Learning Analytics and the Community of Inquiry: Indicators to Analyze and Visualize Online-Based Learning

Abstract

Background: The Community of Inquiry (CoI) describes success factors for online-based learning.

Objectives: To develop approaches for automatic analysis of CoI to be visualized within student and teacher dashboards.

Methods: Extending indicators from social network analysis and linguistics; evaluation within a case study.

Results: The project is just starting.

Conclusion: Results will help to better understand and improve cooperative online-based learning in higher education.

Keywords: education; health informatics; pedagogy; teaching.