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Title: Developing Effective Visualizations to Understand and Scaffold Collaborative Textual Practices
This poster will describe and compare different visualizations for collaborative writing using cloud-based platforms (e.g., Google Docs). The aim is to develop effective visualizations for a Learning Analytics Dashboard (LAD) to understand the processes undergirding cloud-based group writing and to support team textual practices. Theoretically situated in the literatures on Collaborative Learning Analytics, collaborative sense making, and social annotations, the visualizations will provide valuable and varied insights to researchers, educators, and students. We will be testing the visualizations and the final LAD with undergraduate students, instructors, and researchers from the fields of learning sciences and educational psychology.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1915563
PAR ID:
10258075
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2021
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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