The concept of e-learning is a technology-mediated learning approach of great potential
from the educational perspective and it has been one of the main research lines of …

The explosive growth of online education environments is generating a massive volume of
data, specially in text format from forums, chats, social networks, assessments, essays …

The COVID-19 pandemic forced institutions of higher education around the world to quickly
transition to forms of distance education, including synchronous and asynchronous online …

Abstract The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework has been widely used in online teaching
in higher education over the past twenty years. Its goal is to support students' professional …

This paper describes a study that looked at the effects of different technology-use profiles on
educational experience within communities of inquiry, and how they are related to the …

With the tremendous growth in online classes and programs at institutions of higher
education, conflicting claims are increasingly being made on media and blog sites about the …

This paper presents a network-based approach to uncovering the relationship between the
elements of social and cognitive presences in a community of inquiry. The paper …

Using data to generate a deeper understanding of collaborative learning is not new, but
automatically analyzing log data has enabled new means of identifying key indicators of …

This case study examined patterns in online communication using computer-mediated
discourse analysis to better understand how teaching presence, social presence, and …

In this paper, we present the results of an exploratory study that examined the problem of
automating content analysis of student online discussion transcripts. We looked at the …