The Learner Data Institute

Harnessing The Data Revolution To Make The Learning Ecosystem More Effective, Engaging, Equitable, Efficient, Relevant, and Affordable  

Lead Principal Investigator: Dr. Vasile Rus (vrus@memphis.edu)

The Learner Data Institute (LDI) is funded by the National Science Foundation (Award #1934745).

MISSION: The Learner Data Institute’s mission is to harness the data revolution to further our understanding of how people learn, how to improve adaptive instructional systems (AISs), and how to make emerging learning ecosystems that include online and blended learning with AISs more effective, efficient, engaging, equitable, relevant, and affordable.

Overview of The Learner Data Institute

The paper below provides an overview of The Learner Data Institute. 

Rus, V., Fancsali, S.E., Bowman, D., Pavlik Jr., P., Ritter, S., Venugopal, D., Morrison, D., and The LDI Team. (2020). The Learner Data Institute: Mission, Framework, & Activities. In V. Rus & S.E. Fancsali (Eds.) Proceedings of The First Workshop of the Learner Data Institute - Big Data, Research Challenges, & Science Convergence in Educational Data Science, The 13th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020), July 10-13, Ifrane, Morroco (held online). [PDF] [use this paper to cite The Learner Data Institute] 

Additional papers about LDI are the update provided at the 2nd and 3rd Learner Data Institute Workshop at EDM 2021 and EDM 2022, respectively:

Rus, V., Fancsali, S.E., Venugopal, D., Pavlik Jr., P., Graesser, A.C., Bowman, D., Ritter, and The LDI Team. (2021). The Learner Data Institute - Conceptualization: A Progress Report, Proceedings of The Second Workshop of the Learner Data Institute , The 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2021), June 29 - July 2 , Paris, France (held online).  [PDF]

Rus, V., Fancsali, S.E., Pavlik Jr., P., Venugopal, D., Bowman, D., Ritter, and The LDI Team. (2022). The Learner Data Institute: Emerging Science Convergence and Research Opportunities, Proceedings of The Third Workshop of the Learner Data Institute , The 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2022), July 27, Durham, UK.  [PDF]

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Program Chair: Deepak Venugopal (Computer Science), Core (Stats/Compsci): Lih-Yuan Deng (Statistics), Ching-Chi Yang (Statistics) Panel/Tutorial Chairs Dale Bowman (Mathematical Sciences, Statistics)


MISSION

The Learner Data Institute’s mission is to harness the data revolution to further our understanding of how people learn, how to improve adaptive instructional systems (AISs), and how to make emerging learning ecosystems that include online and blended learning with AISs more effective, efficient, engaging, equitable, relevant, and affordable.

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Lead Principal Investigator: Dr. Vasile Rus (vrus@memphis.edu)

Project Coordinator: Jody Cockroft (jlcckrft@memphis.edu)