Author: Daniele Di Mitri

Daniele Di Mitri is a research group leader at the DIPF - Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education and a lecturer at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. Daniele received his PhD entitled "The Multimodal Tutor" at the Open University of The Netherlands (2020) in Learning Analytics and wearable sensor support. His research focuses on collecting and analysing multimodal data during physical interactions for automatic feedback and human behaviour analysis. Daniele's current research focuses on designing responsible Artificial Intelligence applications for education and human support. He is a "Johanna Quandt Young Academy" fellow and was elected "AI Newcomer 2021" at the KI Camp by the German Informatics Society. He is a member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence journal, a member of the CrossMMLA, a special interest group of the Society of Learning Analytics Research, and chair of the Learning Analytics Hackathon (LAKathon) series.
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#LAK16 in 10 tweets

Posted on 05/04/2016by Daniele Di Mitri

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Last week 6th Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference 2016 (LAK16) took place in the beautiful city Edinburgh, Scotland.

The conference has seen a record-breaking number of attendees and submissions which are collected in the proceedings.

I took part in the pre-conference and the conference sessions with the delegation of the Open University in The Netherlands.

In this post  the highlights of my participation to the conference by selecting 10 tweets.

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Big Data in Education – Dimensions of Learning

Posted on 04/13/2016by Daniele Di Mitri

Written for Lilab.eu

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In the previous episode of Big Data in Education we argued that "wave of data" in education can shed light several dynamics of the learning process.  In classical settings, learning takes place within the classroom actors (i.e. teachers and learners) and, for this reason, it is considered by many a black box to the outside world.

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