UTA’s LINK Research Lab, which specializes in online learning, is expected to close due to loss of institutional funding. Lab staff have known about the loss of funding after a step-down plan was implemented to phase it out a few years ago and were officially notified they could seek other employment on April 21, learning…
The 2010s have been labeled the “decade of NLP” — important progress was made in computational approaches to language data and tasks such as thematic analysis, text classification, and clustering, as well as machine translation. But what does the next decade hold for researchers and practitioners with qualitative or “thick” data—and does it look more…
Please join us for a presentation by Dr. Quan Nguyen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Educational Data Science at the University of Michigan School of Information, on January 17 in the LINK Research Lab (12:30-1:30pm). Dr. Nguyen will speak on using temporal analytics to detect inconsistencies between learning design and student engagement. Lunch will be provided!…
For those that attended the recent professional development sessions in the LINK Lab, we now have archives and materials posted online. So whether you were there and wanted to get some of the sessions links, or you couldn’t make the session and would like to watch the session archives, we have all of that up…
The Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence and the LINK Research Lab will be co-hosting two professional development sessions that all online instructors won’t want to miss. The first one is How to Create Online Learning Experiences Session 2: Effective Practices by Dr. Matt Crosslin at 12:00 pm on September 25, 2019. This…
Have you ever looked at the various groups of learners in your course and wished that you could find a way to offer different content or activities for different learner contexts? Or maybe you have come up with ideas for “Choose Your Own Adventure”-type games for your learners, but just weren’t sure how to implement…
Come join us on June 19, from 12:00 until 1:00 pm in the LINK Research Lab (246 Nedderman Hall) for a professional development session by Dr. Matt Crosslin on “Starting a Conversation on How to Create Online Learning Experiences.” With the current transition to Canvas at UTA, now is an excellent time to examine your…
For those that were not able to make last week’s presentation by Dr. Whitney Kilgore on “Designing the Learner Experience: 7 Keys to Unlock the Human Element in Online Courses,” or for those that would like to re-visit the session, we have it archived online now. Please see this link for the archived recording, session…
Come join us on April 22, from 12:00 until 1:00 pm in the LINK Research Lab (246 Nedderman Hall) for a special presentation by Dr. Whitey Kilgore on “Designing the Learner Experience: 7 Keys to Unlock the Human Element in Online Courses.” Students have more options than ever before when choosing an online program and…
LINK Research Lab Presentation Dr. Nia Dowell Group communication analysis: A computational linguistics approach for detecting sociocognitive roles in multi-party interactions Wednesday, January 24th, 12:00-1:00pm, Nedderman Hall 246 The learning sciences field is in need of new automated methodological approaches that offer deeper insights into the dynamics of learner interactions and discourse across online…