Ryan Baker has faculty appointments in Penn's Graduate School of Education as well as in the SEAS Department of Computer and Information Science. He directs the Penn Center for Learning Analytics(link is external). From his webpage(link is external):

My research is at the intersection of  Educational Data Mining(link is external)  and Human-Computer Interaction. I develop and use methods for mining the data that comes out of the interactions between students and educational software, in order to better understand how students respond to educational software, and how these responses impact their learning. I study these issues within intelligent tutors, simulations, MOOCs/online courses, and educational games. I study these issues in the context of K-12 formal and informal learning, higher education, the military, and lifelong learning.

In recent years, my colleagues and I have developed automated detectors that make inferences in real-time about students' affect and motivational and meta-cognitive behavior, using data from students' actions within educational software (no sensor, video, or audio data). We have in particular studied gaming the system, off-task behavior, carelessness, "WTF behavior", boredom, frustration, engaged concentration, and appropriate use of help and feedback. We use these models to make basic discoveries about human learning and learners. Many of these models are developed using data collected through the Baker Rodrigo Ocumpaugh Monitoring Protocol (BROMP)(link is external), and the HART Android app.

To join us for dinner at 6:00pm on Tuesday 10/29 in the McClelland South Lounge, RSVP below:

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