The document discusses analyzing student participation and engagement in an online graduate education course. It describes using various technical tools like engagement indexes, asset libraries, and whiteboards to track participation metrics. It analyzes how tweaking elements like disabling thumbnail liking affected participation behaviors. Key findings were that the engagement index influenced participation levels, but removing game-like elements reduced competitive behaviors and more participation was based on intrinsic motivation. Overall it assessed using social learning analytics to better understand online collaboration and knowledge building.

1. Graduate School of Education
Growing Engagement Trees
in SuiteC
John Scott

2. 3D
Printed
Student
Trees

3. Organizing and assessing
Participation is a…
PAIN

4. What do I need to
do to get an A?

5. Welcome to
The Art of Making Meaning
2 Semesters: N= 125; N=84

6. Analyzing Participation:
An Assemblage Approach

7. Technical Assemblage
Plane

8. Asset Library

9. Asset Library

10. Whiteboards

11. Whiteboards

12. Engagement Index

13. Designed Assemblage
Plane

15. Socio-Cognitive Assemblage

16. Participation
Vectors

17. Motivating Participation

18. From Leaderboards to
Personal Informatics

19. FallSpring
Engagement Index Launches

20. FallSpring
Instructor E.I. Launches

21. The Race for First

22. Tweaking the Technical
Assemblage
Increase the cost of a like
By disabling thumbnail liking

23. Death of a Like
FallSpring

24. The 559 total likes given out during the ENTIRE
Spring semester were exceeded by the ‘1st rank’
student between the hours of 10 and 11PM on a
Wednesday evening in October when she liked
825 Assets

25. Still a Race?
Where’s the Game?

26. The Breakdown

27. The Invisibility Cloak:
Opt-in/Opt-out

28. Even without consequence
on grade, the Engagement
Index demonstrated effects
on Participation, but...
The Takeaway

29. What about the gaming?

30. Social Learning Analytics

31. Impact Studio

32. Community Transformations

33. Points In
Assets
Added
Points Out
Time
Branches of Engagement
Semester weeks

34. Engagement Trees

35. A Falling Tree

36. SUITE
https://www.ets.berkeley.edu/suitec