The conference, joined by attendees across the world, is organised from Frankfurt am Main. Responding rapidly to the spread of the Coronavirus, the team of organisers has rescheduled and completely switched to a virtual conference. The event is the worldwide most significant forum for this discipline in digital education.
The Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education and the Goethe University, together with Technical University (TU) Darmstadt, are hosting the LAK this year, which is operated by a German team for the first time.
The organisers have responded without delay and made sure that the conference, which was originally planned as a venue in Frankfurt am Main, can go online in a pioneering virtual format. Registered participants can, for example, dial into video conference rooms where live talks are broadcast from anywhere in the world. Moderated chats then offer an opportunity to pose and answer questions. Contributions are recorded, subject to contributors’ consent. It is thus possible to flexibly watch the videos. Posters and applications are also presented in purely virtual settings. The programme spans long periods of the day, to accommodate for participants across seven time zones. The team is confident that the format with its spatial independence and flexible timing also offers incentives for future conferences.
Thematically, the tenth LAK focuses on "shaping the future of the field”. The conference is held once a year at alternating venues, under the auspices of the international network “Society for Learning Analytics Research“(SoLAR).
