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Ba, Shen; Hu, Xiao; Stein, David; Liu, Qingtang – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
Providing coaching to participants in inquiry-based online discussions contributes to developing cognitive presence (CP) and higher-order thinking. However, a primary issue limiting quality and timely coaching is instructors' lack of tools to efficiently identify CP phases in massive discussion transcripts and effectively assess learners'…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Computer Mediated Communication, Inquiry, Classification
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Park, Hyoung-Yong; Seo, Hae-Ae – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2023
Evolution is a central concept that unifies all areas of life sciences. Despite longstanding scientific efforts in science education, the public's scientific awareness of evolution still needs to improve. Furthermore, teaching evolution is subject to recurring controversy. This study aimed to investigate the gap between public understanding of…
Descriptors: Evolution, Scientific Concepts, Computer Mediated Communication, Classification
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Almquist, Zack W.; Bagozzi, Benjamin E. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2019
Radical social movements are broadly engaged in, and dedicated to, promoting change in their social environment. In their corresponding efforts to call attention to various causes, communicate with like-minded groups, and mobilize support for their activities, radical social movements also produce an enormous amount of text. These texts, like…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Change, Social Networks, Conservation (Environment)
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Liu, Qingtang; Zhang, Si; Wang, Qiyun; Chen, Wenli – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2018
Teachers' online discussion text data shed light on their reflective thinking. With the growing scale of text data, the traditional way of manual coding, however, has been challenged. In order to process the large-scale unstructured text data, it is necessary to integrate the inductive content analysis method and educational data mining…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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Firat, Mehmet; Altinpulluk, Hakan; Kilinç, Hakan; Büyük, Köksal – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
The aim of this study is to reveal Open Education related social media usage in Turkey through social network analyses. To this end, the most widely used social media network in Turkey, Facebook, was chosen. All the pages and groups created on Facebook related to Open Education were found. A total of 207 groups and 521 pages were accessed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Hu, Xiangen, Ed.; Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Hershkovitz, Arnon, Ed.; Paquette, Luc, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Graphs, Data Use