Kenneth R Koedinger, Sidney D'Mello, Elizabeth A McLaughlin, Zachary A Pardos, Carolyn P Rosé
An emerging field of educational data mining (EDM) is building on and contributing to a wide variety of disciplines through analysis of data coming from various educational technologies. EDM researchers are addressing questions of cognition, metacognition, motivation, affect, language, social discourse, etc. using data from intelligent tutoring systems, massive open online courses, educational games and simulations, and discussion forums. The data include detailed action and timing logs of student interactions in user interfaces such as graded responses to questions or essays, steps in rich problem solving environments, games or simulations, discussion forum posts, or chat dialogs...
July 2015: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science