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Networked learning is much more ambitious than previous approaches of ICT-support in education. It is therefore more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the networked learning activities. Evaluation of learners ’ interactions in netw

Especially, the dialogue-based approach to analyse interactions in a networked learning environment using some interaction schema has some limitations. First of all, codified dialogue can be too limited in many learning situations; and second, the codes chosen might not be acceptable by other researcher. For this reason, some recent approaches to the use of dialogue in analysis of interaction propose to use data and text mining in order to help to codify the text and avoid this demanding procedures (Padilha, Almeida, & Alves, 2004). However, this approach is still at a very early stage of development, and the results are not enough for use in real situation. Concluding this approach seems promising and has successfully applied. It can definitely be further developed in the future in various directions. Some of the future research directions could be:

?Utilization of the software in practice from other educators who use Moodle or other LMS in order to reveal other areas of improvement.

?Scalability of the system in order to take as input Web server’s log file, especially regarding Learning Management Systems that follow SCORM and IMS Manifest standards.

?Integration of this tool into a Web based adaptive educational system that would maintain and update user-profiling, interacting with the user model and in some cases make predictions and provide recommendations to learners for performing learning tasks.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was partially supported by the “TELL: Towards effective network supported collaborative learning” project co-funded by the European Commission e-learning program (ref num: 2003-4721 TELL).

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