Rebecca Ferguson
Simon Buckingham Shum
ABSTRACT
The first international workshop on discourse-centric learning analytics (DCLA) took place at LAK13 in Leuven, Belgium. That workshop succeeded in its aim of catalysing ideas and building community connections between those working in this field of social learning analytics. It also proposed a mission statement for DCLA: to devise and validate analytics that look beyond surface measures in order to quantify linguistic proxies for deeper learning. This year, the focus of the second international DCLA workshop, like that of LAK14, is on the intersection of learning analytics research, theory and practice. Once researchers have developed and validated discourse-centric analytics, how can these be successfully deployed at scale to support learning?
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- DCLA14: second international workshop on discourse-centric learning analytics
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