About Paul Prinsloo

Paul Prinsloo is a Research Professor in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in the Department of Business Management, College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa (Unisa). He is a visiting professor at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), a Research Associate for Contact North/Contact Nord (Canada), a member of the Center for Open Education Research at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany, a Senior Fellow of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN), member of the Executive Committee for the Society of Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) and serves on several editorial boards.

Paul is an internationally recognised scholar and has published numerous articles in the fields of teaching and learning, student success in distributed learning contexts, the ethical collection, analysis, and use of student data in learning analytics, and digital identities.

 Paul was born curious and in trouble. Nothing has changed since then.

I blog in my personal capacity and the views expressed in his blogs are my personal reflections and do not represent the official views or standpoints of University of South Africa (Unisa).

Should you wish to contact me, please feel free to send an e-mail to: pprinsloo59@gmail.com

KEYNOTES

Here is a list of my keynotes for the period 2020-2023

·       2018 – International – Invited Presentation – ELESIG Webinar, hosted by the University of Nottingham, UK – 29 January – “Student consent in learning analytics: Finding a way out of the labyrinth.” Slides available at https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/student-consent-in-learning-analytics-finding-a-way-out-of-the-labyrinth-86833227Recording available athttps://uni-of-nottingham.adobeconnect.com/_a908729032/p5cirb6i09y2/ ·       2018 – International – Keynote (virtual) at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, Friday 23 February – “Understanding student success in online and distributed learning” Slides available at https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/understanding-student-success-in-distributed-and-online-learning-88710434 ·       2018 – International – Keynote at the American University of Cairo, Sunday 25 February – “How do we know they learn? The changing scope and role of evidence in student learning.” Slides available at https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/how-do-we-know-they-learn-the-changing-scope-and-role-of-evidence-in-student-learning ·       2018 – International – Workshop at the American University of Cairo, Tuesday 27 February – “The changing nature and role of the scholarship of teaching and learning.” Slides available at https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/the-changing-nature-of-the-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning ·       2018  – Guest Speaker – 12 March 2018, HSRC/AISA Young Graduates and Scholars (AYGS) Academy and Conference, 2018, South Africa – “Transdisciplinarity: Exploring the Potential and Challenges of the Interface between Social Science & Natural Science”. Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/transdisciplinarity-exploring-the-potential-and-challenges-of-the-interface-between-social-science-natural-science ·       2018 – Guest speaker – 15 May 2018 – SASUF Symposium: Digital Technologies, Big Data, and Cybersecurity, Vaal University of Technology, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 15 May 2018 – “ A Blind Date With (Big) Data: Student Data in (Higher) Education”. Slides available here: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/a-blind-date-with-big-data-student-data-in-higher-education ·       2018 – International – Invited presentation – 7 August 2018 – Here be dragons: mapping the (un)chartered in learning analytics. Virtual Presentation, School of Educational Studies and Leadership (EDSL), (Te) Kura Mātauranga me te Rangatiratanga, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Slides available here: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/here-be-dragons-mapping-the-unchartered-in-learning-analytics ·       2018 – International – Keynote – 28 August 2018 – Zombie categories, broken data and biased algorithms: What else can go wrong? Ethics in the collection, analysis and use of student data – Seminar – Datafication of Higher Education: Considering an ethical approach to enhancing the student experience, University of Stirling, Scotland. Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/zombie-categories-broken-data-and-biased-algorithms-what-else-can-go-wrong-ethics-in-the-collection-analysis-and-use-of-student-data-111886874 ·       2018 – International – Keynote – 3 September, 2018 – (Re)claiming humanity, reclaiming hope: the role of higher education in the 21st century. Universidad Estatal A Distancia, (UNED) San Jose, Costa Rica. Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/reclaiming-humanity-reclaiming-hope-the-role-of-higher-education-in-the-21st-century ·       2018 – National – Plenary Address – Quality, Innovation and Transformation in Curriculum Development for Distance Learning in the 21st Century, 2018 Academic Conference, STADIO Montana Campus, Pretoria, 17 October. Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/quality-innovation-and-transformation-in-curriculum-development-for-distance-learning-in-the-21st-century ·       2018 – International – Keynote – Mapping teaching and learning as (dis)location/(re)location: the role of student data, 9th Annual International Conference on Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 25 October 2018, South Africa. Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/mapping-teaching-and-learning-as-dislocationrelocation-the-role-of-student-data ·       2018 – International – Lead Paper Presentation, Learning at the back door? (Re)considering the role of open and distance learning, International Stakeholders’ Conference, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 28-31 October 2018. Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/learning-at-the-back-door-reconsidering-the-role-of-open-and-distance-learning ·       2018 – National – Invited Presentation – (Un)framing online/blended learning: getting the mix right, Presentation @ Framing Online Learning, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 6 November, 2018. Slides available at : https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/unframing-onlineblended-learning-getting-the-mix-right ·       2018 – International – Invited Presentation – Open teaching and research in closed* systems: doing the (im)possible. DEd cohort, Athabasca University, 17 November [online]. Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/open-teaching-and-research-in-closed-systems-doing-the-impossible ·       2019 – National – Plenary Address – (Teaching) Maths + Online + Context = X3. MasterMaths conference, 9 February, Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa. Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/teaching-maths-online-context-x3 ·       2019 – International – Panel member presentation – European Distance and Elearning Network (EDEN) webinar series – Researching Openness. Evidence – Based Approach, 8 March 2019. Panel members: Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa), Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichil, Dublin City University, NIDL, Andrea Saltelli, University of Bergen, Open Evidence Research, Antoni Pérez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), E-Learning Center ·       2019 – Institutional – Invited presentation – Collecting, measuring, analysing and using student data in open distance/distributed learning, Unisa UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning Series, 15 June 2019 ·       2019 – International – Invited Presentation – (Un)dreaming the future: (dis)connecting (some of) the dots. Edu4Future Conference, University of Leeds, 2-3 July 2019. Slides available at – https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/undreaming-the-future-disconnecting-some-of-the-dots-in-digital-technology-and-education-futures ·       2019 – Institutional – ‘Openness’ in open, distance and distributed learning Planning & Quality Assurance in partnership with Talent Management @Unisa 24 July 2019  Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/openness-in-open-distance-and-distributed-learning ·       2019 – Institutional – Invited presentation – Open distance learning in South Africa in 2030: A personal reflection. Unisa Gauteng Regional Office, 16 August 2019. Slides available at https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/open-distance-learning-in-south-africa-in-2030-a-personal-reflection ·       2019 – International – Keynote – Open, digital and public: Toward a scholarship of refusal Paul Prinsloo University of South Africa (Unisa): Medios, Producción y Educación Universidad Estatal A Distancia (UNED) San Jose, Costa Rica, 22 August, 2019. Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/open-digital-and-public-toward-a-scholarship-of-refusal ·       2019 – Institutional – Invited presentation to the Institute for Open and Distance Learning (IODL), University of South Africa, 4 September 2019 – “Researcher reputation, quality and performance”. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.18372.78721 ·       2019 – National – Invited presentation at the Higher Education Conference 2-4 October 2019 – “Reinventing South Africa’s universities for the future” hosted by Universities of South Africa (Usaf). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29035.49446 ·       2019 – National – Keynote – Conference: Mini Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Johannesburg, 15 October 2019. “Re-imagining assessment: mapping student crossings. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.32297.54888 ·       2020 – International – In conversation with Audrey Watters – “Building Anti-Surveillance EdTech – Contact North I Contact Nord – 20 July 2020 – http://hackeducation.com/2020/07/20/surveillance ·       2020 – National – Invited seminar – UNESCO Chair in ODL, Unisa – “Rethinking student vulnerability and risk: Researching student success and retention in open education contexts”, 12 August 2020. https://opendistanceteachingandlearning.wordpress.com/2020/08/12/rethinking-student-vulnerability-and-risk-researching-student-success-and-retention-in-open-education-contexts/ ·       2020 – International – Invited presentation – “Growing infrastructure and institutional capacity for a more optimum and appropriate collection, analysis and use of student data in the Global South”, 14 October, University of Ghana, Ghana ·       2020 – International – In conversation with Audrey Watters – “EdTech and Trauma” – Contact North I Contact Nord – 5 November 2020 – http://hackeducation.com/2020/11/05/trauma ·       2020 – International – Invited Presentation – “Managing student vulnerabilities and supporting student resilience in online learning” – The Virtual Learning & Training Conference 2020, 8 December – Contact North I Contact Nord – https://beacon360.content.online/xbcs/S2201/catalog/resource.xhtml;jsessionid=3da2f5126cb19269550b32c538de?eid=26505 ·       2021 – International – Keynote – Student engagement, wellbeing, holistic development & the ‘New Normal’ – 22 January 2021 – Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India. ·       2021 – International – Invited presentation – Distance education in a time of pandemics. EDDE806, Athabasca University, 28 January 6pm Edmonton MST time ·       2021 – International – Invited presentation – Becoming and being a networked researcher and scholar, Global Conclave on Advanced Research and Ranking Modalities, University of Kerala, 22 March 2021 ·       2021 – International – Invited presentation – International perspectives on the digitisation of university teaching and studying, German Council of Science and Humanities, 30 March 2021 ·       2021 – International – Invited presentation, Reconciling Learning Analytics and Social Justice: Contemplating the Impossible. New York University, 30 March 2021 ·       2021 – International – Panel discussant –  IFIP TC3 Zanzibar Declaration – Webinar – “Impact of Computer Networks and Communication on the Economic and Ecological Transformations of Society – Educational perspectives” 26 April 2021 ·       2021 – “Informed Consent in the use of student data”. Workshop, UNISA – “Informed Consent: Applying the principle of autonomy in an Afro-global context”, 29 April ·       2021 – “(Re)thinking zombie categories and colonial ways of looking at student data”, Directorate: Research Support, Research & Innovation Roundtable Discussion “Conversations about research ethics in Africa”, 19 May ·       2021 – International – Panel discussant – “Teaching After the Storm: Reimagining the Traditional Lecture”. European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN), 25 May ·       2021 – International – Keynote – “The data imaginary in higher education: in the nexus of surveillance and care”, International Symposium “Supporting learning in higher education through learning analytics”, Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology, University of Bergen, Norway, 26 May 2021 ·       2021 – International – Panel discussant – OPEN APEREO – ALT & Apereo Screenside Chat. Ethics & Learning Technology. Perspectives from the Pandemic, 8 June ·       2021 – Institutional – Invited presentation – University Research Committee – (Ethical) oversight of the collection, analysis and use of student data to inform teaching and student support 22 July ·       2021 – Institutional – Invited presentation – Gauteng Regional Hub – Personal Privacy Today – 2030: Considerations for Taking (More) Control  – 29 July ·       2021 – Institutional – Western Cape Regional Centre –  Understanding Open Distance Learning: Current trends and practices, 5 August ·       2021 – National – Stellenbosch Business School – Towards Digital Intelligence (DQ): Mapping the terrain – 11 August ·       2021 – National – Stellenbosch University – Towards a critique: Educational technology (re)considered – 13 August ·       2021 – International – iStar Conference – International Society of Teachers, Researchers and Administrators, Bangkok, Thailand, Embracing change in the nexus of hype, promise and hope, 27 August ·       2021 – International – Virtual Panel Presentation – Society for Research into HigherEducation (SRHE), London, “Learning analytics – some perspectives/ provocations  from the Global South”, 8 December ·       2021 – International –  Keynote – Distance Education Conference on Lifelong Learning, Ministry of National Education, Republic of Turkey, “(No longer) teaching in the dark: using student data in distance education”, 13 December, 2021. ·       2022 – International – Panel Discussion – Learning Analytics Network – Society of Learning Analytics – “Responsible learning analytics – some proposals and provocations” – 26 January. ·       2022 – International – Invited speaker – University education from the students’ perspective. SUCSESS, University of Oulo, Finland, Wednesday 2 February – “New pedagogies linked with assessments: some thoughts and provocations”. ·       2022 – International – Invited speaker – Open Education Seminar, 11 March, Hokkaido University, Japan – MOOCs and (open) distance education: A South African perspective”. ·       2022 – International – Panel Discussion – University of Sydney – The Ethics of Student Data Use – Bringing Together Ideas from the Fields of Learning Analytics, Educational Sociology, and Philosophy ·       2022 – International – Guest Lecture – University of Bergen, Norway – Towards an ecological understanding of ethics and student privacy in learning analytics ·       2022 – International – Keynote – Learning Analytics Summer Institute, Spanish Network of Learning Analytics (SNOLA) – “‘Beyond’ ethics: mapping the trajectory (and futures) of ethics in learning analytics” ·       2022 – International – Guest Lecture – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – Trusting the ‘robot’: Mapping some of the ethical implications of using AI in learning analytics ·       2022 – International – Invited Lecture – National Open University of Nigeria – 25 July – Learning analytics for and in ODeL ·       2022 – Institutional – Social Media Research Ethics – 16 August 2022 ·       2022 – Institutional – The digital transformation of Unisa – 6 September 2022 ·       2022 – International – National Council of Higher Education, Uganda – Content Development and Research networking to enhance ODeL for Higher Education in Africa, 15 September 2022 ·       2022 – International – National Open University of Nigeria, Student success in open distance learning: what we know, should know and may never know – 17 October 2022 ·       2022 – International – National Open University of Nigeria – Towards Evidence-led Open Distance Learning – 18 October 2022 ·       2022 – International – National Open University of Nigeria – Developing an implementation framework for learning analytics for the National Open University of Nigeria – 19 October 2022 ·       2022 – International – Keynote address at the 56th Distance education Association of Southern Africa  (DEASA) Conference, Swakopmund, Namibia, 3 November 2022 ·       2022 – National – University of Venda – Keynote address – How do we teach and learn in an increasingly connected* and/but unequal world? 4 November 2022 ·       2022 – International – Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria – Going blended and online: a tentative map – 8 November 2022 ·       2022 – International – Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria – Factors impacting student success in online teaching and learning – 9 November 2022 ·        2022 – International-  Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria – Designing online learning spaces – 10 November 2022 ·       2022 – International-  Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria – Storyboarding the development of your online teaching – towards a blueprint  – 11 November 2022 ·        2022 – International – 3rd International Conference on Information Science and Education (ICISE-IE 2022), hosted by South China University of Technology, will be held during November 18-20, 2022 in Xi’an, China.The ethics of (not) using student data to improve teaching and learning ·       2022 – International – IIOE-UNESCO – University of Nairobi – Effective Open and Distance Learning in HEIs, 15 December 2022 ·       2023 – International – Keynote UNESCO/ICHEI – The National Teaching and Learning Dialogue. Galala University, Egypt. “International policies of digital transformation in education”, 12 January 2023 ·       2023 – Unisa – Unisa UNESCO Chair in Open Distance Learning – 15 February 2023 – Panel discussion ·       2023 – International – Open University of Mauritius – “Open and blended learning – a critical overview”, 4 April 2023 ·       2023 – National – STADIO University – “Teaching critical thinking”, 5 April 2023 ·       2023 – International – Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA) Keynote Canada – June 2, 2023 – “The (un)bearable lightness of student data privacy: reckonings and re-imaginings” ·       2023 – International – European Conference for Technology Enabled Learning (ECTEL) , Aveiro, Portugal – 4-8 September 2023 – “Towards human-centered, responsive and responsible knowledge, knowing and coming-to-know: some reflections ·       2023 – International – Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia presents the event “Universitaria Governance: The High Price of Non- Transforming,” Medellín, Colombia, 21 and 22 November 2023. “Decentering the narratives surrounding digital transformation” ·       2023 – International – Transforming Higher Education in the Age of AI INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONLINE EDUCATION（IIOE）Global Partners Summit (Hong Kong Sub-Forum)

A SELECTION OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Breines, M. & Prinsloo, P. (submitted). Doxa in International Research Collaboration: a critical collaborative autoethnographic account. International Journal of Research & Method in Education.

Kaliisa, R., Jivet, I., & Prinsloo, P. (2023). A checklist to guide the planning, designing, implementation, and evaluation of learning analytics dashboards. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 20(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00394-6

Khalil, M., Prinsloo, P., & Slade, S. (2022). In the nexus of integrity and surveillance: Proctoring (re) considered. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 38(6), 1589-1602 https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12713

 Khalil, M., Prinsloo, P., & Slade, S. (2023). Fairness, Trust, Transparency, Equity,   and Responsibility in Learning Analytics. Journal of Learning Analytics, 10(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2023.7983

Prinsloo, P., & Kaliisa, R. (2022). Learning Analytics on the African Continent: An Emerging Research Focus and Practice. Journal of Learning Analytics, 9(2), 218-235. https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2022.7539

 Prinsloo, P., & Kaliisa, R. (2022). Data Privacy on the African continent: Opportunities, Challenges and Implications for Learning Analytics.  British Journal of Educational Technology, 53(4), 894-913  https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13226

Prinsloo, P., Khalil, M., & Slade, S. (2022). The use and application of (learning) theory in learning analytics: a scoping review. Journal of Computing in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-022-09340-3

Prinsloo, P., Khalil, M., & Slade, S. (2023). Learning analytics as data ecology: a tentative proposal. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-023-09355-4

Prinsloo, P., Khalil, M., & Slade, P. (2023). Learning Analytics in Support of Inclusiveness and Disabled Students: A Scoping Review. Journal of Computing in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-023-09363-4

Prinsloo, P., Khalil, M., & Slade, S. (2023). Multimodal learning analytics – in-between student privacy and encroachment: a systematic review. British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13373

Prinsloo, P., Slade, S., & Khalil, M. (2022). At the intersection of human and algorithmic decision-making in distributed learning.Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 1-14.

Prinsloo, P., Slade, S., & Khalil, M. (2022). The answer is (not only) technological: Considering student data privacy in learning analytics. British Journal of Educational Technology, 53(4), 876-893 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13216

Prinsloo, P., & Uleanya, C. (2022). Making the invisible, visible: disability in South African distance education. Distance Education,43(4), 489-507.

Slade, S., Prinsloo, P., & Khalil, M. (2023). “Trust us”, they said. Mapping the contours of trustworthiness in learning analytics. Information and Learning Sciences, 124(9/10), 306-325.

Thompson, T-L., & Prinsloo, P. (2022). Returning the data gaze in higher education. Teaching, Media and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2092130