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2026
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
This chapter presents Transition Network Analysis (TNA) that captures the full breadth of the relational dynamics of a temporal process. TNA models transitions between events as a weighted directed network....
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
In the context of explainable artificial intelligence, global explanations provide aggregate insights about the performance and factors influencing a machine learning model, as we have seen in the previous chapter....
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
Two research paradigms are commonly used: between-person (often known as nomothetic or group-based) and within-person analysis. The between-person approach captures data across different people and gathers their variations, hence the...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
This tutorial introduces the application of advanced network analysis methods, specifically Graphical Vector Autoregression (graphicalVAR) and Unified Structural Equation Modeling (uSEM), to model learning processes as complex, dynamic systems. These...
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
Despite the potential of integrating machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence capabilities into educational settings, there are several challenges that hamper their widespread use and adoption. Among these challenges is...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
Traditional methods in educational research often fail to capture the complex and evolving nature of learning processes. This chapter examines the use of complex systems theory in education to address...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
This chapter presents Frequency-Based Transition Network Analysis (FTNA), a novel method to model the relational dynamics and the transitions between states or events based on the frequency of occurrence of...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
This chapter introduces a tutorial on using Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) to automate and scale predictive modeling in education. In particular, we illustrate the usefulness of AutoML for idiographic analysis,...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
Being able to predict students’ performance has been a primary driver for the adoption of learning analytics and has attracted many scientists to the field. Predictive modeling focuses on using...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
This chapter addresses the classification of at-risk students in educational settings using machine learning approaches in R. Transitioning from regression-based predictions of students’ grades covered by the previous chapter, the...
Book
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods: AI, Precision and Complexity, 2026
This is an open access book. This comprehensive and timely methodological book introduces several novel topics under the overarching sections of advanced learning analytics (LA), artificial intelligence (AI), precision education,...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
Large language models (LLMs) have become central to contemporary advancements in education. LLMs facilitate applications such as automated feedback, question generation, sentiment analysis, and multilingual accessibility. This chapter examines the...
Conference
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2026
Integrating new methods into Quantitative Ethnography (QE) presents an ongoing challenge, as well-established techniques, such as Epistemic Network Analysis have primarily shaped the field. This paper introduces Transition Network Analysis...
Article
ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2026
Programming is taught globally in universities and in a large number of countries, also in schools, often associated with learning computational thinking. It is therefore natural that programming education research...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
Coding text data in qualitative research is a labor-intensive and error-prone process that requires meticulous attention to detail as well as consistency in the coding criteria. Large Language Models (LLMs)...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
This chapter serves as an introduction to the book Advanced Learning Analytics Methods: AI, Precision, and Complexity. In a previous volume—Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials: A Practical Guide Using R—,...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
This chapter explores three analytical approaches—variable-centered, person-centered, and person-specific—that span a spectrum of generalizability and individualization. The variable-centered approach emphasizes generalizable insights by analyzing relationships across a population, often overlooking...
Article
IEEE Transactions on Games, 2026
Escape rooms have evolved from recreational activities to engaging educational tools, combining storytelling, puzzlesolving, and teamwork. Despite their popularity, research on escape rooms remains highly decentralized with no clear focus...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
In this chapter, we demonstrate how we can identify and study clusters within Transition Network Analysis (TNA) to reveal the underlying heterogeneity in learners’ behavioral patterns. Specifically, we rely on...
Book Chapter
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
This chapter explores the integration of LLMs into the Explainable AI (XAI) pipeline within the field of Learning Analytics (LA). The focus of the chapter is on how to automate...
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods, 2026
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had an immense impact in education through its ability to facilitate personalized learning experiences. However, the increasing adoption of AI systems in education has raised concerns...
Article
Educational Psychology, 2026
This exploratory meta-analysis synthesises current research on the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated feedback compared to traditional human-provided feedback. Drawing on 41 studies involving a total of 4813 students, the...
Article
Smart Learning Environments, 2026
Programming is gradually essential for non-majors but poses unique challenges compared with computer science (CS) peers. Prior cross-sectional and sequence-frequency studies overlook learning’s multidimensional, emergent nature. Guided by Competency Learning...
Article
Universal Access in the Information Society, 2026
The continued marginalization of over 1.3 billion people with different abilities is partly due to limited accessibility education in computing curricula. To address this gap, effective pedagogical strategies are needed,...
2025
SHE
Studies in Higher Education, 2025
The global landscape and labour market are rapidly evolving in the twenty-first century, requiring individuals to adapt flexibly to new situations. Soft skills, such as problem-solving and communication skills, are...
Conference Paper
Proceedings of the 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, 2025
While research on social network analysis is abundant and less frequently so temporal network analysis, research that uses inferential temporal network methods is barely existent. This paper aims to fill...
Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2025
Introduction: While several studies investigated the effect of blended learning on students’ learning achievement, scant information exists on whether using artificial intelligence (AI) in blended learning could further contribute to...
arXiv, 2025
Large language models (LLMs) offer the potential to simulate human-like responses and behaviors, creating new opportunities for psychological science. In the context of self-regulated learning (SRL), if LLMs can reliably...
Article
Computers in Human Behavior, 2025
Large language models (LLMs) offer the potential to simulate human-like responses and behaviors, creating new opportunities for psychological science. In the context of self-regulated learning (SRL), if LLMs can reliably...
Journal Article
Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2025
This study focuses on learning analytics from the perspective of elementary and secondary classroom teachers (grades one to nine). The aim is to explore teachers’ perceptions about the use of...
Article
Learning and Instruction, 2025
Background: Research has evidenced that students exhibit diverse and fluctuating emotional responses to various stimulus events during collaborative learning, but the empirical evidence on the connections between stimulus events, students’...
Article
Applied Psychological Measurement, 2025
Understanding the dynamics of transitions plays a central role in educational research, informing studies of learning processes, motivation shifts, and social interactions. Transition network analysis (TNA) is a unified framework...
Conference Paper
Proceedings of the 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, 2025
This paper presents a novel learning analytics method: Transition Network Analysis (TNA), a method that integrates Stochastic Process Mining and probabilistic graph representation to model, visualize, and identify transition patterns...
Editorial
arXiv, 2025
While research on human-AI collaboration exists, it mainly examined language learning and used traditional counting methods with little attention to evolution and dynamics of collaboration on cognitively demanding tasks. This...
Conference Paper
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-supported for Collaborative Learning, 2025
Article
The Internet and Higher Education, 2025
While the dominant population-based research is immensely useful in revealing the general trends, it falls short of capturing the intraindividual –or within-person – changes on the individual level. Capturing the...
EAAI
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
This paper presents an explainable AI (XAI) education tool designed for K-12 classrooms, particularly for students aged 11-16. The tool was designed for interventions on the fundamental processes behind social...
Conference
ELEARNING2025, 2025
Arising challenges in digital media literacy regarding recognizing and handling misinformation demand the development of innovative educational tools. Educational escape rooms (EERs) are already established as engaging learning solutions for...
arXiv, 2025
As human-AI collaboration becomes increasingly prevalent in educational contexts, understanding and measuring the extent and nature of such interactions pose significant challenges. This research investigates the use of authorship verification...
Article
Journal of Learning Analytics, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has opened new possibilities for designing learning analytics (LA) tools, gaining new insights about student learning processes and their environment, and supporting teachers in assessing and...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2025
Introducing Large Language Models (LLMs) into the classroom in an effective way implies that students must acquire the necessary AI literacy skills, such as prompt engineering. This proves challenging, given...
Article
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Abstract: Self-regulated learning (SRL) is an active process involving multiple interacting components that evolve over time, exhibiting characteristics of complex systems such as non-linearity, emergent behaviour, self-organization, and hierarchy. These...
Computer
Computer, 2025
In this article, we applied structural topic modeling to identify the themes of computer engineering education research using bibliometric metadata. Our findings reveal that research mainly focuses on subjects that...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2025
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a complex phenomenon with many interacting components and phases that evolve over time. As such, it requires an analytical lens that takes into account those characteristics....
Conference
Proceedings of the 25th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2025
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has demonstrated significant value in code generation and support for programming tasks, leading to its widespread adoption in both industry and academia. This proliferation has introduced...
Conference Paper
2025 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2025
The rapid adoption of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) in education has created new opportunities for human-AI collaboration research, e.g., studying interactions, automating support or implementing novel ways...
Journal Article
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2025
Despite the growing use of large language models (LLMs) in educational contexts, there is no evidence on how these can be operationalized by students to generate custom datasets suitable for...
Article
ASCILITE Publications, 2025
As team teaching becomes increasingly common in higher education, understanding how teams of teachers coordinate their behaviours in the classroom is critical for effective instruction and instructional design. While prior...
Article
Computers & Education, 2025
This study maps the evolution and state of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) research, analyzing 6388 documents published between 1990 and 2022. The findings highlight the sustained engagement of a core...
Article
Games and Culture, 2025
Previous research on player profiles or types is based on players’ in-game behaviors and their motivations to play games. However, there are many other activities related to digital games beyond...
IJEDTHI
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2025
This study investigates the dynamic interplay between student engagement and self-regulated learning (SRL) in an online project management course. Using learning management system trace data combined with longitudinal self-reported SRL...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2025
This study is of significant importance as it examines the interplay between student engagement and self-regulated learning (SRL) in online learning environments. We analyse longitudinal data comprising student survey responses...
IJCSCL
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2025
In collaborative learning, students may follow different trajectories that evolve over time. This study used a multilayered approach to map the temporal dynamics of online problem-based learning (PBL) and the...
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2025
With a growing emphasis on accessibility in design, incorporating AI into Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education equips students with the skills to develop inclusive and accessible user interfaces (UI). This study...
Computers\&Education
Dynamics of self-regulated learning: The effectiveness of students’ strategies across course periods
Computers & Education, 2025
Proper self-regulating skills are essential in the new reality of digital learning in higher education. Research has shown that the trace data of students’ learning management system activity can identify...
Conference Paper
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2025
Predictive models are one of the hallmarks of learning analytics research, relying on learner data to predict academic achievement and dropouts, enabling targeted interventions. Using a user-centric evaluation framework, we...
2024
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Factor analysis is a method commonly employed to reduce a large number of variables into fewer numbers of factors. The method is often used to identify which observable indicators are...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Statistics play a fundamental role in learning analytics, providing a means to analyze and make sense of the vast amounts of data generated by learning environments. This chapter provides an...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
The R programming language has become a popular tool for conducting data analysis in the field of learning analytics. This chapter provides an introduction to the basics of R programming,...
Article
Creativity Theory and Action in Education, 2024
Learning analytics has been a topic of great interest to researchers and practitioners over the past decade. The challenge, however, is translating rich data into practice. Moreover, learning analytics in...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Heterogeneity has been a hot topic in recent educational literature. Several calls have been voiced to adopt methods that capture different patterns or subgroups within students’ behavior or functioning. Assuming...
Article
Information Systems Frontiers, 2024
Conversational agents (CAs) have come a long way from their first appearance in the 1960s to today’s generative models. Continuous technological advancements such as statistical computing and large language models...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2024
Learning analytics emerged more than a decade ago to harness the power of data to understand and optimize learning, learners’ behavior, and learning environments. Ever since, the field has grown...
SLE
Why explainable AI may not be enough: predictions and mispredictions in decision making in education
Smart Learning Environments, 2024
In learning analytics and in education at large, AI explanations are always computed from aggregate data of all the students to offer the “average” picture. Whereas the average may work for most...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Whereas the field of learning analytics has matured, several methodological and theoretical issues remain unresolved. In this chapter, we discuss the potentials of complex systems as an overarching paradigm for...
Conference Paper
arXiv, 2024
This paper presents a novel learning analytics method: Transition Network Analysis (TNA), a method that integrates Stochastic Process Mining and probabilistic graph representation to model, visualize, and identify transition patterns...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Learning involves relations, interactions and connections between learners, teachers and the world at large. Such interactions are essentially temporal and unfold in time. Yet, researchers have rarely combined the two...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
This chapter introduces the concept and methods of social network analysis (SNA) with a detailed guide to analysis with real world data using the R programming language. The chapter first...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Sequence analysis is a data mining technique that is increasingly gaining ground in learning analytics. Sequence analysis enables researchers to extract meaningful insights from sequential data, i.e., to summarize the...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
In the examination of psychological phenomena within educational environments, a multitude of variables come into play, and these variables have the potential to interact with, trigger, and exert influence on...
Editorial
UAIS
Universal Access in the Information Society, 2024
This study offers a comprehensive analysis of COVID-19 research in education. A multi-methods approach was used to capture the full breadth of educational research. As such, a bibliometric analysis, structural...
ICLAT
2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2024
Research on academic emotions has explored different granularities that range from a full program to a single task. Yet, most of the existing research stems from cross-sectional studies. While immensely...
BJET
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Complex dynamic systems offer a rich platform for understanding the individual or the person-specific mechanisms. Yet, in learning analytics research and education at large, a complex dynamic system has rarely...
Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials: A Practical Guide Using R, 2024
This open access comprehensive methodological book offers a much-needed answer to the lack of resources and methodological guidance in learning analytics, which has been a problem ever since the field...
Artificial intelligence Educational data mining epistemic networks learning analytics methods machine learning in education open access Process mining quantitative methods in education Sequence analysis Social network analysis Temporal networks Network methods Sequence & process methods Artificial Intelligence Bibliometrics & scientometrics
LEAND
Idiographic artificial intelligence to explain students' self-regulation: Toward precision education
Learning and Individual Differences, 2024
Existing predictive learning analytics models have exclusively relied on aggregate data which not only have obfuscated individual differences but also made replicability and generalizability difficult. This study takes a radical...
LEAND
Learning and Individual Differences, 2024
The existing research on emerging roles in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has mostly focused on who did what rather than why, i.e., which variables led to the emergence of certain...
Comput Hum Behav
Computers in Human Behavior, 2024
A central assumption of the scientific method is that inferences derived from group-level analysis align with and generalize to the individual level. This study was conducted to put this assumption...
Book Chapter
arXiv, 2024
Traditional methods in educational research often fail to capture the complex and evolving nature of learning processes. This chapter examines the use of complex systems theory in education to address...
LEAND
Learning and Individual Differences, 2024
Research conducted using variable-centered methods uses data from a “group of others” to derive generalizable laws. The average is considered a “norm” where everyone is supposed to be homogeneous and...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2024
This study aims to explore the early prediction and forecasting of students’ performance using learning analytics methods. We do so by examining a large number of students at four different...
EAAI
arXiv, 2024
This paper, submitted to the special track on resources for teaching AI in K-12, presents an explainable AI (XAI) education tool designed for K-12 classrooms, particularly for students in grades...
SLE
Smart Learning Environments, 2024
Despite the increased adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), several concerns are still associated with it. This has motivated researchers to conduct (systematic) reviews aiming at synthesizing the AIED...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Clustering is a collective term which refers to a broad range of techniques aimed at uncovering patterns and subgroups within data. Interest lies in partitioning heterogeneous data into homogeneous groups,...
Comput Hum Behav
Computers in Human Behavior, 2024
The term “digital natives” was introduced in 2001 to describe a generation that has grown up surrounded by technology and the internet. The accompanying claims of a new way of...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
This chapter presents the topic of process mining applied to learning analytics data. The chapter begins by introducing the fundamental concepts of the method, with a focus on event log...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Visualizing data is central in learning analytics research, underpins learning dashboards, and is a prime method for reporting results and insights to stakeholders. In this chapter, the reader will be...
LNCS
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2024
Learning analytics dashboards are the main vehicle for providing educators with a visual representation of data and insights related to teaching and learning. Recent research has found that the data...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
This chapter introduces multi-channel sequence analysis, a novel method that examines two or more synchronised sequences. While this approach is relatively new in social sciences, its relevance to educational research...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Modeling a longitudinal process in educational research brings a lot of variability over time. The modeling procedure becomes even harder when using multivariate continuous variables, e.g., clicks on learning resources,...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2024
Educational escape rooms have gained recognition as immersive and engaging learning activities. While existing research has primarily focused on students’ perceptions and learning outcomes, little attention has been paid to...
Comput Hum Behav
Computers in Human Behavior, 2024
Engagement can be understood as a complex dynamic system that unfolds over time and interacts within the student, school, and environment. Most of the research on the dynamics of engagement...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
The unique position of learning analytics at the intersection of education and computer science while reaching out to several other disciplines such as statistics, psychometrics, econometrics, mathematics, and linguistics has...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
In this chapter, we present the main types of data that are used in learning analytics research. Learning analytics has grown to encompass the digital trails left by online learning...
Conference
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2024
Though LLMs have completely taken the world by storm, their use in academic settings still faces significant challenges. One of these challenges is that LLMs sometimes “hallucinate” when they do...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Data wrangling, also known as data cleaning and preprocessing, is a critical step in the data analysis process, particularly in the context of learning analytics. This chapter provides an introduction...
Conference
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2024
LAK
Proceedings of the 14th Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, 2024
While learning analytics dashboards (LADs) are the most common form of LA intervention, there is limited evidence regarding their impact on students’ learning outcomes. This systematic review synthesizes the findings...
ILS
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-supported for Collaborative Learning, 2024
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Prediction of learners’ course performance has been a central theme in learning analytics (LA) since the inception of the field. The main motivation for such predictions has been to identify...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a method for modeling whole sets of complex interrelations between observed and/or latent variables. In its most common form, SEM combines confirmatory factor analysis (CFA...
ICLAT
2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2024
It stands to reason that if we want to offer “personalized” education, our methods should be designed to capture the person and the intraindividual processes. However, an idiographic approach that...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2024
Digital transformation varies markedly across disciplines in the way technologies are used, how much, and for what purposes to foster educational innovation. In legal education, they are used for various...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
In the field of social network analysis, understanding interactions and group structures takes a center stage. This chapter focuses on finding such groups, constellations or ensembles of actors who can...
LA Methods Book
Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials, 2024
This chapter presents an introduction to Markovian modelling for the analysis of sequence data. Contrary to the deterministic approach seen in the previous sequence analysis chapters, Markovian models are probabilistic...
SLE
Smart Learning Environments, 2024
This study investigates the relationship between students’ self-efficacy beliefs, goal-setting, and learning tactics in an online business course. Using sequence analysis and process mining techniques, we analyzed log data from...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2024
The computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has gained significant popularity in sharing knowledge and problem solving. The present study aims to capture the temporal interactions of dental students in online problem-based...
FIE
Frontiers in Education, 2024
In an era of rapid evolution in educational technologies, Virtual Labs (V-Labs) have emerged as a promising solution, fundamentally altering how learners engage with scientific concepts and experiments. Despite their...
SAC24
Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 2024
Procrastination is one of the most common problems among students causing mental health issues, low motivation, and poor academic performance. The emergence of Learning Management Systems has made it possible...
LEAND
Learning and Individual Differences, 2024
Over two centuries, research has delved into individual differences in learning across educational and professional contexts. This commentary conducts a bibliometric analysis of 6556 articles, identifying key research keywords, topics...
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2024
This document presents the Tracks summary of Trends on Communication, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Identity, Smart Learning, and Doctoral Consortium at TEEM 2023, which was held in Bragança (Portugal) from...
DiscoverEducation
Discover Education, 2024
Over the last four decades, studies have investigated the incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into education. A recent prominent AI-powered technology that has impacted the education sector is ChatGPT. This...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2024
Interventions play a crucial role in completing the learning analytics cycle. However, there is limited research available on how students utilize these interventions or whether there is any change in...
2023
BJEP
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Group affective states for learning are constantly formed through socio-emotional interactions. However, it remains unclear how the affective states vary during collaboration and how they occur with regulation of...
Article
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2023
Pre-service teacher training is research intensive in Finland. Additionally, teaching as profession is highly valued among young people. However, quantitative methods courses are challenging for teacher students from many reasons....
arXiv, 2023
Heterogeneity has been a hot topic in recent educational literature. Several calls have been voiced to adopt methods that capture different patterns or subgroups within students behavior or functioning. Assuming...
Computers\&Education
Computers & Education, 2023
The pace of our knowledge on online engagement has not been at par with our need to understand the temporal dynamics of online engagement, the transitions between engagement states, and...
AJET
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
Learning strategies are important catalysts of students’ learning. Research has shown that students with effective learning strategies are more likely to have better academic achievement. This study aimed to investigate...
arXiv, 2023
Learning involves relations, interactions and connections between learners, teachers and the world at large. Such interactions are essentially temporal and unfold in time. Yet, researchers have rarely combined the two...
IJCSCL
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2023
Early research on online PBL explored student satisfaction, effectiveness, and design. The temporal aspect of online PBL has rarely been addressed. Thus, a gap exists in our knowledge regarding how...
BJET
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
Learning analytics is a fast-growing discipline. Institutions and countries alike are racing to harness the power of using data to support students, teachers and stakeholders. Research in the field has...
Computers\&Education
Computers & Education, 2023
There is a paucity of longitudinal studies in online learning across courses or throughout programs. Our study intends to add to this emerging body of research by analyzing the longitudinal...
IHE
The Internet and Higher Education, 2023
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that students with effective learning strategies are more likely to have better academic achievement. Existing research has mostly focused on a single course or two, while...
eLearning
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2023
To be effective, support based on learning analytics (LA) necessitates that students’ attitudes, needs, and expectations are taken into account. Recently, research exploring students’ needs and expectations has attracted the...
eLearning
CompEducBook
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research, 2023
Research impact goes beyond academia and exists in the multiplicity of digital platforms that we use to read, share, and discuss knowledge. Computing education research (CER) is no exception: it...
TELL
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2023
Teamwork skills are important to practice during higher educational studies to prepare students for the future working life. Since online learning has established itself as a relevant part of higher...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2023
Research in learning analytics needs longitudinal studies that explore the learner’s behaviour, disposition, and learning practices across time, a gap this article aims to bridge. We present VaSSTra: an innovative...
CompEducBook
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research, 2023
Scientometrics has emerged as a research field for the evaluation and mapping of scientific fields, exploring research themes, collaboration clusters and identifying gaps and future trends. While early implementations have...
CompEducBook
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research, 2023
ACM’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education’s (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium is considered by many to be ACM’s flagship conference for computing educators. SIGCSE Technical Symposium has been held annually...
Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Learning analytics methods have proven useful in providing insights from the increasingly available digital data about students in a variety of learning environments, including serious games. However, such methods have...
Article
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Learning analytics provides a novel means to examine various aspects of students’ learning and to support them in their individual endeavors. The purpose of this study was to explore the...
LAK
arXiv, 2023
While learning analytics dashboards (LADs) are the most common form of LA intervention, there is limited evidence regarding their impact on students learning outcomes. This systematic review synthesizes the findings...
Online Learning J
Online Learning, 2023
In this article, we focus on the cognitive presence element of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework. Cognitive presence consists of four categories: Triggering Event, Exploration, Integration, and Resolution. These...
arXiv, 2023
This chapter presents an introduction to Markovian modeling for the analysis of sequence data. Contrary to the deterministic approach seen in the previous sequence analysis chapters, Markovian models are probabilistic...
Article
Education and Information Technologies, 2023
During the past years scholars have shown an increasing interest in supporting students’ self-regulated learning (SRL). Learning analytics (LA) can be applied in various ways to identify a learner’s current...
TELL
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2023
This preface discusses the potential of virtual labs (VLs) as a flexible and immersive alternative to traditional physical labs on the light of Technology-Enhanced Learning in Laboratories workshop (TELL 2023),...
SLE
Smart Learning Environments, 2023
Remote learning has advanced from the theoretical to the practical sciences with the advent of virtual labs. Although virtual labs allow students to conduct their experiments remotely, it is a...
TELL
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2023
Virtual laboratories (VL) have become an essential tool for educational sectors, allowing students to develop practical skills in a remote environment. However, the accessibility of VL remains a significant challenge...
CompEducBook
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research, 2023
One of the most researched domains of computing education research (CER) that attracts attention is computing education in schools, starting from pre-primary level up to upper secondary level (K-12). A...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2023
Online and blended learning are teaching modalities that have become very popular and widespread all over the world. Applying these modalities requires specific knowledge as well as an appropriate technological...
HCII
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2023
Understanding how students progress in their learning is an important step towards achieving the success of the educational process. One way of understanding student progress is by using learning analytics...
CompEducBook
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research, 2023
In 1970, SIGCSE had five members from England, Scotland and Wales. By 1983 Ireland had a member, followed by Northern Ireland in 1995. Well before then researchers from these countries...
CompEducBook
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research, 2023
A fundamental part of science is dissemination. Previous research has analysed dissemination practices in few of the central publication outlets. In this chapter, we add into that research by analysing...
Editorial
Book
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research: A Global Perspective, 2023
This book presents a collection of meta-studies, reviews, and scientometric analyses that together reveal a fresh picture about the past, present, and future of computing education research (CER) as a...
bibliometrics Computer science computer science education Computer science education Education Education research Educational data History of computing History of computing education Large-scale analyses Learning analytics Meta-review Programming education review science mapping scientometrics Software engineering education Technology ethics Bibliometrics & scientometrics
CompEducBook
The Hands that Made Computing Education Research: Top Authors, Networks, Collaboration and Newcomers
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research, 2023
Computing Education Research (CER), like any other discipline of science, is fundamentally driven by people and their networks of collaboration. Previous research has analysed authorship patterns and collaboration in distinct...
CompEducBook
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research, 2023
This chapter is an introduction to the book “Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research: A Global Perspective. “ This book uses a mixture of scientometrics, meta-research and case...
CompEducBook
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research, 2023
A combined body of reviews, meta-research and other analyses demonstrates the evolution of computing education research (CER) through the decades with experience reports evolving to empirical research, increased attention paid...
DiscoverEducation
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
CompEducBook
Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research, 2023
Scientometric analyses of publication data from all major computing education research (CER) outlets show that many countries and whole continents are greatly underrepresented on the global map of contributions to...
2022
Article
Education and Information Technologies, 2022
In order to successfully implement learning analytics (LA), we need a better understanding of student expectations of such services. Yet, there is still a limited body of research about students’...
FLAIEC
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
This case study explored the applicability of sequence mining and process mining methods on qualitative video data of a group-based problem-solving situation. For the case study, audio and video data...
Comput Hum Behav
Computers in Human Behavior, 2022
Supporting teaching and learning with different technologies has a long and broad history. The theories of learning have changed in recent decades, and new technologies have been invented that provide...
ACCESS
IEEE Access, 2022
In this study we provide a new viewpoint on the body of literature regarding rewards in serious and educational games. The study includes a quantitative bibliometric analysis of literature in...
FIE
Frontiers in Education, 2022
Emotions in collaborative learning both originate from and are externalized in students’ socio-emotional interactions, and individual group members evidently contribute to these interactions to varying degrees. Research indicates that socio-emotional...
SEMINAR
Seminar.net, 2022
Research methods, including those of a quantitative nature, are an important part of preservice teacher training in Finland. However, quantitative research methods are considered challenging, often feared, and even hated...
NetSciLA
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
Research on online learning has benefited from intensive data collection to understand students’ online behavior and performance. Several learning analytics techniques have been operationalized to examine the temporal nature of...
ERR
Educational Research Review, 2022
Research has shown the value of social collaboration and the benefits it brings to learners. In this study, we investigate the worth of Social Network Analysis (SNA) in translating students’...
SHE
Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Predictors of student academic success do not always replicate well across different learning designs, subject areas, or educational institutions. This suggests that characteristics of a particular discipline and learning design...
BJET
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Social Network Analysis (SNA) has enabled researchers to understand and optimize the key dimensions of collaborative learning. A majority of SNA research has so far used static networks, ie, aggregated...
FIE
Frontiers in Education, 2022
Currently there is a need for studying learning strategies within Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), especially in the context of in-service teachers. This study aims to bridge this gap and...
NetSciLA
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
Network Analysis is an established method in learning analytics research. Network Analysis has been used to analyze learners’ interactions, to inform learning design, and to model students’ performance. The workshop...
ACCESS
IEEE Access, 2022
For over five decades, researchers have used network analysis to understand educational contexts, spanning diverse disciplines and thematic areas. The wealth of traditions and insights accumulated through these interdisciplinary efforts...
LNCS
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022
This study compared two iterations of the same course where students had the same assignments. In the first iteration, the students had to use the typical discussion forums offered by...
Article
International Journal of Health Sciences, 2022
JLA
Journal of Learning Analytics, 2022
There has been extensive research using centrality measures in educational settings. One of the most common lines of such research has tested network centrality measures as indicators of success. The...
Computers\&Education
Computers & Education, 2022
A prevailing trend in CSCL literature has been the study of students’ participatory roles. The majority of existing studies examine a single collaborative task or, at most, a complete course....
NetSciLA
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
The NetScila22 workshop builds on the previous iterations of network analysis workshops. The current year themes addressed educational challenges as well as opportunities for future research and for strengthening the...
Research Square, 2022
Research impact goes beyond academia and exists in the multiplicity of digital platforms that we use to read, share, and discuss knowledge. Computing education research (CER) is no exception: it...
FLAIEC
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
The study examined the level of difficulty, discrimination, and reliability of multiple-choice questions [MCQs] in Finnish national Law entrance examinations. The purpose was to assess whether MCQs could be used...
ACCESS
IEEE Access, 2022
Teachers’ work is increasingly augmented with intelligent tools that extend their pedagogical abilities. While these tools may have positive effects, they require use of students’ personal data, and more research...
JLA
Journal of Learning Analytics, 2022
The current study uses a within-person temporal and sequential analysis to understand individual learning processes as part of collaborative learning. Contemporary perspectives of self-regulated learning acknowledge monitoring as a crucial...
MMLA
The Multimodal Learning Analytics Handbook, 2022
This chapter builds on the notion that multimodal learning analytics (MMLA) has potential to offer new innovations for the field of education and can be gradually implemented to provide constitutive...
CompEducBook
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Scientometrics has emerged as a research field for the evaluation and mapping of scientific fields, exploring research themes, collaboration clusters and identifying gaps and future trends. While early implementations have...
CompEducBook
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
ACM’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education’s (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium is considered by many to be ACM’s flagship conference for computing educators. SIGCSE Technical Symposium has been held annually...
Article
Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
Bibliometric studies on the field of multiple sclerosis (MS) research are scarce. The aim of this study is to offer an overarching view of the body of knowledge about MS...
FLAIEC
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
The field of learning analytics emerged in the last decade to take advantage of the increasing availability of data about learners that digital systems generate. Existing research in learning analytics...
FLAIEC
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
FLAIEC
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
Article
Research Square, 2022
During the past years scholars have shown an increasing interest in supporting students’ self-regulated learning (SRL). Learning analytics (LA) can be applied in various ways to identify a learner’s current...
FLAIEC
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
The relation between learning strategies and academic achievement has been proven to be strong in multiple studies. Still, the connection between micro-level SRL processes and the academic achievement of business...
ACCESS
IEEE Access, 2022
Over the past decade, epistemic network analysis (ENA) has emerged as a quantitative ethnography tool for modeling discourse in different types of human behaviors. This article offers a comprehensive systematic...
FLAIEC
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
Online computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has risen in popularity in knowledge sharing and problem-solving. This research explored students’ online activity in online problem-based learning (PBL) using process and sequence mining...
eLearning
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022
ACCESS
IEEE Access, 2022
Computerisation and digitalisation are shaping the world in fundamental and unpredictable ways, which highlights the importance of computing education research (CER). As part of understanding the roots of CER, it...
Article
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Computing Education Research (CER), like any other discipline of science, is fundamentally driven by people and their networks of collaboration. Previous research has analysed authorship patterns and collaboration in distinct...
CompEducBook
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
A combined body of reviews, meta-research and other analyses demonstrates the evolution of computing education research (CER) through the decades with experience reports evolving to empirical research, increased attention paid...
ACCESS
IEEE Access, 2022
The need for organized computing education efforts dates back to the 1950s. Since then, computing education research (CER) has evolved and matured from its early initiatives and separation from mathematics...
2021
Computers\&Education
Computers & Education, 2021
In recent years, using game concepts for educational purposes in digital environments has become continually more popular and relevant. Games can be used to motivate and engage users in regular...
STELLA
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2021
Students’ ability to self-regulate their individual and collaborative learning activities while performing challenging academic writing tasks is instrumental for their academic success. Presently, the majority of such learning activities often...
Research Square, 2021
Research on online engagement is abundant. However, most of the available studies have focused on a single course. Therefore, little is known about how students’ online engagement evolves over time....
Research Square, 2021
Research on online engagement is abundant. However, most of the available studies have focused on a single course. Therefore, little is known about how students’ online engagement evolves over time....
Article
RPTL
Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2021
Writing in an academic context often requires students in higher education to acquire a new set of skills while familiarising themselves with the goals, objectives and requirements of the new...
ACM TOC
ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021
The momentum around computational thinking (CT) has kindled a rising wave of research initiatives and scholarly contributions seeking to capitalize on the opportunities that CT could bring. A number of...
LNCS
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 2021
Recently, students have become networked in many ways, and evidence is mounting that networking plays a significant role in how students learn, interact, and transfer information. Relationships could translate to...
IJCSCL
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2021
This study empirically investigates diffusion-based centralities as depictions of student role-based behavior in information exchange, uptake and argumentation, and as consistent indicators of student success in computer-supported collaborative learning. The...
Computers\&Education
Computers & Education, 2021
Student engagement has a trajectory (a timeline) that unfolds over time and can be shaped by different factors including learners’ motivation, school conditions, and the nature of learning tasks. Such...
NetSciLA
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2021
Recent findings in the field of learning analytics have brought to our attention that conclusions drawn from cross-sectional group-level data may not capture the dynamic processes that unfold within each...
ICLAT
2021 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2021
Idiographic methods have emerged as a way to examine individual behavior by using several data points from each subject to create person-specific insights. In the field of learning analytics, such...
LNCS
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2021
Research on online engagement is abundant. However, most of the available studies have focused on a single course. Therefore, little is known about how students’ online engagement evolves over time....
NetSciLA
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2021
Interest in using networks in the analysis of digital data has long existed in learning analytics (LA). Applications of network science in our field are diverse. Some researchers analyze social...
NetSciLA
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2021
Network science methods are widely adopted in learning analytics, an applied research area that focuses on the analysis of learning data to understand and improve learning. The workshop, taking place...
Article
Sustainability, 2021
Learning programming is a complex and challenging task for many students. It involves both understanding theoretical concepts and acquiring practical skills. Hence, analyzing learners’ data from online learning environments alone...
Article
Preprints.org, 2021
Learning programming is a complex and challenging task for many students. It involves both understanding theoretical concepts and acquiring practical skills. Hence, analyzing learners’ data from online learning environments alone...
ACCESS
IEEE Access, 2021
Supporting teaching and learning programming with learning analytics is an active area of inquiry. Most data used for learning analytics research comes from learning management systems. However, such systems were...
Computers\&Education
Computers & Education, 2021
Predictive modelling of academic success and retention has been a key research theme in Learning Analytics. While the initial work on predictive modelling was focused on the development of general...
Article
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Functional neuroimaging modalities vary in spatial and temporal resolution. One major limitation of most functional neuroimaging modalities is that only neural activation taking place inside the scanner can be imaged....
FIE
2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2021
IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education turned 50 at the 2020 virtual conference in Uppsala, Sweden. This paper presents an historical retrospective on the first 50 years of the conference from a...
2020
BMC
BMC Medical Education, 2020
Background: Although there is a wealth of research focusing on PBL, most studies employ self-reports, surveys, and interviews as data collection methods and have an exclusive focus on students. There...
LNCS
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2020
The analysis of CSCL needs to offer actionable insights about how knowledge construction between learners is built, facilitated and/or constrained, with the overall aim to help support knowledge (co-)construction. To...
Article
International Journal of Health Sciences, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Publications are the cornerstone of the dissemination of scientific innovation and scholarly work, but published works are mostly behind paywalls. Therefore, many researchers and institutions are searching for alternative...
Sreports
Scientific Reports, 2020
Productive and effective collaborative learning is rarely a spontaneous phenomenon but rather the result of meeting a set of conditions, orchestrating and scaffolding productive interactions. Several studies have demonstrated that...
CrossMMLA
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2020
A learning process involves interactions between learners, teachers, machines and formal and/or informal learning environments. These interactions are relational, interdependent and temporal. The emergence of rich multimodal learner data suggests...
ICLAT
2020 IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2020
Previous work in learning analytics have been fruitful in shedding lights on collaborative learning environments, such work has provided insights and recommendations that helped improve the collaborative process in computer-mediated...
LAK
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, 2020
There has been significant efforts in studying collaborative and social learning using aggregate networks. Such efforts have demonstrated the worth of the approach by providing insights about the interactions, student...
Article
International Journal of Health Sciences, 2020
IJCSCL
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2020
The increasing use of digital learning tools and platforms in formal and informal learning settings has provided broad access to large amounts of learner data, the analysis of which has...
ICCE
ICCE 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computers in Education, Proceedings, 2020
Academic writing is a complex and challenging language learning activity, in which self-regulation is a key critical factor for learner success. Today, a large number of academic writing activities occur...
Article
International Journal of Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Education (iJAI), 2020
Learning Analytics (LA) approaches in Blended Learning (BL) research is becoming an established field. In the light of previous critiqued toward LA for not being grounded in theory, the General...
2019
Article
A Research Agenda for the Why, What, and How of Gamification Designs: Outcomes of an ECIS 2019 Panel
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2019
This report summarizes a panel session on gamification designs at the 2019 European Conference on Information Systems in Stockholm, Sweden. The panel explored a research agenda for gamification design. The...
Article
International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 2019
In this learning analytics study, we attempt to understand the role of temporality measures for the prediction of academic performance. The study included four online courses over a full-year duration....
Article
International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 2019
Article
International Journal of Health Sciences, 2019
BMC
BMC Medical Education, 2019
Background: Social network analysis (SNA) might have an unexplored value in the study of interactions in technology-enhanced learning at large and in online (Problem Based Learning) PBL in particular. Using...
LNCS
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019
Effective collaborative learning is rarely a spontaneous phenomenon. In fact, it requires that a set of conditions are met. Among these central conditions are group formation, size and interaction dynamics....
Article
ICSIT 2019 - 10th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, Proceedings, 2019
Learning analytics (LA) is a relatively new research discipline that uses data to try to improve learning, optimizing the learning process and develop the environment in which learning occurs. One...
TEEM
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019
The master thesis is the last formal step in most universities around the world. However, all students do not finish their master thesis. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that...
Article
International Journal of Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Education (iJAI), 2019
Information and communication technologies are increasingly mediating learning and teaching practices as well as how educational institutions are handling their administrative work. As such, students and teachers are leaving large...
Article
International Journal of Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Education (iJAI), 2019
The bachelor thesis is commonly a necessary last step towards the first graduation in higher education and constitutes a central key to both further studies in higher education and employment...
Article
International Journal of Health Sciences, 2019
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate the attitude and practice toward undergraduate research studies among medical students at Qassim University in Buraydah, Saudi Arabia. METHODS: An online cross-sectional survey developed...
2018
EDULEARN
PLOS
PLOS ONE, 2018
Social network analysis (SNA) may be of significant value in studying online collaborative learning. SNA can enhance our understanding of the collaborative process, predict the under-achievers by means of learning...
EDULEARN
BMC
BMC Medical Education, 2018
Background: Collaborative learning facilitates reflection, diversifies understanding and stimulates skills of critical and higher-order thinking. Although the benefits of collaborative learning have long been recognized, it is still rarely studied...
PLOS
PLOS ONE, 2018
To ensure online collaborative learning meets the intended pedagogical goals (is actually collaborative and stimulates learning), mechanisms are needed for monitoring the efficiency of online collaboration. Various studies have indicated...
Article
International Journal of Health Sciences, 2018
The number of publications in the field of medical education is still markedly low, despite recognition of the value of the discipline in the medical education literature, and exponential growth...
2017
MT
Medical Teacher, 2017
Aim: Learning analytics (LA) is an emerging discipline that aims at analyzing students’ online data in order to improve the learning process and optimize learning environments. It has yet un-explored...
Article
Article
2015
Article
2011
International Journal of Health Sciences, 2011
2008
Article
International Journal of Health Sciences, 2008
Migraine is a primary headache disorder which has received little attention from health care policies and physicians. This has led to ineffective management and more suffering to the patients and...