Handbook of Learning Analytics
Chapter 12
Emotional Learning Analytics
Sidney K. D’Mello & Emily Jensen
Abstract
This chapter discusses the ubiquity and importance of emotion to learning. It argues substantial progress can be made by coupling discovery-oriented, data-driven, analytic methods of learning analytics and educational data mining with theoretical advances and methodologies from the affective and learning sciences. Core, emerging, and future themes of research at the intersection of these areas are discussed.
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Title
Emotional Learning Analytics
Book Title
Handbook of Learning Analytics
Pages
pp. 120-129
Copyright
2022
DOI
10.18608/hla22.012
ISBN
978-0-9952408-3-4
Publisher
Society for Learning Analytics Research
Authors
Sidney K. D’Mello
Emily Jensen
Editors
Charles Lang
Alyssa Friend Wise
Agathe Merceron
Dragan Gašević
George Siemens