TY - GEN
T1 - Learning analytics for the social media age
AU - Gruzd, Anatoliy
AU - Haythornthwaite, Caroline
AU - Paulin, Drew
AU - Absar, Rafa
AU - Huggett, Michael
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In just a short period of time, social media have altered many aspects of our daily lives, from how we form and maintain social relationships to how we discover, access and share information online. Now social media are also beginning to affect how we teach and learn in this increasingly interconnected and information-rich world. The panelists will discuss their ongoing work that seeks to understand the affordances and potential roles of social media in learning, as well as to determine and provide methods that can help researchers and educators evaluate the use of social media for teaching and learning based on automated analyses of social media texts and networks. The panel will focus on the first phase of this five-year research initiative "Learning Analytics for the Social Media Age" funded by the Social Science and Humanites Research Council of Canada (2013-2018).
AB - In just a short period of time, social media have altered many aspects of our daily lives, from how we form and maintain social relationships to how we discover, access and share information online. Now social media are also beginning to affect how we teach and learn in this increasingly interconnected and information-rich world. The panelists will discuss their ongoing work that seeks to understand the affordances and potential roles of social media in learning, as well as to determine and provide methods that can help researchers and educators evaluate the use of social media for teaching and learning based on automated analyses of social media texts and networks. The panel will focus on the first phase of this five-year research initiative "Learning Analytics for the Social Media Age" funded by the Social Science and Humanites Research Council of Canada (2013-2018).
KW - Learning analytics
KW - Learning networks
KW - Online communities
KW - Social media
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U2 - 10.1145/2567574.2576773
DO - 10.1145/2567574.2576773
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84898801087
SN - 1595930361
SN - 9781595930361
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 254
EP - 256
BT - LAK 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 4th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK 2014
Y2 - 24 March 2014 through 28 March 2014
ER -