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

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.