Baker Learning Analytics Prizes

Introduced in a keynote at the 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, the Baker Learning Analytics Prizes represent a set of six challenges for researchers in learning analytics/educational data mining/artificial intelligence and education, and related fields.

As of May 28, 2025, one of the six challenges -- BLAP1 -- has been succesfully solved.
See Winning Paper
See New Challenges:BLAP-1-ALPHA, BLAP-1-BETA, BLAP-1-GAMMA

Keynote video

Keynote slides

Talk transcript

The transcript of this talk has now been published as
Baker, R.S. (2019) Challenges for the Future of Educational Data Mining: The Baker Learning Analytics Prizes. Journal of Educational Data Mining, 11 (1), 1-17.

List of problems/challenges

Progress towards solving BLAP challenges

The first researcher or team to succesfully complete each challenge will receive $1.00 USD.