Study visit by Dr Mladen Raković from Monash University in Australia

On Wednesday, 12 June 2024, Faculty of Organization and Informatics hosted Dr Mladen Rakovic, a researcher in the area of learning analytics and self-regulated learning, from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

The visit was a continuation of the cooperation with the research team of the Center for Learning Analytics at Monash, which has been developed for several years by Professor Blaženka Divjak and the members of FOI’s Learning Analytics…

Building Collaborative Pathways for Research and Industry in LA panel @ LAK24 Kyoto

On Friday, 22 March 2024, Professor Blaženka Divjak participated as one of the panelists in the discussion on Building Collaborative Pathways for Research and Industry in LA within the LAK24 conference in Kyoto. The panel also included Professor Dragan Gašević (Monash University), Dr Alina von Davier (Duolingo), Associate Professor Srećko Joksimović (University of South Australia), and Dr Kristen DiCerbo (Khan Academy).

The speakers…

Assess workshop @ LAK24 Kyoto

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).

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InnovateDesign workshop @ LAK24 Kyoto

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…

TRUELA Kick-off meeting & Research workshop held

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.

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Article on the predictive power of formative assessment published in JCAL

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.

The article, entitled How can valid and reliable automatic formative assessment predict the acquisition of learning outcomes?, presents a study investigating whether regular checks like quizzes (formative assessment) can be used to predict students’ performance on high-…

Professor Divjak @ NUS & NTU Singapore

Within a study visit, on Friday and Monday, 16 and 19 February 2024, Professor Blaženka Divjak, accompanied by Professor Valentina Kirinić, visited two universities in Singapore: Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore. The universities are among the top 20 universities of the world.

The professors participated in meetings with the universities' teaching and research staff, as well as decision-makers, to…

Professor Divjak's classes @ UniSA & UTS Australia

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. Subsequently, together with Professor Valentina Kirinić, she held a workshop on the Balanced…

Professor Divjak's masterclass @ Monash University Australia

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.

On Tuesday, 6 February 2024, she held a masterclass entitled Learning Design and Learning Analytics to Support Evidence-Based Strategy and Empower Teaching and Learning. She discussed contemporary learning analytics research…

Start of the TRUELA project

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.

The TRUELA project will be implemented by the interdisciplinary research team of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, in cooperation with renowned researchers from leading institutions in the area of learning analytics from Europe and Australia…