Research Interests

• Learning Analytics
• Educational Data Mining
• Social Network Analysis
• Technologies for supporting adaptive and self-regulated learning
• Semantic-rich digital learning environments
• Learning context capturing, representation and exchange
• Open Digital Badges
• Text analysis and content mining
• Semantic technologies and Linked Data

Professional Associations and Networks

• the C3L - Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning
• the LS3 (Laboratory for Systems, Software and Semantics), Ryerson University, Canada
• the GOOD OLD AI research network

Research Rewards

• Best paper award (co-author) at the 13th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, Arlington, Texas, USA, March 2023.
• Best paper award (co-author) at the 14th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL'19), Delft, The Netherlands, Sept. 2019.
• Best paper award (co-author) at The 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Athens, Georgia, USA, July 2011.
• Best paper award (first author) at The 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, July 5-7, 2006.
• February 2004 - BSc work, "A Graphical User Interface for Jess Expert System Shell", was rewarded by the University of Belgrade as the best student research work in technical sciences

Tutorials

• N. Mirriahi and J. Jovanovic, "Video-based Learning Analytics" within the Learning Analytics Learning Network 2022 series, August 2022
• S. Poquet and J. Jovanovic, "Computational Approaches to Analysing Transitions in Learning", at Learning Analytics Summer Institute 2022, June 2022
• Jovanovic, J., "Text mining for learning content analysis," at Learning Analytics Summer Institute 2019 (LASI'19), Vancouver, Canada, June 17-19, 2019.
• Jovanovic, J., "Introduction to Text Mining in R," at SatRDay R Conference, Belgrade, Serbia, October 26, 2018.
• Jovanovic, J., "Text mining for learning content analysis," at Learning Analytics Summer Institute 2018 (LASI'18), New York, New York, USA, June 11-13, 2018.
• Bagheri, E., Jovanovic, J., "Semantic Annotation of Web Content," at 27th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2014), Toronto, Canada, May 4-7, 2014.

International journal editorial board membership

• June 2022 - present: Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence, member of Editorial Board
• January 2020 - present: Journal of Educational Data Mining, member of Editorial Board
• June 2019 - present: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Associate Editor
• March 2018 - present: Journal of Learning Analytics, member of Editorial Board

Reviewer for international journals

• Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Computational Intelligence
• Computer Science and Information Systems
• Computers & Education
• Computer Standards & Interfaces
• Data & Knowledge Engineering
• IEEE Internet Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
• Interactive Learning Environments
• International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems
• International Journal of Engineering Education
• International Journal of Information Management
• International Journal of Learning Technology
• International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
• Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge and Management
• Journal of Educational Technology & Society
• Journal of Learning Analytics
• Journal of Semantic Web
• Journal of Universal Computer Science
• Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability
• The Internet and Higher Education

International conference/workshop organizer

• Program co-chair, 15^th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2023), Prague, Check Republic, April 2023

• Conference track co-chair, 23^rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning (ICALT 2023), Track: Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics (BDELA@ICALT2023), Orem, Utah, USA, July 2023

• Conference track co-chair, 22^nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning (ICALT 2022), Track: Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics (BDELA@ICALT2022), Bucharest, Romania, July 2022

• Conference track co-chair, 21^st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning (ICALT 2021), Track: Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics (BDELA@ICALT2021), online, July 2021

• Conference track co-chair, 17^th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning (ICALT 2017), Applications of Semantic Web technologies for Learning (SW-EL@ICALT 2017), Timisoara, Romania, 2017

• Conference track co-chair, 16^th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning (ICALT 2016), Track 7: Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics (BDELA@ICALT2016), Austin, Texas, USA, 2016.

• Organizing committee member, OBIE 2015 - 2nd International Workshop on Open Badges in Education; held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK'15), Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, 2015

• Conference track co-chair, 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning (ICALT 2015) - Track 7: Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics (BDELA@ICALT2015), Hualien, Taiwan, 2015.

• Organizing committee member, OBIE 2014 - 1st International Workshop on Open Badges in Education; held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2014), Tallinn, Estonia, 2014

• Conference track co-chair, 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning (ICALT 2014) - Track 7: Big Data in Education and Learning Analytics (BDELA@ICALT2014), Athens, Greece July, 2014.

• Organizing committee member, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Track on Intelligent, Interactive and Innovative Learning environments, Gyeongju, Korea, March 2014.

• Organizing committee member, LALD 2012 - 1st International Workshop on Learning Analytics and Linked Data; held in conjunction with the 2nd Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2012), Vancouver, Canada, 2012

• Organizing committee member, WIISCOLA - Workshop on Intelligent and Innovative Support for Collaborative Learning Activities (2009); held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Rhodes, Greece, 2009