My talk at FutureLearn Academic Network day at CALRG Conference 2016, Open University, Milton Keynes.
Programme: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2975
What is the source of social capital? The association between social network ...Vitomir Kovanovic
Presentation at the Graph-based Educational Data Mining workshop (G-EDM) during the 2014 Educational Data Mining conference (EDM 2014) at Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK on July 4th, 2014.
Future Learn Academic Network, University of Southampton, 02/12/15
Talking about the digital tools I use to support my Learning Analytics research - 20 seconds per slide! I carry out content analysis of MOOC comment data using a range of methods – and use a number of tools to help to rate, explore, look for correlations and visualise my findings.
Each month, join us as we highlight and discuss hot topics ranging from the future of higher education to wearable technology, best productivity hacks and secrets to hiring top talent. Upload your SlideShares, and share your expertise with the world!
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Bill Pelz is Professor of Psychology at Herkimer College / State University of New York. As the lead faculty trainer for the SUNY Learning Network from 1999 until 2010, Bill facilitated the development of over 2500 fully asynchronous college courses. In 1994 he was presented with the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2003 the Sloan-C Award for Excellence in Online Teaching, in 2006 the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and he was named a Sloan Consortium Fellow in 2 013 and a SUNY COTE fellow in 2014. Bill has published an assortment of scholarly and academic articles, most recently focused on the area of student and faculty satisfaction with asynchronous teaching and learning. His current research interest is in isolating the pedagogical factors that influence student achievement in virtual learning environments. Since 1999 Bill’s full-time teaching responsibility has been entirely online, and he just completed a project to develop 8 online Advanced Placement courses for high school students under a Dept. of Education Race to the Top funded grant.
Adults learn what they choose to learn. The philosophy of heutagogy puts the learner in control. This Chat focuses on strategies designed to engage online learners with the content, with the instructor, and with one another.
Bill's article, (My) Three Principles of Effective Online Pedagogy, remains the #1 downloaded JALN article at OLC (formerly Sloan-C).
What is the source of social capital? The association between social network ...Vitomir Kovanovic
Presentation at the Graph-based Educational Data Mining workshop (G-EDM) during the 2014 Educational Data Mining conference (EDM 2014) at Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK on July 4th, 2014.
Future Learn Academic Network, University of Southampton, 02/12/15
Talking about the digital tools I use to support my Learning Analytics research - 20 seconds per slide! I carry out content analysis of MOOC comment data using a range of methods – and use a number of tools to help to rate, explore, look for correlations and visualise my findings.
Each month, join us as we highlight and discuss hot topics ranging from the future of higher education to wearable technology, best productivity hacks and secrets to hiring top talent. Upload your SlideShares, and share your expertise with the world!
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SlideShares that inform, inspire and educate attract the most views. Beyond that, ideas for what you can upload are limitless. We’ve selected a few popular examples to get your creative juices flowing.
Bill Pelz is Professor of Psychology at Herkimer College / State University of New York. As the lead faculty trainer for the SUNY Learning Network from 1999 until 2010, Bill facilitated the development of over 2500 fully asynchronous college courses. In 1994 he was presented with the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2003 the Sloan-C Award for Excellence in Online Teaching, in 2006 the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and he was named a Sloan Consortium Fellow in 2 013 and a SUNY COTE fellow in 2014. Bill has published an assortment of scholarly and academic articles, most recently focused on the area of student and faculty satisfaction with asynchronous teaching and learning. His current research interest is in isolating the pedagogical factors that influence student achievement in virtual learning environments. Since 1999 Bill’s full-time teaching responsibility has been entirely online, and he just completed a project to develop 8 online Advanced Placement courses for high school students under a Dept. of Education Race to the Top funded grant.
Adults learn what they choose to learn. The philosophy of heutagogy puts the learner in control. This Chat focuses on strategies designed to engage online learners with the content, with the instructor, and with one another.
Bill's article, (My) Three Principles of Effective Online Pedagogy, remains the #1 downloaded JALN article at OLC (formerly Sloan-C).
PHL 111 Milestone Two WorksheetUse the following guiding quest.docxmattjtoni51554
PHL 111 Milestone Two Worksheet
Use the following guiding questions to help you develop the remainder of the Argument section and the Your Argument section of your critical essay. First, answer each of the questions below to draft your ideas. Then, complete the Outline for Writing section, using your answers to the questions to help you draft a paragraph response for each of the sections below.
II. This set of questions is designed to help you draft ideas for the remaining parts of the Presented Argument section for your critical essay.
A. Looking at the article that you have chosen, explain how the argument contains or avoids bias.
i. Does the argument contain or avoid bias? How?
ii. Provide specific examples to support your explanation.
B. Discuss the credibility of the overall argument and answer the following:
i. Were the resources upon which the argument is built credible?
· Why or why not?
ii. Does the credibility support or undermine the article’s claims in any important ways?
· How?
Outline for Writing
The argument that I have selected contains/avoids bias. It does this by (provide examples). I have assessed the credibility of the argument to be credible/not credible because the resources in the article were credible/not credible in that they . The credibility of this article supports/undermines the argument’s claims by .
III. Before answering the questions below and drafting the YourArgument section of your critical essay, read the articles listed under “Additional Resources” and “Scholarly Resources” columns for your article found on the Final Project Topics and Resources Page in Blackboard. Then, use these additional resources to craft your own counterargument to the argument initially presented in your chosen article.
A. Construct an alternative argument to that of your selected article.
i. After reading the Additional and Scholarly resources associated with your primary article, construct an alternative argument to the claim being made in your primary article.
ii. What are the premises and conclusion of your argument?
iii. What evidence or additional research supports the claim you are making in your argument?
B. Explain the logic and reasoning you are planning to use to advance your argument.
i. What assumptions and resources can you use to advance your argument?
C. Identify any weaknesses in your argument that would require additional research or support.
D. Explain how your previously identified personal experience with the topic may create emotional influences, values or bias.
Outline for Writing
My claim of my alternative argument is . My premises, , lead to the conclusion that . I make this claim because of (describe your evidence and resources). This argument considers assumptions. Some weaknesses in this argument are and require additional research pertaining to . The personal experiences that I have identified previously with regard to this topic may create as a form of emotional influ.
Problem-Based Learning Objects, PBLOs, in the Fully Online Learning Community...rolandv
Participants will investigate the creation of PBLOs for instigating problem/question
creation/identification. Modified PBLOs will be employed within the FOLC course design and
implementation processes.
Concepts discussed will include:
● History and Nature of Problem-Based Learning
● Underlying Learning Theories - Social and Radical Constructivism, Community of
Practice/Learning
● Video case studies
● PBLO Structure
● Learning Objects in Constructivist Environments
Identifying and ranking topic clusters in the blogosphereM. Atif Qureshi
Slides presented in COLING 2010 workshop on The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources.
Paper link: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W10/W10-3507.pdf
Annotation-Centric Assessment of Blogging in Higher Education Laura Gogia
Open Education Conference 2015 Presentation on preliminary results from a study that aimed to explore the appropriateness of assessing student performance through student annotation use in digital learning environments
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
PHL 111 Milestone Two WorksheetUse the following guiding quest.docxmattjtoni51554
PHL 111 Milestone Two Worksheet
Use the following guiding questions to help you develop the remainder of the Argument section and the Your Argument section of your critical essay. First, answer each of the questions below to draft your ideas. Then, complete the Outline for Writing section, using your answers to the questions to help you draft a paragraph response for each of the sections below.
II. This set of questions is designed to help you draft ideas for the remaining parts of the Presented Argument section for your critical essay.
A. Looking at the article that you have chosen, explain how the argument contains or avoids bias.
i. Does the argument contain or avoid bias? How?
ii. Provide specific examples to support your explanation.
B. Discuss the credibility of the overall argument and answer the following:
i. Were the resources upon which the argument is built credible?
· Why or why not?
ii. Does the credibility support or undermine the article’s claims in any important ways?
· How?
Outline for Writing
The argument that I have selected contains/avoids bias. It does this by (provide examples). I have assessed the credibility of the argument to be credible/not credible because the resources in the article were credible/not credible in that they . The credibility of this article supports/undermines the argument’s claims by .
III. Before answering the questions below and drafting the YourArgument section of your critical essay, read the articles listed under “Additional Resources” and “Scholarly Resources” columns for your article found on the Final Project Topics and Resources Page in Blackboard. Then, use these additional resources to craft your own counterargument to the argument initially presented in your chosen article.
A. Construct an alternative argument to that of your selected article.
i. After reading the Additional and Scholarly resources associated with your primary article, construct an alternative argument to the claim being made in your primary article.
ii. What are the premises and conclusion of your argument?
iii. What evidence or additional research supports the claim you are making in your argument?
B. Explain the logic and reasoning you are planning to use to advance your argument.
i. What assumptions and resources can you use to advance your argument?
C. Identify any weaknesses in your argument that would require additional research or support.
D. Explain how your previously identified personal experience with the topic may create emotional influences, values or bias.
Outline for Writing
My claim of my alternative argument is . My premises, , lead to the conclusion that . I make this claim because of (describe your evidence and resources). This argument considers assumptions. Some weaknesses in this argument are and require additional research pertaining to . The personal experiences that I have identified previously with regard to this topic may create as a form of emotional influ.
Problem-Based Learning Objects, PBLOs, in the Fully Online Learning Community...rolandv
Participants will investigate the creation of PBLOs for instigating problem/question
creation/identification. Modified PBLOs will be employed within the FOLC course design and
implementation processes.
Concepts discussed will include:
● History and Nature of Problem-Based Learning
● Underlying Learning Theories - Social and Radical Constructivism, Community of
Practice/Learning
● Video case studies
● PBLO Structure
● Learning Objects in Constructivist Environments
Identifying and ranking topic clusters in the blogosphereM. Atif Qureshi
Slides presented in COLING 2010 workshop on The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources.
Paper link: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W10/W10-3507.pdf
Annotation-Centric Assessment of Blogging in Higher Education Laura Gogia
Open Education Conference 2015 Presentation on preliminary results from a study that aimed to explore the appropriateness of assessing student performance through student annotation use in digital learning environments
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
4. 4
Bloom score Bloom descriptor
0 - Off-topic There is written content, but not relevant to the subject under discussion.
1 - Remember Recall of specific learned content, including facts, methods, and theories.
Verbs: name, describe, relate, find, list, write, tell.
2 - Understand Perception of meaning and being able to make use of knowledge, without understanding full implications.
Verbs: explain, compare, discuss, restate, predict, translate, outline.
3 - Apply Tangible application of learned material in new settings.
Verbs: show, complete, use, classify, examine, illustrate, implement, solve.
4 - Analyse Deconstruct learned content into its constituent elements in order to clarify concepts and relationships
between ideas.
Verbs: explain, compare, contrast, examine, identify, investigate, categorise, differentiate, organise.
5 - Evaluate Assess the significance of material and value in specific settings.
Verbs: check, decide, rate, choose, recommend, justify, assess, prioritise, critique.
6 - Create Judge the usefulness of different parts of content, and producing a new arrangement.
Verbs: synthesise, invent, plan, compose, construct, design, imagine, generate.
A popular and well-respected aid to curriculum development that maps learning to
six categories of knowledge acquisition.
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Evaluating Comments in
MOOC Discussion Forums
5. 5
CoI score CoI descriptor
0 - Off-topic There is written content, but not relevant to the subject under discussion.
1 – Triggering event A contribution that exhibits a sense of puzzlement deriving from an issue, dilemma or problem.
Includes contributions that present background information, ask questions or move the discussion in a
new direction.
Verbs: evoke, induce, contradict
2 - Exploration A comment that is seeking a fuller explanation of relevant information. This can include brainstorming,
questioning and exchanging information. Contributions are unstructured and may include:
unsubstantiated contradictions of previous contributions, different unsupported ideas or themes,
personal stories, and descriptions or facts that are not used as evidence.
Verbs: inquire, diverge, search
3 - Integration Previously developed ideas are connected. Contributions include: references to previous messages
followed by substantiated agreements or disagreements; developing and justifying established themes;
cautious hypotheses; combining different sources; providing a tentative solution to an issue.
Verb: test, conjecture, check
4 - Resolution New ideas are applied, tested and defended with real world examples. This involves methodically
testing hypotheses, critiquing content in a systematic manner, and expressing supported intuition and
insight.
Verb: commit, settle, confirm
A highly cited method that categorises 4 phases of discussion.
Cognitive Presence
(Community of Inquiry)
Evaluating Comments in
MOOC Discussion Forums
6. Data
Image: University of Southampton, Understanding Language, Exploring Oceans
and Contract Management MOOCs. FutureLearn Ltd 2015
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Evaluating Comments in
MOOC Discussion Forums
7. • 500 comments each MOOC
• Rated according to 2 methods by 7 raters
• Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC 2015)
• Correlated by:
i) ≥50 word comments
ii) Aggregated batches of 10 contiguous comments
iii) All individual comments
Method
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MOOC Discussion Forums
Image: University of Southampton, Understanding Language, Exploring
Oceans and Contract Management MOOCs. FutureLearn Ltd 2015.
8. Results
Correlation between Bloom and Cognitive Presence
r = 0.909
p = <0.001
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MOOC Discussion Forums
Hi, I’m Tim O’Riordan. I’m a second year PhD student and member of the Web and Internet Science group at the University of Southampton and I’m presenting the outputs from a Learning Analytics study I’m currently working on to evaluate comments in MOOC discussion forums.
Late last year I ran a content analysis project employing 7 people to rate MOOC comment data from 3 FutureLearn MOOCs using two well-known methods – and looked for correlations between them and with language and interaction data. And I‘ve just started using Machine Learning techniques to see if it’s possible to automate this evaluation effectively.
Why am I interested in this? We know that finding useful content online can be a hit or miss operation. Finding and evaluating online learning resources is a significant hurdle to overcome. Tagging online resources can help – but Web objects are rarely effectively tagged, and ensuring that tags are sufficient, relevant and kept up to date is a problem. Also, some people don’t know what they have - a significant amount of content on the Web that may have value for supporting informal learning isn’t annotated to emphasises its pedagogical usefulness.
Maybe there’s some automatic way that can help? Maybe there’s something in what people write online without special encouragement that can help identify useful from less useful resources, and maybe we can automatically categorize and sort these comments in a way that assists discovery.
A variety of content analysis methods have been developed to evaluate and categorise computer mediated communication at conferences and within virtual learning environments, but little work has been undertaken to automatically evaluate comments at scale. The approach I initially adopted was to look at the comments people make about things online to find out if what they said provided evidence of pedagogical activity, and if these could be rated in some way. So, I looked at applying a pedagogical approach to content analysis to identify levels of engagement with online objects. It turned out I was not alone in doing this and that many studies have used Bloom and Community of Inquiry methods to explore CMC.
‘Bloom’s Taxonomy’ (Bloom et al., 1956), has become a popular and well-respected aid to curriculum development and means of classifying degrees of learning. As amended by Krathwohl (2002), Bloom’s Taxonomy consists of a hierarchy that maps learning to six categories of knowledge acquisition (remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate, create ) each indicating the achievement of understanding that is deeper than the preceding category.
In content analysis studies Yang et al. (2011) align Bloom’s taxonomy with Henri (1992), a precursor of CoI, in addition, Kember's (1999) association of Bloom’s dimensions with Mezirow's (1991) ‘thoughtful action’ category (e.g. writing), and the utility of mapping word types to Bloom’s levels of cognition (Gibson, Kitto and Willis, 2014) are supportive of the use of the Taxonomy in this study.
The fundamental structure of CoI is based on the interaction of cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence, through which knowledge acquisition takes place within learning communities (Garrison, Anderson and Archer, 2001). As the current study is concerned with identifying evidence of critical thinking associated with learning objects, the main focus is on the categorisation of the cognitive presence dimension which attends to the processes of higher-order thinking within four types of dialogue: triggering, exploration, integration, and resolution. These are mapped to stages of dialogue – starting with a initiating event and concluding with statements that resolve the issues under discussion.
“The phases of the practical inquiry model are the idealized logical sequence of the process of critical inquiry and, therefore, must not be seen as immutable.” Are changeable, flexible, variable...
Comment data from three MOOCs offered on the FutureLearn platform in 2014-15 were analysed.
20 steps per week, 3 – 6 weeks
> 41,500 registered learners
15,000 ‘social’ learners
174,500 comments containing 8.5 million words were made available on an anonymised csv file.
manually coded 1500 comments chosen at random from 3 MOOCs
Rated according to Bloom’s levels of learning, and CoI’s measures of meaningful and productive discourse. To avoid confusion, raters were given different sets of comments to rate by each method, and had a 10 day gap between methods.
intra-class correlation coefficients were calculated between pairs of coders and provided inter-rater reliability scores of 0.832 for Bloom and 0.818 for CoI.
Reliability = 0.83 (ICC)
When comparing pedagogical scores derived from the two frameworks there is a high correlation score of 0.909 (p<.001), suggesting close association between Bloom’s levels of knowledge acquisition and CoI’s measures of meaningful and productive discourse. While they describe learning activity in different ways they seem to be relatively consistent in measuring its presence and strength.
But this begs the question – if levels of knowledge acquisition and stages of meaningful discourse are so so closely associated - what exactly are we measuring? Is it knowledge acquisition or discourse development – or both – or just a general indicator of ‘engagement with understanding’ – some kind of proxy for understanding.
To provide a couple of examples here’s the linear regression for word count...
And here it is for 1st person singular.
Interestingly – going back to the ‘what are we measuring’ question – these two attributes were identified as significant indicators of what makes a good essay in the mid 60’s - as part of project essay grade. So it may be that simple – but I’m not sure.
So what I want to do next is to use the data I’ve gathered to create an automated way of evaluating comments and trying it out on a live MOOC. That is – feeding back automatic ratings to educators who are running a MOOC and see if they find them useful. And I’ve started to explore how machine learning can help.
I’ve just started with Weka – a free Machine learning work bench.
Number of attributes – 16
(like, word count, WPS, Sixltr, pronoun, ppron, prep, auxverb, negate, posemo, negemo, cogproc, cause, differ, affiliation, power)
Rounded – SMOTE - 10 fold Cross-validation
Random Forest, Naive Bayes, J48
Accuracy – 60%
Cohen’s K – nominal – 0.48
Not entirely discouraging.
Future work involves learning more about Machine Learning, finding a willing group of FL instructors, and finding out if this sort of feedback on comments is useful.