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WESST 2017 : Workshop on Educational and Social Science Technologies WESST 2017 | |||||||||||
Link: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/wesst2017 | |||||||||||
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Dear Colleagues:
We are calling for your participation at the upcoming Workshop on Education and Social Science Technologies (WESST 2017) to be held on 19-21 July at the School of Computing. http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/wesst2017/ We are calling for students and faculty to participate and enjoy the entirely of the workshop. Of particular interest would be: - Faculty members and staff: to attend the research workshop day (20 July) and relevant faculty to participate and give talks and issue grand challenge statements. - Research students (postgraduate and advanced undergraduate): Tutorials (19 Jul) and research workshops (20-21 Jul) and EdTech hackathon event (19 Jul & 21 Jul) - Undergraduate students: EdTech hackathon event (19 Jul & 21 Jul) **Please register for the workshop (even if you are only planning to attend a part)**: https://register.comp.nus.edu.sg/WESST/ Keep updated with the workshop developments on Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/wesst2017 WESST Organization Committee Chris Boesch (NUS ALSET), Min-Yen Kan (CS, SoC + NUS ALSET), Tuan Q Phan (ISA, SoC), Joseph Jay Williams (ISA, SoC) === CALL FOR PARTICIPATION === The inaugural Workshop on Education and Social Science Technologies (WESST 2017) 19-21 July, National University of Singapore The advent of the big data has made its impact on many disciplines including Information technology, business and financial markets, and healthcare industries. Now in its second wave of impact, big data is bringing the empirical data-evidenced promise of revolutionising other industries: particularly, education technology and social sciences. At the School of Computing, NUS, we meld the expertise of two departments: Computer Sciences and Information Systems in one school, in providing WESST 2017 as a platform for disseminating and networking transformative innovations in educational technology and social sciences. NUS is leading the way in educational technology. With the committed backing of the Provost, the newly formed institute, NUS ALSET, is tearing down institutional barriers in assembling a data lake on student learners at NUS. Compiling aggregate statistics on students before, during, and after their tenure at NUS, and looking forward to the growth of continuing professional education (CPE), ALSET is assembling this data lake to provide long-term, longitudinal analytics support to faculty and collaborators in assessing the long-term impact of learning interventions, in terms of both educational and learning sciences. WESST 2017 builds upon the previous technical programme and expertise of organising the 2015 Workshop Technology for Teaching at Scale, which featured invited talks from around Singapore weighing in on educational technology. ----- WESST 2017 will be a three-day workshop featuring key highlights in educational technology and computational social sciences. 19 Jul – Full-day Parallel Tutorial Sessions on data analytics, social media analytics, natural language processing, and factor analysis. An introduction to the NUS ALSET data lake and its accompanying “hackathon” mission. Venue will be at the STMI and CHI classrooms at Level 3 of the I-Cube building (21 Heng Mui Keng Terrance) 20 Jul – Invited Research Workshop featuring external speakers curated from the worlds best experts, and invited local experts in educational technology and computational social sciences. The venue will be Lecture Theatre 19 (LT 19). 21 Jul – Grand Challenge Talks and a Networking Event featuring perspectives and viewpoints of stakeholders in government, policies, administrators, scholars and researchers in business, social sciences and humanities. The venue will be Lecture Theatre 19 (LT 19). |
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