We’ll be having an off-cycle LAVA meeting today, November 25th, at 11:30am, where we will have presenters join us from UMIT in Austria!
Elske Ammenwerth, Eva Kaczko, Verena Dornauer, and Lisa-Maria Norz, members of LACOI: Representation of a Community of Inquiry in Cooperative Online-based Courses through Learning Analytics will join us to share their work and to learn about the LAVA community. We will learn about the ongoing Learning Analytics Community of Inquiry project and some details about specific research avenues of that project including: regulation of learning in CoI (Community of Inquiry), Cognitive presence – toward automatic measurement, and Social presence – toward automatic measurement by social network analysis. Following an initial presentation and discussion from LACOI, members from LAVA will also share some of their work and projects.
Some more information about LACOI, from the project website: https://iig.umit-tirol.at/index.php/en/projects/24-ongoing-projects/263-2020-2023-lacoi-representation-of-a-community-of-inquiry-in-cooperative-online-based-courses-through-learning-analytics
Wider research context: From a socio-constructivist point of view, learning requires activity, self-regulation, and cooperation among students. Online-based learning environments in higher education offer great flexibility to students, but are challenging in fostering such cooperative learning. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) is an established and effective framework on fostering effective cooperative learning in virtual learning environments. Learning Analytics provides approaches to measure the CoI. However, an automated analysis and visualization approach of the CoI is still lacking which prevents real-time monitoring of courses. In addition, it is unclear which actionable advice can be derived from CoI analysis to directly improve teaching and learning. Our idea is to build CoI dashboards using learning analytics. We will then evaluate whether this has an impact on teaching, learning process, or learning outcome.
Research questions:
- Is it possible to develop a comprehensive, automated representation and visualization of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) and its three dimensions for individual online-based courses by combining and extending approaches from learning analytics?
- Does the visualization of the CoI in a teacher dashboard, combined with actionable advice, has any impact on teaching?
- Does the visualization of the CoI in a student dashboard, combined with actionable advice, has any impact on student self-regulation, learning process, or learning outcome?
If you’d like to attend future meetings, be added to the email list, or would like to present to the LAVA group, please contact Alison (alison.myers@sauder.ubc.ca).