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Exploring the Meaning of Effective Exploratory Learner Behavior in Hands-on, Collaborative Projects Using Physical Computing Kits

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The present study aims to use learning analytics to explore the meaning of effective exploratory learning behavior in the context of practical, collaborative activities using physical computing kits. To find relevant ways of analysing the data which are strongly embedded in the learning context, four unique affordances of exploratory learning environments are identified from literature: responsive, social, open-ended and supportive. This paper proposes a set of data signifiers which may be used to generate visualisations into the ways in which the four affordances manifest themselves into the learning environment through the students’ actions.

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This work has been supported by a Bloomsbury Consortium PhD studentship at UCL and Birkbeck, University of London.

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    Veronica Cucuiat

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Carolyn Penstein Rosé

  2. University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Roberto Martínez-Maldonado

  3. University of Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg, Germany

    H. Ulrich Hoppe

  4. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

    Rose Luckin

  5. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

    Manolis Mavrikis

  6. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

    Kaska Porayska-Pomsta

  7. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Bruce McLaren

  8. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Benedict du Boulay

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Cucuiat, V. (2018). Exploring the Meaning of Effective Exploratory Learner Behavior in Hands-on, Collaborative Projects Using Physical Computing Kits. In: Penstein Rosé, C., et al. Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10948. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93846-2_95

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