Mining big data in education: Affordances and challenges

C Fischer, ZA Pardos, RS Baker… - Review of Research …, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The emergence of big data in educational contexts has led to new data-driven approaches
to support informed decision making and efforts to improve educational effectiveness. Digital …

The use and application of learning theory in learning analytics: A sco** review

M Khalil, P Prinsloo, S Slade - Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2023‏ - Springer
Since its inception in 2011, Learning Analytics has matured and expanded in terms of reach
(eg, primary and K-12 education) and in having access to a greater variety, volume and …

Stupid tutoring systems, intelligent humans

RS Baker - International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in …, 2016‏ - Springer
The initial vision for intelligent tutoring systems involved powerful, multi-faceted systems that
would leverage rich models of students and pedagogies to create complex learning …

Social presence in online discussions as a process predictor of academic performance

S Joksimović, D Gašević, V Kovanović… - Journal of Computer …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
With the steady development of online education and online learning environments,
possibilities to support social interactions between students have advanced significantly …

[PDF][PDF] The journey of learning analytics

S Joksimović, V Kovanović, S Dawson - HERDSA Review of Higher …, 2019‏ - academia.edu
It has been almost a decade since the emergence of learning analytics, a bricolage field of
research and practice that focuses on understanding and optimising learning and learning …

A systematic map** review on MOOC recommender systems

I Uddin, AS Imran, K Muhammad, N Fayyaz… - IEEE …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online learning environments (OLE) including learning management systems (LMS) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs) are gaining popularity as the best modern alternate …

Investigating learners' behaviors and discourse content in MOOC course reviews

X Peng, Q Xu - Computers & Education, 2020‏ - Elsevier
In MOOCs, course reviews serve as a new interactive tool that has not yet been sufficiently
exploited. Therefore, this study investigated learners' explicit behaviors and implicit …

Towards automated content analysis of discussion transcripts: A cognitive presence case

V Kovanović, S Joksimović, Z Waters… - Proceedings of the sixth …, 2016‏ - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present the results of an exploratory study that examined the problem of
automating content analysis of student online discussion transcripts. We looked at the …

Understand students' self-reflections through learning analytics

V Kovanović, S Joksimović, N Mirriahi… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2018‏ - dl.acm.org
Reflective writing has been widely recognized as one of the most effective activities for
fostering students' reflective and critical thinking. The analysis of students' reflective writings …

Roles of course facilitators, learners, and technology in the flow of information of a cMOOC

O Skrypnyk, S Joksimović, V Kovanović… - International Review of …, 2015‏ - erudit.org
Distributed Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are based on the premise that online
learning occurs through a network of interconnected learners. The teachers' role in …