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Adam Schellinger; Jenna Zacamy; Jeremy Roschelle; Avery Closser; Cristina Zepeda – Digital Promise, 2024
The five SEERNet digital learning platforms (DLPs) present unique opportunities for researchers by offering tools, processes, and infrastructure to make research more efficient, scalable, and relevant. However, conducting research within a DLP may require a shift in a researcher's orientation or mindset in how they think about potential research…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Technology, Research, Researchers
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Amanda Konet; Ian Thomas; Gerald Gartlehner; Leila Kahwati; Rainer Hilscher; Shannon Kugley; Karen Crotty; Meera Viswanathan; Robert Chew – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
Accurate data extraction is a key component of evidence synthesis and critical to valid results. The advent of publicly available large language models (LLMs) has generated interest in these tools for evidence synthesis and created uncertainty about the choice of LLM. We compare the performance of two widely available LLMs (Claude 2 and GPT-4) for…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Computer System Design
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Seth Elkin-Frankston; James McIntyre; Tad T. Brunyé; Aaron L. Gardony; Clifford L. Hancock; Meghan P. O'Donovan; Victoria G. Bode; Eric L. Miller – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
Existing toolkits for analyzing movement dynamics in animal ecology primarily focus on individual or group behavior in habitats without predefined boundaries, while methods for studying human activity often cater to bounded environments, such as team sports played on defined fields. This leaves a gap in tools for modeling and analyzing human group…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Military Personnel, Measures (Individuals), Computer Software
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Mark W. Isken – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2025
A staple of many spreadsheet-based management science courses is the use of Excel for activities such as model building, sensitivity analysis, goal seeking, and Monte-Carlo simulation. What might those things look like if carried out using Python? We describe a teaching module in which Python is used to do typical Excel-based modeling and…
Descriptors: Spreadsheets, Models, Programming Languages, Monte Carlo Methods
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Cassandra Artman Collier; Anne L. Powell – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2024
As organizations' reliance on data increases, the prevalence of data analytics programs in universities likewise increases. However, despite this specialized education, scholars still report a gap between the knowledge and skills students graduate with and those required by industry upon beginning work as an entry-level data analyst. We draw on…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Information Systems, Educational Research, Data Collection
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Kean Birch; Janja Komljenovic; Sam Sellar; Morten Hansen – Learning, Media and Technology, 2025
The COVID pandemic highlighted the increasing deployment of digital technologies in educational institutions, defined as 'edtech'. The most visible edtech was video conferencing software, but a swathe of edtech startups have sought to roll out their products and services to educational institutions. We focus specifically on the deployment of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Videoconferencing
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Bimal Aklesh Kumar; Sailesh Saras Chand; Munil Shiva Goundar – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2024
Purpose: Mobile learning has seen tremendous growth over the years. Like any other software application, usability is one of the key concerns in its successful implementation. There is a lack of study that provides a comprehensive overview of usability testing of mobile learning applications. Motivated by this a mapping study is conducted.…
Descriptors: Usability, Electronic Learning, Computer Software, Computer Oriented Programs
Zhi Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation advances research on evaluation (RoE) through a trio of studies focusing on the role of context and the innovative use of Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software in formative evaluation in a qualitative research project. The first article extends Coryn et al. (2017) and elucidates how various contextual…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Computer Software, Inquiry, Computational Linguistics
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Meina Zhu – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Computer programming learning and education play a critical role in preparing a workforce equipped with the necessary skills for diverse fields. ChatGPT and YouTube are technologies that support self-directed programming learning. Objectives: This study aims to examine the sentiments and primary topics discussed in YouTube comments…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Social Media, Video Technology
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Chang Liu; Charles Downing – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2024
This teaching tip describes using Microsoft Power BI Desktop in a class to analyze unstructured data from an exit survey of prior students from a Master of Science in Management Information Systems program. Results from a short survey administered to these students showed that the students, using the no-code Power BI, were able to accomplish their…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Program Effectiveness, Information Science, Management Information Systems
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Elena Drugova; Irina Zhuravleva; Ulyana Zakharova; Adel Latipov – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Driven by the ongoing need to provide high-quality learning and teaching, universities recently have shown an increased interest in using learning analytics (LA) for improving learning design (LD). However, the evidence of such improvements is scarce, and the maturity of such research is unclear. Objectives: This study is aimed to…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Instructional Design, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement
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Jelena Mihajlovic-Milicevic; Miloš Radenkovic; Aleksandra Labus; Danijela Stojanovic; Zorica Bogdanovic – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This paper studies the problem of coordination and supervision of virtual teams and their capabilities. The goal is to develop a model suitable for managing virtual student teams specialized in the development of smart environments. The developed model is based on SAFe and DevOps, which when combined provide us with a framework for the evaluation…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Virtual Classrooms, Group Instruction, Active Learning
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Ian Hardy; Vicente Reyes; Louise G. Phillips; M. Obaidul Hamid – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Data infrastructures exist in a variety of formats. This article draws on the insights of senior personnel involved in developing a new data dashboard in one state jurisdiction in Australia. While literature on dashboards often focuses on the teachers and learners influenced by them, there is less attention to those involved in their development…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Learning Processes, Learning Management Systems, Computer Software
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Monsurat M. Lawal; Tugba G. Kucukkal – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
An undergraduate-level Computational Chemistry project was incorporated initially into a Physical Chemistry course and then into the laboratory curriculum in the subsequent application. Before the introduction of the project, the lectures covered quantum chemistry, spectroscopy, and kinetics while simultaneously including computational chemistry…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Computation, Active Learning
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Wonkyung Choi; Jun Jo; Geraldine Torrisi-Steele – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2024
Despite best efforts, the student experience remains poorly understood. One under-explored approach to understanding the student experience is the use of big data analytics. The reported study is a work in progress aimed at exploring the value of big data methods for understanding the student experience. A big data analysis of an open dataset of…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Learning Analytics