{"title":"Learning analytics in online social interactions. The case of a MOOC on ‘language awareness’ promoted by the European Commission","authors":"Letizia Cinganotto, D. Cuccurullo","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1135030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1135030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"12 1","pages":"263-286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77018764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A social network analysis approach to a digital interactive storytelling in mathematics","authors":"M. Polo, U. D. Iacono, G. Fiorentino, A. Pierri","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1135035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1135035","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a social analysis of the interactions among the students involved in a trial of the Italian PRIN project “Digital Interactive Storytelling in Mathematics: a Competence-based Social Approach”. The instructional design is based on collaborative scripts within a digital storytelling framework where the story follows the interactions among the characters played by the students and an expert (teacher or researcher). We report the results of a trial that involved teachers and students from the upper secondary school, analysing from a Social Network Analysis point of view the interventions of the expert, the involvement/participation of the students and the interactions among peers and with the expert. We also briefly discuss potentialities and limitations of the currently available tools to perform this kind of analysis, in view of the broader perspective offered by the Learning Analytics approach.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"81 1","pages":"239-250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84210266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"University Dropout Prediction through Educational Data Mining Techniques: A Systematic Review","authors":"F. Agrusti, G. Bonavolontà, M. Mezzini","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1135017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1135017","url":null,"abstract":"The dropout rates in the European countries is one of the major issues to be faced in a near future as stated in the Europe 2020 strategy. In 2017, an average of 10.6% of young people (aged 18-24) in the EU-28 were early leavers from education and training according to Eurostat’s statistics. The main aim of this review is to identify studies which uses educational data mining techniques to predict university dropout in traditional courses. In Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) catalogues, we identified 241 studies related to this topic from which we selected 73, focusing on what data mining techniques are used for predicting university dropout. We identified 6 data mining classification techniques, 53 data mining algorithms and 14 data mining tools.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"230 1","pages":"161-182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87233805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. D. Angelis, Angelo Gaeta, F. Orciuoli, Mimmo Parente
{"title":"Improving learning with augmented reality: A didactic re-mediation model from inf@nzia digitales 3.6","authors":"M. D. Angelis, Angelo Gaeta, F. Orciuoli, Mimmo Parente","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1135032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1135032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"287-300"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87428557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An agnostic monitoring system for Italian as second language online learning","authors":"Gerardo Fallani, Stefano Penge, Paola Tettamanti","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1135041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1135041","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution follows the trend in educational research to collect data and create an information-based system to improve learning effectiveness. However, the value of quantitative data collected through online platforms is a subject of debate: when starting from data (inductively) meaningful interpretations are hard to discover; on the other hand, when starting from a priori schema (deductively), there is a risk of lack of flexibility and responsiveness to the changes. Hence, the need to hypothesize a different approach. For this purpose, a monitoring system whose architecture we defined as agnostic has been built and tested. That system was connected to an online learning environment with free educational resources, whose operating learning fulcrum is the Digital Learning Unit (DLU), an original theoreticalpractical device which allows interpretative assumptions to be made on the data obtainable from the system.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"5 1","pages":"197-210"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88868070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Bellini, A. D. Santis, Katia Sannicandro, T. Minerva
{"title":"Data management in Learning Analytics: terms and perspectives","authors":"C. Bellini, A. D. Santis, Katia Sannicandro, T. Minerva","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1135021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1135021","url":null,"abstract":"Online teaching environments acquire extremely high granularity of data, both on users’ personal profiles and on their behaviour and results. Learning Analytics (LA) is open to numerous possible research scenarios thanks to the development of technology and the speed of data collection. One characteristic element is that the data are not anonymous, but they reproduce a personalization and identification of the profiles. Identifiability of the student is implicit in the teaching process, but access to Analytics techniques reveals a fundamental question: “What is the limit?” The answer to this question should be preliminary to any use of data by students, teachers, instructors and managers of the online learning environments. In the present day, we are also experiencing a particular moment of change: the effects of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 679/2016, the general regulation on the protection of personal data that aims to standardize all national legislation and adapt it to the new needs","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"133-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89289925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Robots in Educational Contexts: Developing an Application in Enactive Didactics","authors":"H. Lehmann, P. Rossi","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1633","url":null,"abstract":"Due to advancements in sensor and actuator technology robots are becoming more and more common in everyday life. Many of the areas in which they are introduced demand close physical and social contact. In the last ten years the use of robots has also increasingly spread to the field of didactics, starting with their use as tools in STEM education. With the advancement of social robotics, the use of robots in didactics has been extended also to tutoring situations in which these “socially aware” robots interact with mainly children in, for example, language learning classes. In this paper we will give a brief overview of how robots have been used in this kind of settings until now. As a result it will become transparent that the majority of applications are not grounded in didactic theory. Recognizing this shortcoming, we propose a theory driven approach to the use of educational robots, centred on the idea that the combination of enactive didactics and social robotics holds great promises for a variety of tutoring activities in educational contexts. After defining our “Enactive Robot Assisted Didactics” approach, we will give an outlook on how the use of humanoid robots can advance it. On this basis, at the end of the paper, we will describe a concrete, currently on-going implementation of this approach, which we are realizing with the use of Softbank Robotics’ Pepper robot during university lectures.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"14 1","pages":"27-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87848440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning distributed algorithms by programming robots","authors":"F. Luccio","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1625","url":null,"abstract":"The learning process of theoretical concepts such as the model of a distributed environment and different distributed algorithms together with their execution and correctness requires time and is often considered by students a hard and non-challenging issue. In this paper we suggest adopting a more practical approach based on real implementations of distributed algorithms with the help of robots. A learning-by-doing approach can, in our opinion, help students acquiring a deeper knowledge of the model and of the algorithms, and can also stimulate them, and let them improve their teamwork skills. In this paper, we present a specific case study of a practical project, run for two consecutive years at the University Ca Foscari of Venice, inside an International Master of Computer Science course of Advanced Algorithms. The students for their final exam had to work in groups and their task was to design and implement a distributed algorithm to solve an assigned problem, using a Lego Mindstorm EV3 robot and a Makeblock mBot robot. In this paper, we discuss the positive effects of such a non-traditional teamwork approach by analyzing the teacher’s perception, the feasible impact on the students’ grades, and the students’ involvement and positive feeling, highlighted by the results of some questionnaires proposed at the beginning and the end of the projects. We finally discuss the limits of such an approach and possible improvements.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80895804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do pupils perceive educational robotics as a tool to improve their 21st century skills","authors":"Lucio Negrini, Christian Giang","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1628","url":null,"abstract":"In the past years, the use of educational robots has steadily increased, in particular due to the ongoing digitalization of modern societies and the new skills that professions require. It has been argued that educational robotics activities have the potential to promote the acquisition of such skills and may increase pupils’ interest in STEM disciplines. Despite these results, only few studies have examined the pupils’ perspective regarding the pedagogical value of educational robotics in formal education. Therefore, in this study with 91 pupils aged between 13 and 15 years, we aimed at investigating how pupils perceive educational robotics as a tool to improve their creativity, collaboration, computer science and computational thinking skills and to foster their interest in STEM disciplines. Over a period of one semester, the pupils worked with the robot Thymio II and evaluated their experience through a questionnaire. The results showed that boys and girls have different perceptions on which competences they could enhance: while boys affirmed more often than girls, that they could improve their computer science and computational thinking skills, the opposite was found for collaboration and creativity. Moreover, the results illustrated that educational robotics activities could increase the interest in coding, computer science and engineering, however, this was predominantly observed in boys.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73711171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}