TY  - CHAP
TI  - Epistemic Network Analysis: A Worked Example of Theory-Based Learning Analytics
AU  - Williamson Shaffer, David
AU  - Ruis, Andrew
T2  - The Handbook of Learning Analytics
A2  - Lang, Charles
A2  - Siemens, George
A2  - Wise, Alyssa Friend
A2  - Gaševic, Dragan
AB  - In this article, we provide a worked example of a theory-based approach to learning ana- lytics in the context of an educational game. We do this not to provide an ideal solution for others to emulate, but rather to explore the affordances of a theory-based - rather than data-driven - approach. We do so by presenting 1) epistemic frame theory as an approach to the conceptualization of learning; 2) data from an epistemic game, an approach to edu- cational game design based on epistemic frame theory; and 3) epistemic network analysis (ENA), a technique for analyzing discourse and other data for evidence of complex thinking based on the same theory. We describe ENA through a speci c analytic result, but our aim is to explore how this result exempli es what we consider a key "best practice" in the  eld of learning analytics.
CY  - Alberta, Canada
DA  - 2017///
PY  - 2017
ET  - 1
SP  - 175
EP  - 187
PB  - Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)
SN  - 978-0-9952408-0-3
UR  - http://solaresearch.org/hla-17/hla17-chapter1
ER  -