Utilizing Learning Analytics to Support Study Success (eng)

Jane Yin-Kim Yau is a Researcher in Mobile Learning Analytics at the Chair for Learning, Design and Technology in the Business School at the University of Mannheim, Germany. She has been an active Researcher in Mobile Learning since 2005. She completed a PhD Computer Science (Mobile Learning) at the University of Warwick, UK, in 2010. Her doctoral thesiswas entitled “A mobile context-aware learning schedule framework with Java learning objects”. She has research expertise in context-awareness, personalization, and user profiling. She was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for Learning and Knowledge Technologies at Linnaeus University (CeLeKT), Sweden, where she collaborated with multidisciplinary research teams in the various projects undertaken by the group such as GeM (Geometry Mobile), mHealth, Co-Create and LETS GO (Learning Ecology with Technologies for Global Outcomes). Thereafter, she was a Postdoc at the School of Technology, Malmö University, Sweden, and was a co-applicant in two large successful research applications: Practice-based Experimental Learning Analytics Research Support project, PELARS (EU FP7, 2014-17), and the Internet of Things and People Research Center at Malmö University. She was also a Visiting Researcher at the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) in 2016 atFrankfurt Am Main, Germany. She was a book reviewer in Wong, Milrad & Specht (eds.) (2015) Seamless Learning in the Age of Mobile Connectivity. Singapore, Springer. Additionally, she is a reviewer in the IEEE Transactions in Learning Technologies, Educational Technology & Society, Int. Journal of Mobile & Blended Learning, and Int. Journal on Mobile Learning & Organisation amongst others. To date, she has published around 40 peer-reviewed articles including 15 journal articles and 1 book chapter mainly in the area of Mobile Learning.