Online forum discussion interactions as an indicator of student community

Shane Dawson; Shane Dawson

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 22, No. 4 (Jan 01, 2006)

Given the current diversity of communication tools at an educator's disposal, what role (if any) does the discussion forum play in the development of a strong sense of community among students? This study sought to investigate the relationship...

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A study of the relationship between student communication interaction and sense of community

Shane Dawson

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 9, No. 3 (2006) pp. 153–162

This study developed a quantitative methodology to ascertain lead indicators of student sense of community whilst undertaking a course of study. Study participants (

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Data Mining for Evaluation, Benchmarking and Reflective Practice in a LMS

Elizabeth Heathcote; Shane Dawson

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 326–333

Large amounts of user and systems information is tracked by Learning Management Systems (LMS), affording the evaluation of online learning and teaching behaviour from a teaching unit level through to an enterprise level. At Queensland University of...

Analytics to literacies: The development of a learning analytics framework for multiliteracies assessment

Shane Dawson; George Siemens

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 15, No. 4 (Aug 15, 2014)

The rapid advances in information and communication technologies, coupled with increased access to information and the formation of global communities, have resulted in interest among researchers and academics to revise educational practice to move...

Numbers Are Not Enough. Why e-Learning Analytics Failed to Inform an Institutional Strategic Plan

Leah P. Macfadyen; Shane Dawson

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 15, No. 3 (2012) pp. 149–163

Learning analytics offers higher education valuable insights that can inform strategic decision-making regarding resource allocation for educational excellence. Research demonstrates that learning management systems (LMSs) can increase student sense ...

Mining LMS data to develop an “early warning system” for educators: A proof of concept

Leah P. Macfadyen; Shane Dawson

Computers & Education Vol. 54, No. 2 (February 2010) pp. 588–599

Earlier studies have suggested that higher education institutions could harness the predictive power of Learning Management System (LMS) data to develop reporting tools that identify at-risk students and allow for more timely pedagogical...

Teaching smarter: How mining ICT data can inform and improve learning and teaching practice

Shane Dawson; Shane Dawson; Erica McWilliam; Jen Pei-Ling Tan

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2008 (2008) pp. 221–230

The trend to greater adoption of online learning in higher education institutions means an increased opportunity for instructors and administrators to monitor student activity and interaction with the course content and peers. This paper...

Identifying key actors for technology adoption in higher education: A social network approach

Negin Mirriahi; Shane Dawson; Debra Hoven

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2012 (November 2012)

Higher education institutions are increasingly implementing strategies and practices aimed towards enhancing learning for the future by integrating educational technologies with classroom instruction. Despite the notable affordances these...

Towards a more detailed understanding of professional learning mediated by educational tools

Madeleine Shanahan; Lori Lockyer; Shane Dawson

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1441–1450

Knowledge updating is an essential learning activity for professionals. This study adopted Vygotsky’s (1981) triadic model of learning mediated by tools as a theoretical framework to examine inter-relationships that may exist between subject,...

Topics: pedagogical issues, cooperative/collaborative learning, Other: Research, Library Issues, etc.

Social capital from online discussion forums: Differences between online and blended modes of delivery

Charles Carceller; Shane Dawson; Lori Lockyer

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun 22, 2015)

This study explored the concept of social capital in higher education contexts by investigating student discussion forum activity and academic performance. To address these aims online discussion forum logs, student marks and teaching delivery...

Measuring creative potential: Using social network analysis to monitor a learners' creative capacity

Shane Dawson; Jennifer Tan; Erica McWilliam

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 27, No. 6 (Jan 01, 2011) pp. 924–942

Despite the burgeoning rhetoric from political, social and educational commentators regarding creativity and learning and teaching, there is a paucity of scalable and measurable examples of creativity-centric pedagogical practice. This paper makes...

Using institutional data to predict student course selections in higher education

Ivana Ognjanovic; Dragan Gasevic; Shane Dawson

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 29, No. 1 (April 2016) pp. 49–62

The ability to predict what university course a student may select has important quality assurance and economic imperatives. The capacity to determine future course load and student interests provides for increased accuracy in the allocation of...

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Watching Learning From Behind Closed Doors: The Impact of Surveillance on Student Online Behaviour

Shane Dawson; Bruce Burnett; Felicity McArdle

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 1978–1985

Universities are heavily investing in developing their online infrastructure in order to enhance flexible learning options and the overall student learning experience. Coinciding with the adoption of these technologies has been the emergence of new...

Social Capital from Online Discussion Forums: Differences between Online and Blended Modes of Delivery

Charles Carceller; Shane Dawson; Lori Lockyer

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 31, No. 2 (2015) pp. 150–163

This study explored the concept of social capital in higher education contexts by investigating student discussion forum activity and academic performance. To address these aims online discussion forum logs, student marks and teaching delivery...

Web 2.0 in Higher Education: blurring social networks and learning networks

Lori Lockyer; Shane Dawson; Elizabeth Heathcote

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 2454–2461

This paper reports on a study that investigated how two cohorts of students (in medicine and education) adopted a social networking platform to assist their university studies. The study examines the sites of dissonance between predicted and actual...

Let's Not Forget: Learning Analytics Are about Learning

Dragan Gaševic; Shane Dawson; George Siemens

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 59, No. 1 (January 2015) pp. 64–71

The analysis of data collected from the interaction of users with educational and information technology has attracted much attention as a promising approach for advancing our understanding of the learning process. This promise motivated the...

Social networks adapting pedagogical practice: SNAPP

Aneesha Bakharia; Elizabeth Heathcote; Shane Dawson

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2009 (2009) pp. 49–51

This poster details the development of a tool that integrates with common commercial and open source Learning Management Systems (LMS) to deliver real-time social network visualisations of discussion forum activity. The tool has aptly been named...

Learning Communities: An Untapped Sustainable Competitive Advantage for Higher Education

Shane Dawson; Bruce Burnett; Mark O' Donohue

International Journal of Educational Management Vol. 20, No. 2 (2006) pp. 127–139

Purpose: This paper demonstrates the need for the higher education sector to develop and implement scaleable, quantitative measures that evaluate community and establish organisational benchmarks in order to guide the development of future practices ...

Harnessing ICT Potential: The Adoption and Analysis of ICT Systems for Enhancing the Student Learning Experience

Shane Dawson; Liz Heathcote; Gary Poole

International Journal of Educational Management Vol. 24, No. 2 (2010) pp. 116–128

Purpose: This paper aims to examine how effective higher education institutions have been in harnessing the data capture mechanisms from their student information systems, learning management systems and communication tools for improving the student ...

Using learning analytics to scale the provision of personalised feedback

Abelardo Pardo; Jelena Jovanovic; Shane Dawson; Dragan Gašević; Negin Mirriahi

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 50, No. 1 (January 2019) pp. 128–138

There is little debate regarding the importance of student feedback for improving the learning process. However, there remain significant workload barriers for instructors that impede their capacity to provide timely and meaningful feedback. The...

Uncovering Student Learning Profiles with a Video Annotation Tool: Reflective Learning with and without Instructional Norms

Negin Mirriahi; Daniyal Liaqat; Shane Dawson; Dragan Gaševic

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 64, No. 6 (2016) pp. 1083–1106

This study explores the types of learning profiles that evolve from student use of video annotation software for reflective learning. The data traces from student use of the software were analysed across four undergraduate courses with differing...

Learning analytics should not promote one size fits all: The effects of instructional conditions in predicting academic success

Dragan Gašević; Shane Dawson; Tim Rogers; Danijela Gasevic

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 28, No. 1 (January 2016) pp. 68–84

This study examined the extent to which instructional conditions influence the prediction of academic success in nine undergraduate courses offered in a blended learning model (n

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Predictive power of regularity of pre-class activities in a flipped classroom

Jelena Jovanovic; Negin Mirriahi; Dragan Gašević; Shane Dawson; Abelardo Pardo

Computers & Education Vol. 134, No. 1 (June 2019) pp. 156–168

Flipped classroom (FC) is an active learning design requiring students to complete assigned pre-class learning activities in preparation for face-to-face sessions. Students' timely, regular, and productive engagement with the pre-class activities is ...

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Learning analytics to unveil learning strategies in a flipped classroom

Jelena Jovanović; Dragan Gašević; Shane Dawson; Abelardo Pardo; Negin Mirriahi

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 33, No. 1 (April 2017) pp. 74–85

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From neural to social: Medical student admissions criteria and engagement in a social learning environment

Shane Dawson; Leah Macfadyen; Lori Lockyer; David Mazzochi-Jones

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 292–301

Notions of what it is to be knowledgeable and skilled in one‘s profession have evolved in recent decades. For instance, medical practitioners are expected to think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, and to be a professional and...

Roles of course facilitators, learners, and technology in the flow of information of a cMOOC

Oleksandra Skrypnyk; Srećko Joksimović; Vitomir Kovanović; Dragan Gašević; Shane Dawson

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 16, No. 3 (Jun 19, 2015)

Distributed Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are based on the premise that online learning occurs through a network of interconnected learners. The teachers’ role in distributed courses extends to forming such a network by facilitating...

Embracing Big Data in Complex Educational Systems: The Learning Analytics Imperative and the Policy Challenge

Leah P. Macfadyen; Shane Dawson; Abelardo Pardo; Dragan Gaševic

Research & Practice in Assessment Vol. 9 (2014) pp. 17–28

In the new era of big educational data, learning analytics (LA) offer the possibility of implementing real-time assessment and feedback systems and processes at scale that are focused on improvement of learning, development of self-regulated...

Using social network metrics to assess the effectiveness of broad based admission practices

Shane Dawson; Leah Macfadyen; Lori Lockyer; David Mazzochi-Jones; David Mazzochi-Jones

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2011)

Notions of what it is to be knowledgeable and skilled in one's profession have evolved in recent decades. For instance, medical practitioners are expected to think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, and to be a professional and...

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Exploring development of social capital in a CMOOC through language and discourse

Srećko Joksimović; Nia Dowell; Oleksandra Poquet; Vitomir Kovanović; Dragan Gašević; Shane Dawson; Arthur C. Graesser

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 36, No. 1 (January 2018) pp. 54–64

Connectivist pedagogies are geared towards building a network of learners that actively employ technologies to establish interpersonal connections in open online settings. In this context, as course participants increasingly establish interpersonal...

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Identifying engagement patterns with video annotation activities: A case study in professional development

Negin Mirriahi; Jelena Jovanovic; Shane Dawson; Dragan Ga\u0161evi\u0107; Abelardo Pardo

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 34, No. 1 (Mar 28, 2018)

The rapid growth of blended and online learning models in higher education has resulted in a parallel increase in the use of audio-visual resources among students and teachers. Despite the heavy adoption of video resources, there have been few...

Roles of Course Facilitators, Learners, and Technology in the Flow of Information of a cMOOC

Oleksandra Skrypnyk; Srec´ko Joksimovic; Vitomir Kovanovic; Dragan Gas?evic; Shane Dawson

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 16, No. 3 (Jun 19, 2015) pp. 188–217

Distributed Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are based on the premise that online learning occurs through a network of interconnected learners. The teachers' role in distributed courses extends to forming such a network by facilitating...

Using technology to encourage self-directed learning: The Collaborative Lecture Annotation System (CLAS)

Shane Dawson; Leah Macfadyen; F Risko Evan; Tom Foulsham; Alan Kingstone

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2012 (November 2012)

The rapidly-developing 21st century world of work and knowledge calls for self-directed lifelong (SDL) learners. While higher education must embrace the types of pedagogies that foster SDL skills in graduates, the pace of change in education can be...

Social Presence in Massive Open Online Courses

Oleksandra Poquet; Vitomir Kovanović; Pieter de Vries; Thieme Hennis; Srećko Joksimović; Dragan Gašević; Shane Dawson

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 19, No. 3 (Jul 11, 2018)

The capacity to foster interpersonal interactions in massive open online courses (MOOCs) has frequently been contested, particularly when learner interactions are limited to MOOC forums. The establishment of social presence—a perceived sense of...

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Social Media Use for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Educational Settings: A Systematic Review of Literature

Ehsan Toofaninejad; Esmaeil Zaraii Zavaraki; Shane Dawson; Oleksandra Poquet; Parviz Sharifi Daramadi

Deafness and Education International Vol. 19, No. 3 (2017) pp. 144–161

The pedagogical benefits of the social media may be most pronounced when they impact groups of learners who are at a disadvantage in conventional face-to-face contexts. Among such disadvantaged groups are the deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) students...

Examining communities of inquiry in Massive Open Online Courses: The role of study strategies

Vitomir Kovanović; Srećko Joksimović; Oleksandra Poquet; Thieme Hennis; Pieter de Vries; Marek Hatala; Shane Dawson; George Siemens; Dragan Gašević

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 40, No. 1 (January 2019) pp. 20–43

This paper examines the discrete learning strategies employed within a massive open online course and their relationship to the student learning experience. The theoretical framework centered on the Community of Inquiry model of online education,...

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Exploring communities of inquiry in Massive Open Online Courses

Vitomir Kovanović; Srećko Joksimović; Oleksandra Poquet; Thieme Hennis; Iva Čukić; Pieter de Vries; Marek Hatala; Shane Dawson; George Siemens; Dragan Gašević

Computers & Education Vol. 119, No. 1 (April 2018) pp. 44–58

This study presents an evaluation of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) survey instrument developed by Arbaugh et al. (2008) within the context of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The study reports the results of a reliability analysis and...

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