Prof. Dr. Hendrik Drachsler

Projects

• ALICE – Analyzing Learning for Individualized Competence Development in Mathematics and Science Education
• AR4STE(A)M – Use Gamification Strategies and Augmented Reality for Innovative STE(A)M Learning
• Analyzing and Fostering Learning for the development of Competence
• CORE – Critical Thinking in Online Learning Environments in Higher Education
• DELTA – Towards Digital Education with modern Learning Technologies and Assessment approaches
• DiFA – Digital Formative Assessment – Unfolding its full potential by combining psychometrics with learning analytics
• EduArc – Digital educational architectures – Open learning (educational) resources in disseminated learninginfrastructures
• GREAT – Games Realising Effective & Affective Transformation
• HIKOF-DL – Highly Informative and Competency-Oriented Feedback for Digital Learning
• LAMASS@DiLea – Learning Analytics, Monitoring and Ambition for Study Success in Distance Learning
• ML2MT – From Machine Learning to Machine Teaching – Making Machines AND Humans Smarter
• PROMPT – Optimizing Self-Regulated Learning Processes With Digital Prompts

Online Resources

• FoLA2 – Feedback-Orientated Learning Designs and Analytics
• Hyperchalk – Online Whiteboard for Educational Contexts
• OpenLAIR – Open Learning Analysis Indicator Repository

Publications

Professional activities

Since 2023

Guest Professor for Learning Analytics at the Open University Netherlands 

Since 2019

Director of studiumdigitale, central innovation unit for Technology-Enhanced Learning at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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
• AI in Education
• Assessment and Feedback
• Learning Design

Memberships and Committee Positions

• Organisational Member of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)
• Organisational 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)