Tracking2010

Distributed learning environments, for example using widgets, smart content, connections to personal learning environments (PLEs) and remote tools, requires new approaches to tracking learners beyond simple page hits or click tracking. This one day event is aimed at sharing ideas and developing new approaches to tracking.

Due to the travel disruption caused by the Icelandic volcano, the event will not now take place on the 23rd of April. Registration will reopen when a new date has been fixed.

Some possible ideas worth exploring include:


 * ActivityStreams
 * Attention Profile Markup Language
 * Labour Markup Language
 * OpenSocial Activities Service
 * Attention Metadata
 * Urchin (Google Analytics)
 * Tracking architecture or models. For example, injected tracking scripts vs. standardised APIs vs. post-hoc analytics
 * Tracking semantics. For example, what types of user actions do we want to track and how do we measure them?
 * Personal activity monitoring versus collective intelligence approaches

Tagging:
 * Twitter #cetistrac hashtag.
 * Blogging and del.icio.us tag cetis-trac.

Position Papers
Participants are invited to submit brief position papers ahead of the meeting for consideration and discussion at the meeting; this is intended to enable us to focus less on presentations and have more time for discussion.

You can submit papers directly by email to scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com

Agenda
The event will start at 10:30 and finish by 16:00. A detailed agenda will be developed closer to the event.

If there is something you would like to present or demonstrate at the event, please get in touch.

Venue and Directions
Location:

University of Bolton

Deane Road

Bolton

BL3 5AB

United Kingdom

(Boardroom suite*)

(*The suite is in the university main campus building on Deane Road building D on the map, see )

Contact: Scott Wilson; e-mail: scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com The campus is a 5-10 minute walk from Bolton station, which is itself 20 minutes by train from Manchester Piccadilly station.

For delegates coming directly to Bolton from the airport, there are trains leaving from the airport station every half hour, taking around 40 minutes to reach Bolton.

Accomodation:

Delegates may stay in Bolton, where we would recommend the | Holiday Inn

(About a 20 minutes walk, or 3 minutes by taxi, according to Google)

Alternatively delegates may wish to stay in Manchester and take a train to the meeting, in which case there are plenty of options for accommodation suiting a range of budgets.