Kathryn Bartimote, The University of Sydney
Dr Kathryn Bartimote is Head, Quality and Analytics within the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Portfolio, and an honorary associate in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. In her leadership role, she oversees surveys of the student experience and graduate outcomes, curriculum quality evaluation, and enabling learning analytics across the institution. She began her academic career in applied statistics and experimental design, and continues to use quantitative methods in her work, which often centres around topics in educational psychology. Her current research is focused on motivation, epistemic beliefs, institutional research, and educational research methodology.
Sarah K. Howard, University of Wollongong
Sarah Howard is an Associate Professor of Digital Technologies in Education, at the University of Wollongong. She is the Education Lead in the SMART Infrastructure Facility, a full-member of the Early Start Research Institute. Her research looks at technology related change in schools and higher education, specifically teacher practice and integration in learning. The driving question of her research is: how can we help teachers and lecturers best use digital technologies to support what they value? She works collaboratively with educators to improve how digital technology use and change are researched, to better understand how complex digital learning and teaching practices occur over time. A key focus of this work is designing ways to use new technologies to observe the classroom and experiment with new multimodal data to inform digital technology use, with the aim of conducting research that is meaningful and useful. She collaborates closely with academics across Australia, internationally, and industry partners, such as Google and Intel, to build the critical public-private collaborations needed to support in-depth and exploratory research.
Dragan Gašević, Monash University
Dragan Gašević is Professor of Learning Analytics in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University in Australia. Previously, he was a Professor and the Sir Tim O’Shea Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics in the Moray House School of Education and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (2015-2018). He served as the past president (2015-2017) of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) and has held several honorary appointments in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, and USA. A computer scientist by training and skills, Dragan considers himself a learning analyst who develops computational methods that can shape next-generation learning technologies and advance our understanding of self-regulated and social learning. Dragan had the pleasure to serve as a founding program chair of the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) in 2011 and 2012 and the Learning Analytics Summer Institute in 2013 and 2014, the general chair of LAK’16, and a founding editor of the Journal of Learning Analytics (2012-2017). Dragan is a (co-)author of numerous research papers and books and a frequent keynote speaker.