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Hutt, Stephen; Baker, Ryan S.; Ashenafi, Michael Mogessie; Andres-Bray, Juan Miguel; Brooks, Christopher – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Learning analytics research presents challenges for researchers embracing the principles of open science. Protecting student privacy is paramount, but progress in increasing scientific understanding and improving educational outcomes depends upon open, scalable and replicable research. Findings have repeatedly been shown to be contextually…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Educational Research, Online Courses, Privacy
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Bulut, Okan; Gorgun, Guher; Yildirim-Erbasli, Seyma N.; Wongvorachan, Tarid; Daniels, Lia M.; Gao, Yizhu; Lai, Ka Wing; Shin, Jinnie – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
As universities around the world have begun to use learning management systems (LMSs), more learning data have become available to gain deeper insights into students' learning processes and make data-driven decisions to improve student learning. With the availability of rich data extracted from the LMS, researchers have turned much of their…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Learning Analytics, Models, Learning Management Systems
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Moore, Robert L.; Yen, Cherng-Jyh; Powers, F. Eamonn – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between clout and cognitive processing in massive open online course (MOOC) discussion forum posts. Cognitive processing, a category variable generated by the automated text analysis tool, Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC), is made up of six sub-scores (insight, causation, discrepancy,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion
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Johanes, Petr; Thille, Candace – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
Education and education research are experiencing increased digitization and datafication, partly thanks to the rise in popularity of massively open online courses (MOOCs). The infrastructures that collect, store and analyse the resulting big data have received critical scrutiny from sociological, epistemological, ethical and analytical…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Learning Analytics, Online Courses, Higher Education