Dragan Gasevic

Dragan Gašević is Professor of Learning Analytics at Monash University. He is a researcher in learning analytics and co-developed several software systems such as P3, , LOCO-Analyst, OnTask, OVAL, and ProSolo.

Early life and education Gašević obtained a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Military Technical Academy in Belgrade, Serbia, and a masters in computer science (software engineering) & a doctorate in computer science (artificial intelligence) both from the University of Belgrade. His doctoral supervisor was Vladan Devedžić.

Career Gašević worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, as Assistant to Full Professor (January 2007 - January 2015) at Athabasca University, as Professor and Sir Tim O'Shea Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics (February 2015 - February 2018) at the University of Edinburgh, and as Professor of Learning Analytics at Monash University (February 2018 – present). He served as the Canada Research Chair in Semantic and Learning Technologies at Athabasca University (January 2009 - January 2014). He served as Co-Director (Learning Analytics) of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (November 2015 - February 2018).

Role in Development of Learning Analytics Field

He is a co-founder and was the President (2015-2017) of the Society for Learning Analytics Research. He served as a founding program chair of the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) in 2011 and 2012 and the general chair in 2016 and as a founding program chair of the Learning Analytics Summer Institute in 2013 and 2014. He served as a founding editor of the Journal of Learning Analytics (2012-2017) and as an editor of the Handbook of Learning Analytics.

Awards and honors 2022: ACM Distinguished Member