Content Analysis Tools for Knowledge Forum Discourse: Towards Intelligent Support for Knowledge Building Facilitation

Abstract

This poster describes work in progress in the development of some content analysis tools that will be continuously improvable with usage to help researchers and teachers to gain a better understanding of students’ growth of knowledge, the extent of knowledge building and patterns of social, cognitive and metacognitive interactions. These tools will have the potential of becoming an integral part of knowledge building platforms to become online tools that extend the affordance of the platform, not only in social and socio-metacognitive affordance, but particularly in providing intelligent pedagogical support to teachers to teachers in the facilitation process.