Education and background
Ph.D., École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal. QC
M.Eng., McGill University, Montreal, QC
Expertise
- Learning Analytics
- Educational data mining
Projects:
- myDALITE
Please see more here
- OpenEdx for active learning
Our team hosts an instance of OpenEdx that is meant to help teachers combine the best of Flipped Classroom pre-instruction tools/techniques in one platform
- Data Mining for Student Success
A project funded by PAREA which applies methods from statistical machine learning to college registration/academic records, in order to find predictors of students dropping out.
Papers
DALITE: Asynchronous peer instruction for MOOCs
Author: Sameer Bhatnagar, Nathaniel Lasry, Desmarais, M. and Elizabeth S. Charles | Source: In European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (pp. 505-508) Springer International Publishing. | Year: 2016
Taking DALITE to the next level: What have we learned from a web-based peer instruction application?
Author: Sameer Bhatnagar, Nathaniel Lasry, Desmarais, M. and Elizabeth S. Charles | Source: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014). International Society of the Learning Sciences: Boulder, CO. | Year: 2014
Awards
SALTISE Lifetime
2019 SALTISE Conference