The purpose of submitting a paper proposal is to describe an open research question relevant to the conference and therefore to Hack@LSAC18. We are not looking for started work. We are not even looking for started work. We are looking for challenges that can be The starting points for tasks to be completed at the Hackathon. Each paper should therefore briefly provide some context for the proposed research question, refer to previous research, explain the objectives that the author(s) wish(es) to be achieved through exploring this Question and describe the potential impact on practices, tool support, and research in learning analytics. Examples of possible topics, taken from the outcomes of the LAK18 hackathon  include :

• Personal analytics supporting self-directed learning
• Goal setting and analytics
• Playgrounds for data literacy
• Student facing Open APIs
• Infrastructure-integrated approaches for the joint exploitation of distributed data sources, including synthetic data
• Analytics beyond user-computer interaction data
• Risk mitigation during deployment