Social learning analytics: Five approaches

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 23-33

  Ferguson, Rebecca ^a   Shum, Simon Buckingham ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

21 st century skills; discourse analytics; educational assessment; learning analytics; learning how to learn; social learning; social learning analytics; SocialLearn; transferable skills

Indexed keywords

21 ST CENTURY SKILLS; DISCOURSE ANALYTICS; EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT; LEARNING ANALYTICS; LEARNING HOW TO LEARN; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIALLEARN; TRANSFERABLE SKILLS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84864646987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2330601.2330616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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