Social Learning Analytics:Discourse Analytics& Disposition Analytics

Rebecca Ferguson

The Open University, UK

Don’t start with the data – start with the pedagogy

How do people learn?How can I use big data to facilitate that process?

Social learning analytics:How do people learn socially & in social settings?How can I use big data to facilitate that process?

Discourse analyticsPeople construct knowledge through dialogue

The ways in which learners engage in dialogue indicate how they engage with the ideas of others, how they relate those ideas to their understanding and how they explain their own point of view.

• Disputational dialogue

• Cumulative dialogue

• Exploratory dialogue

What we are looking forCategory Indicator

Challenge But if, have to respond, my view

Critique However, I’m not sure, maybe

Discussion of resources Have you read, more links

Evaluation Good example, good point

Explanation Means that, our goals

Explicit reasoning Next step, relates to, that’s why

Justification I mean, we learned, we observed

Reflections of perspectives of others

Agree, here is another, makes the point, take your point, your view

Classifying the discourse

Each colour block represents 10 turns in the dialogueRed blocks are primarily exploratory, blue blocks primarily non-exploratory

Visualising the analytics

Dispositions analytics

Shift Happens: Karl Fisch

Disposition analyticsDisposition = a relatively enduring tendency to behave in a certain way

Focus of disposition analytics is on malleable dispositions that are important for developing intentional learners, and that learners can recognise and develop in themslves

Changing and learningLearning relationships, CreativityStrategic awareness, ResilienceMeaning making, Critical curiosity

ELLI Spider

Learning relationships

Learners who have quality learning relationships

find it useful and exciting to share thoughts and

ideas with others. They make good use of people

as sources of support and guidance, both at

home and in the community. They draw on their

community’s world views and traditions.

Analyics driving behaviour

‘The effect of the installationon people’s decision to take the elevator or stairs held atleast over the eight-week period of the study.’

Ambient Influence: Can Twinkly Lights Lure andAbstract Representations Trigger Behavioral Change?

How would you use analytics to support the development of learning relationships in this environment?

•What data would you collect?

•How would you analyse it?

•How would you present it to learners?

•What problems would you need to overcome?

Learners who have quality learning relationships find it useful and exciting to share thoughts and ideas with others. They make good use of people as sources of support and guidance, both at home and in the community. They draw on their community’s world views and traditions.