Results of the CoP LA Paper Award 2022

(From left) Mr Dick Chan, Dr Henry Chan, Dr Julia Chen and Ms Ada Tse

(From left) Mr Dick Chan, Dr Henry Chan, Ir Chung-lim Kwan and Ms Ada Tse

(From left) Mr Dick Chan, Dr Henry Chan, Dr Catherine Cheung and Ms Ada Tse

(From left) Mr Dick Chan, Dr Henry Chan, Ir Chung-lim Kwan, Dr Catherine Cheung and Ms Ada Tse

The CoP LA Paper Award 2022 was organized by the Community of Practice on Conducting Learning Analytics to Inform Teaching and Learning (CoP LA) in June 2022. Participants of this Paper award were invited to submit a paper to describe one of their Learning and Teaching research studies using LA. Eight shortlisted participants were invited to present their paper at the CoP LA meeting on 22 June 2022. After the discussion among panel members, a team composed of EDC and ELC colleagues, namely, Dr Julia Chen, Dr Linda Lin, Dr Dennis Foung and Ms Caroline Nixon, won the First Prize of the Paper Award for their paper entitled “Quality Assurance and Enhancement: An Application of Digitalised Data”. Ir Chung-lim Kwan from CEE won the Second Prize, and a team of SHTM colleagues, including Dr Catherine Cheung, Dr Vincent Tung and Ms Joselyn Goopio, won the Third Prize.

Congratulations to the winners!

Special thanks to the panel members of the CoP LA Paper Award:

Dr Henry Chan (COMP)
Dr Shirley Ngai (RS)
Dr Joe Lam (ABCT)
Mr Dick Chan (EDC)
Dr Kai Pan Mark (EDC)
Ms Ada Tse (EDC)

Introduction
Staff in PolyU are encouraged to use learning analytics (LA) in learning and teaching (L&T) research (e.g., through collaborative research) and share the research results and experience during Community of Practice (CoP) meetings/sessions. To support this initiative, the Community of Practice on Conducting Learning Analytics to Inform Teaching and Learning (CoP LA) is organising a Paper Award to appreciate CoP members who conduct LA in enhancing L&T.
Participants of this Paper Award are required to submit a paper to describe one of their L&T research studies using LA. Submissions will be reviewed by a panel. Based on the selection criteria, the panel will select the first, second and third prize winners. Award winners will be invited to present their paper at a later CoP LA sharing or meeting. Certificates of merit will be given to selected participants.

What is LA
According to the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2011, “learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for the purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs.”

Eligibility for participation
All staff members of the CoP LA can participate in this Paper Award. We accept papers written by individual CoP LA member or in a team consisting of at least one CoP LA member.
* If you are currently not a member of CoP LA, please fill in this online form (https://forms.office.com/r/qcSTPpsX9t) before applying to participate in the Paper Award.

Selection criteria to win the Award

• The paper must be related to using LA in learning and teaching.
• The paper must be received by the deadline specified below.
• The paper should be well written.
• The paper can be already submitted for publication, one that has been accepted for publication/presentation or a paper that has been published in 2020, 2021 or 2022.
• The author(s) or delegates must agree to present the paper at a later CoP LA sharing/meeting.

Requirements on the theme and topic of the Paper
You are required to address some of the following questions about your use of learning analytics
from 2020 up to now in your paper for submission to this Award:

• What was the learning context for your work?
• How did you apply learning analytics in learning and teaching?
• What and how data were collected and analysed in your work?
• What is the most powerful or surprising part of the results from learning analytics?
• How teachers or students are impacted by the use of learning analytics and in what ways?
• What are the changes implemented in learning and teaching as a result of the findings?
• What are the lessons learned from using learning analytics?

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, understanding, tracing, impacting and implementing changes in learning and teaching through the use of learning analytics.

Submission guidelines

Your submission should include but not limited to the followings:

• Author(s) of your paper with their contact information, i.e., name, department, telephone, email (Please indicate the correspondence author for contact)
• Title
• Introduction/Background
• Methodology/Implementation
• Results/Findings
• Impact on learning and teaching
• Enhancement made in learning and teaching

The paper should be at least two pages of A4 paper, with font size not less than 11. Figures, charts and/or tables can be put in the Appendix and are not counted in the two-page limit.
Please submit the paper using PDF through this MS Forms (limited to 10MB)  https://forms.office.com/r/FNmBTHBWir before the deadline.

Deadline of paper submission: 23:59, 6 June 2022 (Monday)
Notification of results: Summer 2022

Review process
A selection panel for the Paper Award, consisting of experts from relevant fields, will be formed by the CoP.
The evaluation criteria are:

• Impact: The extent to which the use of learning analytics brings impacts to teachers or students and changes in learning and teaching.
• Methodology: The extent to which the methods and approach are appropriate.
• Originality: The extent to which the paper is innovative in terms of its sources of information, design, analysis and/or discussion approach.

Prizes for award winners
First prize: HK$ 1000 supermarket voucher & a certificate
Second prize: HK$ 500 supermarket voucher & a certificate
Third prize: HK$ 300 supermarket voucher & a certificate
Merit prize: A certificate of merit will be given to selected participants.

Invited presentation by award winners
Award winners will be invited to present their award-winning paper at a CoP LA session tentatively in the summer of 2022 or the first semester of 2022/2023. Details will be confirmed and announced later.

Preliminary registration / enquiry
If you are interested, please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/r/uWZ0N7YSSt so that further information can be provided to you.

You can also read the email sent by cop.notice@polyu.edu.hk and copla@polyu.edu.hk
about what upcoming events will be organized.