The present event is the 4th Nordic Learning Analytics Institute (NLASI) (1st NLASI was held in Bergen (Norway) in 2017, 2d - in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 2018, 3d- in Tallin (Estonia) in 2019). There were 15 papers submitted for peer-review to NLASI 2021. Out of these, 8 papers were accepted for this volume, 7 as regular papers and 1 as a short paper. NLASI 2021 was sponsored by Digital Futures and the Digitalisation Platform at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.