Managing CSCL Activity through networking models

Authors

  • Luis Casillas University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • Thanasis Daradoumis Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece
  • Santi Caballé Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v9i7.3668

Keywords:

Cooperative/collaborative learning, evaluation methodologies, interactive learning environments, social networks analysis

Abstract


This study aims at managing activity carried out in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments. We apply an approach that gathers and manages the knowledge underlying huge data structures, resulting from collaborative interaction among participants and stored as activity logs. Our method comprises a variety of important issues and aspects, such as: deep understanding of collaboration among participants in workgroups, definition of an ontology for providing meaning to isolated data manifestations, discovering of knowledge structures built in huge amounts of data stored in log files, and development of high-semantic indicators to describe diverse primitive collaborative acts, and binding these indicators to formal descriptions defined in the collaboration ontology; besides our method includes gathering collaboration indicators from web forums using natural language processing (NLP) techniques.

Author Biographies

Luis Casillas, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

Computer Science Department Professor

Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece

Professor

Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Professor

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Published

2014-04-27

How to Cite

Casillas, L., Daradoumis, T., & Caballé, S. (2014). Managing CSCL Activity through networking models. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 9(7), pp. 56–63. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v9i7.3668

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 7 (2014): Special Issue ALICE 2013

Section

Papers

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