The KDD 2017 Workshop on Advancing Education with Data will be held in conjunction with the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference on the morning of 14 August 2017 in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  The workshop will bring together data scientists and educators together to stimulate research in the interdisciplinary field of data science for education.  At this year’s workshop, we are highlighting the following areas of interest: (1) Lifelong learning, (2) Assessments, (3) Learning Analytics and Personalization, and (4) Infrastructure.

KDD is a premier interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data.

Key dates:

• Paper submission deadline: May 26, 2017
• Author notification: June 16, 2017
• Final version of accepted submissions: June 30, 2017
• Final workshop schedule: June 30, 2017
• Workshop: August 14, 2017

More details can be found on the workshop website.