Maren Scheffel
Learning Analytics Researcher, Open Universiteit Nederland, The Netherlands
Maren Scheffel is a PhD researcher at the Welten Institute (Research Center for Learning, Teaching and Technology) at the Open University of the Netherlands. She studied computational linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Bonn and received her M.A. in 2008. She previously worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) focussing on research related to technology-enhanced learning. Since 2014 she has been working at the Welten Institute where she was involved in the management as well as the research for the Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE) project and now contributes to the Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics (SHEILA) project. Her PhD work focuses on creating an evaluation framework for learning analytics (EFLA). She is a member of the SURF SIG Learning Analytics.