Analytics for Tracking Student Engagement

Validating the Effectiveness of the Moodle Engagement Analytics Plugin to Predict Student Academic Performance

Given the focus on boosting retention rates and the potential benefits of pro-active and early identification of students who may require support, higher education institutions are looking at the data already captured in university systems to determine if they can be used to identify such students. This paper uses historical student data to validate an existing learning analytics tool, the Mood...

Reimagining Khan Analytics for Student Coaches

Increasing student engagement in learning

Three decades after the first computer was introduced into school classrooms, educational technology remains surprisingly controversial. This paper provides a forum for informed use of technology in the context of emergent research from the learning sciences. Today's schools cite a myriad of purposes for technology in schools, including improved teaching, leadership, and decision making, as wel...

Leveraging LMSs to Enhance Campus-Based Student Engagement Learning management systems influence student engagement and learning

We need to better understand the influence of learning management systems (LMSs) on student engagement in order to use these powerful technologies to improve campus-based education. Over the past 10 years, online learning management has been adopted by many campus-based institutions, becoming almost ubiquitous in many parts of the world. These systems have profound yet uncertain implications fo...

Text Insights: Natural Language Analytics for Understanding Social Media Engagement

We present Text Insights, an application for understanding factors of user engagement in Facebook pages. Providing analytics based on natural language processing, Text Insights is complementary to existing tools offering mainly numerical indicators of user engagement. Our system extracts keyphrases from page content in a linguistically motivated manner. Keyphrases are weighted according to thei...