Mirka Saarela

Mirka Saarela is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow in the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Information Technology (2017, JYU). Her research lies at the intersection of learning analytics, machine learning, education, and artificial intelligence. She is especially interested in explainability and fairness in algorithmic decision-making. Her research was supported by Otto A. Malm, the Finnish Foundation for Share Promotion, and the Academy of Finland (project no. 356314).

Publications

Adapting Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Using Explainable Student Agency Analytics
Adapting Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Using Explainable Student Agency Analytics
Ville Heilala, Päivikki Jääskelä, Mirka Saarela, Tommi Kärkkäinen. © 2024. 32 pages.
This chapter deals with the learning analytics technique called student agency analytics and explores its foundational technologies and their potential implications for adaptive...