Prof. Dr. Hendrik Drachsler
Head of Unit
Educational Technologies
Information Center for Education
Rostocker Straße 6
60323
Frankfurt am Main
Projects
- DELTA – Towards Digital Education with modern Learning Technologies and Assesment approaches
- Digital educational architectures – Open learning (educational) resources in disseminated learninginfrastructures
Professional activities
Since 2017 |
Professor for Educational Technologies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and DIPF |
2016 – 2017 |
Professor of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Applied Sciences Zuyd (NL) |
2014 – 2017 |
Associate Professor, Welten Institute, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen (NL) |
2012 – 2014 |
Assistant Professor, CELSTEC, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen (NL) |
2009 – 2012 |
Researcher on Technology-Enhanced Learning, CELSTEC, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen (NL) |
2006 – 2009 |
Researcher (PhD), OTEC, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen (NL) |
2006 – 2009 |
PhD on Technology-Enhanced Learning, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen (NL) |
2004 – 2006 |
Consultant / Programmer, IT Consulting GmbH, Cologne |
2004 – 2006 |
Research Assistant, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Sankt Augustin |
2003 – 2006 |
Diploma in Education and Computer Science, University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg |
2003 – 2004 |
Java Programmer, LOCALITE GmbH, Sankt Augustin |
2001 – 2006 |
Web Developer, Freelancer, Cologne |
2001 – 2003 |
Computer Engineer, B.I.B. International College, Bergisch Gladbach |
Research Interests
- Learning Analytics
- Personalisation Technologies
- Recommender Systems
- Educational Data
- Mobile devices and their applications in the fields of Technology-Enhanced Learning and Health 2.0.
Publications
- Publications (DIPF database of publications)
Selected publications
- Greller, Wolfgang; Drachsler, Hendrik: Translating learning into numbers. In: Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 15 (2012) 3 , 42-57
- Drachsler, Hendrik; Greller, Wolfgang: Privacy and analytics – It's a DELICATE issue. A Checklist for Trusted Learning Analytics. Best Paper award. In: Association for Computing Machinery (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK '16), Edinburgh. United Kingdom – April 25 - 29, 2016 New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery (2016) , 89-98
- Drachsler, Hendrik; Verbert, Katrien; Santos, Olga C.; Manouselis, Nikos: Panorama of recommender systems to support learning. In: Ricci, Francesco; Rokach, Lior; Shapira, Bracha (Hrsg.): Recommender systems handbook New York, NY : Springer (2015) , 421-451.
- Jivet, I., Scheffel, M., Drachsler, H., and Specht, M. (2017). Awareness is not enough. Pitfalls of learning analytics dashboards in the educational practise. 12th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning. Tallinn, Estonia, 12-15 September 2017.
- Scheffel, Maren; Drachsler, Hendrik; Kraker, Joop de; Kreijns, Karel; Slootmaker, Aad; Specht, Marcus: Widget, widget on the wall, am I performing well at all? In: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 10 (2017) 1 , 42-52
- Di Mitri, Daniele; Scheffel, Maren; Drachsler, Hendrik; Börner, Dirk; Ternier, Stefaan; Specht, Marcus: Learning pulse – A machine learning approach for predicting performance in self-regulated learning using multimodal data. In: Wise, Alyssa; Winne, Phillip H.; Lynch, Grace; Ochoa, Xavier; Molenaar, Inge; Dawson, Shane; Hatala, Marek (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference (LAK '17), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - March 13 - 17, 2017 New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery (2017) , 188-197
- Fazeli, S., Drachsler, H., Bitter-Rijpkema, M., Brouns, F., van der Vegt, W., Sloep, P. B., (2017). User-centric Evaluation of Recommender Systems in Social Learning Platforms: Accuracy is Just the Tip of the Iceberg. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES.
Mainly quoted scientific articles
Selected presentations
- Updating the Learning Analytics Framework. Keynote given at SNOLA and eMadrid conference 2017, 04.07.20167, Madrid, Spain.
- SlideShare Profile of Prof. Dr. Drachsler
Memberships and Committee Positions
- Elected Member of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)
- Elected Member of the European Association of Technology-Enhanced Learning
- General chair of the European Conference of Technology-Enhanced Learning 2018, Leeds, UK
- Programme chair of the European Conference for Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL 2017), Tallinn, Estonia
- Programme chair of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK 2016), Edinburgh, UK.
- Treasurer of the European Association of Technology- Enhanced Learning (EATEL)
- Special Issue Editor of the high impact Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL)
- Associate Editor of the IEEE high impact journal Transaction of Learning Technologies (TLT)