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Dr. Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo was recently involved in the publication of an online book on Digital Learning for Development, entitled, Learning Analytics for the Global South. The book considers how the collection, analysis, and use of data about learners and their contexts have the potential to broaden access to quality education and improve the efficiency of educational processes and systems in developing countries around the world.

Experts from Africa (Paul Prinsloo of the University of South Africa), Mainland China (Bodong Chen of the University of Minnesota, USA and Yizhou Fan of Peking University, People’s Republic of China), Southeast Asia (Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines), and Latin America (Cristóbal Cobo and Cecilia Aguerrebere, both of the Ceibal Foundation, Uruguay) situate the potential of learning analytics to support critical digital learning and education imperatives, such as quality learning at scale and the acquisition of 21st century skills, within their respective regional contexts, framing their responses around six key questions:

What are the main trends and challenges in education in your region?
How can learning analytics address these challenges?
What models of learning analytics adoption would be most effective in your region?
What are the barriers to the adoption of learning analytics in your region and how could these be mitigated?
How do you envision ethical use and privacy protection in connection with learning analytics being addressed in your region?
How can the operationalization of learning analytics be future-proofed in your region?

To download a copy, please visit Digital Learning for Development.

PCSC is annual conference in computing that is organized by the Computing Society of the Philippines to enable computing educators, researchers, ICT professionals, and students to interact and to share their work in computing, computer science, computer engineering, computational science, and information and communications technology (ICT). The conference features contributed research papers and special lectures by prominent researchers and educators in the field of computing, ICT, and related fields.

The following papers were accepted this year:

Christine Tablatin. Analysis of Static Code Reading Patterns
Abstract: Code reading is a prerequisite of program comprehension and is defined as a process of visually perceiving the source code with the focus of understanding how the code works as well as finding bugs and defects. Strategies employed on code reading affect a programmer’s success rate of the comprehension tasks. However, little is known about the code reading patterns or visual strategies used by the students during programming tasks. We study how high performing and low performing students read source code while performing a static code reading task of identifying bugs and use eye tracking data to reveal their common code reading patterns. Results showed that high performing students spend less fixation durations and have less number of fixations on the loca-tions of code errors compared to low performing students. A common scanpath was generated which describes the code read-ing patterns employed by students of different skill levels. This is a preliminary analysis and further studies with larger data sample would be conducted to be able to validate and generalize these results.

Maureen Mamilic-Villamor. Do friends collaborate and perform better? : A Pair Program Tracing and Debugging Eye Tracking Experiment

Congratulations to the ALLS papers that were accepted to the Philippine Computing Society Congress 2018!

The ALLS Lecture Series
Thursday, 22 February 2018, 3:00 to 4:30
Ateneo de Manila University
ADMISSION IS FREE

Buhay Grad Student: Personal Narratives of Intellectual Journeys
Jen Agapito, Neithan Casano, Christine Tablatin, Emily Sumampong Tabanao

A growing body of literature reports that graduate students suffer from mental, emotional, and psychological distress in the course of completing their studies. The academic work, personal pressures, feelings of isolation, and other factors bring pressure to bear on students, taxing their relationships and personal well-being.

In an attempt to reassure their peers, four members of the Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences share the personal challenges that they confronted and continue to confront as they fulfill their academic requirements. They will share their own ways of coping with these challenges, to offer comfort and a sense of community among fellow graduate students who may be in similar situations.

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Call for Papers

In response to emerging research diversity, ICCE 2018 will be a meta-conference,
comprising of seven interrelated theme-based conferences. Accepted papers in the
main conference, Workshops, Work-in-Progress Posters (WIPP), Doctoral Student
Consortia (DSC), Early Career Workshop (ECW) and Extended Summaries (ES) will
be published in proceedings, which will be submitted to Elsevier for inclusion in
Scopus. Proceedings of the main conference (excluding posters) will also be
submitted to Thomson Reuters for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation
Index. Authors of accepted distinguished full papers will be invited to submit
extended versions of the papers for consideration of publication Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (RPTEL), the official academic journal of the Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education. ICCE 2018 will be a conference for researchers in the Asia-Pacific region to connect with international research
communities for the worldwide dissemination and sharing of ideas for research in the
field of Computers in Education. Seven interrelated sub-conferences on specialized
themes, each of which is organized by a program committee appointed by the
respective Special Interest Group (SIG), will be part of the five-day conference
schedule. In addition, the conference will include keynote speakers, theme-based
invited speakers, expert panels on topics of current interest, and pre-conference
tutorials, workshops, Doctoral Student Consortia (DSC) and Early Career Workshop
(ECW). Researchers, graduate or undergraduate students, policymakers and
educators are invited to participate in all aspects of the conference.
Separate calls for papers are available for each sub-conference under the following
seven themes:
 C1: ICCE Sub-Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education/Intelligent
Tutoring System (AIED/ITS) and Adaptive Learning
 C2: ICCE Sub-Conference on Computer-supported Collaborative Learning
(CSCL) and Learning Sciences
 C3: ICCE Sub-Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT), Learning
Analytics and Digital Infrastructure
 C4: ICCE Sub-Conference on Classroom, Ubiquitous, and Mobile Technologies
Enhanced Learning (CUMTEL)
 C5: ICCE Sub-Conference on Digital Game and Digital Toy Enhanced Learning
and Society (GTEL&S)
 C6: ICCE Sub-Conference on Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL)
 C7: ICCE Sub-Conference on Practice-driven Research, Teacher Professional Development and Policy of ICT in Education (PTP)

Development and Policy of ICT in Education (PTP)
The seven theme-based sub-conferences will foster the building of strong research
communities within the broader field of Computers in Education and Educational
Technology. The meta-conference umbrella will play the dual role of allowing
researchers to enhance their identity in their thematic research communities, but also
allowing cross-disciplinary interactions to help broaden the scope of and inspire
future innovative research.

Paper categories
 Full paper (8-10 pages)
 Short paper (5-6 pages)
 Poster paper (2-3 pages)

Please refer to the submission guidelines before submitting your papers and download the latest version of the Paper Template file in preparing your manuscript. Please note that the paper template has been revised – do download the latest version of the template instead of reusing previous year’s template. The conference practices single-blind review, i.e., the authors of the submitting papers will not know who their referees are, while the referees will be aware of the authors of the papers that they are reviewing. Anonymization is no longer required in the submitted manuscripts.

All the accepted full papers are eligible for the competitions of:
 Best Overall Paper Award
 Best Student Paper Award (restricted to papers whose first authors are graduate or
undergraduate students)
 Best Technical Design Paper Award

In addition, all the accepted poster papers are eligible for the competition of Best
Poster Design Award(s). Please visit the award rules and criteria.

Paper Submission

Before uploading your papers to the system, please ensure that you have followed the
following instructions:
1. Ensure that you have adhered to the page limits for full paper (8-10 pages), short
paper (5-6 pages) & poster (2-3 pages).
2. Ensure that you have followed the formatting instructions in the paper template
file. Please note that the paper template has been revised – do download the
latest version of the template instead of reusing previous year’s template.
The conference will have a single-blind review, i.e. the authors of the submitting
papers will not know who their referees are, while the referees will be aware of the
authors of the papers that they are reviewing. Therefore, anonymization is not
required in the submitted manuscripts.

The authors of accepted papers will need to complete the following form:
Transfer of Copyright Agreement ICCE 2018

Paper Submission
Please submit your papers for ICCE 2018 via EasyChair.

Paper Format available here.