Connections between e-learning, web science, cognitive computation and social sensing, and their relevance to learning analytics: A preliminary study

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Highlights:

• Web Science, Cognitive Computing, E-learning and Social Sensing are connected.

• Informal situated-learning is becoming the most prevalent form of e-learning.

• Situated learning argued to be significant form of social machine (from Web Science).

• Progress in learning-analytics depends on exploiting relations with these disciplines.

摘要

•Web Science, Cognitive Computing, E-learning and Social Sensing are connected.•Informal situated-learning is becoming the most prevalent form of e-learning.•Situated learning argued to be significant form of social machine (from Web Science).•Progress in learning-analytics depends on exploiting relations with these disciplines.

论文关键词:Web science,E-Learning,Social sensing,Cognitive computing,Situated-learning,Learning machines

论文评审过程:Received 31 March 2017, Revised 19 October 2017, Accepted 19 February 2018, Available online 22 February 2018, Version of Record 18 January 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.02.026