Visualizing authorship and contribution of collaborative writing in e-learning environments

Abstract

Nowadays, several productivity platforms provide effective capabilities to edit collaboratively the content of a document. In educational settings, e-Learning approaches have taken advantage of this functionality to encourage students to join others to complete projects that include the writing of text documents. Although collaborative writing may foster interaction among students, the existing analytical metrics on these platforms are limited and can slow down the process of review by instructors in trying to determine the level of contribution of each student in the document. In this paper, we describe an analytic framework to measure and visualize the contribution in collaborative writing.