LAK 2025:
Equity-centered R&D:
Why we need it and how to do it
Tuesday March 4, 2025, 1:30-5:30pm (conference local time)
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This workshop considers how learning analytics (LA), as a field, and individual researchers active in the LA community are well-positioned to integrate research questions, methods, and processes that center equity in order to make significant contributions to the larger educational research and development (R&D) space. Given that equitable R&D has not, historically, been a focus in the learning analytics community, our workshop focuses on how LA researchers, regardless of their primary research questions, can take steps to ensure that their work integrates equitable R&D methods and processes.
Workshop Objectives and Goals
Workshop Objectives and Goals
The key outcomes of the workshop are:
To identify bright spots and barriers to equity-centered R&D within the LAK community
Identify ways to bring an equity-centered lens to any research topic or domain
Identify resources and opportunities to support equity-centered R&D (how to find partners, R&D networks, funding opportunities, tools, and resources for research
Develop plans to formalize findings from the workshop and ways to share resources that result from the workshop
Workshop Agenda
Workshop Agenda
The workshop, to be held on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, will follow this tentative schedule:
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Workshop opening + small groups
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Paper presentations (abstracts) + discussion
Cynthia D'Angelo
University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignAngela E.B Stewart
University of Pittsburgh
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Coffee Break
3:45pm - 4:45pm
Interactive activity: guided small group brainstorming (incorporating equity focus/methods in your work)
4:45pm - 5:15pm
Open Discussion: Identifying guiding questions + resource sharing
5:15pm - 5:30pm
Workshop closing
Workshop Organizers
Workshop Organizers
Britte Haugan Cheng Caitlin Mills
Menlo Education Research University of Minnesota
bcheng@menloEDU.org cmills@umn.edu
Organizers invite you to find out more about the equity-centered R&D work happening as part of the AIMS Collaboratory.
Workshop Registration
Workshop Registration
Registration information will be shared soon. All LAK25 participants are welcome to register for the workshop. Please email the workshop organizers with any questions!
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