SENS: Network analytics to combine social and cognitive perspectives of collaborative learning

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the analysis of collaborative learning. The approach posits that different dimensions of collaborative learning emerging from social ties and content analysis of discourse can be modeled as networks. As such, the combination of social network analysis (SNA) and epistemic network analysis (ENA) analysis can detect information about a learner's enactment of what the literature on collaborative learning...