Automated Content Analysis of Students’ Cognitive Presence In Asynchronous Online Discussion

Ye Chen

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 38–43

This study investigated the use of text mining techniques in qualitatively analyzing online students’ cognitive presence in their discussion. Multinomial Naïve Bayes and Support Vector Machines were adopted as the text classification algorithms to...

Topics: distributed learning environments, cooperative/collaborative learning, Computer-Mediated Communication, Students