Scholar
Ryan Baker
Google Scholar ID: hvs8PEoAAAAJ
Adelaide University
Citations & Impact
Citations
20,266
H-index
66
i10-index
293
Publications
20
Co-authors
180
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Proposed the Baker Learning Analytics Prizes. His research involves using Educational Data Mining/Learning Analytics to study learners and learning. Develops and uses methods for mining data from interactions between students and educational software to better understand how students respond to educational software and how these responses impact their outcomes. Studies these issues within intelligent tutors, simulations, MOOCs/online courses, and educational games. A core second area of research is Quantitative Ethnography, involving methods for human-LLM partnership in qualitative coding and detector-driven classroom interviewing using the Quick Red Fox app. Recently involved in Learning Engineering projects that directly develop learning platforms, including JeepyTA. Developed automated detectors that make real-time inferences about students' affect and disengaged behavior using data from digital learning platforms.
Research Experience
- Directs the Penn Center for Learning Analytics and serves as Advisor to Penn's Masters in Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (Online). Holds courtesy appointments at the University of Edinburgh Moray House School of Education and Sport and Ashoka University Department of Computer Science. Associate Editor of the Journal of Educational Data Mining. Teaches the MOOC Big Data and Education. Co-leads the Data Science Methods for Digital Learning Platforms Training Program and the Learning Analytics in STEM Education Research (LASER) Institute. Co-Director of the JeepyTA project.
Education
- Specific details about degrees, schools, advisors, etc., are not provided.
Background
- Research interests include Educational Data Mining, Learning Analytics, Learning Engineering, and Disengagement. Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Education in the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning within UNISA Education Futures, at Adelaide University. Also Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, primarily appointed in the Teaching, Learning, and Literacies Division, with affiliations to the Policy, Organizations, Leadership, and Systems Division and the Department of Computer and Information Science.
Miscellany
- Co-authored papers with several hundred people. Created some games with and for his children. Writes children's stories for fun with his kids.
