Ville Heilala

Ville Heilala received a Ph.D. in Mathematical Information Technology from the University of Jyväskylä in 2022. He also holds an M.A. degree in Education and a B.A. in Music. He works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, focusing on learning analytics, artificial intelligence in education, and future perspectives of digitalization. In his dissertation research, Heilala developed and examined a learning analytics process for analyzing learning experiences using machine learning and computational psychometrics. Before his research career, Heilala worked for over a decade as a teacher in Finnish primary education.

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...