Visualising and inferring LMS discussions

ASCILITE 2007 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1134-1139

  Sheridan, Don ^a   Witherden, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL   (New Zealand)

^b Beca   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Analytics; LMS; Logs; Monitoring; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICS; INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNS; LMS; LOGS; MULTIPLE STREAMS; PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES;

MONITORING; VISUALIZATION;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84871000617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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