The pragmatic maxim as learning analytics research method

It is arguable that the chief aim of Learning Analytics is to use analytics for meaningful purposes in learning and teaching contexts, and that research in the field should advance this cause. However the field does not present a single clear understanding of what constitutes quality in Learning Analytics research. In this paper we present the Pragmatic Inquiry for Learning Analytics Research (PILAR) method as one approach to conducting Learning Analytics research. Rather than creating a new method, we reintroduce an old method to a new field, drawing on the Pragmatic Maxim, proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce as a principle for making ideas clear. Our instantiation of the Pragmatic Maxim requires the researcher to situate Learning Analytics research within a clearly defined learning context and to consider the analytics in terms of the practical effects on learning. We propose three essential elements and a five step process for addressing them in research. After presenting PILAR we address two potential limitations of the approach, and conclude with some implications for its future use in Learning Analytics research

Implementing learning analytics for learning impact: Taking tools to task

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Learning analytics has the potential to impact student learning, at scale. Embedded in that claim are a set of assumptions and tensions around the nature of scale, impact on student learning, and the scope of infrastructure encompassed by ‘learning analytics’ as a socio-technical field. Drawing on our design experience of developing learning analytics and inducting others into its use, we present a model that we have used to address five key challenges we have encountered. In developing this model, we recommend: A focus on impact on learning through augmentation of existing practice; the centrality of tasks in implementing learning analytics for impact on learning; the commensurate centrality of learning in evaluating learning analytics; inclusion of co-design approaches in implementing learning analytics across sites; and an attention to both social and technical infrastructure

Designing Research Result-Based Arabic Pragmatic Learning Module On Politeness Principles And Strategies

In the last decade, many studies on politeness in Arabic have been published on various platforms, but until now the results have not been systematically compiled and used as a module or teaching material. In addition, Arabic pragmatics teaching materials, especially regarding politeness principles and strategies, currently do not refer much to the results of the latest research, even though the results of these studies can be used as a basis in the context of applying, testing, or even developing a theoretical framework on Arabic politeness. Therefore, this study aims to design Arabic pragmatics learning modules, especially concerning politeness in Arabic by utilizing the results of these studies. It is assumed that the development of research-based learning modules can enrich learning materials with the latest findings. By utilizing content and thematic analysis, the research results are analyzed systematically and then designed as a learning module based on the lesson plan that has been set. The result shows a bunch of research about politeness in Arabic published in scientific journals and digital repositories. Almost all research refers to the remarkable theoretical framework of politeness principles proposed by Leech (1983), as well as politeness strategies proposed by Brown & Levinson (1987). Although both are relatively old-school frameworks, they still seem relevant to been implemented by some researchers to date. Furthermore, a systematic study of the results of these studies was then composed and designed into an Arabic pragmatic learning module, especially on the topic of linguistic politeness principles and strategies

The Flouting Maxim on Twitter Influencers’ Tweets

This study aims to discover the use of maxim principles on the tweets that made by certain of Indonesian social-media influencers which the method is conducted qualitatively. The data is taken from Twitter.com and Twitter App, where the researcher captured the tweets randomly and analyzed it by using maxim relevance principle as the tool of analysis. The result shows vary: most of the conversations were not obeying the maxim of relevance principles, or in other words do not imply maxim of relevance principle. Moreover, the intentions are to make jokes, and to run the conversation smoothly while doing the flouting.Keywords: maxim of relevance, twitter, social media influence

Why so serious? Theorising playful model-driven group decision support with situated affectivity

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer via the DOI in this record.An integrative approach to theorising behavioural, affective and cognitive processes in modeldriven group decision support (GDS) interventions is needed to gain insight into the (micro-)processes by which outcomes are accomplished. This paper proposes that the theoretical lens of situated affectivity, grounded in recent extensions of scaffolded mind models, is suitable to understand the performativity of affective micro-processes in model-driven GDS interventions. An illustrative vignette of a humorous micro-moment in a group decision workshop is presented to reveal the performativity of extended affective scaffolding processes for group decision development. The lens of situated affectivity constitutes a novel approach for the study of interventionist practice in the context of group decision making (and negotiation). An outlook with opportunities for future research is offered to facilitate an integrated approach to the study of cognitive-affective and behavioural micro-processes in model-driven GDS interventions.This work was supported in part by the EU FP7-ENERGY- SMARTCITIES-2012 (314277) project STEEP (Systems Thinking for Comprehensive City Efficient Energy Planning

The Tandem Arts of Speaking and Understanding: Influences of Philosophical Hermeneutics on Research in Speech Communication

There would be no speaker and no art of speaking, writes Gadamer, if understanding and consent were not in question, were not underlying elements; there would be no hermeneutical task if there were no mutual understanding that has been disturbed and that those involved in a conversation must search for and find again together. It is this interpenetration of the two arts — speaking and interpretation — which I will address in this paper. My aim is to point to areas in which hermeneutic phenomenology, as conceptualized by Heidegger in Being and Time, and developed as a basis for philosophical hermeneutics by Gadamer in Truth and Method and later writings, is making its mark in the field of speech communication. My primary purpose for doing so is to offer a report of the impact of philosophical hermeneutics upon one field. But I admit a second purpose: the three areas discussed are each represented by scholars of speech communication, many of whom see their relation to the other areas as primarily an institutionally-contrived one. Implicit in the paper is the argument that these areas have more to talk about with one another than they often suppose

Internet linguistics: a conversational analysis of online synchronous chat and face-to-face conversations of EFL undergraduate students in Jordan

This study aimed to shed light on Online Synchronous chat (OSC) on Facebook chatroom compared with Face-To-Face (FTF) conversations. The corpus was cumulated from the interaction of four groups consisted of (68) third-year English language and literature major students at Ajloun University College (AUC). The participants were selected purposively and distributed randomly into two OSCGs and two FTF groups. The interactions for FTF groups were video-recorded and the transcriptions were embedded line by line in each conversation. While the interaction on the two Facebook chatrooms were downloaded through a Facebook option called "download your information". Two instruments were used: a Speech Act Rubric Scale based on Grice's maxims, linguistics performance rubric checklist, and an open-end question had been just presented to the chatters. This study investigated whether interlocutors apply the four Gricean CPs and three linguistic aspects over seventeen turn-taking and repair acts. Thus, the comparison was a try to investigate the social and linguistic performance of OSC interlocutors. Results revealed the importance to improve chatrooms features regarding to speech acts theory and Grice's maxim. The analysis concluded that interaction on OSC still needs more investigation. More precisely, Facebook chatrooms neglects to some extent the two theories.Este estudio tuvo como objetivo arrojar luz sobre el Chatear Sincrónico en Línea (CSL) en el chat de Facebook en comparación con las conversaciones cara a cara (CAC). El corpus se recopiló a partir de la interacción de cuatro grupos, de 68 estudiantes de tercer curso del Grado de Lengua y Literatura inglesa en el Colegio Universitario de Ajloun (CUA). Los participantes fueron seleccionados deliberadamente y distribuidos aleatoriamente en dos grupos de chat sincrónico en línea y dos grupos cara a cara. Las interacciones de los grupos CAC se grabaron un video y sus transcripciones se incrustaron línea por línea en cada conversación. Mientras que la interacción en los dos chats de Facebook se descargó a través de una opción de Facebook llamada "descargar su información". Se utilizaron dos instrumentos: una lista de verificación de la rúbrica del acto de habla basada en las máximas de Grice, la lista de verificación de la rúbrica del rendimiento lingüístico y una pregunta abierta presentada a los interlocutores. Este estudio investigó si los interlocutores aplican los cuatro principios cooperativos de Grice y tres aspectos lingüísticos en diecisiete actos de reparación y toma de turnos. Por lo tanto, la comparación fue un intento de investigar el desempeño social y lingüístico de los interlocutores de CSL. Los resultados revelaron la importancia de mejorar las características de los chats según a la teoría de los actos de habla y la máxima de Grice. El análisis concluyó que la interacción en CSL aún necesita más investigación. Más precisamente, los chats de Facebook descuidan en cierta medida las dos teorías.Programa de Doctorado en Humanidades por la Universidad Carlos III de MadridPresidente: María Paloma Díaz Pérez.- Secretario: Linda Johanna Castañeda Quintero.- Vocal: Fernando Trujillo Sáe

Adapting The Product Family Concept To A Digitalised Value Stream Method

The first step of the value stream method—widely used for lean production optimisation—is the deduction of product families. Aggregating products with production similarities into product families and analysing the value streams of these families decreases the analytical effort and increases clarity and informative value of the results. In the design phase, product families serve as a basis for production segmentation to achieve a laminar order flow. The digital transformation of production—also known as Industry 4.0—allows to use data science in the value stream method. Existing approaches describe data-driven product family deduction using cluster analysis without considering the overall context of a digitalised value stream method. This paper adapts the product family concept to allow integration into the digitalised value stream method, considering three different traditional approaches to product family deduction. While increased clarity and informative value of the mapping results remain primary reasons for using product families and result in specific methodological requirements, automation decreases the need to reduce the analytical effort. It also changes the position of the product family deduction in the procedure of a digitalised value stream method

A pragmatic path for strategic design: Influences from industrial design, cognitive studies and management sciences

Strategic design is a research field that was born in Italy, specifically at the Politecnico di Milano. Approaches with the same designation have been observed in other scientific communities, but they tend to be weakly in its theoretical perspectives. In this paper, an approach that derive from strategic design in its Italian roots is described, which is here broadly descried as pragmatic strategic design (PSD). The basis of the pragmatist view on this research field is explored, and the key characteristics of PSD are described. PSD is committed with real-life practical applications of Design in organizations. It privileges practice-based action, but extrapolates mere technical approaches, preferring to design product-service-systems. PSD is multidisciplinary. The variables that will be considered in the design are operationally described. It is concerned with user experience, since it represents a strategic issue for many organizations. It deals with intuition though metadesign. PSD is focused on for preferred outcomes, rather than for likely ones.Key-words: strategic design, pragmatic strategic design, pragmatic design, pragmatism