People | Member | Duygu Simsek

PhD Research Student

I've joined the KMi family in October, 2012 as a PhD Research Student.

About my PhD:
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My PhD is about Discourse-Centric Learning Analytics, supervised by Simon Buckingham Shum, Rebecca Ferguson and Anna De Liddo. My work will build on Xerox Incremental Parser (XIP) whose rhetorical analysis is capable of identifying the forms of writing that are ‘signatures’ of scientific discourse and existing OU research platforms. This is in collaboration with Xerox, whose rhetorical parsing technology I am investigating, in the context of developing analytics to help students and citizen scientists learn to read and write more like scientists.

About my Background Studies:
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I am an inter-disciplinary person with a background right at the intersection of Learning Analytics: I hold a combined degree in Computer Science, Instructional Technologies and Education (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey), plus a Masters in Software Engineering (University of Southampton, UK), with a research dissertation on Social Learning Analytics.

Memberships:
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1) Wolfson Open Science Laboratory (WOSL)

My PhD studies has been supported by the WOSL which is an online laboratory for practical science teaching that provides online access to data from real physical instruments and equipment – not only to OU students but to students across the globe. Citizen science wshich is part of my studies, is one of the experiences available in WOSL.

http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/openscience/

2) SoLAR Distributed Research Lab (Storm)

Online research lab that brings group of doctoral students from all around the world who are doing research in Learning Analytics to create a research team. The intent is to provide researchers with an opportunity to collaborate, research, and publish with academics, researchers, and practitioners.

http://www.solaresearch.org/storm/

Simsek, D., Buckingham Shum, S., Sándor, Á., De Liddo, A. and Ferguson, R. (2013) XIP Dashboard: Visual Analytics from Automated Rhetorical Parsing of Scientific Metadiscourse, Workshop: 1st International Workshop on Discourse-Centric Learning Analytics at Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK '13), Leuven, Belgium

Taibi, D., Sándor, Á., Simsek, D., Buckingham Shum, S., De Liddo, A. and Ferguson, R. (2013) Visualizing the LAK/EDM Literature Using Combined Concept and Rhetorical Sentence Extraction, Demo at Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK '13), Leuven, Belgium

 

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