Leveraging Researcher Multivocality for Insights on Collaborative Learning Workshop # 8 White Paper

Leveraging Researcher Multivocality for Insights on Collaborative Learning

Productive multivocality in the analysis of collaborative learning

Research in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is diverse and multi-vocal, in that multiple theoretical and methodological traditions speak to questions concerning how learning takes place in social settings. Whether this multivocality leads to balkanization or is a source of strength may require deliberate efforts at identifying strategies and finding boundary objects for product...

Iranian Students’ Attitudes towards Utilizing Smart Boards in EFL Classrooms

This study aimed at gaining insights into students’ attitudes in the learning English using the Smart Board or Interactive White Board (IWB) technology in EFL classrooms. The main goal of this paper is to evaluate students’ attitudes towards the use of Smart Board as an instructional tool on student motivation, participation, interaction and retention for learning English in Iranian schools. To...

Collaborative Writing Practice through Online Learning: Insights from Iranian EFL Learners’ Perceptions

This study investigates the benefits of e-collaborative and collaborative writing tasks on the perception of Iranian EFL learners in a process-oriented approach. The study involved 74 intermediate Iranian EFL students at Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch. They were divided into three groups by random assignment as two experimental groups and one control group. The experimental groups were...

A Focus on Methodology in Learning Analytics: Building a Structurally Sound Bridge Discipline

The following paper gives an overview of the inaugural Methodologies in Learning Analytics Workshop at the International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference 2017 in Vancouver, Canada. The event discussed many topics but two key themes emerged, that of middle space, the space between learning and analytics in which methodologies reside and the importance of multivocality, the challenge of ...