Instructor Support for Monitoring and Visualizing Students´ Activity in a Social Learning Environment

Author

Popescu, Elvira ; Cioiu, Dan

Author_Institution

Comput. & Inf. Technol. Dept., Univ. of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

fYear

2012

fDate

4-6 July 2012

Firstpage

371

Lastpage

373

Abstract

With the recent introduction of social software in education, there is a need for support applications that will help teachers monitor students´ activity on these Web 2.0 tools. In this paper we present such an approach for learner tracking and visualization in an integrated social learning environment called eMUSE. The platform collects learner actions from each of the disparate Web 2.0 tools (by means of APIs or RSS feeds), stores them in a local database for further processing and presents them to the instructor in suggestive graphical formats.

Keywords

Internet; application program interfaces; computer aided instruction; data visualisation; social networking (online); API; RSS feeds; Web 2.0 tools; eMUSE; graphical formats; instructor support tool; integrated social learning environment; learner actions; learner tracking; learner visualization; local database; social learning environment; student activity monitoring; student activity visualization; teachers; Blogs; Conferences; Data visualization; Education; Media; Monitoring; Presses; Web 2.0; e-monitoring; instructor support tool; learner tracking; social learning environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1642-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2012.143

Filename

6268123