4.4.2 Learning support and teaching. Little evidence was found in terms of improved
learning support and teaching (see Fig. 4), with only five studies demonstrating related
improvements [66, 73, 74, 81, 86]. For example, [86] offered a LA dashboard for supporting
students’ collaborative work, which the students (n = 22) found useful in regard to their
improved collaborative learning experience. [81] demonstrated that the user engagement
analyt- ics tool (SEAT) enabled teachers to better identify which students needed help, to
facilitate timely support. [74] offered an engage- ment tool (the Cognitive Learning
Companion), designed to keep track of the relationship between the student, content
interaction and learning progression, with the sensor-rich instrumented learn- ing
environment providing actionable insights to the teacher on learners’ cognitive and
affective states. The evidence of support- ing teachers by increasing their awareness of
students’ progress, possible misconceptions, and task difficulty, was shown by [73]
through the use of visualizations. Despite this limited evidence for supporting learning
and teaching, many studies in the sample (n = 19) did explicitly exhibit the potential of
improved learning and/or teaching (see Appendix C4).
The operationalizations of engagement seem to rely heavily on the researchers’ own
understanding, interpretation and classification of online input data and underlying
theory. This may explain why there is no consistency in the adoption of engagement theory
(or related theories) across the analyzed studies (e.g., [70, 79, 80]). In order to move
the field forward, studies must be explicit in how they understand engagement and then be
transparent and logical in how engagement is measured and analyzed [33, 57, 63].
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