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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Educational Data Visualization (EdViz-2019)

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The primary goal of this workshop is to produce open source data visualizations that help communicate results of learning analytics (LA) research to educators. Instructors are increasing their use of data to drive instruction, and various results of LA research are useful towards this end. However, the actionable insights discovered by the LA community are often inaccessible to educators due to their relative complexity. In this case, it is possible to use data visualization to communicate actionable insights about learners to optimize instruction effectively. Visualizations of learner data can make it easy for teachers and other education stakeholders to take evidence-based action. Organizers of the workshop intend to invite authors to describe and implement educational data visualizations that can aid decision making in online and offline classrooms. The workshop will result in a gallery of open source educational data visualizations that can be freely used by the LA community.
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