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Overview

Alyssa Friend Wise is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in the field of Computer Science with a focus on computer science applications, developmental and educational psychology, education, information systems, and artificial intelligence.

Their work centers extensively on topics related to online learning and analytics, innovative teaching and learning methods, e-learning and knowledge management, explainable artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, student assessment and feedback, and educational assessment and improvement.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Yeonji Jung, Xavier Ochôa, Inge Molenaar, Simon Knight, and Qiujie Li. Alyssa Friend Wise has published in multiple venues, notably:

  • Journal of Learning Analytics
  • Journal of Computing in Higher Education
  • Educational Technology Research and Development
  • British Journal of Educational Technology
  • Interactive Learning Environments

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alyssa Friend Wise are:

  • What Makes Learning Analytics Research Matter, 2021, Journal of Learning Analytics
  • Supporting the shift to digital with student-centered learning analytics, 2020, Educational Technology Research and Development
  • The equalizing effect of teacher dashboards on feedback in K-12 classrooms, 2021, Interactive Learning Environments
  • Learning Analytics Impact: Critical Conversations on Relevance and Social Responsibility, 2020, Journal of Learning Analytics
  • Advancing equity and inclusion in educational practices with AI-powered educational decision support systems (AI-EDSS), 2024, British Journal of Educational Technology

Best Publications

  • Handbook of Learning Analytics

    Charles Lang;George Siemens;Alyssa Wise;Dragan Gasevic

  • Designing pedagogical interventions to support student use of learning analytics

    Alyssa Friend Wise

  • Why Theory Matters More than Ever in the Age of Big Data

    Alyssa Friend Wise;David Williamson Shaffer

  • Visions of CSCL: eight provocations for the future of the field

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Baruch B. Schwarz

  • Getting Down to Details: Using Theories of Cognition and Learning to Inform Tangible User Interface Design

    Alissa Nicole Antle;Alyssa Friend Wise

  • Broadening the notion of participation in online discussions: examining patterns in learners’ online listening behaviors

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Jennifer Speer;Farshid Marbouti;Ying Ting Hsiao

  • Analyzing temporal patterns of knowledge construction in a role-based online discussion

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Ming Ming Chiu

  • Teaching with analytics: Towards a situated model of instructional decision-making

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Yeonji Jung

  • Learning Analytics for Online Discussions: Embedded and Extracted Approaches

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Yuting Zhao;Simone Nicole Hausknecht

  • Time for Change: Why Learning Analytics Needs Temporal Analysis

    Simon Knight;Alyssa Friend Wise;Bodong Chen

  • Attending to others’ posts in asynchronous discussions: Learners’ online “listening” and its relationship to speaking

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Simone Nicole Hausknecht;Yuting Zhao

  • Learning communities in the crowd: Characteristics of content related interactions and social relationships in MOOC discussion forums

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Yi Cui

  • Mining for gold: Identifying content-related MOOC discussion threads across domains through linguistic modeling

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Yi Cui;Wan Qi Jin;Jovita M. Vytasek

  • Learning Analytics in Medical Education Assessment: The Past, the Present, and the Future

    Teresa Chan;Stefanie Sebok-Syer;Brent Thoma;Alyssa Wise

  • Towards more precise design guidance: specifying and testing the functions of assigned student roles in online discussions

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Marzieh Saghafian;Poornima Padmanabhan

  • Learning analytics for online discussions: a pedagogical model for intervention with embedded and extracted analytics

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Yuting Zhao;Simone Nicole Hausknecht

  • Microanalytic Case studies of Individual Participation Patterns in an Asynchronous Online Discussion in an Undergraduate Blended Course

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Nishan Perera;Ying Ting Hsiao;Jennifer Speer

  • Developing Learning Analytics Design Knowledge in the "Middle Space": The Student Tuning Model and Align Design Framework for Learning Analytics Use

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Jovita Maria Vytasek;Simone Hausknecht;Yuting Zhao

  • Learning analytics implementation design

    Alyssa Wise;J.M. Vytasek

  • Youtopia: a collaborative, tangible, multi-touch, sustainability learning activity

    Alissa N. Antle;Alyssa F. Wise;Amanda Hall;Saba Nowroozi

  • Bringing order to chaos in MOOC discussion forums with content-related thread identification

    Alyssa Friend Wise;Yi Cui;Jovita Vytasek

  • Educating Data Scientists and Data Literate Citizens for a New Generation of Data.

    Alyssa Friend Wise

Frequent Co-Authors

Alissa N. Antle
Alissa N. Antle Simon Fraser University
Ming Ming Chiu
Ming Ming Chiu University of Hong Kong
Baruch B. Schwarz
Baruch B. Schwarz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Carolyn Penstein Rosé
Carolyn Penstein Rosé Carnegie Mellon University
Dragan Gasevic
Dragan Gasevic Monash University
Jonathan Sherbino
Jonathan Sherbino McMaster University
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver Indiana University
Curtis J. Bonk
Curtis J. Bonk Indiana University
David Williamson Shaffer
David Williamson Shaffer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nikol Rummel
Nikol Rummel Ruhr University Bochum

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