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The SoLAR Executive Committee is pleased to announce the call for nominations for a special election for a student representative to the 2024-2025 Executive Committee. Executive Committee members serve a two year term. Nominations are open for one student representative. If you are interested in shaping and guiding how SoLAR continues to serve the growingContinue reading →

Title: Reframing thinking about and modeling learning through complex dynamical systems  Learning is a highly individual process of change that emerges from multiple interacting components (e.g. cognitive, social) that occur at varying levels (e.g., individual, group) and timescales (e.g. micro, meso, macro) in constantly changing environments. Due to its complexity, the theoretical assumptions that describeContinue reading →

Current SoLAR Executive Committee for 2024 President – Bart Rienties, The Open University, UK Secretary – Ioana Jivet, Goethe University Frankfurt & DIPF, Germany Member at Large – Kathryn Bartimote, University of Sydney, Australia Member at Large – Rogers Kaliisa, University of Oslo, Norway Member at Large – Mohammad Khalil, University of Bergen, Norway Member at Large -Continue reading →

The SoLAR Communications team is pleased to present episode 20: Learning Analytics & AI: Opportunities & Challenges of the SoLAR Spotlight podcast. This episode of the SoLAR Spotlight podcast series features Dr Aneesha Bakharia, University of Queensland, Australia and Professor Barbara Wasson, University of Bergen, Norway as guests, hosted by Shibani Antonette & Rogers Kaliisa.Continue reading →

The SoLAR Executive Committee is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2024-2025 Executive Committee. Executive Committee members serve a two year term. Nominations are open for four member at-large positions. If you are interested in shaping and guiding how SoLAR continues to serve the growing learning analytics community please fill out thisContinue reading →

It is our pleasure to invite you to our next SoLAR Webinar in partnership with the Master program in Educational Psychology – Learning Analytics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “Modeling Learning in the Age of Chat GPT” with faculty director David William Shaffer. This talk looks at what ChatGPT and AI models are really doing,Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce the recipient of the SoLAR 2023 Early Career Research Grant: Yizhou Fan from Peking University, China for their project, “Measuring and Scaffolding Hybrdi Human-AI Regulation: Comparing Learning Processes Facilitated by ChatGPT and Human Experts.” Congratulations to Yizhou! This year we saw many high-quality applications come through, making it a challengeContinue reading →

The Spanish Network of Learning Analytics is glad to announce its 12th edition of the Learning Analytics Summer Institute Spain 2023 (LASI Spain 2023). LASI Spain 2023 (https://lasi23.snola.es), will take place in Madrid on June 29-30, 2023, organized by SNOLA (the Spanish Network of Learning Analytics) and will have Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaContinue reading →

It is our pleasure to invite you to SoLAR Webinar “Unveiling the Power of Affect during Learning” presented by Elizabeth Cloude from University of Pennsylvania. This webinar will present an interdisciplinary perspective that merges an affect framework with complex adaptive systems theory. Time and date: June 15, 11am-12pm CDT (12pm New York, 5pm London, 1amContinue reading →