Applying MMCA in practice demands both technical and research competence¶

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Description¶

This strategy captures the review's practical guidance that putting MMCA into real educational use is not only a technical undertaking but also a research one. The review's Notes for Practice state that "Application of MMCA in practice demands both technical and research competence", and that its findings "offer both a theoretical and practical guidepost for enhancing MMCA research and applications". Educators and practitioners adopting multimodal analytics therefore need capacity in sensor deployment and data processing as well as in research design and interpretation of multimodal evidence about collaboration.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Practitioners need competence in both the technical setup of multimodal sensors and pipelines and the research skills to interpret multimodal evidence

Constraints¶

• The guidance derives from a scoping review of 36 studies rather than from a direct evaluation of practitioner training programs

Target Learners¶

• educators, teachers, and learning analytics practitioners studying or supporting collaborative learning

Target Learning Goals¶

• building the technical and research competence needed to apply multimodal collaboration analytics in practice

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Key Sources¶

• Rachelle Esterhazy, Rogers Kaliisa, Daniel Sanchez, Malcolm Langford and Crina Damsa. (2025). Advancing Multimodal Collaboration Analytics: A Scoping Review. Journal of Learning Analytics 12(2). https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2025.8625