Learning Analytics and the Community of Inquiry: Indicators to Analyze and Visualize Online-Based Learning.

BACKGROUND:The Community of Inquiry (CoI) describes success factors for online-based learning. OBJECTIVES:To develop approaches for automatic analysis of CoI to be visualized within student and teacher dashboards. METHODS:Extending indicators from social network analysis and linguistics; evaluation within a case study. RESULTS:The project is just starting. CONCLUSION:Results will help to better understand and improve cooperative online-based learning in higher education.