“Teach the teachers” Multiplier Event at UiB

On March 31st 2026, Bergen University held the teach-the-teachers multiplier event online. The webinar started with a brief presentation about the ISILA project, including its objectives, a summary of the work that has been done across the partner institutions, as well as a summary of the results and the lessons learned.

The next section of the webinar was focused on the current, institution-wide initiative at University of Bergen (UiB) to develop and deploy both student-facing and teacher-facing dashboards across several courses. These efforts are largely inspired and informed by the results and lessons learned from the ISILA project. In this part of the webinar, we have highlighted how the work being done in ISILA is leveraged in the current learning analytics efforts at UiB.

The third and the main part of the event was a guest lecture on the use of Generative AI (GenAI) to create learning analytics dashboards, given by Dr Aneesha Bakharia, from University of Queensland, Australia. With her extensive knowledge and experience in using GenAI in learning and teaching contexts, Aneesha was excellently positioned to help us explore how current GenAI-based tools can be used to create flexible and adaptable learning analytics dashboards on the fly. This guest lecture was motivated by the trade-off that we had to make during the project between information richness, on one hand, and timeliness and seamlessness of dashboard creation, on the other. In other words, to make the dashboard creation (relatively) easy for teachers, we had to sacrifice the quality of information that can be communicated via dashboards. The use of GenAI promises both rich and timely feedback and seamless dashboard creation.  Aneesha demonstrated how seamlessly custom learning analytics dashboards can be created with the frontier GenAI coding tools (Claude Code and OpenAI codex). She has also explained what the creation process looks like, but also warned about some security and privacy issues that may arise with giving GenAI tools unrestrained access to our file system or other private data storage spaces.     

The last part of the webinar was devoted to Q&A and the conclusion remarks on the present and future of learning analytics dashboards.