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Using CollAnnotator to Analyze a Community of Inquiry Supported by Educational Blogs - Preliminary Results

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Data Driven Approaches in Digital Education (EC-TEL 2017)

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Community of Inquiry (CoI) model can be used to describe an online learning community (supported by various communication channels between students) on three interdependent components: cognitive, social and teaching presence. In this paper, we use CoI for investigating the online community formed in a social learning environment, focusing especially on the affordances of blogs. The novelty of our approach consists in the use of a dedicated content analysis tool, specifically built for CoI, called CollAnnotator. The paper provides a preliminary experimental validation of the tool, which was successfully applied in practice for analyzing the content of 479 blog posts, created by 75 students. The context of study, content analysis procedure and a brief overview of the results are reported in the paper.

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    Community of Inquiry Model: https://coi.athabascau.ca/coi-model.

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This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2604.

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  1. Computers and Information Technology Department, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

    Elvira Popescu & Gabriel Badea

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  1. Elvira Popescu
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Correspondence to Elvira Popescu .

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  1. Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, Lyon, France

    Élise Lavoué

  2. German Institute for International Educational Research, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

    Hendrik Drachsler

  3. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Katrien Verbert

  4. University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Julien Broisin

  5. Pontificia Universidad, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Mar Pérez-Sanagustín

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Popescu, E., Badea, G. (2017). Using CollAnnotator to Analyze a Community of Inquiry Supported by Educational Blogs - Preliminary Results. In: Lavoué, É., Drachsler, H., Verbert, K., Broisin, J., Pérez-Sanagustín, M. (eds) Data Driven Approaches in Digital Education. EC-TEL 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10474. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66610-5_67

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