The following events are organized and actively engaged by us:

July, 2025
We are pleased to announce our inaugural local meeting on July 4, 2025, supported by the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. The event will feature international guest speaker Prof. René Kizilcec, who will give a talk titled “Advancing the Science of Teaching and Building Evidence-Based AI Tutors.” A discussion among the invitees regarding BALAN's future activities will follow the talk.

June, 2025
Our paper in collaboration with LMU “Data sharing in learning analytics: how context and group discussion influence the individual willingness to share“ has been accepted for open access publication in the peer-reviewed journal “Humanities and Social Sciences Communications”.

June, 2025
Prof. Simon Buckingham Shum from University of Technology Sydney delivered a webinar titled “Generative AI as intellectual augmentation for the polycrisis/metacrisis”

May, 2025
Prof. Poquet was invited to deliver a workshop at JTELSS 2025 and delivered an engaging workshop “SNA from descriptives to advanced modelling”

May, 2025
We received funding from BAYFR for cooperation with University of Toulouse, Mar Perez-San Augustin

March, 2025
Prof. Poquet contributed to LAK workshop and poster focusing on the possible futures of Learning Analytics and outlining grand challenges for the field.

October, 2024
Prof. Poquet joined an invited talk for KTH Stockholm

October, 2024
Prof. Poquet joined the invited panel for TEDAI

October, 2024.
Prof. Poquet gave an invited talk at the Munich Women in Data Science event.

September, 2024.
Prof. Poquet organized a workshop with Prof. Marcus Specht and Prof. Daniel Spikol on the topic “Futures of Learning Analytics” at the European Association of Technology-Enhanced Learning (ECTEL) conference.

August, 2024.
Prof. Kirsty Kitto from University of Technology Sydney came to visit our lab.

June, 2024.
Prof. Poquet was invited to be a member of the doctoral defense committee for Candidate Esteban Villalobos, supervised by Prof. Dr. Perez-Sanaugustin at the University of Toulouse. The research revolves around “A Sequence Analysis Framework to Investigate the Dynamics of Self-regulated Learning Strategies in Blended Courses.”

June, 2024.
Dr. Stas Pozdniakov, a postdoctoral researcher and our collaborator from the University of Queensland, visited our lab. During our lab meeting, he gave a talk on “Designing Analytics Interfaces Aligned with Teachers' Inquiry.”

May, 2024.
Prof. Jelena Jovanovic visited our lab and delivered an insightful talk on “Panning for information in learning logs: current practices and ways forward” under the EdTech Centre activities

May, 2024.
We held our first Open Lab meeting, where all lab members introduced their projects. We were delighted to have Prof. Jelena Jovanovic and researchers from other SOT research groups join us.

May, 2024.
Prof. Poquet co-chaired the Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU) along with Prof Viberg (KTH), Jovanovic (UoB), Bruce McLauren (CMU), and Chounta (Duisburg).

April, 2024.
Prof. Poquet presented her research “Complex Dynamical Systems and Learning Analytics” at the International Webinar for the Society of Learning Analytics and Research. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4jfEuXISu0&t=1618s

March, 2024.
Prof. Poquet co-conducted a workshop with collaborators from Tampere University, Mississippi State University and University of Central Florida , “Advancing Complex Systems in Learning Analytics,” at the LAK 2024 Conference in Kyoto, Japan.

March, 2024.
A collaborative paper with Srećko Joksimović and Pernille Brams titled “The Role of Gender in Citation Practices in Learning Analytics Research,” has been accepted for presentation at LAK24: 14th International Learning Analytics and Research Conference (LAK 2024). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376085420_The_Role_of_Gender_in_Citation_Practices_of_Learning_Analytics_Research

January, 2024.
A theoretical paper on sensemaking authored by Prof. Poquet accepted by the British Journal of Educational Technology. https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjet.13435
To earlier events at LEAPS.