I’ve just returned from the US where for the last 10 days I’ve been attending the 5th Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) conference, followed by a short trip to visit colleagues at Rutgers University School of Communications and Information.

At LAK, I was co-organising a workshop on Temporal analyses of data – It’s About Time – you can checkout the website and Twitter hashtag for that.

We’re busy looking at data &tools at #LAK15Time, #LAK with @HeyltsGol and Wes Collier from the Epistemic Games Group. pic.twitter.com/UNfwdcfnk7

— Eni Mustafaraj (@enimust) March 16, 2015

Then later in the week I presented a paper on the conceptual grounding for my empirical work in a session on ‘Text and Discourse Analytics’ – a really strong theme throughout this year’s LAK. I got to give a longer reprisal of that paper at Rutgers the following week, to a small informal group from the School of Communications and Information.

@sjgknight giving a talk @RutgersCommInfo on collab info seeking #cis in educational assessment #DigitalLiteracypic.twitter.com/7nrY2oCrn3

— Chirag Shah (@chirag_shah) March 24, 2015

There I also spent some time talking to the infoseeking group about our collaborative work together, and particularly some ideas around analysis of etherpad-collaboration and sequence analysis. I also got to catch up with Randi Zimmerman (see e.g. this presentation) from the Graduate School of Education, who has very similar research interests to me and it’s always a pleasure to exchange (and build!) ideas with.

The talk there can be viewed: