Please register to attend the First International Conference on Educational Data Mining to be held June 20-21, 2008. Early registration ends May 15 ! 

*** Student volunteers! We will provide free registration to a limited number of student volunteers. Instructions to apply for student volunteer positions will be posted on the conference website ASAP. ***

The direct link to conference registration is: https://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/NNC/events/NNC2159225.html
The link will be posted to the EDM2008 site: http://www.educationaldatamining.org/EDM2008/

Call for Participation
The First International Conference on Educational Data Mining brings together researchers from computer science, education, psychology, psychometrics, and statistics to analyze large data sets to answer educational research questions. The increase in instrumented educational software, as well as state databases of student test scores, has created large repositories of data reflecting how students learn. The EDM conference focuses on computational approaches for using those data to address important educational questions. The broad collection of research disciplines ensures cross fertilization of ideas, with the central questions of educational research serving as a unifying focus. This Conference emerges from preceding EDM workshops at the AAAI, AIED, EC-TEL, ICALT, ITS, and UM conferences. The First International Conference on Educational Data Mining brings together researchers from computer science, education, psychology, psychometrics, and statistics to analyze large data sets to answer educational research questions. The increase in instrumented educational software, as well as state databases of student test scores, has created large repositories of data reflecting how students learn. The EDM conference focuses on computational approaches for using those data to address important educational questions. The broad collection of research disciplines ensures cross fertilization of ideas, with the central questions of educational research serving as a unifying focus. This Conference emerges from preceding EDM workshops at the AAAI, AIED, EC-TEL, ICALT, ITS, and UM conferences.

Conference Organization
    * Conference Chair: Tiffany Barnes, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
    * Program Chairs: Ryan S. J. de Baker, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Joseph E. Beck, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
    * Local Arrangements: Michel Desmáris, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada; Roger Nkambou, UQAM
    * Web Chair: Arnon Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Program Committee
    * Anjo Anjewierden, University of Twente, The Netherlands
    * Esma Aďmeur, University of Montreal, Canada
    * Ivon Arroyo, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
    * Bettina Berendt, University of Berlin, Germany
    * Christophe Choquet, Université du Maine, France
    * Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada
    * Janice Gobert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
    * Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
    * Brian Junker, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    * Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia
    * Kenneth Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    * Brent Martin, Canterbury University, New Zealand
    * Noboru Matsuda, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    * Gord McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
    * Bruce McLaren, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany
    * Tanja Mitrovic, Canterbury University, New Zealand
    * Cristóbal Romero Morales, Cordoba University, Spain
    * Mykola Pechenizkiy, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
    * Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, London Knowledge Laboratory, UK
    * Carolyn Rosé, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    * Carolina Ruiz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
    * Sebastián Ventura Soto, Cordoba University, Spain
    * Steven Tanimoto, University of Washington, USA
    * Silvia Viola, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
    * Kalina Yacef, University of Sydney, Australia