Opening of the 2016 Learning With MOOCs conference at the University of Pennsylvania, PA.

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.

Highlights

  •    Research Fellow at the School of Education and Data Scientist at the Teaching Innovation Unit at the Univeristy of South Australia.
  •    Member of the SoLAR exectutive committee.
  •    Authored and co-authored 44 peer-reviewed research publications including 6 book chapters, 17 journal articles, 13 conference papers, 3 workshop papers, 1 technical report, and 3 posters.
  •    The total number of Google scholar citations: 7573 with the H-index: 44 .
  •    Best paper awards at LAK15 and HERDSA15 conferences.
  •    Program co-chair for the Third International Learning With MOOCs conference (LWMOOCs'16), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
  •    Local chair for the 6th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK'16), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  •    One of the authors of the ``Preparing for the digital university`` report that was covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
  •    Reviewer for several journals in the field of Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining: Journal of Learning Analytics, The Internet and Higher Education, Big Data & Society, Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
  •    Involved in several Learning Analytics research initiatives (MRI, HLDAEDM, DALMOOC).
  •    Organizer of several tutorials and workshops on Learning analytics and Educational Data Mining.

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Learning Analytics
  • Educational Data Mining
  • Self-regulated and social learning
  • Digital, distance and online education