“For analytics to play a constructive role, it is important to consider how they are being used by teachers and students and how they can be designed to enhance and complement human decision making.”
Van Leeuwen et al. (2023), Handbook of Learning Analytics
I am employed as assistant professor in the department of Education. I have a master degree in Artificial Intelligence and a PhD in Educational Sciences. In my work I mostly focus on learning analytics: What can we learn from (automatically) collected data about learning and teaching processes, and how can those data help us improve learning and teaching?
In 2024 I was honoured to receive the SURF Education Award.
I am interested in connecting to and collaborating with other national and international institutions who are working on learning analytics. My international network includes the Society of Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), where we organize bi-monthly webinars concerning a broad range of topics related to learning analytics. At national level, I am the coordinator of the SURF special interest group learning analytics.
Links to projects and networks I am engaged in:
- Utrecht University Learning Analytics program
- SURF special interest group learning analytics
- Npuls pilothub data and AI
- International Society of the Learning Sciences
- European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction
- Interact! project
Highlighted practitioner publications:
- Van Leeuwen, A. et al. (2024). Magazine facilitators and barriers of Learning analytics. Npuls magazine.
- Van Leeuwen, A., Goudriaan, M., Aksu, Ü., & Yousufzai, M. (2024). A Roadmap for Implementing Learning Analytics Projects: taking into account Pedagogy, Privacy, Ethics, and Technical Infrastructure. Companion Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK24), p. 9-12. Best practitioner paper award.
- Van Leeuwen, A., & Post, L. (2022). Nieuwe aanpak? Collega’s wijzen de weg. Didactief, januari 2022.
Highlighted publications in peer reviewed journals:
- Van Leeuwen, A., Teasley, S. D., & Wise, A. F. (2022). Teacher and Student Facing Learning Analytics. In C. Lang, G. Siemens, A. F. Wise, D. Gasevic, & A. Merceron (Eds.), Handbook of Learning Analytics (2nd ed., pp. 130–140).
- Muukkonen, H., Van Leeuwen, A., & Gasevic, D. (2023). Learning analytics and societal challenges: capturing value for education and learning. In C. Damsa, A. Rajala, G. Ritella, & J. Brouwer (Eds.), Re-theorising Learning and Research Methods in Learning Research (pp. 225–243).
Van Leeuwen, A., Strauß, S., & Rummel, N. (2023). Participatory design of teacher dashboards: navigating the tension between teacher input and theories on teacher professional vision. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 6:1039739.