SoLAR Working Groups
The SoLAR Executive Working Groups are governed by the SoLAR Executive Committee. The Executive committee is made up of elected members as per the SoLAR by-laws. In addition to the SoLAR Executive, there are working groups created to further the mission and vision of the SoLAR community, as needed.
- Working group chairs are Executive members who lead and oversee the working groups.
- Each working group chairperson can volunteer or be nominated.
- Working groups can be comprised of Executive members and non-executive SoLAR members.
- Working groups work outside of regular executive meetings.
- Update and bring forth proposals to the SoLAR Executive as needed.
- Each working group operates on an annual basis and is reassessed with every new executive team.
If you are interested in joining a SoLAR working Group, please reach out to the individual Working Group Chair and/or our Event & Management Coordinator, Nicole at solarsocietymgmt@gmail.com.
Events Working Group
Working Group Goals:
- To encourage and support learning analytics related events that are hosted by a wide diversity of communities, in order to further the mission of the society by expanding the field of Learning Analytics.
- Includes: webinars, podcasts, Local LASIs, LAP, in-cooperation external events
Working Group Chair & Members:
Interested in joining the events working group? Email Nicole at solarsocietymgmt@gmail.com
Event In-Cooperation - If you are organising a conference, local LASI, seminar, symposia, workshop, tutorial, or a similar academic event that relates to learning analytics, you might want to apply for SoLAR’s event in-cooperation. Take a look at our event in-cooperation guidelines; if you think that your event meets the criteria you can then fill out our event in-cooperation web form.
Working Group Goals:
To develop and monitor SoLAR’s annual strategic goals and priorities
Working Group Chair and Members:
President, Vice Presidents & Treasurer
Working Group Goals:
- To engage with other societies through formal and informal channels, develop and implement initiatives to promote an open, inclusive and welcoming environment, and to facilitate access and engagement opportunities for SoLAR members
- Cooperation and knowledge exchange with Industry
Working Group Chair & Members:
Blazenka Divjak, Lixiang Yan, Catherine Manly, Guanliang Chen, Jionghao Lin, Conrad Borchers
Working Group Goals:
- To promote, develop and disseminate learning analytics related activities, initiatives, educational resources and research
- Includes: website, newsletter, Nexus, education in-cooperation projects
Working Group Chair and Members:
Catherine Manly, Mladen Rakovic
Initiatives & Responsibilities:
- Bi-monthly webinar series
- Bi-monthly podcast (SoLAR Spotlight: Conversations in Learning Analytics)
- Monthly SoLAR Newsletters. You can also review our recently published newsletters here.
SoLAR In-Cooperated Education Projects:
- If you are working on a course or study program (for credit or not, online or not), textbook or any other educational project that would benefit the learning analytics community, consider applying for SoLAR Educational In-Cooperation status. Please complete the educational project in-cooperation web form, which asks you to upload documentation including the target audience, duration and modes of study, any form of accreditation, the learning materials, and your credentials. SoLAR requires that you should attend to ethical considerations in a way that’s appropriate in breadth and depth to the level of the course. If you have any questions please contact us at info@solaresearch.org.
Working Group Goals:
- To promote and support the establishment of Special Interest Groups within the Society
Working Group Chair and Members:
Conrad Borchers, Kathryn Bartimote, Jionghao Lin
Current SoLAR SIGs:
- Graduate Student Special Interest Group
- Learning Analytics - Asia
- Multimodal Learning Analytics Across Spaces (CrossMMLA SIG)
- Special Interest Group on Writing Analytics (SIGWA)
- Learning Analytics Community Europe (LACE)
- Learning Analytics for Latin America (LALA) SIG
- Methodology in Learning Analytics (MLA) SIG
- Responsible Learning Analytics (RELA) SIG
- African Network for Learning Analytics Research (ANLAR) SIG
Interested in joining an already existing SIG?
Reach out to the SIG coordinator at any of the pages above.
Interested in establishing a new SoLAR SIG?
Please review the SoLAR SIG guidelines. Once you have reviewed the guidelines and would like to proceed to submit a proposal to the SIG working group, please complete the Google Form to submit your proposal for review. All SIG proposals are reviewed by the SIG working group and then require approval by the SoLAR Executive Committee. Notifications of SoLAR decision will be made no later than 8 weeks after submission.