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Multimodal learning analytics: enabling the future of learning through multimodal data analysis and interfaces

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Project-based learning has found its way into a range of formal and informal learning environments. However, systematically assessing these environments remains a significant challenge. Traditional assessments, which focus on learning outcomes, seem incongruent with the process-oriented goals of project-based learning. Multimodal interfaces and multimodal learning analytics hold significant promise for assessing learning in open-ended learning environments. With its rich integration of a multitude of data streams and naturalistic interfaces, this area of research may help usher in a new wave of education reform by supporting alternative modes of learning.

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            ICMI '12: Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction
            October 2012
            636 pages
            ISBN:9781450314671
            DOI:10.1145/2388676

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