CHRIS VAN KLAVEREN - Amsterdam Center for Learning Analytics

Founded in the summer of 2016, the academic Amsterdam Center for Learning Analytics (ACLA) is devoted to improving education and labor market outcomes by adopting a comprehensive approach towards learning analytics.

In the emerging era of big data, analytics, and data-driven decision making, Learning Analytics holds great potential for better accommodation of individual needs and quality improvements. Effectively redesigning education and labor market practices requires an approach which, at its core, is theory-, data- and method-driven. ACLA does exactly this by operating at the intersection of these three criteria.

ACLA conducts research- and educational activities using and combining insights from information technology and computer sciences, theories of behavior, learning and education, and rigorous empirical evaluation methods. This enables us to make a fundamental scientific contribution and to structurally improve the quality of education and labor markets for current and future generations.

We actively reach out to researchers from different fields and institutions. These Fellows collaborate in research projects, exploiting each person’s unique knowledge and competencies. We actively cooperate with educational institutions, organizations and government; both for the purpose of conducting research and for implementing educational innovations. These Partners are instrumental for enabling research, innovations and for bringing expert knowledge to the table.

The result is a Learning Analytics environment that acquires relevant and high-quality data, and that contributes to the body of knowledge on how education and labor markets can be effectively designed and tailor made.

More information can be found on: http://acla.amsterdam/.

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