Human-Centered Educational AI and Learning Analytics

I study human-centered educational AI systems that connect learning analytics, small/local language models, and real-world school data to support teachers, assessment, and classroom decision-making.

My research sits at the intersection of Learning Analytics, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Educational Data Mining, and Human–AI Interaction — with a focus on how AI can support teachers and learners without replacing human judgment, and how educational AI can be deployed responsibly in authentic school and teacher education contexts in Japan.

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At a glance
  • Small/Local LLMs × Learning Analytics × Real School Contexts in Japan
  • Access to teacher education and school-based research settings
  • Japanese educational benchmark datasets & tools (open on GitHub)
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About

Who I am

Kyosuke Takami

Kyosuke TakamiAssociate Professor

Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan

I am an educational AI and learning analytics researcher based in Japan. My work focuses on designing, evaluating, and understanding human-centered AI systems for education, with a particular emphasis on small/local language models, real-world school data, teacher support, assessment, and classroom decision-making.

  • AI in Education
  • Learning Analytics
  • Educational Data Mining
  • Human–AI Interaction

Research Agenda

Three research threads

Small/Local LLMs for Education

How small and locally deployable language models can support educational feedback, assessment, inquiry learning, and teacher decision-making under real-world constraints such as privacy, cost, transparency, and reliability. Includes benchmark datasets for evaluating language models in Japanese educational contexts.

Learning Analytics & Teacher Support

Methods for analyzing learning data from classrooms, digital platforms, computer-based testing (CBT), and teacher education settings — connecting computational models with meaningful educational interpretation. Includes AI-supported assessment, explainable recommenders, and self-explanation analysis.

Human–AI Classroom Systems

How learners, teachers, AI agents, and classroom social networks interact. This includes AI-supported inquiry learning, classroom social network simulation, and the effects of AI-mediated interventions on learning, motivation, social relationships, and bullying prevention.

Research Vision

My long-term goal is to build a scientific foundation for educational AI systems that are not only technically capable, but also pedagogically meaningful, socially responsible, and usable in real educational institutions. Rather than treating AI as a standalone tool, my work views AI as a new participant in human learning systems — I aim to understand how AI changes the relationships among learners, teachers, data, assessment, and educational decision-making.

Projects / Grants

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Publications

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Datasets & Tools

Open resources on GitHub

HypoGen-LA

Dataset for human evaluation of LLM-generated hypotheses in Learning Analytics research.

github.com/KyosukeTakami/HypoGen_LA

JP Center Examination for LLMs

Japanese National University Entrance Examination benchmark for evaluating (local) LLMs.

github.com/KyosukeTakami/center-examination-jp

Gakucho Benchmark

Japanese national school achievement survey (全国学力・学習状況調査) question set for LLM evaluation.

github.com/KyosukeTakami/gakucho-benchmark

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Collaborate

What we can build together

I welcome international collaborations with researchers in Artificial Intelligence in Education, Learning Analytics, Educational Data Mining, Human–AI Interaction, and AI for Education. My lab is particularly well positioned to collaborate on studies that require real educational contexts in Japan — including teacher education, school-based implementation, computer-based testing, learning analytics, and the evaluation of small/local language models for education.

Possible Collaboration Topics

Small & Local LLMs for Education

Comparing small/local language models and frontier models for educational feedback, assessment, inquiry learning, and teacher support.

Privacy-Preserving Learning Analytics

Designing educational AI systems that operate under privacy, institutional, and cost constraints in real schools.

Teacher–AI Collaboration

Studying how teachers interact with AI systems for lesson planning, assessment, classroom analysis, and student support.

Classroom Social Network Simulation

AI-based simulation models of classroom relationships, peer interaction, bullying prevention, and collaborative learning.

Cross-Cultural Educational AI

Comparing how AI systems are perceived, used, and evaluated across educational systems, including Japan and international contexts.

Human-Centered Evaluation

Mixed-methods evaluation of educational AI with teachers, students, and practitioners in authentic settings.

What My Lab Can Contribute

  • Access to Japanese teacher education and school-based research contexts
  • Experience in learning analytics, educational data science, and AI-supported assessment
  • Collaboration with educational institutions and practitioners
  • Development and evaluation of small/local LLM systems
  • Japanese educational benchmark datasets and tools
  • Mixed-methods evaluation combining quantitative data, qualitative insights, and practitioner perspectives

Target Venues

Potential outputs include papers for AIED, LAK, EDM, IJAIED, Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, and related venues.

AIED LAK EDM IJAIED CAEAI IEEE TLT

Propose a collaboration

Visiting & International Research

Building long-term international partnerships

I am interested in building long-term international collaborations with research groups working on AI in Education, Learning Analytics, Human–AI Interaction, and responsible AI for learning.

A central motivation of my international research agenda is to connect advances in AI with authentic educational settings. Japan provides an important context for studying how educational AI can be designed, evaluated, and governed in real schools, teacher education programs, and public education systems — and I can bring this field site to international partners.

Through international collaboration, I aim to develop comparative and cross-cultural studies on small/local language models, teacher–AI collaboration, learning analytics, AI-supported assessment, and classroom decision-making. I am particularly interested in future visiting research opportunities with groups that share an interest in human-centered educational AI, including research communities around AIED, LAK, EDM, and related international networks.

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Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan
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