Conference | Knowledge Café
Higher Education Knowledge Café: Learning analytics: opportunities and challenges
- Date
- Thursday 18 September 2025
- Time
- Address
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FSW building
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden - Room
- 1A.01
Blended learning
More and more teachers at Leiden University use blended learning, combining offline and online learning. How could learning analytics support teachers and students in teaching and learning?
What to expect?
In this meeting, we will present a synthesis of research on learning analytics and explore its opportunities and challenges: What is learning analytics? What can it do in your teaching or learning and what are the potential effects? What are requirements for effective use? What are examples of effective use? And how could you use it?
For whom?
Anyone who works or studies at Leiden University and is interested in research into higher education. If you are curious about what educational research can mean for your own (teaching) practice, you are more than welcome, whatever function or role you have.
Programme
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Doors open, coffee and tea |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Overview of the literature on learning analytics and examples from Leiden University — dr. Arjen de Vetten (ICLON) |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | Small group and plenary discussion |
| 16.45 - 17.30 | Drinks |
Participation
Come to the Higher Education Knowledge Café to exchange ideas with fellow lecturers, researchers, students, support staff and policymakers based on insights from scientific education research.
Participation in the knowledge café is free of charge. The working language is English. We ask the participants to participate actively in the discussions, so that we can make optimal use of all available expertise.
Registration
Register before Thursday, September 11. There is a maximum of 60 participants.
Registration form
The Higher Education Knowledge Cafés summarised
- Interaction: Share your experiences, provide input and get inspired. We will have a plenary discussion and talk in small groups.
- Input from experts: Academics from Leiden University who are involved in research into higher education share scientific insights on a topic of interest.
- New topics: Propose a topic for the next Higher Education Knowledge Café.
- Social: Take time to share your insights with others.