About me

I am a Professor in Learning Analytics and the Associate Director of Research Excellence and Communication at the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L) at the University of South Australia. I obtained my PhD in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, the United Kingdom, in 2017. My primary research interests are in Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in Education, with a particular focus on developing approaches for measuring the development of complex skills and competencies. I am the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Learning Analytics (JLA) and an Associate Editor at the Higher Education Research & Development (HERD) Journal. I am also leading the development of the Chatmate GenAI platform, you can check it out at chatmate.c3l.ai.

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Recent publications

The changing patterns of MOOC discourse

PosterPublished
Dowell, N. M. M., Brooks, C., Kovanović, V., Joksimović, S., & Gašević, D.
Proceedings of the Forth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S17), April 20 – 21, 2017, Cambridge, MA, USA, Pages 283-286, ACM, New York, NY, USA
Publication year: 2017

Piecing the learning analytics puzzle: A consolidated model of a field of research and practice

Journal articlePublished
Gašević, D., Kovanović, V., & Joksimović, S.
Learning: Research and Practice, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 63-78.
Publication year: 2017

Developing a MOOC experimentation platform: Insights from a user study

Conference paperPublished
Kovanović, V., Joksimović, S., Katerinopoulos, P., Michail, C., Siemens, G., & Gašević, D.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK'17), March 13-17, 2017, Vancouver, Canada, Pages 1–5, ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Publication year: 2017

Content analytics: The definition, scope, and an overview of published research

Book chapterOpen accessPublished
Kovanović, V., Joksimović, S., Gašević, D., Hatala, M., & Siemens, G.
In Lang, C., Siemens, G., Wise, A., & Gasevic, D. (Eds.). Handbook of Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining, Pages 77-92. Society of Learning Analytics, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Publication year: 2017

A novel model of cognitive presence assessment using automated learning analytics methods

Open accessPublishedReport
Kovanović, V., Gašević, D., Hatala, M., & Siemens, G.
SRI Education Analytics4Learning report series
Publication year: 2017

A data-driven method for the detection of close submitters in online learning environments

Conference paperPublished
Ruipérez-Valiente, J. A., Joksimović, S., Kovanović, V., Gašević, D., Muñoz-Merino, P. J., & Delgado Kloos, C.
Proceedings of the 26th World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Australia, Pages 361–368, International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
Publication year: 2017

Selected publications

Where is research on massive open online courses headed? A data analysis of the MOOC research initiative

Journal articleOpen accessPublished
Gašević, D., Kovanović, V., Joksimović, S., & Siemens, G.
The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Volume 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 134–176
Publication year: 2014

What public media reveals about MOOCs: A systematic analysis of news reports

Journal articlePublished
Kovanović, V., Joksimović, S., Gašević, D., Siemens, G., & Hatala, M.
British Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 46, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 510–527
Publication year: 2015

Tools for educational data mining: A review

Journal articlePublished
Slater, S., Joksimović, S., Kovanović, V., Baker, R. S., & Gašević, D.
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Volume 42, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 85-106
Publication year: 2017

Penetrating the black box of time-on-task estimation

Best-paper awardConference paperPublished
Kovanović, V., Gašević, D., Dawson, S., Joksimović, S., Baker, R. S. J. d, & Hatala, M.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK'15), March 16-20, 2015, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, Pages 64-68, ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Publication year: 2015

Externally-facilitated regulation scaffolding and role assignment to develop cognitive presence in asynchronous online discussions

Journal articlePublished
Gašević, D., Adesope, O., Joksimović, S., & Kovanović, V.
The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 24, 2015, Pages 53–65
Publication year: 2015

Does time-on-task estimation matter? Implications on validity of learning analytics findings

Journal articleOpen accessPublished
Kovanović, V., Gašević, D., Dawson, S., Joksimović, S., Baker, R. S., & Hatala, M.
Journal of Learning Analytics, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 81-110
Publication year: 2015

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