicant’s local time) March 1, 2020. Please put “ISLS Travel Scholarship” in the subject line of the email.

For further inquiries, please send correspondence to Jun Oshima at joshima@inf.shizuoka.ac.jp.

ISLS Membership Committee
February 6, 2020

The Munich Center of the Learning Sciences (MCLS) invites applications for 10 PhD positions (equaling 2/3 of a full academic position, amounting to approximately 29.000 – 34.000 €/year, initial duration of 24 months with the possibility of extending for one year) within the international doctoral school “Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation” (REASON) funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria (ENB) to commence in October 2019.

All information regarding the program and the application procedure is available on the REASON webpage.

The coordination office would be happy to answer any further question at reason-enb@psy.lmu.de.

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

At the program’s core are its design studios and reflective seminars. Courses and 1-credit modules are designed to foster learning of how people learn, how to foster learning, how to design for learners, and how to influence a focus on learning among members of a design team. Students use what they are learning to complete their design challenges and participate in their internships. They graduate with a portfolio that showcases the depth and breadth of their design work and demonstrates their capabilities in learner-centered design, leadership, and pedagogical and technological imagination.

More information can be found here:

TENURE-TRACK POSITION IN LEARNING SCIENCES

Bridging the research-practice gap: Advancing evidence-based argumentation

The REASON doctoral school invites young researchers to its 2019 Interdisciplinary Winter School to discuss how evidence-based argumentation can be advanced across different populations and disciplines. The event will take place from February 18th to February 20th, 2019 at the TUM School of Education in Marsstraße 20-22, 80335 München.

Highlights of the scientific program include keynote lectures from international experts on science learning and science motivation (Judy Harackiewicz, University of Wisconsin-Madison), on science education and fostering argumentation (Sibel Erduran, University of Oxford) and on methods for argument evaluation and argument invention (Douglas Walton, University of Winsor), as well as workshops on teachers' use of scientific evidence (Konrad Krainer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), evidence-based argumentation (Andreas Hetmanek, Technical University of Munich) and meta-analyses as evidence generation and evaluation methods (Karsten Stegmann, Ludwig-Maximililians-Universität München).

The application submission deadline is September 7th, 2018.
For further information, please visit our REASON Winter School 2019 webpage.

We are looking forward to your application!

Downloads

REASON Winter School 2019 - Flyer
REASON Winter School 2019 - Poster

• Dr. Ming Ming Chiu, The Education University of Hong Kong;
• Dr. Betsy Davis, University of Michigan;
• Dr. David Stroupe, Michigan State University.

For these awards, we will make a change form previous years. The awards will be presented at the opening session of  ICLS 2018 in London. A letter will also be sent to their Dean.

-- Jan and Susan

In an effort to make the NAPLeS videos more accessible to non-English speakers, we just uploaded a number of new NAPLeS Videos with German subtitles.

They can be found in the video tabs on the individual Research Topics pages.

More information about this program and the other NAPLeS Doctoral and Master’s programs from 36 universities worldwide can be found on the NAPLeS Programs page.

LMU Munich offers the international doctoral school “Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation” (REASON). REASON brings together more than 30 PhD candidates and professors from various academic disciplines (psychology, educational science, mathematics education, biology education, medical education, computer science, social work) who share a research interest in studying aspects of scientific reasoning and argumentation.

From March 5th to March 7th, 2018 the REASON doctoral school will host the International Spring School on “Advances in Measuring Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation” at LMU Munich. The program of the Spring School includes keynote speeches, workshops and a symposium led by external experts, poster presentations of the accepted PhD candidates, and social networking events.

We look forward to applications from PhD candidates who are currently working on SRA. The submission deadline is October 15th, 2017.

The event poster and flyer are attached. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to learn about state-of-the-art research on SRA, as well as to present and discuss your own work with leading experts in the field.

Best regards from Munich,

The REASON Spring School 2018 organizers

Find more information in these documents: Flyer and Invitation

REASON Spring School 2018 Website

UPDATED September 18, September 20, & October 11, 2017

June 23-27, 2018, Institute of Education, University College London, LONDON

Visit the ICLS 2018 website

In 2018, the ICLS conference is part of the London Festival of Learning, which has two other conferences co-located and running alongside it – the AIED and the Learning@Scale conferences. The whole Festival of Learning runs from 23 – 30 June in central London.

ICLS is a major international event, organized biennially by ISLS, which gathers people involved in all aspects of the field of the learning sciences, including empirical, conceptual, theoretical, design-based, practitioner and policy perspectives. The conference theme for ICLS 2018 is “Rethinking learning in the digital age: making the Learning Sciences count,”. Now more than ever, the learning sciences have a key role to play in unpacking the complexity of the teaching and learning process. AI and Automation in the workplace, including within education, will alter what we need to learn and how we need to teach it. Therefore, as scientists and educators we need to explore learning in real-world settings in an interdisciplinary manner in order to understand how learning may be facilitated both with and without technology. In addition, there is now an additional imperative to guide the commercial development of Educational Technologies to ensure that they are pedagogically sound.

The Learning Sciences are replete with foundational theory and methods that can inform learning both with and without technology, as well as a significant bank of empirical educational evidence that is essential to the effective development of technologies and their uses to support learning. However, with these fast technological developments there is also a growing need for the learning sciences, which can contribute to societies’ understanding of the needs of the real-world, and the challenges and concerns of educators in different educational and cultural contexts. The Learning Sciences are uniquely placed to offer guidance that recognizes and addresses the long-term ambitions for better education as well as the ‘bottom-line’ considerations faced by the practitioners and learners at the front-line.

We encourage papers that build on interdisciplinary research, as well as papers that help to set the programmatic agenda for the future of learning sciences research. In particular, for 2018 we are also looking for papers that illustrate how the learning sciences can impact upon the work of the two co-located conferences: AIED and Learning@Scale, and upon the development of commercial educational technology.

About the conference theme:

The fast paced changes in the workplace, including within education, are altering what we need to learn and how we need to teach it. This situation makes the learning sciences even more important. Learning science can lead the way in helping researchers and practitioners to: unpack the complexity of the learning and teaching process, explore learning in real-world settings, and understand how learning may be facilitated both with and without technology. The theory and methods of the Learning Sciences, along with their substantial body of empirical evidence put the Learning Sciences in a unique position to offer guidance and insight to wide body of educational stakeholders. We welcome papers that aim to improve our understanding of learning, the impact of the modern world on learning and alternative views of learning. We also encourage papers that build on interdisciplinary research, as well as papers that help to set the programmatic agenda for the future of learning sciences research. In particular, for 2018 we are also looking for papers that illustrate how the learning sciences can impact upon the work of the two co-located conferences: AIED and Learning@Scale, and upon the development of commercial educational technology.

If you have any further questions, please contact: ioe.icls2018@ucl.ac.uk

Welcome to London and the Festival of Learning!

Judy Kay, Rose Luckin, Manolis Mavrikis and Kaska Porayska-Pomsta
on behalf of the ICLS 2018 organizing committee

To increase the diversity of the Society’s membership, we are soliciting applications for a conference scholarship to be awarded to successful applicants in the amount of $500 - $1000.

Applicants are asked to submit a 2-page electronic document that fulfills the criteria listed below as well as a current CV.

The application process will open February 10, 2017 and close March 3, 2017. Applicants will be notified by March 30, 2017.

The 2-page application should include:

1. Proof that the applicant has submitted a conference proposal as an author or co-author, and/or show that they are a graduate student, faculty member, or professional in a learning sciences research organization who has not attended an ISLS conference in the past. Proof of proposal submission can be in the form of an email response appended to the 2-page application. Proof that the applicant is part of a learning sciences research organization who has not attended this conference in the past can be in the form of a short letter from the student’s advisor or from a faculty member’s department chair appended to the 2-page application.
2. A description of the applicant’s geographic location as being underrepresented in participation in ISLS conferences (e.g., South and Central America including Mexico, and Africa). Applicants must currently live and work in such a place.
3. Explanation of need for travel funds, e.g., few travel resources from the applicant’s home institution, cost of travel, etc.
4. Information about how the conference attendance will impact the applicant’s ongoing research and professional work. For example:
   1. The applicant’s research focus and how it is related to the learning sciences
   2. Interest in meeting other learning scientists to network and grow academically
5. A plan for the applicant to disseminate what they learned at the conference in their local community. How will what is learned at the conference be disseminated, e.g., with local course participants, informal seminars, or reports to their research group?

Please submit your application package to vanaalst@hku.hk no later than midnight (applicant’s local time) March 3, 2017. Please put “ISLS Travel Scholarship” in the subject line of the email.

For further inquiries, please send correspondence to Jan van Aalst at vanaalst@hku.hk.

ISLS Membership Committee
February 7, 2017

If you're interested in participating: Send an email to naples@psy.lmu.de.

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Update:

The webinar is over, but the recording will be online soon. You can find it using the link above.

Today we uploaded another set of NAPLeS expert videos, which include interviews and presentations from renowned researchers like Dan Hickey or Shaaron Ainsworth and topics such as embodied cognition or seamless learning. You can find them in the videos section.

Additionally, we published the webinar recording of Knowledge Building: Communities Working With Ideas in Design Mode by Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter. It is available here.

If you're interested in participating: Send an email to naples@psy.lmu.de.

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Update:

The webinar is over, but the recording will be online soon. You can find it using the link above.

NAPLeS now consists of Masters’ and Doctoral programs from 33 universities located in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Special thanks go to following people who agreed to engage in different NAPLeS action items: Susan Yoon, Jim Slotta, Mike Tissenbaum, Mike Rook, Freydis Vogel, Frank Fischer, Daniel Sommerhoff, Georg Kuschel, Jessica Ashraf, and Paul Flynn.

Thanks to Daniel Sommerhoff and Georg Kuschel we could also continue the recording of high quality videos for our Learning Sciences video resources: http://isls-naples.psy.lmu.de/video-resources/index.html