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Biography
Dragan Gašević is Professor of Learning Analytics in the Faculty of Information Technology and Director of the Centre for Learning Analytics at Monash University. Before the current post, he was Professor and Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics in the Moray House School of Education and the School of Informatics and Co-Director of Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. He was the Canada Research Chair in Semantic and Learning Technologies (Feb 2015-Feb 2018) and Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University (Jan 2007-Jan 2015). He served as the immediate past President (2015-2017) of the Society for Learning Analytics Research and holds several honorary appointments in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, UK, and USA. A computer scientist by training and skills, Dragan considers himself a learning analyst developing computational methods that can shape next-generation learning and software technologies and advance our understanding of information seeking, sense-making, and self-regulated and social learning. Funded by granting agencies and industry in Canada and Europe, Dragan is a recipient of several best paper awards at the major international conferences in learning and software technology. The award-winning work of his team on the LOCO-Analytics software is considered one of the pioneering contributions in the growing area of learning analytics. Recently, he has founded ProSolo Technologies Inc that develops a software solution for tracking, evaluating, and recognizing competences gained through self-directed learning and social interactions. Committed to the development of international research community, Dragan had a pleasure to serve as a founding program chair of the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge in 2011 and 2012, the general chair in 2016, a founding program co-chair of the Learning Analytics Summer Institute in 2013 and 2014, and a founding editor of the Journal of Learning Analytics (2012-2017). Dragan is a (co-)author of numerous research papers and books and a frequent keynote speaker.
Supervision interests
Computational techniques and methods in learning analytics.
Education/Academic qualification
Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
Award Date: 3 Feb 2005
Computer Science, Master of Science (Computer Science), University of Belgrade
Award Date: 17 Dec 2002
Computer Science, Diplom Ingenieur in Computer Science, University of Belgrade
Award Date: 29 Sep 2000
Research area keywords
- learning analytics
- educational data mining
- data science
- self-regulated learning
- collaborative learning
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Teamwork analytics for training collaborative problem solving in professional higher education
Damsa, C., Makitalo, A., Smørdal, O., Moen, A., Coh-Horvath, M., Günterberg Heyn, L., Eide, H., Langford, M., Martinez-Maldonado, R., Gasevic, D., Eagan, B., Muukkonen, H., Janssen, J. & van Leeuwen, A.
Norges forskningsrad (The Research Council of Norway)
1/12/21 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
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The Global Classroom: Learning without Borders
Diug, B., Ilic, D., Gasevic, D., Bartindale, T., Gasevic, D., Olivier, P., Yasin, S., Sorinola, O., Macdougall, C., Hammond, L., Davies, L. & Fenn, C.
Monash University – Internal University Contribution
1/06/21 → 1/06/23
Project: Research
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Human-centred Teamwork Analytics
Gasevic, D., Martinez-Maldonado, R., Buckingham Shum, S., Elliott, D. J., Gasevic, D. & Ilic, D.
11/02/21 → 11/02/24
Project: Research
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Using practice analytics to understand variation and support reflective practice
Shaw, T., Gasevic, D., Rankin, D., Brown, K., Conley, J. & Mews, A.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Exploring students' cognitive and affective states during problem solving through multimodal data: lessons learned from a programming activity
Mangaroska, K., Sharma, K., Gašević, D. & Giannakos, M., Feb 2022, In: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 38, 1, p. 40-59 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Learning analytics in higher education – stakeholders, strategy and scale
Gašević, D., Tsai, Y. S. & Drachsler, H., Jan 2022, In: Internet and Higher Education. 52, 5 p., 100833.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Other › peer-review
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Making sense of teacher agency for change with social and epistemic network analysis
Pantić, N., Galey, S., Florian, L., Joksimović, S., Viry, G., Gašević, D., Knutes Nyqvist, H. & Kyritsi, K., May 2022, In: Journal of Educational Change. 23, p. 145–177 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Mapping from proximity traces to socio-spatial behaviours and student progression at the school
Yan, L., Martinez-Maldonado, R., Gallo Cordoba, B., Deppeler, J., Corrigan, D. & Gašević, D., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: British Journal of Educational Technology. 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Temporally-focused analytics of self-regulated learning: a systematic review of literature
Saint, J., Fan, Y., Gašević, D. & Pardo, A., Jan 2022, In: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. 3, 22 p., 100060.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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New centre to harness data in classroom and empower learners for age of AI
6/12/21
1 item of Media coverage
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Analyzing the metrics & data in learning with @ammienoot & @dgasevic
1/04/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Podcasts
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Monash leads Australia with over $38M in research funding
16/11/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature