Institutional Members

SoLAR currently has 16 institutional members from all over the world: Australia, Japan, United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. You can read about some of our long-standing and brand new institutional members below.

If you are interested in becoming a 2024 or 2025 Institutional member, please review our institutional member benefits and contact membership@solaresearch.org.

2024 Institutional Members:

  • University of South Australia
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Texas - Arlington
  • Kyoto University
  • Utrecht University
  • New York University
  • TUM EdTech Center
  • Open University UK
  • Indiana University
  • Monash University
  • University of Florida
  • University of Sydney
  • DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Southern New Hampshire University

University of South Australia, UniSA/ Teaching Innovation Unit and Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L)

SoLAR member from 2013

Strengths

UniSA has attracted many of the worlds’ leading researchers in learning analytics. The strength of our research lies in the breadth of research that is achievable through access to large scale organizational data sets. In particular we have strengths in models of organizational adoption, networked learning, social network analysis, machine learning, data mining, assessment and feedback, cognitive science, computational linguistics, and education. As such, our work is wide ranging and applied covering development of predictive models, optimizing feedback, student and teacher sensemaking, analytic dashboards, video analytics and networked models of learning, to name a few. Our approach to learning analytics revolves around the need to address challenges experienced by learners and teachers. Hence, our work first seeks to develop and test learning analytics innovations. The outcomes of this work are then piloted in practice for further evaluation and assessment of the factors that may impede adoption. The outcomes are then translated at scale for organizational adoption.

Initiatives that UniSA is proud of...

Indiana University, University Information Technology Services

SoLAR member from 2019

Strengths

Indiana University is comprised of 9 campuses, as well as IU Online. This diversity of learning environments, including over 90,000 students, is supported by a shared data architecture and information technology division, enabling quantitative analyses of teaching and learning at uniquely broad scales. IU is also a charter member of the Unizin consortium, and is committed to rigorous and responsible research that advances the Unizin data platform's promise of becoming the world's largest learning laboratory. At IU's flagship campus in Bloomington, the Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success (CLASS) actively supports faculty engagement with these data resources, helping to foster a culture of data-driven, evidence-based curricular decisions and instructional innovations. Across all these efforts, the learning analytics community at IU shares a common commitment to the university's educational mission of helping students of all kinds reach their potential and prepare for a lifetime of success.

Initiatives Indiana University is proud of...

TUM Center for Educational Technologies (TUM EdTech Center)

SoLAR member from 2023

TUM Center for Educational Technologies (TUM EdTech Center) is a new collective of researchers and practitioners at the Technical University of Munich. The Centre bridges institutional activities in the field of digital teaching and learning methods. The centre aims to develop, test, evaluate and optimize cutting-edge educational technologies and support EdTech-based start-ups. The centre has six thematic directions: design of EdTech learning environments, digital coding of assessments and software development, edtech in leadership and expert development, personalized education in health care, process data for teaching and learning, and screening and upscaling. 
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