Ryan Baker
Ryan Baker is Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and
Director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics. His lab conducts
research on engagement and robust learning within online and blended
learning, seeking to find actionable indicators that can be used today
but which predict future student outcomes. Baker has developed models
that can automatically detect student engagement in over a dozen
online learning environments, and has led the development of an
observational protocol and app for field observation of student engagement that has
been used by over 160 researchers in 6 countries. Predictive analytics
models he helped develop have been used to benefit hundreds of
thousands of students, over a hundred thousand people have taken
MOOCs he ran, and he has coordinated longitudinal studies that spanned
over a decade. He was the founding president of the International
Educational Data Mining Society, is currently serving as Editor of the journal
Computer-Based Learning in Context, is Associate Editor of two journals, was
the first technical director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning
Center DataShop, is on the McGraw-Hill Learning Sciences Advisory Board,
and currently serves as Co-Director of the MOOC
Replication Framework (MORF). Baker has co-authored published papers
with over 300 colleagues, and his work has been cited over 15,000 times.