This project (2020-2022) is led by researchers from Monash University and the University of Edinburgh.
Yi-Shan Tsai is the principal investigator of this project. She is a lecturer in the the Centre for Learning Analytics at Monash (CoLAM) at the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. Her research aims to enhance learning, teaching, and educational environments with the adoption of digital and data technologies. She is particularly known for her achievements on an award-winning project, SHEILA (Supporting Higher Education to integrate Learning Analytics), which has informed policy development for learning analytics in over 200 higher education institutions around the world.
Nataša Pantić is a co-investigator of this project. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, School of Education. Her recent research has included studies of teacher agency for change and teacher communities using social and epistemic analysis. Her research interests include educational change and inclusion in contexts of diversity, and teacher development. She has published extensively in these areas in some of the field's leading journals and other outlets.
Justine MacLean is a Lecturer in Physical Education at the University of Edinburgh, School of Education and Sport. Her research interests are within the social and cultural practices in physical education, in particular how pupils, students and teachers can develop their potential within the educational environment. Her recent research focuses on teachers acting as agents of change in contexts of; curriculum enactment; communities of practice; within educational inequalities and when resilience is required. Justine’s passion is to use her research and teaching to help students develop resilience, exercise agency and reach their full potential as a result she has published extensively in peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and conference presentations.
Michael Phillips is a co-investigator of this project. He is the Associate Professor of Digital Transformation in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. His work focuses on the knowledge expert teachers develop when integrating educational technologies into their practice. Additionally, Michael researches the ways in which expert teachers make active decisions about their classroom technology integration. He has published a range of books, book chapters, peer reviewed journal articles and conference presentations, and received a Highly Commended Paper Award from the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE) and the Best Paper Award at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) conference in 2016 and 2019.
Dragan Gašević is a co-investigator of this project. He is Professor of Learning Analytics in the Faculty of Information Technology and Director of the Centre for Learning Analytics at Monash University. As a world-leading researcher in learning analytics, Prof Gašević has received several awards for his outstanding work on shaping next-generation learning and software technologies and advancing our understanding of self-regulated and collaborative learning. Funded by granting agencies and industry in Australia, Europe, and North America, Dragan is a recipient of several best paper awards at the major international conferences in learning and software technology.
Ana Hibert is a research associate of this project. Her research focuses on automated feedback for second language learners.