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The kick-off and coordination meeting of the new Erasmus+ project SAILeR is taking place in Varaždin on December 4 and 5, 2025. The project…
The Faculty of Organization and Informatics University of Zagreb, will host the kick-off and coordination meeting of the new Erasmus+ project SAILeR…
These projects are led by Professor Blaženka Divjak, PhD, at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI), University of Zagreb, and both…
From 3 to 7 March 2025 the 15th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK25) was held in Dublin, organized by the…
On 5 and 6 November 2024, a conference on Challenges in Transforming Education and Enhancing the Future of Education in the Gulf Countries, organized…
From 20 to 22 November 2024 Professor Blaženka Divjak participated in the 2024 Inter-Regional Research Symposium (IRRS) Transforming Higher Education…
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The Learning Analytics (LA) Lab of the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Organization and Informatics comprises an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners dealing with learning analytics, academic analytics, and related areas such as learning design.
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Developed by members of the Learning Analytics Lab, the BDP tool is an innovative, research-based learning design solution that integrates learning analytics, AI and pedagogical innovations to support evidence-informed course design and teaching practice.
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InnovateDesign workshop @ LAK24 Kyoto
22/03/2024
On Monday, 18 March 2024, within the pre-conference program of this year's Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK24) in Kyoto, Japan, Professor Blaženka Divjak, with Professor Bart Rienties (Open University) and Professor Dragan Gašević (Monash University), held a workshop on the development of innovative learning design. It was a sequel of the last year's LAK23 workshop, but with a new angle, looking at the intersection of learning design and AI.
Assess workshop @ LAK24 Kyoto
22/03/2024
On Tuesday, 19 March 2024, Professor Divjak participated in the organization of another pre-conference workshop of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK24) in Kyoto, Japan. The whole-day workshop was held by a team of international academics and LA experts, including also Professor Dragan Gašević (Monash University), Assistant Professor Yoon Jeon Kim (University of Wisconsin) and Dr Abhinava Barthakur (University of South Australia).
TRUELA Kick-off meeting & Research workshop held
06/03/2024
On Tuesday, 5 March 2024, a Kick-off meeting was held back-to-back with a Research workshop on trustworthy learning analytics (LA) and AI algorithms. The meeting, held in a hybrid format (@FOI and online), was led by Professor Blaženka Divjak, the projects’ principal investigator.
Professor Divjak's classes @ UniSA & UTS Australia
22/02/2024
On Monday, 12 February 2024, Professor Blaženka Divjak was hosted by University of South Australia's (UniSA) Center for Change and Complexity in Education in Adelaide, where she gave a presentation entitled Enhancing Quality Assurance: Integrating a Learning Design Tool and Learning Analytics, attended by more than 20 UniSA’s educators and researchers.
Article on the predictive power of formative assessment published in JCAL
19/02/2024
An article authored by Professor Blaženka Divjak, Barbi Svetec and Damir Horvat has been published in the high-quality international Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.
Professor Divjak's masterclass @ Monash University Australia
19/02/2024
Head of the LA Lab, Professor Blaženka Divjak, visited the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and held several classes for the Monash educators, researchers and PhD students.
Our research presented @ LAK23
06/02/2024
From 13 until 17 March 2023, the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK23), the worlds’ biggest conference on learning analytics (LA), was held at the University of Texas (Arlington), organized by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SOLAR). The overarching topic of the conference was Towards Trustworthy Learning Analytics. Professor Blaženka Divjak, the Head of the LA Lab, took an active part in a number of activities.
Article on flipped classrooms during the pandemic published in high-ranking IJETHE
05/02/2024An article authored by Professor Blaženka Divjak, Professor Bart Rienties, Francisco Iniesto, Petra Vondra and Professor Mirza Žižak has been published in the highly acclaimed International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education.
Article on LA and assessment published in prestigious BJET
05/02/2024An article authored by Professor Blaženka Divjak, Barbi Svetec, Damir Horvat and Assistant Professor Nikola Kadoić has been published in one of the leading publications on Educational Technology: British Journal of Educational Technology.
Start of the TRUELA project
30/12/2023
A project financed by the Croatian Science Foundation, Trustworthy Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Sound Learning Design, led by Professor Blaženka Divjak, PhD, started on 30 December 2023.