What Tech Makes Possible in EDU Research

Few educational studies quantitatively focus on smaller-scale interactions. The use of modern technologies can help fill that gap. In education, potentially interesting data is everywhere (even inside something like a class chat function).

Sick and bored one day, I decided to study my class' communications. Once the decision to study this data was made, it was easy to see what interesting information could be extracted.

In this talk, I will walk through how this study was conducted using features of an online classroom environment and modern data analysis technology. I will discuss study design, data collection, results, and spend a good amount of time on the analysis performed.