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From 17 till 29 August 2024, Professor Blaženka Divjak visited the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Professor Blaženka Divjak held a keynote speech at the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2024), taking place from 8 till 12 July 2024 in Recife, Brazil, with the theme of "AI in Education for a World in Transition".

On Wednesday, 12 June 2024, Faculty of Organization and Informatics hosted Dr Mladen Rakovic, a researcher in the area of learning analytics and self-regulated learning, from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Within a study visit, on Friday and Monday, 16 and 19 February 2024, Professor Blaženka Divjak, accompanied by Professor Valentina Kirinić, visited two universities in Singapore: Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore. The universities are among the top 20 universities of the world.

On Friday, 22 March 2024, Professor Blaženka Divjak participated as one of the panelists in the discussion on Building Collaborative Pathways for Research and Industry in LA within the LAK24 conference in Kyoto. The panel also included Professor Dragan Gašević (Monash University), Dr Alina von Davier (Duolingo), Associate Professor Srećko Joksimović (University of South Australia), and Dr Kristen DiCerbo (Khan Academy).

On Monday, 18 March 2024, within the pre-conference program of this year's Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK24) in Kyoto, Japan, Professor Blaženka Divjak, with Professor Bart Rienties (Open University) and Professor Dragan Gašević (Monash University), held a workshop on the development of innovative learning design. It was a sequel of the last year's LAK23 workshop, but with a new angle, looking at the intersection of learning design and AI.

On Tuesday, 19 March 2024, Professor Divjak participated in the organization of another pre-conference workshop of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK24) in Kyoto, Japan. The whole-day workshop was held by a team of international academics and LA experts, including also Professor Dragan Gašević (Monash University), Assistant Professor Yoon Jeon Kim (University of Wisconsin) and Dr Abhinava Barthakur (University of South Australia).

On Tuesday, 5 March 2024, a Kick-off meeting was held back-to-back with a Research workshop on trustworthy learning analytics (LA) and AI algorithms. The meeting, held in a hybrid format (@FOI and online), was led by Professor Blaženka Divjak, the projects’ principal investigator.

On Monday, 12 February 2024, Professor Blaženka Divjak was hosted by University of South Australia's (UniSA) Center for Change and Complexity in Education in Adelaide, where she gave a presentation entitled Enhancing Quality Assurance: Integrating a Learning Design Tool and Learning Analytics, attended by more than 20 UniSA’s educators and researchers.

An article authored by Professor Blaženka Divjak, Barbi Svetec and Damir Horvat has been published in the high-quality international Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.