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Blobstein, Ariel; Gal, Kobi; Kim, Hyunsoo Gloria; Facciotti, Marc; Karger, David; Sripathi, Kamali – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
Emoji are commonly used in social media to convey attitudes and emotions. While popular, their use in educational contexts has been sparsely studied. This paper reports on the students' use of emoji in an online course forum in which students annotate and discuss course material in the margins of the online textbook. For this study, instructors…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Social Media, Online Courses
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Bédi, Branislav; Chua, Cathy; Habibi, Hanieh; Martinez-Lopez, Ruth; Rayner, Manny – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This paper presents a brief overview of LARA (Learning And Reading Assistant), an open source online tool that has been under development since summer 2018. LARA currently contains a corpus of about 25 texts in ten languages and a crowdsourcing model used to expand the corpus. The central goal is to provide support for improving second language…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Indo European Languages, Computational Linguistics, Reading Comprehension