Personalized learning environments and learning analytics hold the promise to transform learning experiences, enhance and accelerate student success, and "open up" student learning to resources and experiences from outside individual institutions. To ...

Recent work has studied real-life social and usage datasets from educational applications, highlighting the opportunity to combine or merge them. It is expected that being able to put together different datasets from various applications will make it ...

Learning Analytics by nature relies on computational information processing activities intended to extract from raw data some interesting aspects that can be used to obtain insights into the behaviours of learners, the design of learning experiences, ...

This paper provides an introduction to the scientometric method of main path analysis and its application to detecting idea flows in an online learning community using data from Wikiversity. We see this as a step forward in adapting and adopting network ...

Promoting blog content is a social activity; it is a means of communicating one student's appreciation of another student's work. This paper explores the feasibility of using student promotions of content, in a blogosphere, to identify quality content, ...