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I am Xavier Ochoa. Publicly, I am defined by:

My Work 

I am an Associate Professor of Learning Analytics at the Educational Communications and Technology (ECT) program at the Administration, Leadership and Technology (ALT) department of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at the New York University (NYU).

I coordinate the Doctoral Program at ECT (NYU).

I lead the Augment-Ed research group.

I am chair of the ACM Learning@Scale Community.

Previously,

I was a founding member of the Learning Analytics Research Network (LEARN) at NYU.

I was Editor of the Journal of Learning Analytics

I was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

I was Vice-president of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)

I was Full Professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) at Guayaquil, Ecuador.

I was director of the Information Technology Center (CTI) and Director of the Research Group on Teaching and Learning Technologies (TEA) at ESPOL.

I was Editor-in-Chief of the Revista Tecnológica, a multidisciplinary journal published by ESPOL.

My Research

My current research interests are:

  • Learning Analytics:  Measuring learning to help teachers and students to take better decisions
  • Multimodal Learning Analytics:  Using diverse signals to understand the learning process in physical spaces
  • Artificial Intelligence for Education: How the leverage the potential of traditional and generative AI for learning

 A list of my publications can be found here.

My Academic Networks

I am member of the ACM Learning@Scale Community.

I am a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SOLAR).

I am involved in the Latin American Community on Learning Technologies (LACLO) and I have organized the LACLO Conference.

I was involved in the coordination of the Ariadne Foundation.  Also directing the Center for Development and Support of ARIADNE at Guayaquil.  

I represented LACLO at the Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) consortium.  

I was part of the AUGMENT Group of the Computer Science Department of the University of Leuven, under the supervision of late Prof. Erik Duval. 

I am a professional member of IEEE and ACM.

My Projects

I have participated in and coordinated several international projects.  Among those:

  • LALA (Learning Analytics for Latin America)
  • MUVA (Management of Uncertainty in Visual Analytics)
  • LATIn (Latin American Open Textbooks Initiative)
  • IGUAL (Innovation for Equality in the Latin American University)
  • agInfra (E-Infrastructure to support the work of researchers in the agricultural field) 
  • VLIR-RIP (Personalized Learning through the Measuring of Cognitive and Metacognitive Skills)

My Online Life

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