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Publication Date: 2021
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Sentiment Evolution with Interaction Levels in Blended Learning Environments: Using Learning Analytics and Epistemic Network Analysis
Huang, Changqin; Han, Zhongmei; Li, Ming; Wang, Xizhe; Zhao, Wenzhu
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, v37 n2 p81-95 2021
Sentiment evolution is a key component of interactions in blended learning. Although interactions have attracted considerable attention in online learning contexts, there is scant research on examining sentiment evolution over different interactions in blended learning environments. Thus, in this study, sentiment evolution at different interaction levels was investigated from the longitudinal data of five learning stages of 38 postgraduate students in a blended learning course. Specifically, text mining techniques were employed to mine the sentiments in different interactions, and then epistemic network analysis (ENA) was used to uncover sentiment changes in the five learning stages of blended learning. The findings suggested that negative sentiments were moderately associated with several other sentiments such as joking, confused, and neutral sentiments in blended learning contexts. Particularly in relation to deep interactions, student sentiments might change from negative to insightful ones. In contrast, the sentiment network built from social-emotion interactions shows stronger connections in joking-positive and joking-negative sentiments than the other two interaction levels. Most notably, the changes of co-occurrence sentiment reveal the three periods in a blended learning process, namely initial, collision and sublimation, and stable periods. The results in this study revealed that students' sentiments evolved from positive to confused/negative to insightful.
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Interaction, Blended Learning, Electronic Learning, Synchronous Communication, Discussion, Network Analysis, Social Networks, Attitude Change, Psychological Patterns, Educational Technology, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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