Learning Analytics in R with SNA, LSA, and MPIA
2016 | ISBN-10: 3319287893 | 275 pages | pdf | 9.45 mb
Authors: Wild, Fridolin
Written in a tutorial-style
Includes reproducible examples and demos
Provides aesthetic visual analytics
Extends the analysis instruments significantly beyond doc-term mapping
Provides a technological framework and methodology for study and research
This book introduces Meaningful Purposive Interaction Analysis (MPIA) theory, which combines social network analysis (SNA) with latent semantic analysis (LSA) to help create and analyse a meaningful learning landscape from the digital traces left by a learning community in the co-construction of knowledge.