Learning Analytics for Epistemic Commitments in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment

.................................................................................................................................................. 2 1. Organisation of the Literature Review ............................................................................................ 3 2. Introducing Learning Analytics, Epistemology and Ontology ......................................................... 4 2.1 The Relevance of Epistemology and Ontology ....................................................................... 5 2.1.1 Section Summary ............................................................................................................ 6 2.2 Epistemology, Assessment and Pedagogy – the middle space of Learning Analytics ............ 6 2.2.1 Why Worry About Epistemology?................................................................................... 7 2.2.2 Our Learning Analytics Are Our Pedagogy ...................................................................... 8 2.2.3 Epistemology and LA ..................................................................................................... 10 2.2.4 Epistemology in Action – Policy, and Practice .............................................................. 12 2.2.5 Section Summary .......................................................................................................... 16 3. Epistemic Cognition and Information Seeking – an Introduction ................................................. 17 3.1 Section Summary .................................................................................................................. 18 4. Information Seeking; Defining Needs ........................................................................................... 19 4.1 Information Seeking Models ................................................................................................. 19 4.1.1 The Classical Account .................................................................................................... 19 4.1.2 Cognitive Models of Information Seeking ..................................................................... 19 4.1.3 The Berry Picking Model ............................................................................................... 20 4.1.4 Information Needs ........................................................................................................ 20 4.1.5 Information Seeking Process (ISP) Kuhlthau ................................................................. 21 4.2 Information Problem Solving Model ..................................................................................... 22 4.2.1 An introduction to the model ....................................................................................... 22 4.3 Information Seeking – Additional Factors............................................................................. 23 4.3.1 Exploratory Search ........................................................................................................ 23 4.3.2 Information Seeking – ‘Success’ Involves Epistemic Assumptions... ............................ 24 4.4 Section Summary – Key aspects of information seeking ...................................................... 26 5. Collaborative Information Seeking ............................................................................................... 27 5.1 What Is Collaborative Information Seeking? ........................................................................ 28 5.1.1 What is the Collaboration in CIS?.................................................................................. 28 5.1.2 What is the Information Seeking in CIS? ....................................................................... 29 5.1.3 The Role of CIS .............................................................................................................. 30