Chapter 6: Discourse Analytics for Classroom Learning

This chapter reviews the emerging field within learning analytics, discourse analytics. Discourse analytics focuses on automated detection of features of discourse, as well as the use of this technology to trigger automated interventions within the context of computer-supported collaborative learning. To provide context for our discussion of discourse analytics technologies, we briefly review four case studies that illustrate the ways in which teachers use discourse to support robust student learning in the classroom. We utilize these case studies to discuss a vision for the future of discourse analytics grounded in theories of learning.