LA Lab @ LAK25

From 3 to 7 March 2025 the 15th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK25) was held in Dublin, organized by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), the leading international and interdisciplinary research network in the field of learning analytics. This is the most prominent and competitive conference in the world related to learning analytics.

Learning analytics is a relatively new but rapidly growing field of research and practice that is…

Professor Divjak in a panel on future education with AI

From 20 to 22 November 2024 Professor Blaženka Divjak participated in the 2024 Inter-Regional Research Symposium (IRRS) Transforming Higher Education: 
Towards Sustainable Development, held in Bangkok, Thailand.

She was a speaker in the debate dealing with Digital Transformation: Will Teaching and Learning Benefit from Artificial Intelligence in the Next Decade? With several other distinguished speakers, she discussed the use of AI in…

Paper presented @ INFORMATICS'2024 conference

On Friday, 15 November 2024, a paper entitled Automating the Comparison of Learning Design and Delivery Using Course Scaffolding in Moodle by Blaženka Divjak, Darko Grabar, Barbi Svetec and Petra Vondra was presented at the Informatics'2024 conference held in Poprad, Slovakia.

The paper presents the innovative learning design concept and tool:…

Professor Divjak @ a conference on transforming education in the Persian Gulf countries

On 5 and 6 November 2024, a conference on Challenges in Transforming Education and Enhancing the Future of Education in the Gulf Countries, organized by the Gulf Arab States Educational Research Center, was held in Kuwait.

The conference, for the…

TRUELA project meeting and workshop

From 18 till 20 September 2024, back-to-back with the 35th Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems (CECIIS) organized by the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, several TRUELA project activities were held in Varaždin.

First, the TRUELA International Research Group met on a project meeting…

Papers presented @ CECIIS conference

On 19 September 2024, at the 35th Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems, organized by the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin, members of the LA Lab presented two research papers. The papers were part of the section on Learning Analytics, AI and Technologies in Education.

The paper entitled Prioritizing Learning Outcomes in Different Learning Design Contexts by Blaženka Divjak, Barbi Svetec, Bart…

Upcoming TRUELA workshop on trustworthy LA and AI algorithms

The workshop on trustworthy learning analytics and AI algorithms, as part of the TRUELA research project, will be held back-to-back with the 35th Central European Conference on Information…

Study visit by Dr Abhinava Barthakur from UniSA

On Monday, 9 September 2024, the Faculty of Organization and Informatics hosted a study visit by Dr Abhinava Barthakur, a researcher from the University of South Australia in Adelaide. Dr Barthakur's research is focused on the development of novel human-centered assessment models for measuring complex competencies, based on learning analytics. This visit was part of the ongoing cooperation of prof.…

Professor Divjak @ University of Pretoria

From 17 till 29 August 2024, Professor Blaženka Divjak visited the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Most importantly, Professor Divjak held a very well-accepted invited lecture at the 10th Flexible Futures conference. In the lecture, entitled Reimagining Assessment: Leveraging Learning Analytics and Learning Design in the AI Era, she discussed the role of AI in education, the roles of…

Professor Divjak @ AIED2024

Professor Blaženka Divjak held a keynote speech at the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2024), taking place from 8 till 12 July 2024 in Recife, Brazil, with the theme of "AI in Education for a World in Transition".

The keynote, titled “Navigating Strategic Challenges in Education in the Post-Pandemic AI Era”, provided an innovative angle on the most current developments affecting the world of…