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Overview

Bart Rienties is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on areas intersecting computer science and social sciences, with a significant emphasis on applications of computer science within education. The main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Social Sciences

Their work extends into notable subfields such as:

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems

Bart Rienties has contributed to topics mainly related to online and technology-enhanced education. Key topics of research include:

  • Online Learning and Analytics
  • Online and Blended Learning
  • E-Learning and Knowledge Management
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Educational Innovations and Technology
  • International Student and Expatriate Challenges

Their publication record includes papers in several established academic venues, indicating an ongoing engagement with education technology and learning analytics communities. Frequent publication venues are:

  • International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
  • Frontiers in Education
  • Journal of Learning Analytics
  • Applied Sciences
  • Journal of Studies in International Education

Among recent papers featuring Bart Rienties as an author or contributor are:

  • "Innovating Pedagogy 2020: Open University Innovation Report 8" (2020), published in Dublin City University Open Access Institutional Repository
  • "Flipped classrooms in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings and future research recommendations" (2022), published in International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
  • "The promise and challenges of generative AI in education" (2024), published in Behaviour and Information Technology
  • "Conceptualizing Internationalization at a Distance: A "Third Category" of University Internationalization" (2020), published in Journal of Studies in International Education
  • "Subjective data, objective data and the role of bias in predictive modelling: Lessons from a dispositional learning analytics application" (2020), published in PLoS ONE

Bart Rienties often collaborates with a group of recurring co-authors. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Christothea Herodotou
  • Dirk Tempelaar
  • Julia Sargent
  • Denise Whitelock
  • Quan Nguyen

The research contributions of Bart Rienties span a range of multidisciplinary themes primarily situated in enhancing educational practices through technology, with a strong involvement in learning analytics and AI applications within education contexts.

Best Publications

  • Innovating Pedagogy 2015: Open University Innovation Report 4

    Mike Sharples;Anne Adams;N Alozie;Rebecca Ferguson

  • Understanding academic performance of international students: The role of ethnicity, academic and social integration

    Bart Rienties;Simon Beausaert;Therese Grohnert;Susan Niemantsverdriet

  • Innovating Pedagogy 2016: Open University Innovation Report 5

    Mike Sharples;Roberto de Roock;Rebecca Ferguson;Mark Gaved

  • The effects of online professional development on higher education teachers' beliefs and intentions towards learning facilitation and technology

    Bart Rienties;Natasa Brouwer;Simon Lygo-Baker

  • In search for the most informative data for feedback generation

    Dirk T. Tempelaar;Bart Rienties;Bas Giesbers

  • Investigating the relations between motivation, tool use, participation, and performance in an e-learning course using web-videoconferencing

    Bas Giesbers;Bart Rienties;Dirk Tempelaar;Wim Gijselaers

  • Innovating Pedagogy 2014

    Mike Sharples;Anne Adams;Rebecca Ferguson;Mark Gaved

  • The impact of learning design on student behaviour, satisfaction and performance

    Bart Rienties;Lisette Toetenel

  • A dynamic analysis of the interplay between asynchronous and synchronous communication in online learning: The impact of motivation

    Bas Giesbers;Bart Rienties;Dirk T. Tempelaar;Wim Gijselaers

  • The role of academic motivation in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

    Bart Rienties;Dirk Tempelaar;Piet Van den Bossche;Wim Gijselaers

  • Flipped classrooms in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings and future research recommendations

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  • Understanding friendship and learning networks of international and host students using longitudinal Social Network Analysis

    Bart Rienties;Bart Rienties;Eimear-Marie Nolan

  • Visualising the invisible: a network approach to reveal the informal social side of student learning

    J. Hommes;B. Rienties;W. de Grave;G. Bos

  • The role of demographics in online learning; A decision tree based approach

    Saman Zehra Rizvi;Bart Rienties;Shakeel Ahmed Khoja

  • The role of cultural dimensions of international and Dutch students on academic and social integration and academic performance in the Netherlands

    Bart Rienties;Dirk Tempelaar

  • The role of scaffolding and motivation in CSCL

    Bart Rienties;Bas Giesbers;Dirk Tempelaar;Simon Lygo-Baker

  • How achievement emotions impact students' decisions for online learning, and what precedes those emotions

    Dirk T. Tempelaar;Alexandra Niculescu;Bart Rienties;Wim H. Gijselaers

  • Why some teachers easily learn to use a new virtual learning environment: a technology acceptance perspective

    Bart Rienties;Bas Giesbers;Simon Lygo-Baker;Hoi Wah Serena Ma

  • A large-scale implementation of predictive learning analytics in higher education: the teachers’ role and perspective

    Christothea Herodotou;Bart Rienties;Avinash Boroowa;Zdenek Zdrahal

  • Understanding social learning relations of international students in a large classroom using social network analysis

    Bart Rienties;YingFei Héliot;Divya Jindal-Snape

  • Examining the designs of computer-based assessment and its impact on student engagement, satisfaction, and pass rates

    Quan Nguyen;Bart Rienties;Lisette Toetenel;Rebecca Ferguson

  • Innovating Pedagogy 2020: Open University Innovation Report 8

    Agnes Kukulska-Hulme;Elaine Beirne;Gráinne Conole;Eamon Costello

Frequent Co-Authors

Wim H. Gijselaers
Wim H. Gijselaers Maastricht University
Allison Littlejohn
Allison Littlejohn University College London
Mien Segers
Mien Segers Maastricht University
Eileen Scanlon
Eileen Scanlon The Open University
Martin Weller
Martin Weller The Open University
Piet Van den Bossche
Piet Van den Bossche University of Antwerp
Karen Littleton
Karen Littleton The Open University
Parvati Raghuram
Parvati Raghuram The Open University
Jeremy Roschelle
Jeremy Roschelle Digital Promise
John T. E. Richardson
John T. E. Richardson The Open University

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