scholarly journals Towards Careful Practices for Automated Linguistic Analysis of Group Learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris K Howley ◽  
Carolyn Penstein Rose
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Computational Modeling ◽  
Group Learning ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Learning Sciences ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Many

This paper reviews work in progress towards bridging the field of linguistics and its operationalizations of discourse, and that of frameworks for studying collaborative learning that are rooted directly in the learning sciences.  We begin with the vision of a multi-dimensional coding and counting analysis approach that might serve as a boundary object between the variety of methodological approaches to analysis of collaborative learning that exist within the Learning Sciences.  We outline what we have discovered from a combination of hand coding, comparison with alternative analytic approaches including network analytic and qualitative approaches, correlational analyses in connection with learning-relevant extralinguistic variables, and computational modeling.  We explore both the contribution of work to date as well as the many remaining challenges.

Big Data Ethics and Politics: Toward New Understandings

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhong Chen ◽  
Anabel Quan-Haase
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Data Ethics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Privacy Breaches ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ethics And Politics

The hype around big data does not seem to abate nor do the scandals. Privacy breaches in the collection, use, and sharing of big data have affected all the major tech players, be it Facebook, Google, Apple, or Uber, and go beyond the corporate world including governments, municipalities, and educational and health institutions. What has come to light is that enabled by the rapid growth of social media and mobile apps, various stakeholders collect and use large amounts of data, disregarding the ethics and politics. As big data touch on many realms of daily life and have profound impacts in the social world, the scrutiny around big data practice becomes increasingly relevant. This special issue investigates the ethics and politics of big data using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. Together, the articles provide new understandings of the many dimensions of big data ethics and politics, showing it is important to understand and increase awareness of the biases and limitations inherent in big data analysis and practices.

scholarly journals Designing a Social Learning Analytics Tool for Open Annotation and Collaborative Learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremiah (Remi) Kalir
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Learning Sciences ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Collaborative Annotation ◽  
Social Learning Analytics

This book chapter recounts one approach to ethically co-designing a public dashboard that reports social learning analytics and encourages learners’ collaborative annotation across open texts and contexts. As a design narrative in the learning sciences, this chapter is a reflective, first-hand account organized around three related objectives: 1) Naming the theoretical stances toward open and social learning that informed design and research; 2) Describing key decisions and trade-offs pertinent to four iterations of a social learning analytics dashboard; and 3) Considering epistemological, technological, and infrastructural implications for the development and use of social learning analytics in open, flexible, and distance learning.

European Union Discourses on Employment

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Weiss ◽  
Ruth Wodak
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Political Union ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Eu

The fight against unemployment has been declared a top priority of European Union (EU) policies. Indeed, if mass unemployment is the major political problem in Europe, then the legitimacy of the EU as a political union will crucially depend on how this problem is dealt with. In this article we follow precisely the question of how the problem is dealt with in EU policy-making processes. Two forms of political spaces, an advisory group working ‘behind closed doors’ and the European Parliament, are compared. A socio-linguistic analysis of texts produced in the respective bodies reveals the many tensions in the development of supranational employment policies. Particular emphasis is placed on the rhetoric of globalization and competitiveness as being constitutive of the neo-liberal discourse.

scholarly journals Learning Analytics Impact: Critical Conversations on Relevance and Social Responsibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Xavier Ochoa ◽  
Simon Knight ◽  
Alyssa Friend Wise
Keyword(s):  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Knowledge Claims

Our 2019 editorial opened a dialogue about what is needed to foster an impactful field of learning analytics (Knight, Wise, & Ochoa, 2019). As we head toward the close of a tumultuous year that has raised profound questions about the structure and processes of formal education and its role in society, this conversation is more relevant than ever. That editorial, and a recent online community event, focused on one component of the impact: standards for scientific rigour and the criteria by which knowledge claims in an interdisciplinary, multi-methodology field should be judged. These initial conversations revealed important commonalities across statistical, computational, and qualitative approaches in terms of a need for greater explanation and justification of choices in using appropriate data, models, or other methodological approaches, as well as the many micro-decisions made in applying specific methodologies to specific studies. The conversations also emphasize the need to perform different checks (for overfitting, for bias, for replicability, for the contextual bounds of applicability, for disconfirming cases) and the importance of learning analytics research being relevant by situating itself within a set of educational values, making tighter connections to theory, and considering its practical mobilization to affect learning. These ideas will serve as the starting point for a series of detailed follow-up conversations across the community, with the goal of generating updated standards and guidance for JLA articles.

scholarly journals Quantitative and qualitative approaches in health research/Abordagens quantitativa e qualitativa nas pesquisas em saúde/Enfoques cuantitativo y cualitativo en la investigación sanitaria

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Khelyane Mesquita Carvalho ◽  
Cynthia Roberta Dias Torres ◽  
Edina Araújo Rodrigues Oliveira ◽  
Alyne Leal de Alencar Luz ◽  
Claudete Ferreira de Souza Monteiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Investigative Techniques ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Objective: To think about the quantitative and qualitative approaches in health research. Because it is an issue that concerns and beyond the field of health research. Method: This is reflective critical analysis. Results: From the reflection on the inconsistent opposition that is made of research methods, highlights the importance of each method for the instrumentation of the various objects of study, pointing to their use in a complementary way, which provides the visualization of objects of study under the various prisms. Conclusion: The theoretical and methodological approaches are sometimes presented in different and opposite way, resulting in the idea of incompatibility between the methods. However, from a methodological point of view, qualitative and quantitative investigations have not contradictory or continuous, but of different nature so that the researcher should not choose between one method or another, but implement the approaches that suit to your research question. Descriptors: Qualitative research. Quantitative analysis. Investigative techniques.

scholarly journals PELAKSANAAN PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DI MADRASAH ALIYAH NEGERI 2 PALEMBANG

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Sukirman Sukirman ◽  
Akmal Hawi ◽  
Alimron Alimron
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Contextual Learning ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Spontaneous Activities ◽  
The Many ◽  
Almost All

Moral degeneration has become a common phenomenon that plagues mankind in various parts of the world today, including in Indonesia. Various moral cases have occurred and adorned mass media almost all the time, ranging from cases of corruption, acts of violence, sexual harassment, pornography, prostitution, drug abuse, even murder. Since 2010 the Center for Curriculum and Bookkeeping has initiated a pioneering program of character education implementation in several districts / cities in all provinces in Indonesia.This study uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The data were collected using interviews and questionnaires. Data analysis is done descriptively in order to explain / describe the implementation of character education and the factors that become obstacles of its implementation.In this research can be concluded that character education in MAN 2 Palembang has not been implemented maximally. Some things that have not been implemented related to the implementation of character education are: not all contextual learning strategies used, not all teachers use contextual learning strategies, there has been no specific effort to revitalize the activities of co-curricular and extra curricular, related to the integration of teachers in learning, there are still 33.33 % of teachers are doing poorly (20.8% are poor in learning planning, 25% on learning implementation aspects, and 4.2% on learning assessment aspects). Many factors constraints and support the implementation of character education in MAN 2 Palembang. The obstacles faced by the madrasah include: difficulty in carrying out routine activities, difficulties in performing spontaneous activities, and difficulties in conducting conditioning activities. While the constraints factor from the teacher side is the difficulty of integrating character education in the learning process, which include: difficulties linking character education with materials, methods, strategies, and learning media, difficulty determining the value of character to be achieved, difficulty measuring the attainment of character education in participants students, too many students per class, not all teachers and employees can be role models, the number of things that affect the character, as well as the many aspects of character that must be developed. While the factors supporting the implementation of character education in MAN 2 Palembang include: support of all madrasah residents, family environment, madrasah infrastructure facilities, budget, student association, and student motivation.

Esilio e Risorgimento. Nuove ricerche e nuove domande: una discussione

2013 ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Patrizia Audenino
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Social History ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Many ◽  
Mixed Community

The paper is a review of some recent books concerning Italian exiles at the time of "Risorgimento". The approach to the subject used by these studies is discussed in first place: in Isabella's research the focus is mainly in the intellectual consequences of the exile, while Bistarelli's work has the declared aim to provide a social history of the Risorgimento exiles, adopting a collective biographical approach, and Verdecchia is interested in the London's Nineteenth century's refugees mixed community. In second place, geography and itineraries of the Italian exiles are discussed as reconstructed by these studies. Both Isabella and Bistarelli point out that Spain was chosen as the main destination for the first wave of Italian exiles. The Trienio Liberal 1830-1823 provided some durable teachings: the faith in the promises of the revolution, the link between Spanish struggle and the freedom of all Europe, the new strategy of the guerrilla. Other destinations investigated by Isabella's book, Greece, Latin America and Great Britain are analysed in order to identify the origin of the most important guidelines of Risorgimento's project. Isabella and Verdecchia discuss the role of London as the most important destination of European exiles, and as unsurpassed example of the benefits of freedom, adopting different questions and different methodological approaches. Finally the paper points out as the many important results of these studies lead to more questions about social history of Risorgimento's exiles, while showing the persistently poor connection between the findings and the questions of the migration studies and those of political history.

Supporting Group Learning Using Collaborative Networked Platforms

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Hsum Yap
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Group Learning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Structured Learning ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Learning Collaborative ◽  
Content Sharing

Collaborative learning or learning in groups revolves around the constructivist theory where learning occurs through social interaction process where learners construct knowledge collectively. The rise of social networking sites and a general interest in enhancing group learning brought forward the idea of designing structured learning activities that enhance interaction, communication, and discussion between students using the online learning collaborative networked platforms. This chapter describes the use of networked platforms for design and implementation of collaborative learning activities for undergraduate students in Taylor's University, Malaysia. This includes the use of Moxtra for group tutorial and real-time discussion, Google tools and Padlet wall for collaborative writing, as well as Slideshare for content sharing and discussion.

The Use of Metamodels in Web Requirements to Assure the Consistence

2011 ◽  
pp. 363-377
Author(s):  
M.J. Escalona ◽  
G. Aragón
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Model Driven Engineering ◽  
Quality Of Results ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Critical Phase ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Web

The increasing complexity and the many different aspects that should be treated at the same time require flexible but powerful methodologies to support the development process. Every day, the requirements treatment in Web environments is becoming a more critical phase because developers need suitable methods to capture, define, and validate requirements. However, it is very important that these methods assure the quality of these requirements. The model-driven engineering is opening a new way to define methodological approaches that allow control and relate concepts that have to be treated. This chapter presents a Web methodological approach to deal with requirements, NDT (navigational development techniques) based on model-driven engineering. As it is presented, NDT proposes a set of procedures, techniques, and models to assure the quality of results in the Web requirements treatment.

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